Encouraging Looting of Our Nation by Moronic and Unethical State Kleptocracy

From the same writer:

It’s real

“I wish that Elon Musk wasn’t the richest man in the world”

*monkey’s paw curls*

The researchers sought to assess the death toll from Israel’s air and ground campaign in Gaza between October 2023 and the end of June 2024, estimating 64,260 deaths due to traumatic injury during this period

The estimate of 64,000 only accounts for people killed directly by weapons or bombing, similar to the count of ~40,000 that the Gaza Health Ministry was maintaining before they lost the ability to maintain the count.

The estimate of 186,000 from the other study accounts for indirect deaths from destruction of medical facilities, lack of clean water, lack of food, etc., which is a much more important number, but is not receiving as much attention for obvious reasons.

Americans when ~20k people are murdered each year (most of which don’t take place on public transit): “The subway is unsafe because there’s too much crime.”

Americans when ~40k people die in car accidents each year: “This is literally the pinnacle of freedom! I feel so safe inside my personal tank!”

If I had a nickel for every prominent Republican who did something cartoonishly evil relating to pet dogs, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it’s happened twice.

The difference here is that there previously weren’t such restrictions, and she’s not even putting up a fight when Republicans actively worsen conditions relative to the previous status quo. Putting up resistance to any attempts to go backwards should be the bare minimum for anyone who claims to be fighting for the rights of a marginalized group.

If this keeps up we might get a Part 3 to this meme.

I’m pretty sure some of the newer ChatGPT-like products (the consumer-facing interface, not the raw LLM) do in fact do this. They try to detect certain types of inputs (i.e. math problems or requesting the current weather) and convert it to an API request to some other service and return the result instead of a LLM output. Frankly it comes across to me as an attempt to make the “AI” seem smarter than it really is by covering up its weaknesses.

I refuse to believe anyone actually likes this. Nobody could possibly fall for this abomination just because the houses technically meet the bare minimum for being a waterfront property, right?

R-right?

Getting revenge after his mother wasted all of their savings on the Trump NFTs.

Robots with small and intricate parts, especially those working in dirty environments, famously never need cleaning or maintenance.

And he says he “wouldn’t even think about” buying again from luxury brands like “Burberry or Louis Vuitton”.

You live in the country that probably manufactured them in the first place. You can buy a knock-off which is just as good for a fraction of the cost.

Kamala calling Trump a landlord

I thought the one on the right was Pence and I was confused because I thought he had fallen out of favor (until I realized that it was RFK).

There was an article a while back about hospitals run by Catholic organizations that would ban doctors from offering services that violate religious rules (i.e. abortion and contraception), even if the doctors do not personally hold those beliefs. While it’s probably not the case with all Catholic-coded hospitals, it’s still something to be aware of. They may also pressure non-Catholic hospitals into accepting these rules as they formed mergers with them, so it’s a potential issue even for hospitals that don’t seem like it.

I have never heard of a muslim, hindu or buddhist hospital in “the west” though these of course exist elsewhere.

Jewish hospitals in the US were founded in large part because many other hospitals would refuse to employ Jewish doctors or treat Jewish patients in the past. I would imagine that there aren’t hospitals specifically for other religions in the US because they are an even smaller minority and there hasn’t been an explicit need to the same extent.

I remember some hysteria being spread about pro-Palestinian protesters wearing face masks, hence the rhetoric around “criminal” and “dangerous” people wearing masks to conceal their identity (given that left-wing college students are more likely to wear them for health reasons anyways). Probably not the main reason but I think there’s an element of that.