Whaaaaaaaaaa???!? /s

Yeah, somehow there really do be people who haven't seen bluey. Crazy. It's 2025 people.

I believe it means "whiner". As in one who whines and complains.

I don't know where @CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net hails, but I just know this because I am a dad, which means I watch Bluey, and sometimes the dad on Bluey will tell the kids to "quit whinging".

You know, I think the reaction by conservatives to climate change is fascinating by all that it can tell us.

First, environmental preservation has not always been a politically left issue. It's got a lean that way because it often impacts how the commons are used, but there's plenty of reasons why ecological conservation has found a home on the right in the past. And in this case, we're talking about preserving habitability and stability of our civilization. There's plenty of reasons why one could imagine this finding support of some kind on the right. Their solutions might be market-based neoliberal bullshit. Yet they're not really even messing with that stuff (at least any more). They just want to kill this whole conversation with fire and throw it in a volcano. Why?

If you really drill down, I think the reason why people on the Christian Nationalist right in particular are trying not to acknowledge or deal with a civilizational threat despite the reckless madness involved is because they have a better understanding of what all this means for the future than most liberals or even leftists.

It means that their favorite "-isms" -- Nationalism and Capitalism -- are both facing mortal threats if this issue is ever addressed. They'll phrase it as saying that climate crusaders want to impose Marxist open boarders and ban their very way of life. But while I don't want to validate the most absurd parts of their fearmongering, they are fundamentally correct in some sense. Any successful response to climate change is inevitably going to upend the way we concentrate power and wealth, the way we pursue economic growth, and the way we draw boundaries across which people trade and migrate.

And most people will find the solutions quite persuasive. Why should jobs, the rich, and corporate dollars move freely, while people are trapped while they drown? Why should we watch a food system capable of feeding all crumble to protect the tastes of a vanishingly small minority of the extraordinarily selfish? Why can't we all just live comfortable, modest lives with the abundance currently being hoarded?

If MAGA adherents genuinely believed it to be a hoax, they'd just fight for greater scientific inquiry. But all together, their actions -- though terrifying -- amount to a clear beacon signaling a recognition of the greatest weak-spot in the rise of neofacism.

If people learn about solutions to climate change, Christian nationalists expect to lose.

Food for thought.

I don't know if this is a hot take, but I think allowing straight and cis people to identify as such is appropriate, because the alternative assumes that we live in a state of default heteronormativity.

If anything, I want to live in a world where homophobes get mad that if they want to be assumed to be straight online they have to identify like anyone else. No one gets assumed to be straight any more. That's better imo.

There is a lot about this that is nuts, but one thing that really jumps out at me.

It seems like Netanyahu is planning an October surprise to shank Harris. And it seems like he is doing it in broad daylight. It certainly seems like a massive offensive strike on Iran one or two weeks before the election is a straightforward way to throw a close election to Trump.

But with this I have to ask: are Biden and Harris assisting with a plan that is clearly intended to cost Harris the election?

I want to say that they surely must've told Israel not to launch anything before election day. But based in their actions so far, it doesn't seem like they're imposing a "no election interference against us personally" requirement as a condition of their assistance.

I guess we'll see.

I see Teslas in the bay area with bumper stickers that say things like "I didn't know he was nuts when I bought this"

This is modestly interesting. My brother worked here before they had layoffs about two years ago, and had a generally favorable opinion of the company and leadership.

Fundamentally, while I think RJ seems like a sound businessman and technologist, and I like the company's taste a bit, I will never be able to reconcile his views with mine. He very openly views cars as computers and software and services that happen to move you around, and I would like it to be a machine over which I have as minimal a relationship as possible with the manufacturer after I acquire the product.

Still, I wish them luck.

That's awesome. Man, fuck that company. Bricking a train? Outrageous.

The phrase "it's official" sits right alongside "literally" for most frequently misused statements.

I was wondering if the article was about a credit rating change or something, but I'm halfway through and there is no specific event mentioned. Just generalized analysis and forecasting.

Ugh, learn to data. Maybe the analysis is spot on, but "trust me bro" is not a valid citation.

Oof. I just want to say as a Jew that is constantly trying to dispel the myth of Jewish media conspiracies, Zuck really isn't doing us any favors here.

This is so backwards. I had to read this a few times to try to make sense of the memo. Apparently, the reasoning is that instead of telling employees that they didn't get a raise because of company-wide cuts, try to convince them that they just did a bad job?

That's stupid. That would obviously have the opposite effect of softening the disappointment. Whoever wrote this memo is an idiot who has no idea what employees do or what they think.