BREAKING: 82 year old Senator Mitch McConnell just fell down the stairs while departing the Senate

— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) February 5, 2025

I went on a walk and saw a child drowning in the river. I was going to jump in and save him, when someone reminded me that I should care about family members more than strangers. So I continued on my way and let him drown.

— Scott Alexander (@slatestarcodex) February 2, 2025

BONUS: Marc Andreessen QTs with a heatmap meme, Scott points out that facts don't care about your feelings (i.e. rightoids can't read)

Hi Marc. I know the heatmap meme, but I think the study it comes from ( https://t.co/rqK2vSX7EU ) is saying something really interestingly different from the meme version.

The study finds (see Figure 1) that liberals care about their friends more than conservatives do*.…

— Scott Alexander (@slatestarcodex) February 3, 2025

You're not alone.

Parents have expressed their concern at a Queensland high school teacher who has reportedly been referring to themselves as a cat, allegedly hissing at students and licking the back of their hands during class. The teacher, who works at Marsden State High School in Logan City, south of Brisbane, has reportedly asked students to call her "Miss Purr", multiple parents have claimed on social media.

just accepted the job offer of my dreams. It was great, paid $38/hr full benefits! The work is a combination of physical and technical, and the cherry on the top was it was good MORAL work. I would have been working with private landowners to plant trees on their property, giving them timber harvesting power in the future plus fortifying the American timber trade instead of outsourcing for wood. Not to mention improving the local environment.

The thing is I'd be working with a non-profit and my position is funded by federal grants.

My job acceptance almost feel through with one executive order but I got lucky until Elon fricking MUSK commandeered the treasury payment system so there are effectively no resources to hire me. He took my job.

It's fricking heartbreaking. In 2 years I could have paid off my student loans and had a down payment for a house if I had saved like mad. Now I'm stuck making $20,000 a year living paycheck to paycheck. And I don't think anybody understands what an opportunity like this is for some poor kid who grew up in a rotten trailer in Appalachia to have had. Frick.

>Elon Musk--and I mean this genuinely--is a national security concern who should be deported and permanently banned from travel to our country. He doesn't belong here. This is not his country. He can get the frick out if he wants to steal from real Americans, which he is not.

>Sounds great but that's not true. Basically Musk came here on a student visa for Stanford, never went to one day of school, then just stayed. Then later he got naturalized via some Affirmative Action thing for Rich people, but the rule is you are supposed to wait for this process in your home country, but Musk defrauded the United States by staying here. Immigration fraud has no statute of limitations. We can deport this crook if we get the will!

>Oh, there will be plenty of jobs. Hope you like picking fruit in 100-degree heat for $3 an hour...

I'm gen Z and maybe it's better not to mess with what worked in the past, though it stopped working at some point on reddit.

Their three day ban is up but they are currently private while the unpaid jannies "prepare to reopen."

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like do people actually use it??

sauce

!burgers !dramatards

This is why I’m transphobic: pic.twitter.com/FPan8zKWO3

— MaryCate Delvey (@marycatedelvey) February 6, 2025

!cuteandinvalid

Amazing thread attempting to create a narrative with 40k upmarseys and just 900 comments, so you know it's legit.

Comments are mostly as expected: Yeah, but Amazon is cheaper, ships faster, and has ez returns.

Note: Amazon doesn't make much on it's retail ops anymore, so they probably dgaf if people shop there or not.

Notable zero-pointers

2 weeks later no package arrives, no answer from support, regret not using reliable Beszos

Amazon is Amazon for a reason

Yeah but usually there products are marked up 25% compared to the Amazon listing so bezos gets my money🤷.

Nah I usually want the shit I ordered faster than 1-3 business months

The Pivot attempt and rebuttal

The main difference is Amazon offers free shipping and free hassle free returns. Other retailers charge you to return products you order from them and usually charge you shipping to get them

fyi hassle free returns = products go directly in the garbage (cheaper than sorting through the products) and Amazon bakes the cost into higher prices for everyone due to the high volume of returned items

FYI the exact same thing happens when you return it to the manufacturer.

The only difference is that it's substantially easier to return a product to Amazon vs most manufacturers.

These clowns are desecrating the great Mosque of Cordoba with their pagan rituals. https://t.co/sGdHIBqDdG

— Ibn Bayrut 🇱🇧 (@hasandarb) February 6, 2025

!codecels The only thing i learned in ethics class is that I reject the ethics of my peers and countrymen

So I've been in the industry for 7 years now but had a degree in social sciences and later attended a bootcamp before getting my first job.

In light of current events, I'm just puzzled that there are engineers that are so willing to deploy their skills to achieve nefarious ends. We have the ability to impact the world in major ways with our knowledge and expertise, I would assume that CS programs would understand this and require course work on the moral implications of technology. Even in cases where what we are doing is technically legal. We are not mere cowtools for the business of others, this should be kept in mind.

Yea and that's why instead of testing your fancy new AI on fed databases to find freeloaders and wastes of money you're bitching on reddit

I also seen meme how during butt creed 1 there was only jade raymond as female dev and now with butt shadow is 50%