They’ve been blithering on about it in stereo surround sound since the first COVID cough (and long before that), what “silence”

Rule of Acquisition #27282 make sure when they dig you up it’s clear you had great lobes

“Squeezing” doing a lot of heavy lifti–er, squeezing

Yep, if it were different it would mean something else

Yes, they are, because forced birthing is deadly. The idea of calling it “pro life” is on its face a hypocritical position.

They are welcome to call it pro-forcing-pregnancy-to-term-under-any-circumstance But I suspect that even those ghouls know it makes for a bad headline

Birth can mean a healthy happy life afterward (they wouldn’t want that), so more like “pro-plentiful-cheap-labor-supply”

Mine too I’m sure, it just adds to the ambiance

The kindergarten handwriting in fat marker really chefs kisses this to the next level

I was shoved into Linux by a nearly dead HPC expert who was definitely angry about the advent of electricity.

Wasn’t given any indication of a text editor, I ran across vim for one reason or another and enjoyed his Palpatine-like reaction from seeing me using vim enough to keep using it. And if you’re enjoying something, why not

But yeah, it has some drawbacks lol

Affordable? No, not to many people’s finances

Relatively cheap for a new car? Unfortunately

A tough combination in a country where having a car is essentially mandatory in all but a few cities

This is about utilities, if someone doesn’t think the often privatized, often monopoly utilities aren’t spending every penny and second trying to squeeze you I don’t know what to tell em

This isn’t about a fair barter for fresh cow milk and the associated labor at the community market

People vote for a guy who says racial “others” are poisoning the blood of the country because someone was crass on a web forum?

Agreed. Unfortunate that many times this is met with some smug shit about “wanting echo chambers”

Not wanting a feed full of modern phrenology and a 20 page analysis about how this weeks 13 year old black kid getting murdered by the cops for looking at them wrong is “totally fine and actually should happen more” does NOT mean I “want echo chambers”

Gosh this giant group of White Nationalists wants to come to my house for my birthday, well wow golly gee every opinion is a rich and valuable thing better let them in

These “wait and see” dingdongs have somehow not learned from decades/centuries of history about how “hearing people out” in situations like this only leads to negative outcomes.

We’ll let in a little Aunt Fash, Liberty Mom, candidate for Alaklabraska school board, as a treat

Different points of view will EnLiGhTeN

You know this headline is fake because Cybertruck fan boys would never ever act like it’s anything but a 100% perfect personal space shuttle + superiority license

I know this is satire but I’ve seen it for real too many times

Ty for this great pasta moment

“What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I’ve authored multiple FOSS libraries, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret application deployments on Production and I have over 300 confirmed commits. I am…”

Frustrating to say the least. I feel my PhD accelerated learning in all directions. Not from the program content itself, but the skills involved in the ingestion of high volumes of dense information. This idea that the borders of my world don’t extend past some yadda yadda about some tiny subclass of a field is some silly goosery.

Can those “skills involved” be learned elsewhere? Sure, this is just the path I took. Can phDoctors be single minded or general idiots? Sure, I’m an idiot. Do we need some single minded people? Sure, amazing things can be accomplished by singular focus.

But it isn’t a mandatory condition or experience of a floppy hat assed (sword in some countries) recipient of this degree.