Bruh they’re just warming up.

A couple street executions here, a detainment and (separate) FBI search of journalists there to gauge public response. They’ll adjust their approach, improve their propaganda and continue dismantling communities.

They’re deep into abducting and concentrating innocent people including children They will continuously escalate their brutal and violent responses to resistance.

They demanded voting records. They aren’t stopping with immigrants and they’re taking the first steps toward cataloging the opposition.

Trump is not in charge. He is the distraction, the orange herring providing cover for the likes of Stephen Miller, Russell Vought and other focused, effective organizations operating in the background. The true consequences of the dozens of executive orders Trump auto-penned in his first months have hardly kicked in yet.

We’re just reaching the second quarter.

The cops were probably impressed by his aim and asked for shooting tips.

I’m interested in the long-form articles but have never used RSS, is there a good reference site for learning about it you could recommend?

Yeah the private school thing is the only point of contention. I can’t decide whether their willingness to hire non-education degrees is a good or bad thing. I’m reasonably confident in my ability to teach (math especially) but definitely lack pedagogy training. I’m taking their willingness to support my certification as a good sign, just concerned about the meantime.

That said, when my options are teaching math to high schoolers or defense sector…pretty easy choice.

Just today I was made aware of an open position for a high school math teacher that I’m finding myself surprisingly keen on. It is a private/charter school which I’m "generally* ideologically opposed to but in this case it’s geared towards sending underserved children to university.

I was that child, only I received virtually zero support from teachers and made a shitton of mistakes trying to figure out university and adulting with neurodivergence. Helping to prepare guide and inspire the next generation actually sounds incredibly fulfilling.

Congratulations, you just disenfranchised many of our most vulnerable demographics from the disabled to seniors to stay at home mothers.

Every single person subject to a government and it’s set of laws gets the chance to voice their opinion. Full stop.

You’ve falling for the lies that the right has been shouting for decades. We had that education, had reasonably trustworthy information outlets. Both of those institutions have been eroded and co-opted by the GOP for years and years. We are in the endgame of 60+ years of slow, calculated corruption of our institutions. Flaws have been exploited, loopholes created and repeatedly sommersaulted through.

Basing school funding on property values is a sick joke that leaves the impoverished underserved and undereducated. This is why we have a literacy epidemic. Social media and the consolidation of news outlets under billionaires have been the primary drivers of mis- and disinformation. The firehose of shit has been pumping trash down peoples throats for over a decade at this point, filling the brains of people who did not have the opportunity to learn critical thinking or media literacy with falsehoods and false hopes.

Every single person living in any country should have a voice. Citizen or not. Once you allow one group to be disenfranchised it opens the gate to more widespread disenfranchisement of other “undesireables.” We need a concerted effort to re-establish robust, evidence-based teaching that goes beyond regurgitating facts, that is equally available and not dependent on your neighbors property values. We also need independent journalism that is not beholden to the whims of a single, disgustingly rich person.

Start there. Start with figuring out how to respect and help the people around you rather than sneering and looking down your nose at them. Your mindset and solution are antithetical to a fair and just system of governance.

As a plane-type autist, I had to stop watching the airspaces around El Salvador and Palestine for my own sanity. Shit’s so fucked.

I am in this article and I don’t like it.

Mechanical Engineer, graduated a few years ago. Slightly above this age band due to mental health struggles in my 20s. Four years of internships + undergrad research during school. One year, three months of unsteady, career-relevant contract work since then.

Moved from Bumfuck Midwest to a city with plenty of aerospace gigs but can’t even get an interview at the grocery store. I’m lucky that my parents and state aid have covered me thus far, have gotten wildly higher-quality mental/physical care here. Behaviourally I’m better than ever but chucking resumes into the void is wearing me down and I’m backsliding on my executive functioning progress.

Employment or a Master’s/PhD in Sweden/Germany/EU in general is preferable to the American defense industry but that’s a tall and expensive hill to climb (if anyone wants to assist please DM 🙃) and I’m nearly out of time before being faced with moving back home.

I’m tired, boss.

Cloudberg is a she! You are absolutely correct that she is an excellent subject matter expert though.

Also, good luck sourcing salt water in Illinois.

I’d imagine you can do everything on the website, which can likely be made into an ‘app’ on Firefox via the “Add to Home screen” option.

Dragons of Autumn Twilight, the first book in an excellent series that I haven’t read for 15+ years. Catching up with my old friends has been fantastic.

There’s a difference between feeling empathy and providing grace or forgiveness. It is absolutely acceptable and healthy to set boundaries on what you are capable of forgiving, but giving up empathy is a different story. Empathy is what makes us human, makes us care about each other. You absolutely can (and, IMO, should) keep caring about these people who have hurt you. If someone shares a true human connection with you, that matters. Thats what you should empathize with.

That said, people are products of their circumstances, environments, and the systems they grew up within. Depending on those factors, people may develop incredibly maladaptive behaviors, or be subject to untreated mental health issues; this can lead to unhealthy behaviors that harm those around them.

It is not your responsibility to fix them, nor guide them. Even if they recognize themselves as the source of their problems and wish to change and grow, it is still not your job to drag them through that process. Actively caring for someone isn’t the only option. Caring for someone can be remote, can be passive or entirely uninvolved in their life. You are absolutely allowed to set those boundaries, or to set more open boundaries and do what you can to help them if you wish.

To stop caring for them altogether, however, is a mistake. If you genuinely connect with and care about someone, hang onto that. Hang onto your love for fellow humans because that empathy, that love is what keeps humans growing and moving forward. It is okay to separate yourself from those who harm you, okay to leave someone to their journey, but to stop caring for them dehumanizes yourself just as much as it dehumanizes them.

Could you elaborate on “needless levels of empathy”?

Because they wouldn’t get to that position if they were just plain stupid.

Counterpoint: Trump

The influence of money outweighs intelligence every time, which is precisely why your second statement holds true.

Note: no opinion either way, but thought exercise;

Pilots mayday’d ATC ~10 seconds after take-off. Survivor could’ve heard the engines die, oxygen masks may have deployed when ram-air turbine spun up, may’ve seen the ground getting closer instead of further away. Twenty adrenaline-fueled seconds is quite a bit of time. Main variable keeping me skeptical is finding a survivable intersection of fall height and distance from explosion.

Engine failure during take-off would lead to an abrupt decrease in the rate of change of acceleration; by definition the ‘jerk’. Escaping via the emergency exit in that time is feasible. Timing the jump…questionable, but possible.

YouTube [isn’t] even worth checking out anymore. It’s just garbage.

Forgiven and forgotten. Want a beer or other culturally appropriate cold, refreshing beverage?

Lucifer is literally the angel of free thought. Satanism promotes critical thinking and the right to question authority. Wikipedia is one of the few remaining repositories of free knowledge and polluting it with LLM summaries is exactly the inscrutable, uncritiqueable bullshit that led to the Abrahamic god casting Lucifer out.

I realize your reply is facetious, but there’s a reason we’re dealing with christofascists and not satanic fascists. Don’t do my boy dirty like that.