Me, I think we’re in the matrix and about to get group flushed as fails 😝

That would be a relief at this point.

Please let it be good. There’s shockingly few good werewolf movies.

however you want to cope with whatever part of responsibility you personally have on the matter.

I voted for the only other candidate with a chance of winning, she won my state handily, and I did what I could to convince others to do the same, so, nope, I take zero personal responsibility for the outcome, and as such I don’t need to cope with that, thanks.

There was also rampant disenfranchisement prior to the election, whatever Trump’s comments about Elon were referring to, and the bomb threats on election day, just to name a few. Maybe it all amounted to literal nothing, maybe it changed the outcome, but I don’t think we’ll ever know. Trump did a fantastic job of priming the country for 8 years to consider claims of election interference to be wild conspiracy theories and made the democratic party unwilling or unable to question anything without sounding like loons, so here we are.

Nah, man, there is no amount of interference that justifies Trump having a fart’s chance in hell of not losing every single state in a country unwilling to hand the keys to these guys 1932-style.

Let’s say, hypothetically, Trump had personally walked into every polling place, took every ballot that was cast and replaced them with copies that included a vote for him, and then waved his hand Jedi Mind Trick style and made everyone who knew it had happened immediately forget. Obviously this amount of interference would cause him to win the election regardless of how voters voted.

This is obviously an absurd example, but the point I’m trying to make is, saying ‘No amount of interference justifies this outcome’ is similarly absurd and simply normalizes and discounts the interference that took place.

There were certainly a surprising and disheartening number of people voting for Trump, but we will likely never know what the outcome would have been if there hadn’t been any fuckery going on.

It’d be weirder (and much more undemocratic) if there was a way to remove a sitting president without the Supreme Court or Congress.

Turns out there is, in fact. It just doesn’t involve governmental process at all. You’re quite correct that it’s undemocratic. (See: Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley and Kennedy)

The mechanism was the election.

That’s making the very bold assumption that there was no interference in said election. In fact, we know for a fact that there was, we just don’t know the extent of the interference and whether it changed the outcome. The reason we don’t know is because it wasn’t investigated (or if it was, it wasn’t publicized), so I’m going to take the stance that it’s very possibly on the outgoing administration, actually, for not making a bigger stink about it.

Not on the same scale obviously, but this exists.

The incidents came as the IDF said it was bolstering troop numbers and ramping up defensive efforts in the West Bank to prepare for the expected release of nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners under the deal, amid fears that those freed could return to violence or spur others to do so.

“Those prisoners could return to being violent after we release them! Let’s pre-emptively become continue being violent ourselves in protest of this possibility!”

Yeah, and I mean, he had a manifesto, and wrote a targeted message on his shell casings… this clearly wasn’t spur of the moment.

Late Monday night, New York prosecutors charged Mangione with one count of second-degree murder […]

This is actually funny, because from everything we’ve heard, it was definitely very premeditated; wonder why they didn’t go with first-degree murder…

“ill will toward corporate America,”

The only difference between him and everyone else not part of the elite is that he wrote it down and police found it.

But instead of giving up, we should be trying to fix these issues.

Genuine question - how long do you think we should try to fix the issues before coming to the conclusion that they can’t be fixed through conventional means? Do you think we should resort to nonconventional resolutions at all, if the conventional ones cease to function or don’t yield results? If not, why not?

That’s fair; my kid is probably an outlier in this regard as we’re a very tech friendly household in general, and my experience with him is the only real evidence I have to base that stance on.

Learning how to lead a protest and how to escalate until it is acknowledged is probably more valuable than whatever they’d be learning in that technology class. If there’s one thing that kids today don’t need it’s formal instruction on technology; I bet most of those students know more than the teachers.

This recent ‘remake beloved animated movies as awful live action ones’ trend is so stupid. Who asked for this? Who asked for any of this?

Sounds more like depression than addiction. Hopefully someone with more experience can chime in, but common symptoms of depression include:

• Loss of interest in things you used to enjoy doing
• Persistent tiredness or lack of energy
• Difficulty concentrating on things

which sounds like what you’re describing. It might be worth talking to a professional.

In fact, the clip was a scripted experiment by a Reddit user who fed NotebookLM a detailed prompt instructing it to simulate a conversation about the existential plight of an AI being turned off.

Someone gives an LLM a prompt, gets the result they asked for. Not sure what the collective gasp is about. Is it interesting to think about? Sure, I guess, but we’ve had media about AI achieving sentience for a long time. The fact that this one was written by an AI in the first person is its only differentiating attribute.

God, if this turned out to be true, and it’s investigated and proven, and Trump and Musk actually see some consequences for their actions, I’d be tickled absolutely pink. It really would explain a lot, including Musk’s absurd actions leading up to the election, as well as the baffling results.

Every time I see this, I can’t help but feel like it works better without the third panel. Showing it happening dulls the comedic impact of the final panel. Anyone who doesn’t know what Kirby is about isn’t going to understand the comic anyway, and anyone who does doesn’t need the third panel to understand what happened.