I never understood the fight against nihilism, as if it’s inherently bleak. I came to the conclusion that nothing truly matters a long time ago, but that doesn’t keep me from feeling like stuff matters, and doing what matters to me. Subjective meaning can still drive you to pursue and live a good life even while you’re aware that objective meaning doesn’t exit. Happiness feels good, which is enough for me.

My only regret is only being born with 7 fingers to give…

It all makes sense when you realize who makes the cutoff for what they consider “people.”

I didn’t even think it could mean anything other than that until I started reading the comments. Coming from Trump this certainly reads more like a “finish them!” than a “leave them alone!”

Because he knew nobody would actually enforce it.

This is some Made in Abyss type shit, and I’m all for it .

I almost missed the scale on the left. Almost.

They’ve been raised on the idea that taxes are bad, and never put more thought into it than that. They view things like the fire department as good, so they can’t really be funded by those bad taxes, right? …Right?

Teach a man to fish and you’ll have one new fisherman. Teach a man to teach a man to fish, and you’ll start a new fishery education pyramid scheme.

Reread the rule @TheTechnician27@lemmy.world listed; it’s not a rule against posting AI, it’s a rule against accusing people of posting AI, the very thing they were trying to prompt people to do.

So, if nobody accuses them, is it because nobody noticed, or is it because nobody wanted to break the no-accusing rule? It’s impossible to tell, which makes the results of the study worthless.

One pizza place by my old house in the bad part of Minneapolis always had a bunch of cars in the parking lot. One day I decide to try it; I manage to find a parking spot, walk in, and the place is pretty much empty. I order a pizza, take it home, and it’s one of the worst pizzas I’ve ever eaten. That place simply cannot be a legitimate business.

The vast majority of the people who would actually fight on the right side of history have been thoroughly pacified by the rhetoric that using a weapon would be unacceptably barbaric, and that if you can’t make the change you want with words, you’re just not finding the right words. We’ll be holding quippy signs and chanting about justice even as the country literally crumbles around us.

They’re wryly saying that when Trump inevitably ignores this latest of judicial orders, there will continue to be no consequences save for more angry reminders that he’s not supposed to do that.

As an adult, I now celebrate the day after Halloween, when I can get to the grocery store right as it opens and grab several giant bags of candy on clearance.

Everyone already knows all the republicans supported it; anything under their jurisdiction is already a lost cause. What I want to know is how many people from the “left” party can’t even keep their own votes on the right side of history. It’s not news when villains are villains - it’s news when the people who say they’re here to fight back against the villains are caught supporting them, and it’s important not to drown out that important detail among a bunch of already-known regressives. People need to see that the current democratic party isn’t a viable defense against conservativism, and that we need to do something more to get things moving in the right direction again than simply trusting democrats to fix everything.

If by “we” you’re referring to the American people as a whole, then no, no we don’t. So many people I talk to are treating this like just another 4 years of republican shenanigans; I rarely find someone in real life who understands just how close we are to all-out war.

Remember, there are 2 reasons why someone might say something. Either it’s the truth, which makes no sense as you pointed out, or it’s a convenient lie, which makes perfect sense for someone who benefits from maintaining the status quo while pretending to fight against it. It’s well past the time to assume people are telling the truth until proven otherwise. It’s time to just straight-up call a politician’s lie a lie from the smell alone.

It was ruined for me when I was getting my masters in genetics and learned that “mitochondria” is plural, and the singular is “mitochondrion.” So, it’s either “the mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell” or “the mitochondrion is the powerhouse of the cell,” and neither feel right.

I was lucky that my family had a Mac when I was a kid. I did all my stupid downloading of random .exe files from sketchy sites on a machine that couldn’t run them, and by the time I got my own PC in high school, I knew a bit better.

I had my annual review last week, and they told me they base their new hire workload goals on the amount of work I do. I’m happy to do my part in bringing down expectations!