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zifnab25
joined 5 years ago
My sister was considering moving back to Texas, but she decided against it because she wants to have more kids. She's afraid to even visit while pregnant.
This is the real consequence of the state's policies. No woman with a self-preservation instinct is going to want to be anywhere near this place if she's trying to get pregnant. Nevermind how many middle-aged mothers - people with families and children that need her support - are going to get killed in the ER by these fucked policies because doctors are terrified of treating anyone experiencing a miscarriage.
This image raises so many questions. Like... how far apart do flat-earthers think the Falkland Islands and Cape Town are from one another? Do they believe Australia is bigger than Russia and Canada. Why do they think the earth has a big cold spot right in the center of where all the sun lands?
Free Demo
Under capitalism, you get five minutes of free propaganda and are billed for the remainder.
IQ is a dumb measure and has historically been used to justify some heinous things
The basic concept of measured cognitive capacity to diagnose physical injuries/malnutrition, extreme trauma, and developmental problems is genuinely good and helpful. I want a doctor to be able to take a baseline and compare it to person-struck-in-the-head and produce a meaningful quantifiable measure of the degraded capacity.
I don’t think that the part that makes the scores fall in a 50-150 range is the evil part. I think it’s use as a tool to separate people often by racial and class differences with plausible deniability is the evil part.
The whole eugenics aspect of IQ is gibberish. Nobody can tell you what the divisor and the dividend are in their IQ quotients. Numbers tend to get spouted out entirely as forms of marketing. Self-help gurus all insist they've got 200+ IQs. Kids locked up in the carceral state and subjected to chronic malnutrition, psychological trauma, and physical abuse are labeled "deficient" by their nature rather than their conditioning. Whole social cohorts are slandered based on fictitious and fabricated data.
All this facilitates the process of bureaucratizing evil social policies. But the pseudo-scientific justifications for trash treatment begin by the labeling of populations as "trash people" in the same way that elite social networks inflate their own importance by giving one another "High IQ" participation trophies.
Telling a bunch of anti-lynching activists that this is a disrespectful day to protest lynching, on account of a famous lynching that happened today.
Then cutting to a crying conservative who didn't get a Christmas themed coffee cup.
priced out of the cities
Federal Reserve cuts Berkshire Hathaway another nine figure loan at the prime rate.
Berkshire uses the cheap cash to vacuum up thousands of properties and lists them at big mark-ups.
Business Insider Op-Ed writer spends 1000 words smugly talking down to 30-year-olds for wanting to stop being renters.
Somebody explain to me why Eminence in Shadow is good, because I've watched three episodes and it just seems like horny Batman.
Can't believe the bleak vacuum of space isn't more entertaining. Oh well, yout said you wanted realism, so we made a game that's boys only and also you need to actually spend 2.5 years in a small pod waiting to get to the next planet. HAVE FUN, Y'ALL!
I mean, the joke is going to be in the enforcement, as a battalion of Australia's largest and roundest uniformed fascist shitheads march through the streets breaking windows and swinging at the heads of anyone sporting a Palestinian flag.
You're going to have folks with swastika face tattoos explaining why these anti-Zionist activists just need to obey the law.
https://www.axios.com/2024/01/07/trump-ballot-remove-14th-amendment-map
Currently 19 different states working to disqualify Trump from the ballot, although it appears that Sec State of California has refused to pull the trigger (shame, really, because that would have been funny af). He's potentially going to be excluded from Nevada because of filing deadlines (so, presumably, someone ratfucked him in the clerk's office). The South Carolina SC is deciding whether to keep him on the ballot right now.
Cannot be overemphasized how fucked the Iowa Causus system is in practice, either. Just ask Bernie Sanders.
It isn't inconceivable that enough dirty tricks get pulled to send the GOP to a contested convention. But if he's just allowed to compete in a heads-up contest, he wins in a landslide, yeah.