Trump’s dog whistle…

Pretty much every workplace in the US has a policy against talking politics… and pretty much no one actually adheres to that policy.

SHUDDUP! He can qui -hic!- he can quit any time he wants!

Lots of talk about which search engine to use; surprisingly little talk about extensions.

Block or Highlight Search Engine Results is my personal recommendation. Whichever SE you use, when you see a result that’s AI slop or a garbage website like Forbes, just add bullshit.com to the filter, set to hide, and you’ll never see that trash in a search result ever again.

Be diligent about it for a good week or so, and your search result quality will absolutely explode, whether your using Google, DDG, or several others.

Fwiw, muh boys, you can do the same: doesn’t matter how big of nazis your family/coworkers are and that they’d literally want you dead for voting Harris - they don’t see your ballot. So vote Harris, then go back to the break room and bitch about her and talk whatever nazi talk you need to to fit in - cuz sure, you tooootaly voted against that conniving evil bitch! …or at least as far as they’re concerned you did: you can let your vote to save the US be a nice little secret. It all gud.

I mean, hopefully. There are people that have driven drunk many times and been fine, but it only takes one incident to bring that trend to an immediate halt.

We have no way to tell if conditions will stabilize within the surviveability window of any specific critter. Nor can we claim all life will for sure be fucked - point is we don’t know.

I don’t expect it will get that bad; it’s just within the realm of possibility. We can’t predict shit with any certainty.

It’s absolutely unconscionable, but it’s a medical (and very stupid/unnecessary) version of the trolley problem.

You’re a doctor. The tracks going one way have a single patient that you can treat and save. The tracks going the other way have every patient you’d get to see over the entirety of the rest of your career - literally thousands of people.

Treat the one and risk an avalanche of legal problems to include losing your license; the literal thousands of people are now fucked. Skip the one under the legal microscope, and she’s for-sure fucked, but your license lives to serve another day.

It’s fucked up. It’s evil. It’s what pro-life gets us.

You cannot expect a doctor to risk their freedom over a single patient. It’s like societal-level triage.

You can expect your lawmakers to not craft the world you live in into a dystopian hellscape… when they fail to live up to that expectation, don’t direct your anger at the people they’ve put into a bind; bring it directly to the lawmakers.

Their wealth will easily carry them through whatever hardships that happen in their lifetime. After their lifetime, they don’t give a flying fuck what happens.

The environment looks fine when you look at it through the lens of a fiscal quarter!

We only know of one rock in all existence that’s habitable to humans or literally anything else. Relative to humans, yeah life finds a way cuz it’s a lot more resilient than us; relative to the kinds of extremes the universe of capable of producing, life is SUPER fragile.

So… yes, humans are fucked, but so are a lot of other critters, and who knows where all the feedback loops we’ve unleashed will end after we’re gone. Shit isn’t going to just magically get better once we’re gone.

Hopefully it’ll stabilize, but there comes a point that even the most hardy of extremophiles can’t survive, and if we cross that line, Earth becomes indistinguishable from every other lifeless rock in space.

The hospital’s hands are tied by dystopian laws - this is what “pro life” looks like.

These are becoming way more common the more we let this right wing evil shit sink in.

The patient must have a life-threatening condition and be at risk of death or “substantial impairment of a major bodily function” if the abortion is not performed.

The problem is that legal jargon and medical jargon are very different animals. The legal is deliberately ambiguous, and the medical is hyper-specific… so doctors are left scratching their heads about things like “is the white blood cell count high enough for a lawyer to call this life threatening?” “Is the blood pressure low enough?” meanwhile the mother waits and dies.

“During a medical emergency” or “life threatening” are copouts that don’t actually mean shit, and no doctor is going to risk going to prison to find out.

…yeah this is just gonna get them riled up. Name-cally bullshit is the right wing’s turf - if we play there, we lose every time.

This should have been a call to unity.

New debate idea: instead of political questions, have the whole thing hosted by a panel of psychologists who give a thorough assessment to both candidates live on stage.

At the end, they collectively review all findings and conclude the event by making any diagnosis the data merits.

The only response I’ve seen so far is a statement saying they’re not a political company. That’s about as weak as it gets.

If you let your dog off the leash and it proceeds to maul a kid, and you react by standing idly until it’s over then telling the kid “Hey sorry, she doesn’t bite.” then you’re complicit as fuck, and lying through your teeth about what just happened.

Boycott those fuckers.

They put fascism on the menu when they decided to host Trump. Everything else they’re doing is moot. Fuck McDonald’s - there are PLENTY of other options to get your salty heart attack fix.

“I wanna do a treason, but it’s illegal…”

/shrug. No insight on the effectiveness of the design; that’s just what’s in use now.