My favorite evolutionary fact is how the sperm duct is wrapped around the bladder and pubic bone in humans that have them, forcing sperm to take a long path through the body. It was less of a deal when our ancestors walked on 4 legs, but now they're wrapped around the ureter which connects the kidneys and the bladder.
But don't you know your overlords could just move their wealth to another country if you ever threatened their property? Better keep shoveling money into their greedy maws or they'll cripple your economy by taking all your hard earned wealth somewhere worse!
Komada-san wo Komarasetai
You'll also see articles that point out the Democrats are doing something to block something, but then a few will vote with the GOP and suddenly all the Democrats are labeled as working with the GOP despite months of something being blocked and people voting against it.
Thinking that a minority of Dems voting against something absolves those who didn't is misunderstanding how the politics often work. There are often politicians willing to play the bad guy who will vote an unpopular position to save others from risking their neck. A good example is former Senator Joe Manchin, a conservative from a deep red state who was an irreplaceable part of the Democrat's majority. Other conservative Democrats like Dianne Feinstein often agreed with Manchin privately and would be happy that he could take all the heat.
There's also the fact that those in leadership positions often lead the capitulation, especially Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer. Trying to section off a third of the party as outliers is a lot harder when they're the ones with the most clout. Acting like the Democrats as a whole need shielding from their own flaws only further entrenches their weakness.
I don't know how that's related to a comic where some MAGA chud calls someone who hates billionaires a liberal. Kinda inserting your own insecurities into it tbh.
However, I am frustrated with many liberals right now, so hopefully I can explain for those who are willing to keep an open mind.
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MAGA is not the "source" of all issues right now, they're just the worst part of a very bad reality. They're a symptom of unchecked hyper capitalism rather than an external threat. If it weren't for decades of wage stagnation and rising wealth inequality, many the people who joined MAGA wouldn't have been so vulnerable to embracing it. Populism thrives on a system that doesn't work for people, and fascism was just right wing populism. One doesn't need to reject liberal political philosophy to understand this.
The biggest sin of the liberal establishment was rejecting the alternative left wing populism. It wouldn't have required the Democrats becoming communists, but they would've needed to put liberal democracy over capitalism. Leading up to the 2024 election, the Democrats ignored much of their base on issues like Gaza or TikTok while barely offering any progressive economic policies. They refused to fundamentally change from being representatives of the wealthy over the voters, refused to put democracy abroad over American imperialism, and refused to reign in the companies that got us all this discontent in the first place.
Following the election, rather than showing any resistance to fascism, the fucking ghouls in the Democratic party are becoming worse. Their think thanks took every wrong lesson imaginable, deciding that it was time to throw minorities under the bus, ignore climate change, and simp harder for corporate interests. We see someone like Gavin Newsom, who early on made theatre about gay marriage in California, embrace trans fear mongering followed by Pete Buttigieg and Kamala Harris. We see the Democrats in Congress refusing to even be obstructionists out of fear of a fascist dictator actually delivering consequences on their cushy lives.
All the while, people tell me with a straight face that these spineless fuckheads are our only chance at salvation. However, I think these voters are deluding themselves even harder than the thought leaders amongst the Democrats. The real reason I think Democrats are ignoring sections of their base and dropping any issues that the wealthy NYT readers aren't on board with, is because liberal democracy died in America. It was buried in November after being on life support for years and it will not come back, even if the Democrats retake power. Their moves to re-gerrymander Democratic states are being sold as a way to "fight dirty" with MAGA, but why can't the corporate wing of the party now use it to further sideline minorities and the left?
TLDR: The liberal hate is because the Democrats lost to the fascists, are cowards as resistance, and are moving right on policy. Insisting that Democrats are our only hope further twists the knife. Democracy isn't dying, it's dead.
ty, I'm sorry 😖
The main sort of uses I've found compelling is mapping LLMs of human language onto whale language. It's not a translator, but it might help us get a general idea of how their languages work. The vast majority of machine learning nowadays is wasteful garbage attempting to get rid of labor instead of being the tool that it is.
Fuck a family's legacy; it's a massive deal for not breaking your body and slaving away for an entire life that is shorter and more miserable than those who were lucky in birth. The family itself doesn't matter, but the effect it has on people does.
Yes, but it's been years. If I remember correctly he was more of a goober than a bad guy.
"Toonforce" is absolutely broken in the powerscaling community, allowing many toon characters to do literally anything so long as it's funny. They can rewrite reality, casually destroy and recreate universes, override the will of their own writers and animators, and solo god like beings from other media. Powerscalers will argue that Scooby-Doo can beat Superman and SpongeBob can nodiff Goku.