Nope, because in their eyes they need to enforce heteronormativity which means erasing intersex existences through forced sex surgeries on babies (you know, like they always have done).

It’s about power, control, and enforcing their worldview on others, it’s not about truth, justice, reason, evidence, or having a fucking soul.

This is so important. Even if Trump comes in and wrecks everything, the work is there, and the work will become less memory holed because of the prominence of the people presenting it. The information is already out there, and there will be those who will preserve it until their last breath to ensure it’s not forgotten.

We’ve got to stop allowing people to pretend that biology is in any way binary and this kind of important work helps that happen.

Anyway yeah this is pretty huge and honestly a bit unexpected. Admiral Rachel Levine, MD kicks so much ass for this.

Eh, I’m done thinking rockets are awesome. We’re busy burning the one planet we have down and we’re not learning enough in my opinion from space science to be justifying the pollution it creates. The Starlink satellites are creating way more space junk than we need and risk creating a Kessler syndrome.

We can worry about space when we’ve handled climate change and mass extinction and topsoil depletion and so on. Until then, it’s just wasting fucking time and energy.

I also did not like something Newton said at the end of a (paywalled) blog about what he learned from the reaction to his piece about AI skeptics. Newton said, and I quote, that he was “taking detailed notes on all bloggers writing ’financial analyses’ suggesting that OpenAI will go bankrupt soon because it’s not profitable yet.”

I do not like bullies, and I do not like threats. Suggesting one is “taking detailed notes on bloggers” is an attempt to intimidate people that are seriously evaluating the fact that OpenAI burns $5 billion a year and has no path to profitability. I don’t know if this is about me, nor do I particularly care.

Musk has also made weird veiled threats to keeping lists. I bet Zuckerberg is just smart enough to not tell people he keeps a list of people he keeps tabs on and uses his immense wealth to crush.

I mean, we know Monsanto had a “fusion center” that fought tooth and nail to have any negative coverage of Monsanto destroyed, intimidated, or flooded with negative reviews and responses.

We have had executives from eBay mailing critics dead animals.

If I were Zitron I’d be worried about way more than just another journalist who is stuck up powerful people’s asses, but that’s the price of speaking truth to power.

Shouldn’t have wished to live in more interesting times.

If only the times we lived in were actually interesting instead of boring, tedious, and deadly.

pRoSeCuTe fAuCi

What a bunch of fuckin rubes, we just put all the people who should be prosecuted in charge.

Me, to Google right now:

to Better Attack Jack Humans

Yep, it’s Germany all over again, everyone’s just gonna roll over and let it happen, thinking “it won’t get that bad, I’ve got to get to work anyway.”

o7

It is, but uhhhh, unfortunately the US is looking pretty toast, looks like it’s about to start fucking with Europe for Russia, and China is already clearly making plans to follow Russia’s lead and re-take what they consider to be their territories, simply because they know Trump will let it happen.

With Europe literally having to cope with managing the US becoming an antagonist along with Russia, I’m not really sure we have a choice in the matter my friend.

lmao broligarchs is a new one to me and its fucking gold

Exactly, every time you turn around these guys were always ignoring evidence-based-anything. What they mean about “Law and order” is beating the shit out of innocent people and pinning charges on them. What they mean about “national security” is bombing the fuck out of wherever they can steal resources from. It’s why Trump brought up Greenland and Panama Canal, strategic resource allocation.

The only thing they know to utilize is violence and domination. They’re not clever fucking people, they’re just ruthless.

and whether we like it or not, China or India are bound to take its place. It was years ago now that a meme went around that said “The average human is a Chinese man with a cell phone and no bank account” alluding to the significance of their staggering population. India outpaced China in population since then.

Like it or not our time as a global economic, political and cultural powerhouse is quickly coming to a close.

The GOP Is No Longer the Party of National Security

Oh for fucks sake they never were! Talking about it like this is letting Republicans re-write fucking history!! Talking about it like this is letting them dictate what taking security seriously means which is how we got in this fucking mess to begin with!

Was starting two forever wars in the middle east good for the US’s security or Europe’s for that matter?

Not to mention 9/11 literally fucking happened because the Bush admin ignored clear warnings. (What’s that called, a security lapse? Rumsfeld called it a failure of imagination. I call it a failure to fucking read.)

The Afghanistan/Iraq wars in particular are an inflection point in the overall change in wider public opinion about the US government, especially worldwide. It’s when the US’s soft power began to falter and we became known as Team America World Police. It spearheaded disillusionment in the populace which has allowed right wing demagoguery take over in USA and Europe.

Was the TSA ever even really about security? At this point if a terrorist wanted to cause mass havoc and kill many people, they’d just have to set off a bomb while standing in line waiting for security. There’s been two decades of research into the TSA that shows it is all security theater and a stealth jobs program for the Bush administration.

They were never the party of national security, back to Reagan trading weapons for hostages.

EDIT: I remember computer scientists worried about the vote being insecure in 2004 and they were dismissed by “the party of national security.” While the CEO of Diebold was quoted as “We’re dedicated to bringing the President the vote in November.”

So fucking sick of these anti-research anti-science fucks being treated as competent about fucking anything.

I knew billywitchdoctor.com would come through for me.

Writing these kind of pieces is really important because these thin skinned bitches love to get angry about people speaking truth to power to them, and that’s when they let their guard down the most because they’re busy trying to cover up how much of a little bitch they are.

I’ll do my best but considering I have cancer and can’t afford my meds without the ACA, I’m probably one of the ones who is pretty fucking cooked.

…and yet there won’t be thousands of people protesting his inauguration or anything the fuck else.

The people in this country have been broken, and now they’re just gonna lay over and take it.

We’re a long way from February 15th, 2003.

Face it, American citizens, we’re fucking cooked.

Now that’s an answer I can get behind.

Woosh. We’re decentralizing everything except the hardware and everyone’s like bUt iTs dEcEnTrALiZeD!