As the old joke goes, the longer you live here, 'diverse' it gets.

Unless we're talking about advanced care in a nursing home, no.

This right here is why it drives me bonkers that the "autumnal" drinks all come out September 1 and will largely disappear by November. We'll barely have cool days by then!

Buy that stuff for *your* kids. Experience their joy.

My favorite AI joke: Current models are getting close to PhD-level intelligence. After that, they're expected to achieve the intelligence of someone who decided not to do a PhD.

"WoW Forever? Maybe I'll reinstall."

If "waiting for medical care" were tracked as a cause of death, it would be 4th leading cause of death in Canada. Right behind MAID, oddly enough.

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I get the argument, but the TikTok affair proved Trump isn't beholden to legal mandates (because Congress won't hold him to it)

Of all the creation myths I've heard, this one is certainly unique.

Veracity of the allegations notwithstanding, I contend that if you ask for asylum from your homeland due to danger and then *visit* said homeland, you were not being truthful about your need for asylum.

Predicted 10 year followup that none of this made a bit of difference

Seeing lots of surprised reactions to the absurd Nature editorial on Jason Arday. Frankly, I'm surprised people are surprised. Nature has been totally captured by wokeness for a while now. I've been trying to call attention to this for nearly a decade. There are no serious scholars left there in influential positions capable of rescuing it. The people in charge of Nature today are brazenly hostile to the foundational principles that made Nature a highly respected and trustworthy institution in the first place. Today, activists have hijacked it and are using the prestige associated with the Nature brand to push an ideological agenda. They don't care that they're quickly burning through the immense trust that was slowly and painstakingly built by generations of competent scholars and stewardship. They're willing to burn through it all in a decade for power. It's an absolute tragedy. Nature has gone all-in on decoloniality, which holds that academic rigor and scientific objectivity are forms of colonial oppression rooted in white supremacy. It seeks to elevate Indigenous "ways of knowing," which amount to tribal myths and forms of religious mysticism, as an equally valid system of producing knowledge. And they don't want this absurd notion to remain theoretical; they want to implement these principles in areas that deal with life and death—medicine and nursing. I know what I'm saying sounds absurd. People can't possibly believe that. Like, I must be exaggerating, right? I promise you that I'm not. If anything, I'm dramatically understating the problem. We are in the midst of a total academic crisis, and we need to stop acting surprised and start taking action to delegitimize these journals and root these fields out of our public and publicly-funded institutions. If we don't, it's only going to get worse.

this is really, really, really, really bad. it's bad that there are no longer institutions that we can trust to at least try, a little, to stay above the fray. it's doubly bad when they are the most prestigious truthseeking institutions in the world. i want a different timeline

Hilariously tone deaf and self-serving.

California spent $24B on the homeless over a five year period starting in 2019. You can argue that money wasn't spent *well*, but the idea that you can just end crime by spending money on the poor doesn't really pan out.