Catoblepas

Trump still would have won in 2024 even if everyone had turned out to vote, Pew finds

https://www.npr.org/2025/06/26/nx-s1-5447450/trump-2024-election-non-voters-coalition

I wonder if anyone unintentionally drove drunk from this. An energy drink is exactly what someone trying to be more alert would drink before driving.

I honestly struggle to understand how trans women are disadvantaged if they’ve been through puberty as boys

If hormone levels are irrelevant to performance, why do cis male athletes dope?

Your premise that trans women who have been on HRT for years are physically and functionally identical to teenage boys isn’t based in reality. If HRT did nothing to your body nobody would take it.

What questions you choose to entertain as legitimate is a statement in itself.

I can’t believe it’s timed to coincide with transportation week!

Democrats have never seen an effective slogan they couldn’t workshop and focus group test to death.

There are only 4 credit card networks in the US, regardless of the credit card brand: Visa, Mastercard, American Express, and Discover. Anecdotally Visa and Mastercard are by far the most commonly used and accepted, but I couldn’t tell you why, beyond it often being the default debit card issued by banks.

UK, this is hitting basically all websites. Any site hosting adult content has to verify user ages for anyone in the UK, and instead of doing that many smaller sites are just geoblocking the UK. Easy to get around with a VPN, still absurd it’s happening.

If every eligible voter voted Trump still would have won.

Spend less time slinging shit and more time fixing it.

Funny pope selection drama, with the caveat I know about this mostly in passing: allegedly Francis was a compromise vote because the guy that a large (but not majority) faction wanted was too controversial a pick. So they voted in Francis because he was already old and only had 1 lung, so how long could he have to live anyway? Turns out longer than the guy said faction wanted to elect.

Hahaha oh boy, let’s do discovery baby!!

I was going to say ‘didn’t they just blow up a neighborhood with fireworks the same way a few years ago?’, but that was the LAPD. Of course they learned nothing from watching someone else fuck up.

No, it sounds like a mindless statistics machine because that’s what it is. Even stupid people have reasons for saying and doing things.

I personally find the psychological effect - the devs thought they were 20% faster even afterward - to be pretty interesting, as it suggests that even if more time overall is spent, use of AI could reduce cognitive load and potentially side effects like burnout.

This assumes that lower estimated time = lower stress levels, when other factors could easily be throwing off time estimation. Think the trope of someone very busy at work who realizes they’ve worked through lunch or dinner. I would have expected people who spend 20% less mental effort on something to be less engaged and more bored by the passage of time, not less.

Also, importantly, improving worker conditions is something that can reduce burnout without the burden of massive data centers. We don’t have to make a machine that produces the illusion of speech to pay people better.

Steamy book reader, you say? 👀