plus i’m sure any information they have is protected under HIPAA. i expect consequences for disclosing what they know could be very steep for them, no NDA required.

this is also why i started buying physical books and using my local public library again.

"We received chat logs directly from people who self-identified as having some psychological harm related to chatbot usage (e.g. they felt deluded) via an IRB-approved Qualtrics survey "

(courtesy of Murvyn)

thank you for clarification!

… except W didn’t support him?

thanks for pointing this out, i missed it!

you can’t even accept a bottle of water while waiting to vote! the rules are different for us and them.

yeah, i don’t think a job exists where i could sustain that for any period of time before my inevitable mental and physical collapse.

some agencies have tried to fight back.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/united-states-african-development-foudation-doge-lawsuit/

anyway

you’re either terribly uninformed or willfully ignorant. lack of transportation, accommodation, childcare, time off work, current identification all contribute. gerrymandering minimizes the effects of successfully voting as well.

also, you’re not helping anything.

except that it suggests bipoc people have value and contribute meaningfully to our country.

why not? serious question, i don’t really know a lot about military leadership.

to me, it seems like a good thing if lots of people refuse to cooperate, refuse to be made instruments of this regime. enough people refuse and the regime is disempowered.

maybe, i’m not sure. but those stats up there suggest maybe they are not willing to sacrifice themselves after all. i hope we can help them understand that society doesn’t have to be a zero-sum game, which is what i think many of them have believed.

they were also children, presumably echoing the narratives of their parents. it is not a foregone conclusion that they are incapable of empathy.

nah, i also enjoy pointing and laughing when i see a cybertruck on the highway

edit (and at the people driving them)

my tamagotchi 😢

and i will see it repeated endlessly online over the next several years, paired with a lot of “serves them right” style comments.

it doesn’t help women or anyone else.

this is not the way forward.