Lol pretty sure I know exactly what series you’re talking about (beer can?). You’re right - it’s dumb, and the writing isn’t exactly Dickens, but it’s funny. Almost finished with the series myself. Something to read until something better comes along, at least.

I agree, but um…you really should look up the definition of the word “falsies”

You’ve completely missed the point. Nobody is saying that AI is fine and trustworthy.

How do you propose to punish software? How are you going to compel compensation, retribution, or justice from a computer program? It’s not possible. Nor should one even try - because it wasn’t AI that arrested her, it wasn’t AI that left her in jail for months, it wasn’t AI that fucked her over. It was cops that trusted shitty AI.

AI sucks - nobody in this thread is arguing against that. There’s lots of shitty software, though. The problem with AI is that is that those in power are trusting people’s lives with it and people are getting fucked because of it. If you’re focusing on the software, you’re excusing the cops.

Whataboutisms are not a valid defense against the original accusation or claim. Of course one can append a counter-accusation of hypocrisy, but that says nothing about whether the primary subject was justified or not.

Accusations of hypocrisy should be a separate subject. Initiating that claim is not a whataboutism.

Date on the article is September 2025.

On Tuesday – after the district’s four-day weekend – school officials spoke with Spud and gave him a one-day in-school suspension (ISS) for video recording in the school.

Did nobody here read the article?

partially prefilled absentee ballot applications

Not ballots, or fake ballots, or even sample ballots. Applications for absentee ballots. They only got a letter of reprimand because seriously, who gives a shit that that they were sending out applications (again: not ballots!)

Because there isn’t one. The PAC wasn’t sending out ballots, real or fake - it was sending absentee ballot applications that were partially refilled with the applicants’ information. Presumably their name and address at least, since how else could they mail it.

No wonder they only got a letter of reprimand. This is truly making a mountain out of a molehill.

Fuck them and fuck Musk, but the outrage for this is ridiculous.

Aged gouda starts out mostly white and will definitely become a dull light brownish-orange as it ages/dries out. Cheddar, while not considered a white cheese (naturally yellow, that is - not necessarily with added color) will also turn a darker color when aged. I think that’s what the parent commenter was saying.

This ain’t a referendum on whether individual white people can care about Black life. And I’m not saying white people can’t fight racism. History is full of effective examples of radical white folks working for racial justice. I am simply examining a recurring political urge that some white progressive have to be cast as the natural moral center of every struggle, as the default audience and the implied co-protagonists of Black resistance, or as proof of one’s own moral arrival. I’m talking about the desire not just to oppose injustice, but to be seen opposing it in a way that feels redemptive, cinematic, and low-cost.

Assuming you’re white, my question for you would be: why would someone who isn’t black want to not just support them, but to join them? Why isn’t it it enough to fight racial inequality in literally any other way?

If you have a problem with the statement “it’s not for you”, then maybe some self-examination is in order. But whether or not you like it…it’s not for you.

I’m white. It’s not for me. I’m OK with that. There are many ways I can fight inequality, and even support the New Black Panthers. But I don’t have to join them to do that.