Thomas Decker

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116522359740973060 What I find surprising: This alleged Ubersceptic is as gullible as they come - as soon as you replace God with AI.

@ai6yr Love it. This is what I always hoped my history students would take away from my class, the ability to apply it to the present.

@Ann1944@social.vivaldi.net @stevefelten@mastodon.online no no that was funny - and we needed the laugh. Also, the flipside is that we woke up to a lot that has been going on all this time. The pedophilia. Reaganomics. AIDS. Cigarettes. The Climate. Now we know better, and that makes me feel better than not knowing shit.

@gooba42 @fourmiune @Npfmorsan @greenpeace You'd think that was hyperbole, but at least one of the #EpsteinClass billionaires is actively working on dimming the sun... https://www.forbes.com/sites/arielcohen/2021/01/11/bill-gates-backed-climate-solution-gains-traction-but-concerns-linger/

@bart@smop.fyi @Felienne@mastodon.social yes that was my sentiment too. This one man show appears to be speedrunning the history of New Labour. He amassed such enormous reserves of confidence and goodwill, just sitting there in the Boston docks waiting for the Great Molasses Flood of 1919.

@TarkabarkaHolgy and people researching obscure Filipino folk tales?

@lydialurch@mastodon.social Oh my god same!

@mcnado And denying access to abortion ultimately boils down to controlling women's bodies - and girls'. So very Epstein.

@tarheel@mstdn.io @Ann1944@social.vivaldi.net @stevefelten@mastodon.online The list is by no means complete.

@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social I mean is this really the first time? So many Trojan horses ran as Democrats, it's not even funny. Manchin, Sinema, Fetterman...

@CardboardRobot@mstdn.social @RickiTarr@beige.party Shout out to Nancy Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr. who managed the same thing - except that it was consensual and initiated by a woman - a little bit earlier than Star Trek.

@LordCaramac@discordian.social @aadeacon@mastodon.social @IAmDannyBoling@mstdn.social @Strandjunker@mstdn.social I think you underestimate how much emphasis on unity and how much coalition building goes on behind the scenes. Techbros (e.g. Thiel, who very openly talks in apocalyptic terms) know fully well that they need an army of fanatics to fulfill their longtermist dreams / to plunder all available resources. Arguably that is the whole reason for their information-gathering enterprise.

@CardboardRobot@mstdn.social @RickiTarr@beige.party Movin' with Nancy (1967)

@dada87@social.cologne Ich habe den Vorschlag gehört, die Erbschaftssteuer sei tot und nicht mehr wiederzubeleben. Stattdessen sollen einfach alle Finanztransaktionen besteuert werden. Und für Fälle wie "schenken von Eltern an Kinder" und "Erben von Ommas Häuschen" kann ja wieder ein meinetwegen sehr hoher Freibetrag her.

@Soozcat @mcnado It makes sense if it's not really about abortion, but women's bodily autonomy. As in, abortion is fine if it's the man's - and only the man's - decision.

@vieuxrenard Ich hätte Interesse - mein Mann und ich ziehen im Sommer nach Berlin, weil ich im August dort als Lehrer anfange. Budget ist allerdings etwas eng... email ist de-t@web.de

@daisy Couldn't they also be vastly slower programmers?

@toriver@mas.to God I wish I didn't know what you're talking about.

@CardboardRobot@mstdn.social @RickiTarr@beige.party https://youtu.be/3cvDVSIVhN0 wait until the very end :)

@futurebird@sauropods.win All our heirlooms look a little bit like this

@dada87@social.cologne Auf die Gefahr hin, Käptn Obvious zu sein: Das Wort von "Omma ihr klein Häuschen" war ein Trick der Überreichen, um nie wieder Erbschaftssteuer zahlen zu müssen - und wir sind alle drauf reingefallen. "Omma ihr klein Häuschen" war nie in Gefahr, dafür gibts Freibeträge. Wir haben aber schlicht zuwenig Fantasie, um uns den Überreichtum vorstellen zu können, den ein Mensch heute haben kann, und denken deswegen ständig, die Freibeträge könnten zu hoch sein, um wirksam zu sein...