Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas
Candy crush, sure, but maybe also maternity leave policies being mostly trash (big companies like @Deloitte cutting it to 8 weeks?!) and postpartum care/healthcare being mostly trash and lack of support/stigma around needing help and daycare/living costs skyrocketing are part of it, too. And the world might be richer than its ever been, but for who?
Dude who wanted to take the Ring for himself to save his kingdom but decided the mission to destroy it was more important because it would save the world, and died for that cause.
King who initially refused to aid another kingdom because they didn't help when they needed it, but ultimately decided fighting evil and saving their civilization was more important than his petty grudge, and died for that cause.
Guy who lived a life of cruelty and greed who got corrupted by a quasi-demonic force that turned him into a monster and made him suffer in loneliness for hundreds of years until given the chance to redeem himself and genuinely tried but ultimately failed by giving into temptation and betraying the only person who could bring him salvation.
"No moral complexity."
Harry spent seven entire books going after every other girl at Hogwarts while never expressing the slightest interest in Hermione. Harry literally has more chemistry with Myrtle the toilet ghost than he does with Hermione. But Ron was infatuated from the moment he laid eyes on her.
Did you not read “Goblet of Fire”? Ron was playing mind games with Hermione by not asking her to the Yule Ball and then Victor Krum asked her first, and she accepted, and Ron absolutely lost his mind.
Then Ron and Harry asked Parma and Parvati but completely ignored them at the dance because Harry was obsessed with Cho Chang and Ron was obsessed with Hermione.
The entire Black Lake challenge was about Harry and Ron being cucked, because Cedric was sent to rescue Cho, Krum was sent to rescue Hermione, and Ron had to be rescued and Harry had to rescue Ron.
Also, in “Order of the Phoenix,” Rita Skeeter wrote in the Daily Prophet that Hermione was Harry’s girlfriend and Harry was icked out while Ron was jealous and furious.
If you were shipping Harry with Hermione, that is your fault, because it was never once implied by the source material. Ron and Hermione ending up together is their whole seven-book arc.
You can go on YouTube and watch footage of the woman screaming before she goes unconscious and her dog frantically running around the backseat barking before they both burn to death because Henry Ruggs decide to drive drunk.
He shouldn’t be allowed to step foot out of prison let alone onto a football field.
It’s important that you understand what happened last night.
Last night, Stephen Colbert interviewed Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico, a candidate who, by all accounts, is on track in the polls to flip Texas blue.
In response, Trump’s FCC reportedly threatened CBS if the interview aired.
CBS caved and pulled the segment, citing “financial reasons.”
In modern American history, no president has been more hostile to free speech than Donald Trump.
But censorship always backfires.
Here’s the full segment Trump didn’t want you to see.
As an American citizen it is intensely offensive to me that we would spend this kind of money on Greenland when we don’t have universal healthcare, mandatory maternity leave, good public schools or any sort of social services.
Over 2.5 million Ohio seniors and people with disabilities rely on Medicare, and more than 3 million families depend on Medicaid. These are our parents, grandparents, neighbors, and kids.
A billionaire who flies around Ohio on a private jet calls these lifesaving programs a “mistake.”
Vivek Ramaswamy is not fighting for Ohio families — he has no idea what they're really going through.
Whole milk was not removed from schools.
Low-fat (1%) and fat-free milk remained—both provide the same protein, calcium, potassium, iodine, and vitamin B12 as whole milk. Vitamin D is added to all school milk regardless of fat content.
Children did not miss “vital nutrients.”
They missed milk fat, which is not an essential nutrient.
What is essential for brain development?
Protein → unchanged
Calcium → unchanged
Vitamin D → fortified, unchanged
Essential fatty acids (DHA, omega-3s) → not meaningfully present in milk fat in the first place
Milk fat is mostly saturated fat, which:
Is not required for neurodevelopment
Raises LDL cholesterol
Was reduced specifically to lower long-term cardiovascular risk
If kids “hated skim milk,” that’s a palatability issue, not a nutrient deficiency—and it does not explain rising obesity, diabetes, or learning outcomes.
There is zero evidence of a generation-wide micronutrient deficit caused by removing whole milk from schools.
This is nostalgia masquerading as nutrition science.
The power of RFK Jr.'s rhetoric is that it sounds logical. @billmaher's stumble shows how even smart people get trapped by it. Let's unpack it.
RFK cites a "23% higher death rate" from Pfizer's trial. What he's pointing to: 21 deaths in the vaccine group vs 17 in placebo at a later data cutoff. That's 4 more deaths out of ~44,000 people, from all causes. Numbers that small are statistical noise. The trial was never designed to detect all-cause mortality differences, and FDA reviewers reported none of the deaths were considered related to vaccination.
Worth noting: in the original NEJM publication, there were actually fewer deaths in the vaccine group (2 vs 4). RFK cherry-picked a later cutoff to find numbers that suited his narrative.
Then comes the trap. Maher says "maybe that's the disease itself," and RFK fires back: "Then the vaccine doesn't work, does it?"
That's a false choice. The trial showed the vaccine worked at what it was designed to measure: ~95% efficacy against symptomatic COVID. Whether 4 extra all-cause deaths mean anything is a completely separate question. Different questions, different answers.
It's like testing whether seatbelts prevent ejection, finding that they do, and then someone saying "but 4 more people wearing seatbelts died of strokes, so seatbelts don't work."
That's not how any of this works.
Good morning to Melania Trump’s homeland of Slovenia and to this amazing magazine cover showing her husband with Hitler moustache made of crude oil. 🇸🇮🇪🇺
Slovenes cooked severely here.
The last time a Democrat was Governor of Ohio was 16 years ago.
The last time Democrats held the majority in the Ohio State House was 16 years ago.
The last time Democrats held the majority in the Ohio State Senate was 45 YEARS AGO.
If you have an issue with policy in Ohio, you have an issue with Ohio Republicans.