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6am in an airport chili’s

Seems like it would be way more useful and accurate to just have a bunch of participants interact with a blog or something as a “focus group” and have trigger warnings that let them skip an article if they want to. Ask them to view a certain number and explain skipping is fine. Then after, ask some questions about their triggers and see what lines up. Did people who report certain triggers skip those articles? Seems like an easy way to set this study up and actually test if trigger warnings are useful. Would be even better if you could include people in the study who have documented triggers, but that’s a lot harder to manage

DHMO asphyxiation is the leading cause of death amongst sailors in the US Navy. Support our troops and write to your senators to ban DHMO today!

I think the “6th grade” bit is made up to help translate the results of these studies into something even 6th graders can understand, but the feds do these massive studies every now and then

https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/piaac/2023/national_results.asp

Yes! Sometimes I wonder what would pass if it were written more plainly. Oregon voted down a measure that would only increase taxes on companies making a lot of money and then distribute that money to citizens. Like wtf how could that not pass?

Then they DID vote for a measure that allows the state legislature to impeach members. Literally giving up our power to vote for who we want and letting the politicians kick people out when they feel like it is ridiculous. I bet the first time someone gets impeached it will be a leftist/progressive and not some fucking piece of shit from east Oregon who is literally trying to become Idaho

I’m pretty comfortable with reading/listening to analysis from people who think I should die, but I would never go to them to actually learn? I think of it more as an exercise of my own ideology when I try to understand someone with whom I clearly disagree.

I would never actually praise any of these people, they exist solely to absorb my derision and help me solidify my beliefs in the face of constant pressure to conform. Anyone who reads theory and is into terf shit is probably just fash with bad reading comprehension.

This story seems to play out a lot with the US govt. Likely due to the lack of any real long-term planning.

1. Oh no China is taking some of our control over X
2. Do nothing for a while
3. Scramble to stop China from completely taking over X
4. Waste billions on propaganda, cost everyone money via tariffs, sanctions, bans, etc
5. Realize it was never going to work and give up
6. Do nothing for a while
7. Start at step 1 again

The first two things they should already be doing all the time. It would actually be funny if there was a way to make the inauguration crowd small af, but funny is all it would be. The kazoo bit makes my whole body hurt just reading it

Any time I see politicians in a row I think about those rad 2 for 1 shots you can do in video games

Kids? That’s the marines specialty