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https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/15/kindergarteners-could-learn-gun-safety-in-school-under-a-bill-gaining-momentum-in-utah-00204488

Can't wait for C16 Deep Tread Musk to come of age and receive a lordship in the form of a cabinet position under Barron Trump.

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Individual loss of innocence, by way of gaining knowledge about one's surrounding reality

Yeah I see what you mean, and re: why people have long been saying this, it also might have to do with the individual's perspective on a changing world, and also just growing up, i.e. one's childhood is usually less riddled by performative media (well that might be changing for younger...

With flatulence so silent he needs gravitational wave observatories to detect it.

Oh yeah I did try this! Bit too intense for me, I recall.

Wow... Following the signing of the order, President Trump proclaimed 9 February as "Gulf of America Day". "I call upon public officials and all the people of the United States to observe this day with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities," a White House statement said. Mexico's...

I have to stay in touch with the masses somehow, it can't all be boulevardiers and black toasted cavendish

Love this response though haha Feb 10 (Reuters) - A consortium led by Elon Musk said on Monday it has offered $97.4 billion to buy the nonprofit that controls OpenAI, another salvo in the billionaire's fight to block the artificial intelligence startup from transitioning to a for-profit firm...

Arguably the "scare" part refers to a sort of afterimage of a rapidly shifting overton window, i.e. a certain subpopulation whose ideology has been tolerated by the mainstream, until it suddenly isn't.

e.g. cancel culture was its own scare, just from the opposite cultural angle. It had some legitimacy, in that it brought a lot of scrutiny to certain kinds of predatory behaviors, but it also had a lot of collateral damage, and I think this collateral damage is what MAGA is the hyper-corrective...

Well I actually think the woke / social justice identity politics stuff definitely had its detrimental excesses, and that what we're seeing now is something of an over-corrective. To me, both sides have their kernels of legitimacy, and both sides have their loud opportunists exploiting and...

From my limited understanding, I think the executive orders are mainly non-binding roadmap-like declarations, often used to lay out a unifying vision for how the executive branch should approach regulating a particular industry. As I understand, they don't always carry much weight beyond...

No I'm @Homedawg1 and my role doesn't enter until the third act.

Thinking about it, what we're seeing is like a third red scare, but focused on perceived woke sensibilities instead of perceived communist leanings. Of course, the left just had its own version of this too. Scary pendulum.

Are you necrotrolling me?

I mean, bags of cement do have their way of spreading across the globe, looking for cracks.