Julien Silland

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Rabble rouser in chief. Bikes, computing stuff, mild dad humor, cats, aspiring puncher of Nazis. Enthusiasm enthusiast.
LocationSan Francisco
I find it reassuring that in a game that is in some ways a libertarian power fantasy (you and your spaceship, go anywhere do whatever you want), and a PvP universe, one of the first things people did was create a volunteer ambulance service.
I know fascism is upon us and all that but I just need to get it out of my system: lactation consultants are charlatans working hand in hand with oral surgeons to extract money from distressed parents. There.
It is very disturbing to see election conspiracy theories being pushed in the replies of my article about exactly how dangerous that type of denialism is. I hope people read this full piece https://www.usermag.co/p/metas-threads-overrun-with-liberal-election-fraud-conspiracies
Meta's Threads is 'overrun' with liberal election fraud conspiracies

Thousands of users have amplified baseless claims of hacked voting machines as Democrats become more comfortable embracing denialism

User Mag

I heard my second left-leaning person since Tuesday talking about a "rigged election".

Friends, you don't sound much better than a January-sixer.

the cycle ☺️
the best (???) thing about American politics is you get shit like the “Give Free School Lunches to Kids Act” and that sounds awesome but when it passes you find out it raised the cost of school lunches and somehow made it easier to buy an AR-15
@Catvalente The Singularity’s been going on for centuries, at least since Gutenberg, maybe the invention of the water wheel.
I think that idea comes from @GreatDismal

Y'all – please feel no shame or the need to be apologetic for missing the mark on where the country is or the sentiment of having lived in a bubble throughout this election cycle.

Don't forget that: the bubble is good. It's smaller than you thought but it's meant to grow back.

I was pretty proud back in 2016 that I reached out to my then-CEO on the morning after the election and got them to send a message to the entire company about the need for increased empathy.

Seeing the wave of "eager to work together" from business leaders this morning is nauseating.

He’s still not going to fuck you bro