@ScottEtherington
Trump's day-one Executive Order blitz contained a *lot* of weird, fucked-up shit, but for me, the most telling (though not the most important) was the decision to defund all medical research whose grant applications contained the word "systemic":
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/19/systemic/#criminality-pure-and-simple
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Decades from now, people will pay trillions of dollars every year to get back to the climate that we have today.
therapist: how have you been coping with everything
me: with sarcasm mostly
therapist: has that been working
me: yeah it's been super great
Today in “the cyberpunk dystopia I didn’t want” I had to open a support case for my cats litter box.
The solution was to update the firmware of the thing my fluffy friends poop in.
I had to update a toilet for cats.