Fun fact for most of these on-pump advertisements: if you see eight buttons in two columns, hitting the third row(?) second column button should mute the speaker.

Fuck these abominations, fuck the oil industry, fuck the advertising industry, and fuck the snack and beverage companies that advertise their poison on these devices.

I apparently smell like checks notes forest. That actually made me look at the fragrant ingredients: aloe vera juice, rosemary, parsley, sage, and “fragrance”. I mean sure: put those together in one place, and bam! Forest. Or Italian home cook’s backyard garden.

Someone call Burt Macklin; he can sort this out.

I think one of those buttons turns on GLaDOS.

I’m sorry, did you have any more empty, performative platitudes you wanted to make yourself feel better by pretending you believed in, or are we still stuck in denial over the first one – the one where your deep care for remembering history ends somewhere before reading a couple paragraphs on Wikipedia?

Did a recent poll come out? The last poll I saw in August 2025 (The Economist/YouGov) saw him at 31% total “honest and trustworthy” and 16% “not sure” (page 29).

A reduction to essentially 1/3 of that seems pretty farfetched among the stupid fucks who represent his core base even given what he’s been doing this year.

You want to explain the math of how 1600 evictions can come from those 225 people?

Hahahaha. I knew you were going to ask this after I wrote it, and now I’m so glad I didn’t clarify*, because it demonstrates you don’t actually give enough of a shit to learn about this subject that you’re vapidly pretending to champion.

225 people lived in Seneca Village. Seneca Village, obviously, was not the only site seized for the park. The other evictions came from the places you didn’t bother to read about, you smarmy fucking oaf.

* This wasn’t baiting a trap. I just didn’t think until after writing it that anyone would be this profoundly stupid. Whoops.

Like I said: it’s relative. It’s clearly awful and racially motivated. But to treat it as such a notably dark past that it’s elevated to something worth studying in high school or even an undergrad gen-ed course alongside the rest of US history is absurd. You would have to know astonishingly little about US history (and/or learning) to think this somehow slots into a general curriculum about it.

I feel vindicated by the fact that places like Lemmy and Reddit are bubbles of people who I often agree with broadly on social and economic issues but who are often majorly disconnected from obvious reality when it comes to smaller pet issues.

I’m sorry that Seneca Village and the other eminent domain seizures for Central Park being bad but a footnote within a footnote in the course of US history is racist to you.

In particular because the point they are making is about the notariety and popularity of central park having such a dark past.

“such a dark past” is a pretty wild exaggeration of a total of about 1600 evictions for its construction. Central Park’s early history is shocking to nobody who has, as in the post, a high school or undergraduate-level understanding of US history. It’s dark-ish, but dark enough to stand out from the US’ past otherwise? Not even close. Central Park isn’t such a huge topic that you’d expect, in a high school or undergraduate-level gen-ed course, to learn what constitutes a paragraph in its fairly extensive Wikipedia article.

TL:DR: The point is that history can remain buried no matter how popular what buried it becomes. You would think more people would notice what’s underneath.

Anyone can. It’s right there. It’s mentioned in the second paragraph of the lead of the Wikipedia article. Anyone even slightly interested in Central Park’s history will find this. Not teaching this in an undergruate-level gen-ed isn’t buried history; it just means it’s not significant enough for the general public to care.

Insulting their knowledge doesn’t do much to make them want to know more.

Anyone who would expect this to be part of the curriculum of the courses the OP is describing is completely delusional. I don’t really care what pointing that out makes them want to do or not.

Dude, what the fuck?? I’ve been waiting my whole life to see if Republican tax cuts will benefit average, working-class people, and you just go and fucking ruin it for me. Thanks.

And that I never heard a peep of this in any high school or college history class?

I mean… Unless you were taking some sort of graduate-level course focusing on events like this, why would you? It’s a really interesting story, but it was a village of 225 people in a city of about one million that lasted 30 years, and its existence had minimal impact on history going forward. Seizures of predominantly black neighborhoods for public works projects are a dime a dozen in US history, and there are a million other topics to choose from like the Tulsa race massacre if you want noteworthy material about black oppression in the US for a high school or undergraduate level course. At best this would be an incidental two-sentence mention as a piece of trivia from a particularly knowledgeable teacher.

“Local person discovers undergraduate gen-ed courses not designed to teach you literally everything about a subject. More at 11.”

Pictured: Alexander the Great announcing his victory to the citizens of Issus

China has executed 11 members of the notorious Ming family criminal gang, who ran mafia-like scam centers in Myanmar and killed workers who tried to escape, Chinese state media reported on Thursday.

The Ming family was one of the so-called four families of northern Myanmar — crime syndicates accused of running hundreds of compounds dealing in internet fraud, prostitution and drug production, and whose members held prominent positions in the local government and militia aligned with Myanmar’s ruling junta.

Still 100% against state-sanctioned murder and would’ve preferred life in prison, but I can’t shed any tears. Apparently Wikipedia has a whole article on scam centers in Myanmar for further reading.

Easy to restrain yourself when you know he doesn’t have any.

If you listen to the song

An understandable but unfortunately dubious assumption to grant Trump’s base.

so many of the tax cuts that we’re talking about

Damn, it feels like things are pretty dire for him even among his stupid fuck base when he’s going back to just straight-up bribing them with money (of course they’re losing money anyway because tax money pays for itself multiple times over and because his tariffs are directly fucking them over far worse than any breaks he could offer).

since you’re also apparently "too lazy to check linked sources:…

I hope you realize I said:

Anyway, I acknowledge now that Politico has used “sensitive” in place of “classified”.

The part about “functional illiteracy” was my way of trying to be a rude asshole, but now I’m actually concerned.

which this is, and not ‘the context of the us government’… ya dingbat

“in the context of US government documents”… ya dingbat. Living with functional illiteracy must be so difficult, but it understandably makes it really hard to just dip into an article and check the first paragraph before commenting.

Anyway, I acknowledge now that Politico has used “sensitive” in place of “classified”. The point about that not being what “sensitive” means, however, is ancillary to the point that it is not hard at all to just check an article every once in a while, and it’s not journalists’ fault that you’re unwilling to do that. The headline got across its point fine. We’re not ten years old, and the news isn’t a TikTok feed. It took me 10 seconds to click the article and read just the first paragraph. I have really bad attention problems, and this is sad even to me.

headlines should be a bit more specific.

The information is literally in the first sentence of the article that I don’t think you read:

The interim head of the country’s cyber defense agency uploaded sensitive contracting documents into a public version of ChatGPT last summer, triggering multiple automated security warnings that are meant to stop the theft or unintentional disclosure of government material from federal networks, according to four Department of Homeland Security officials with knowledge of the incident.

It’s not journalists’ fault that you want to consume the news as a series of disconnected headlines like you’re in a dopamine famine. This headline conveys the gist excellently; the fact that they were contracting documents is superfluous, while the fact they were sensitive is the entire problem.

Also, it can’t mean he “uploaded national security secrets” because that’s definitionally not what “sensitive” means in the context of US government documents.

No problem at all! As with any Wikipedia page, you’re welcome to contribute if you know any good ones that aren’t on there yet.