from the and-we’re-back dept
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Nimrod with a comment about the lack of checks and balances for RFK Jr.:
Observation
If a member of organized crime were to manage to get themself elected President, they would probably try to delegitimize the legal system, law enforcement and government authority in general. After enriching themself and their cronies, of course. Maybe they’d even start a war or two as a diversion. They’d also put as many “friendly” judges in place as they could, particularly in the higher courts.
It’s a good thing we’d never elect such a person. /s
In second place, it’s MrWilson with a comment about MAHA’s call to eliminate the whole childhood vaccination schedule:
This is another instance where you’d be fine with the stupidity if it didn’t affect innocent people. Like with covid, you were fine that dumbasses got themselves infected, but it led to grandmothers and children and random people they encountered getting infected and sometimes dying, so it wasn’t okay. It was fine if some random 50 year old Trump supporter wanted to get the ivermectin shits or waste money on homeopathic “cures.”
But this is expressly the same evil abuse as Christian Science and Jehovah’s Witness parents who refuse medical care for their children, preferring they die than benefit from modern science and treatments.
It also undermines the entire “parents rights” narrative that conservatives like to spin whenever an issue comes up. You don’t get to kill your children just because you’re a brainwashed dumbass. Except, in America, you actually do. And that’s fucking horrible.
For editor’s choice on the insightful side, we start out with a comment from TKnarr that is similarly about the consequences of the administration’s stupidity:
The sad thing is that you should take what Trump says seriously in the same way you should take what the Joker says seriously. Because they’re literally an insane clown with only a tenuous hold on reality, but they’re an insane clown with a tanker-truck full of SmileX who absolutely will blanket the city with it. The people who claim you shouldn’t take him seriously or literally? Are the ones who paid him to do that and are now worried someone might connect the dots that lead back to them.
Unfortunately our version of Bruce Wayne really is the brainless billionaire he-bimbo Batman’s secret identity pretends to be.
Next, it’s Epic_Null with a comment about the impact of social media on kids and teens:
We also should not forget though that we have children who are fairly restricted in where they go. A child who is not allowed to go to the park on their own is not exactly likely to turn into a teen who hangs out at the mall.
If we want independent people who use third spaces… we have to make laws and culture that supports people being independent and using third spaces.
Over on the funny side, our first place winner is an anonymous comment about Stephen Thaler’s latest loss in his quest to get copyright protection for the generations of his AI system:
Does Thaler believe he got thrown under DABUS?
In second place, it’s an anonymous reply to our guest post entitled Human Problems: It’s Not Always The Technology’s Fault:
There is one golden rule – It’s always someone else’s fault, and they owe me a lot of money.
For editor’s choice on the funny side, it’s another somewhat slow week when it comes to jokes, so we’ll keep it to just one pick — another comment from MrWilson, this time about Roblox’s rollout of AI-powered real-time rephrasing of profanity in chat:
Holy forking shirtballs!
That’s all for this week, folks!
