Amanda Unvarnished

I know and respect the fact that people have widely divergent opinions about the importance of lawyers in the U.S., but I will say this - knowing that (at least some of) the Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court can be bought off makes being a #lawyer in the U.S. something I'm far less proud of than I used to be. I'm no longer able to say with any sincerity that we are a country that respects the Rule of #Law. I really hope that at some point in the future I can say that again...

Attached: 1 image The Biden administration just forgave $39 billion in student debt for more than 800,000 borrowers who have made payments for 20/25 years Great. Now can we talk about why 800K people were tricked to rack up $39 BILLION in debt when they were kids? Why we allow them to be tricked by the promise that maybe, kinda, possibly, one day it’ll pay off? Or why there are people who have been paying their student debt for 20+ years? Or why college isn’t free?

You brought a Confederate flag into the US Capitol, I believe we can survive a little cocaine. Honestly, we need extra cocaine now because of you.

I’ve been calling Twitter “birdchan,” but it’s worse. I don’t think 4chan had a billionaire rewarding the most hateful assholes with piles of cash.

Attached: 1 image Thoughts and prayers to all the website teams waking up to discover half their pages look like this: #TwitterDownTheShitter

Reflecting on my teens and twenties, even at my hormonal, lonely, mouth-breathing worst, I was never half as pathetic or desperate as the people who develop systems to follow up on abandoned online shopping carts.

"it's not like we can put the genie back in the bottle! 🤷" – VC who stands to profit massively from the release of the genie, and who has worked tirelessly to release said genie

Attached: 1 image how's bluesky doing? * $8m initial funding * $13m more just recently * refusal to hire an actual moderation team * latest moderation disasters * leading to userbase revolt and demand for proper moderation * moderation action falls onto back end developers * total back end developers: 2. that's two

A $400 billion company just sued scientists for their peer-reviewed research revealing a safety issue, but there's been total silence from all the prominent anti-vax and anti-cancel culture people. Gosh, it's like they're all just fronts for right-wing billionaires. https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/johnson-johnson-sues-researchers-who-linked-talc-cancer-2023-07-13/

Republicans want America to be a Christian nation except for all the parts in the Bible where it says to cancel debts, love your neighbor, don’t be greedy, be humble, feed the poor, heal the sick, and be nice to immigrants.