Whatever that is supposed to mean. Why all the content-free Newsom-bashing? Do you find him threatening in some way? All he's doing is being the MOST effective Trump critic out there.
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Whatever that is supposed to mean. Why all the content-free Newsom-bashing? Do you find him threatening in some way? All he's doing is being the MOST effective Trump critic out there.
Another really good reason why you shouldn't be able to buy two boxes of Sudafed is that pseudoephedrine has now proven to be ineffective when taken orally. It shouldn't even exist in pill form; it has no value as a medication. So it should be taken off the market, entirely.
So sad. Mark was the chronicler of the Presidency… if you wanted to know how many times GWB played golf, for example, or how many books Obama read aloud at the Easter Egg roll, you asked him. We never met but we had many exchanges on the Other Site and I’m glad he knew how much I valued his work.
This is where cities will need to start talking about "taxation without representation", point out that they are generating basically all the tax revenue, point out that they are being robbed of representation, and take appropriate actions about that. And maybe some inappropriate actions.
Authoritarian Trumpism is the method, and yes, it's more dangerous.
For those playing the home game, the LARGEST of the NRA donations to any politician in the 2024 cycle (sum total of all donations to that candidate) was under $10,000. Here's the entire fucking list:
That's certainly one good theory.
What gets me is, if you look at the numbers, the NRA basically stopped buying off Congress a while ago! Their donations have been very small of late. But Congress stayed bought anyway. What does that tell you?
Which policy has changed? I'm aware of Newsom's various remarks. I'm not your "bro", btw. I raised the policy because that is what actually counts most. You don't appear to have a real answer to my point.
Those are interesting "thoughts" you made up and straw-manned into my head! Bluesky is, btw, about two orders of magnitude too large to be described as "micro" anything. Try to keep up.
Third parties don't work. Mostly because they always lack any cogent animating principle. As is once again illustrated here.
You thinking that obsessive tracking of block stats is in any way meaningful is quite misguided.
I think you should focus a lot more on Newsom's actual policy ACTIONS in office. I think that would be more fair. www.kqed.org/news/1192923...
With respect, you don't have the faintest notion what he "thinks", and you should avoid pretending that you do.
Except he's really not, and McCain deserves more respect than that, btw. This is a really weak, vague, childish argument.
Except it's really not; this is a very common view even among Democrats right now, and so although I understand you might not like it, you need to acknowledge it and come to terms with it. Because it is a fact. This isn't simply a "far right" view. Labeling opposition as "phobia" also doesn't help.
The Air Force’s “next generation” fighter aircraft will be called the F-47 for the same reason. Seriously. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_...
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Agreed. Much more likely. But either way, it will happen, and either way, SiegHeil News will make sure we all hear about it, incessantly, for eons.
Turns out some of the “we want small government” people kiiiinda wanted the government to be just one guy.
Is it? These people are very good at demonizing all kinds of things that should be admired.
Indeed, if ONE single sophomore at Random St. College ends up burning a flag, the entire right-wing fascist media will rise up in a perfectly-in-tune choir and pronounce that "the left" and the entire Democratic Party are burning flags. Expect this to happen within days.
Great. Bring back awareness without using the word "breaking" poorly and dishonestly.
You have to remember that you are dealing with people who still pretend not to have figured out the result of the Civil War and the ramifications of that result.
That doesn't make it "breaking". At all. And you know that, which is why the headline is entirely, 100%, about the part that you know is more click-baity. Not the part you are claiming is "breaking". Don't be dishonest in how you handle things like this. You'll get more respect being honest.
That's only if civil society survives and actually punishes all the people who did this. For those of you playing the home game, not only were the Jan. 6th treason folks not properly punished, but they received pardons. Guess what that means? It means they're now emboldened.
I think the real problem is Nazis, and people who nitpick at the party fighting the Nazis, like you. Rather than, um, joining in the effort to fight the Nazis. Get on the right side, dude.
We should. And I think that's happening. But I am not very convinced that this is one of those problems. Educating kids to use new technologies is good.
A lot of classes of jobs have already been about 60-80% eliminated by AI, or forever changed, or both. Most definitely in my field of IT, that is unquestionably true. And in health care and various research fields. And it removes the drudgery from a really wide range of tasks. We can't hide.
AI's not ready for a lot of things that sci-fi and various lying CEOs want it to be ready for. That's true. It's absolutely ready for prime time in a lot of ways, though. That's a proven fact that's not going away. Whether we're ready for it (we're not) is sort of beside the point. It's here.
I'd say this is partly true, but like it or not, many jobs of the near future will increasingly require familiarity with AI and how to use it well. Loose talk about all AI being just "autocorrect" just distracts from the reality here, in addition to being, well, obviously not true.
No undergraduate degree? More like, you don't even have to graduate from third grade.
Pretty easy to say when you're coasting along using a platform that would not exist if not for capitalism, from a device that would not exist, on an internet that would not exist, using electricity that would not exist.
Side note: Apple donated zero dollars to Trump. Tim Cook did donate to the inauguration, but did so out of his own pocket, so that Apple wouldn't have to.
BTW, if you're going to be a coward and hide behind anonymity, it's bad form to doxx others and take advantage of the fact that they aren't afraid to hide their identity. Fight fair or just keep quiet.
I'm saying it because it's true. Cook is doing the bare minimum to keep idiot-Hitler calm. He's not saying any bullshit about Trump's unique genius like so many other CEOs are. What would you have him do? As CEO he has a *legal obligation* to protect Apple's financial interests. And he's doing it.
That's great. It also does not conflict with anything I've said. Have a nice day.
Well, I'm sorry if I was intemperate as well.
Hey, at least it's still Unix, which will be better than Windows for as long as the sun continues to rise in the east. And you know it. That's why you are so pissed off. :)
You probably should keep going with your first instinct, then. Sounds like it was a good one. I won't be "running" any party at any point. I've got a lot of concerts to do plus a "real" job. You will have to find someone else to blame for whatever bad decisions Dems make next.
You can say "fuck you" all you like, but I'd rather you just support your argument better. What does my political alignment have to do with any of this?
Ryzen is of course completely laughable in any mobile device. Unless you can keep it on a block of dry ice plugged into a 500W power brick all day and you don't care about battery life.
BTW, the iPhone 4 in 2010 debuted low-light photos. Get your facts at least close to straight before embarrassing yourself in public. Also, you might want to do a little review of which camera system filmmakers are choosing. It's not HTC or any other Android device.
Wrong. They have a markedly better lifespan, and I know, because I support hundreds of Macs and hundreds of PCs and have for decades. They also receive software updates for a much longer time, as you should know if you are even mildly informed on these topics.
BTW, who built all the parts you assembled into a PC? Let me give you a hint. It wasn't folks that are all making a living wage.
Try backing up that argument. And oh! Two hours! Gosh. That completely transforms your argument into something reasonable. Only no, it kinda doesn't.
There isn't any actual fawning here. Tim Cook is just holding his nose and doing his fucking job to save his company from hundreds of billions in idiotic tariffs. He's doing the bare minimum.
So in other words you did 15 minutes of assembly using a set of very very easily-assembled parts that others built. I'm sorry. Building a PC is not terribly impressive. Don't pretend you are Edison. That shit is trivially easy these days.
That's cool and I can respect that, definitely. I just don't really appreciate having to read the same bullshit argument for 20 years that isn't even close to true, about Apple products. You know better. Find a better argument.
Did you have a point to make or are you just being a cowardly anonymous idiot again?
How am I affiliated?
Sure, Jan.
People who talk about how strangers are "triggered" are always, without exception, blithering idiots. You don't have a real argument, so you resort to this kind of pathetic grade-school bullshit, instead. :)
We're all aware of that. It is, of course, not possible to produce that product in the US. So I'm not sure why you are in public saying stupid things about the obvious.
Uh, grandmas and basically every top-level creator in the world. Nice try, though.
Anyone using the word "fanboys" is an idiot, first of all. Just reveals you have no real argument and no knowledge of the subject matter at hand. You haven't stated anything substantive at all, yet, let alone anything "obvious".
Products that last 3 times as long as competing products, you mean? Dude, at least come up with an argument that passes the laugh test. You're batting 0-for-3 so far.
Why? This certainly isn't a reason.
In all the ways that really matter? Yes, they are.
Uh, actually, it's due to decades of making incredibly good products. Nice try, though.
Uh, there's basically no capitulation from Apple here. Apple is laughing at him.
Pretty disappointing that Mamet could not even handle Terry Gross. Dude, just get a grip. You're not entitled to universal approval from women.
I'd have to mostly agree, but I was slightly more enthusiastic. I had a good time. But I wasn't expecting a great work of cinematic art. I'd say it was basically even with Fantastic 4. Around 3/5 if you apply the standards expected of superhero movies.
Yes. It was. They will stop at nothing, and cover up anything, in order to prop up whomever they have to, in order to ensure that the rich will continue to get richer and the white will continue to hold the degree of power they have since America was first colonized.
A lot of people have already gone first, and second, and third. Colbert, 60 Minutes, more major new anchors than you can even count anymore, various other major figures in basically every journalistic organization in the country. Now they're all fired, or removed in other ways.
I sent a letter to Trump saying that he will pay all my bills, resign, report to federal prison voluntarily, and sell Mar-A-Lago in order to give me the proceeds so that I might spend it on beer and pizza and index funds. My letter has a better chance of being fulfilled than Trump's does.
Or you could just create an app or agent that defeats Trumpism and restores Medicaid to what it's supposed to be. More effective use of resources.
Chaotic good seems to be winning overall, but I agree with neutral good.
If Cornel West wants to serve in public office, he should run for an office he stands a chance of winning, and put in the WORK required to get elected, instead of meddling in presidential elections like some sort of resurrected zombie of Jill Stein or Nader.
I'm sorry, but first of all, it's Cornel with one L, and second, no, you spending way too much money getting him on ballots he had no business at all being on does NOT make democracy work. Not that I don't support most of your other efforts, but this didn't help and could have badly hurt.
And btw Scott, do you have any real refutation of what was said against West? I suspect not. Cause it's true.
Actually there's real research showing that serious people engage in MORE profanity, so fuck off and get better at arguing back instead of bitching about side issues.
If we're bashing Cornel, we should at least spell his name right. One L.
Except this isn't the kind of ballot access at issue.
I think you are lying
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There's nobody there who is even capable of thinking anything through.
Kristi Noem must resign. She has deported a four year old with cancer, detained a U.S. marshal, and arrested two members of Congress. She’s lost the confidence of the American people. ICE must stop terrorizing our communities.
Why don't you use your brain to become even slightly informed on what is going on with the wide variety of AI that is out there, first? It's apparent you haven't yet bothered.
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Dude also sounds like he personally has smoked 30% of the US' total cigarette output since 1970.
Newsom has not been silent, btw. Check your facts.
Would it be too much to ask for you to learn to spell Newsom's name before attacking him?
We are fancy computers.
You're hilariously short-sighted and ignorant of what's going on. All this stuff is changing week by week.
You forgot all the 93 ammosexual decorations and magazines they are wearing.
Wind can max out. Possibly even more easily.
Whereas you quoting the dictionary at me was respectful? Ok.
I know what the words mean. Summarily is still a fantasy. You still don't get why? It takes years to get these people into court, even for obvious crimes.
Except this is not a headline and would never work as a headline, and so it in fact runs contrary to your point. And emphasizes how hard it can be to write a good headline.
This post isn't even internally consistent. The problem is that the actions seem to be legal and have been legally ordered. "Summarily" is a fantasy, btw.
Yes you are. You understand it perfectly well.
"The Dems suck" is not an argument. Neither is posting someone else's video.
Why would you bother to nitpick when Dems are not even close to getting the votes in the House, let alone the Senate? This shit does. not. matter. You can pretend it matters while Rome burns, if you like. But there are more productive ways to spend your time, like winning the House back.
No, it's not. Because we have other tools which are demonstrably effective. If your ONE and only one chosen tool were so great, you'd be able to get more House members behind it than just Ilhan Omar, a few unknowns, and...basically nobody else. You're not even at 10% of the Dems.
Except that it generates no responsibility, and it's demonstrably NOT "where you start", because it leads to nowhere over and over again. I get that you are a professional impeachment advocate, but look: impeachment has been fucking worthless as a tool of restraining this tyrant. It will remain so.
We should fight. Just not via impeachment since, and this is VERY simple math, getting 67 votes in the Senate *is a fantasy*. Fight in the courts and in the press and in protests and in those ways. At least until there is some indication that you can sway a LOT of Senate Republicans.
Today, I was denied access to seeing my constituent, Mr. Kilmar Abrego Garcia. If there is nothing to hide, cut the crap. Let his lawyer and I check on him.
This is incredible.