A leopard doesn't change its spots. We elected lawmakers who work in a collegial manner to pass common-sense legislation with broad support. We didn't elect revolutionaries and resistance leaders. Now we're expecting the negotiators to become revolutionaries, and it just doesn't work like that.
Yes, some people seem to lack an awareness that other people might think differently.
I am honestly quite worried about Chicago, and begging the national press to report it as what it is: an invasion of a US city by the national guard of another state at the behest of a fascist president for purposes of terrorizing the people into submission. There is no legitimate debate about it.
Oh yes, but that's still several generations.
The problem is some people think that's actually how evolution works. If it's not clear that you're joking, you're reinforcing that misconception.
It's difficult to believe anyone could dissent from that assessment.
Nothing in a single generation can do anything to provide evidence either for or against evolution.
No intelligence? Selling yourself short!
Wikipedia says they're sometimes called "LMMs", or "Large Multimodal Models".
Now is not the time to be encouraging more people to enter into Donald Trump's command.
They forgot "Climate change is real, but it would be too expensive to stop it immediately."
Wait, all this time I thought "Dabe" was another one of Tycho's affectionate misspellings of "Gabe".
It seems a plurality of American voters actually want authoritarianism.
Don't confuse people with facts.
If you had told me in 2012 that Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign manager would be posting like this 13 years later i would not have believed you
Technology has always made a small percentage of people richer. That's part of the process of making our lives better and easier. I mean, just look at the automobile. Ford made BANK. And don't forget, AI has been around for decades. Large Language Models and fast generative AI are what's new.
Theory has it that the thin veneer helps them identify people who are too smart for their grift.
Of course. But the judge ruled that AI training was more similar to a human reading a whole bunch of books to use as inspiration for an original piece, compared to directly adapting a single work to a new medium. Forex, George Lucas took inspiration from many sources for "Star Wars"; no copyvio.
The judge here in the U.S. ruled the same. This lawsuit addresses the acquisition of the materials, not the use of them.
Just the vests
They don't, because that's not who we wanted representing us. We wanted politicians, negotiators. Thoughtful, deliberate legislators. Now Trump's in power and everyone's changed what they want in a representative. But thoughtful, deliberate people don't become pugnacious demagogues overnight.
Wearing forest/desert camo in a city is dumb in the first place.
Those what now?
No, we can't. I don't accept violent rhetoric from the right and I won't accept it from the left, either.
How about we focus on preserving democracy? Everything else is secondary.
Well do you want them to be ethical or do you want to win elections? I'm not sure we can have both right now.
No. No, I don't want violent rhetoric in my politics, thank you very much. Failing to nip that in the bud is partly what got us here.
No, as someone else pointed out it was a plurality.
Jews are major donors to the DNC. How much support would Dems have lost by coming out against Israel?
If he's willing to back down if we all start calling him the greatest president ever, maybe we should give it some thought.
Why not? We should be considering the impact on the kids -- they've got the longest time to live with the consequences and no say in it.
It's actually closer to half who didn't refuse to vote against Trump. Roughly 1/4 voted for Trump and 1/4 for Harris. The remaining half didn't vote, and half of them didn't vote because they are ineligible to. So it's shit for Harris voters and for the folks who can't vote.
No I agree with Remeor on that. Anyone who deliberately refused to vote for Harris is complicit with the Trump regime.
Ah, dammit. I forgot it was only a plurality.
Are they not Americans?
Well some Americans can't vote, so not all of them are responsible.
We're going to do whatever we can to fight back against Trump's redistricting plans—and we can't do it with one hand tied behind our back.
Covered under "stupid"
Only a majority of voters. Not a majority of Americans.
The only incentive is that finding a logical explanation for right-wing behavior makes it seem more like a problem we can fix and return to normal operation, rather than a deep deep well of intractable suckitude.
Because a single CEO makes less than all of the workers combined do.
I've never even heard of DuPage County
That's a very huge-city view of suburbs. Most mid-sized cities have suburbs that are very much anchored to their cities.
How would you rewrite the headline to solve these problems?
If you know where I can get one of these let me know.
She misquoted the one rule of Calvinball. The one rule is that you can't play the same way twice. That and the masks. Don't question the masks.
Isn't this due to the new age-verification law in Mississippi? If you allow VPNs you can't be sure you're not skipping age verification for a Mississippian.
The Headline to End All Headlines
Just to look like even more of an asshole!
Look even if they're sick of it what does it have to do with liberals? We didn't force Cracker Barrel to do anything.
Next he'll be saying "I didn't leave the Democrats; they left me"
Same. I'd only experienced one when we bought a house with one. And it's ceiling- (well, rafter-) mounted. I guess it's a cleaner look in a finished garage. And some people like having it out of the way so they can lift vehicles for maintenance.
Bill Clinton lied once about having sex with an intern and half the papers in the country -- many liberal ones -- demanded his resignation. Has a single one called for Trump's resignation?
Schumer is not codifying Trump's actions. I don't even know what you could mean by that.
Republicans have sufficient votes in the Senate to confirm anyone they want to. As a country, we did not give Democrats the power to control Trump's cabinet picks in ANY way.
Once again, reality has eclipsed satire.
What exactly would you like them to do that they aren't doing? Keep in mind what they were elected to do.
The only explanation I can see is that they think the pro-DEI boycotters are fewer in number than the anti-DEI ones.
It is good to have a non-electric backup in case of grid issues; it's unlikely both grids are going to go down simultaneously. Been thinking about a gas generator myself.
There's really no one-size-fits-all answer. But it doesn't usually cost anything to get some quotes.
I tried LibreOffice once and immediately went back to Microsoft. It just didn't do half the stuff I wanted to do.
Now we know why QAnon was so eager to accuse Democrats of extensive sex trafficking of pre-pubescent children. So that when Republicans' actual sex trafficking came to light, the uninformed would throw up their hands and say "both sides do it".
Porcelain? The ones at Rich Stadium in Buffalo were metal!
Not Richie. Chuck.
There are two chambers.
That's still a king's ransom for an above-average running back.
Could lean into the algorithm. If it's not perfectly random maybe that's a good thing.
The UN is based on the same "bonkers" idea. All borders are arbitrary at some point, aren't they?
Yes, that.
"African bushmen"? Are you from 1947?
No, but there's a clear difference in severity of the crime. I believe many jurisdictions increase punishments when victims are under certain ages.
What's to understand? Her motives aren't mysterious; she's told us exactly what they are. She thinks that cisgender youngsters are being coerced or persuaded into believing they're trans. She also thinks cisgender people are pretending to be trans for nefarious and/or unhealthy reasons.
Our number one priority should be ensuring the survival of the Republic and the Constitution.
Big Bird takes up a lot of room though.
Come to think of it, those three basic rules could potentially work with any genre. Went to Universal Fan Fest Nights earlier this year, where they used HHN-like setups but told different stories, not horror. It works, but you need big set pieces and something familiar to latch onto.
If the jackboots fit...
Yes, but the article was talking about 10 years of these live shows, so I added 10 to your 30.
Eh, I find at least half of the content is stuff I actually want to see. And I don't have any other way to see that.
Who was selling out arenas in 1985?
Man, I forgot his name was Mochi.
Pre-FB I had almost no contact with my friends.
As a loudmouth pundit, I suppose he worships his own gob.
What is that in his right hand?
Just in case it’s not already clear that ICE is a white supremacist thug army, Homeland Security is recruiting with a “defend your culture” slogan.
What about those who butter him up to take advantage of him?
All those sections are there at your link now.
Just a note: Usenet is not part of the World Wide Web (though there are Web-Usenet portals). Newsgroups are a totally different Internet(-adjacent) technology. The Web uses HTTP, but Usenet uses NNTP.
That's not what meant. He was suggesting that if Democrats got away with the supposed election fraud, then all sorts of Constitutional precepts would be in jeopardy from further Democratic malfeasance.
Anxiously awaiting the wedding-planning RPG. (Congratulations!)
Gene Roddenberry, Jim Henson, Isaac Asimov, and Dr. Seuss all died in the early nineties, just as I was entering adolescence, and I've never really gotten over it.
What is the APEX Accelerator?
Pizza is perfectly healthy!
To be clear, the ruling here was that the action by Trump was not illegal retaliation, primarily because Trump would have done the same thing no matter what the unions did.
It's the same thing with many personality disorders. Groomers don't say "I'm gonna groom someone today". "Grooming" is just descriptive of what sexual predators do to achieve their goals.
The sunk cost fallacy.
Right from the founding, they never believed "all men are created equal". Slave states, Civil War, Jim Crow, KKK, welfare queens and everything.
Whose administration came up with those numbers?