While it's possible you have, nobody actually knows that, as yet
While it's possible you have, nobody actually knows that, as yet
I'd totally play phantom. youtu.be/plCScjvDOJM
I do think it's worth noting that dystopia was a huge factor in Sci fi lit, and I suspect people aren't interested in reading or writing it quite as much when the things they warn about are happening. That's whether it's AI eating jobs, Chinese and Russian expansion, or the US descent into fascism.
That's certainly a possibility, but the same burden and lack of information exists on that front, as well.
It is unfortunately hard to easily find good information relating to monetary support for politicians at low levels. Does Savage take AIPAC money? Maybe? Maybe not? Not my district, but more generally, I wish that was easier to find before they become established.
You know everything is fine and stable and definitely good when Europe stops postal interactions because our leadership is too fucking unpredictable.
It does beg the question, then, if we had a real moderate left party and a real moderate conservative party, would it stay that way? I'm inclined to imagine it probably wouldn't. So it's largely down to the abject extremism in the GOP. That creates potential to shift back if they calmed down.
There's also some need to avoid assuming that democrats don't have bigoted ideas, at all. And if you combine everything, and look at the timing, there's a pretty clear "Trump effect", in which an increasing amount of lunacy drives people away. In the image, note that the first 7 is 2018.
There's also something to be said for the absolute insanity we're witnessing. It's raving lunacy, literally, and they're fucking up the economy, too. The north suburbs in particular were always a bit more white collar, so I'd expect some awareness, there.
That said, I'm sure you're right about some parts becoming reliably blue. That said, though, it's probably equally important to think about why. The Overton window has moved. Moderate republican policies in the 70s through 90s are "radical left" now, apparently. As a result, it crossed over some.
That said, historically, a large portion of South and west suburbia built up more, specifically around racial advances in history, from civil rights to economic participation to ending redlining. You see echoes of it in opposition to cta train expansions, for example.
There's a reason pace busses work as a regional thing, and don't have a route density high enough to quite match the city. Similarly, there was a trend for a few decades where suburban items who work in the city moved further and further, which stressed Metra. Longer distances, same customer count.
While I agree, overall, it's also true that the suburbs built up the way they did for a reason. Part of the problem of the bike lane and bus situation, for example, is that it amounts to, essentially, desire for city like amenities that are sometimes not financially feasible.
Age verification laws are nonsense. They inherently create a honeypot for hackers of ID and face pic data. Somehow, we as a society have gotten by, so far. It's about controlling access to information, and through it, controlling people.
Even if they could, it's a bad idea. It makes no sense, really. What it does is creates a database of images that include IDs and face pics, almost certainly those of the underage kids that attempt to get on. That's a bad thing, but that the law requires. What if it got hacked?
I largely agree, but also, between chronic pain stuff and just ... not wanting to deal with it, I find mundane automation like that to be nice. Similar mundane automation is like ... programmable thermostats [not iot, mind you] and alarm clocks.
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As a result, when people say "biological male", what they're doing is trying to sound important and intelligent by "sounding" scientific. It creates a false sense of scientific authority in an area in which hey are fundamentally presenting something falsely.
In short, there is no definition of "biological sex" that always includes all trans people, and always excludes all cis people. It's not a thing. There is no innate biological characteristic that can be pointed at that makes it true. This includes hormones, genetics, reproductive capabilities, etc.
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"I forgot" gap filler: I recommend peanut butter crackers.
"Look, maybe if we just /give/ the nazis what they want, they won't have to work for each thing they want. Do you see how that's better?" -.-
I definitely think the death of 3rd spaces is a major factor, here.
Don't get all worked up over time. You can just relax. It'll moan when it's done.
It's amazing how a huge portion of rulings are that they, themselves do not supposedly have authority that they have never hesitated to wield before
...to make pie? They're also decent for pasta, if a bit small for larger quantities.
It's why I like the "pub" sort of mentality better. You can go with people, and they don't have to drink. There's food, and shit, and it's ... fine.
...would you like to swim in the ocean? That could be project 20. This is helping, right? I'm helping.
Also, I find the soggy sandwich to be harder to get across to people who haven't tried it
I know people talk a lot about deep dish, but I really spend more time explaining to people that the soggy sandwich [Italian beef] is the real local specialty.
4. Water has about 5.8x the specific heat of water at our environmental temperatures. That's the amount of energy required to raise the temperature of a mass by an amount of degrees.
1. Water is more thermally conductive that air by about 10 to 15 times [in conditions we encounter in nature][0.6W/m*K vs 0.026W/m*K @20c]. 2. Water is, obviously, denser than air [by over 800x] 3. Water, in some cases [evaporating sweat], undergoes phase change, which consumes energy.
It's like it went left to right, slowly having a stroke along the way
It really does feel like the sort of mega sites and integrated tracking and services are sort of destroying the more casual, free, open version of the internet, and it sucks.
Cory Booker spends a lot of time trying to /look/ like he's The Guy. He did a 25 hour speech that everyone called a filibuster, except it wasn't, cause he wasn't blocking anything. He makes a lot of noise about things when the cause doesn't need help, but doesn't help when it does. Booker is fake.
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Because fate is ironic
Can I just say how fucking ridiculous it is that queer and nsfw art is more heavily regulated than the fucking plagiarism machine destroying our planet that is genAI
...sadly
"The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors." It means any of those people can be impeached, not that they all go together
Like, specifically, it really does seem, to me, like an/lot/ of politicians, media groups, individuals, countries, and so on all refused to say or do literally anything, this whole time, but now thta it's all but done, they're suddenly pretending to be on the right side.
I doubt pressure matters, at this point. The problem with the notion of stopping this is that they're 80% through, and lots of people are hitting a stage of starvation where they cannot be saved outside of a hospital. I've noticed that people are speaking out now that the result is almost certain.
We /have/ had a vast increase in the need to explain to fucking idiots that things they don't understand could still be normal, common, and around for a while, so far. >.>
I doubt he'd resign. He needs it to stay out of prison. Even, or perhaps especially, with this.
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@web3isgoinggreat.com Out of curiosity, do you think it would make sense to do the same idea as this site but for web4, now that AI fail is becoming common news?
Oh, man. Oh, wow. www.bbc.com/news/live/cn...
Like yes, you find yourself doing things you wouldn't inherently have chosen to do, and you do so because of external reasons intended to convince or compel you. It's a gradient to negative coercion, and the fascists are trying to take advantage of that notion.
I would certainly suggest that minor coercion is getting paid so that you're willing to handle someone else's bullshit. Stack those things? Clean that thing? Type that up? Gimme a reason to bother. I also want to decouple the notion of coercion from /negative/ coercion.
Like yes, work may have a policy on pronouns, but ... what is work? Sure, in modern legal structures, there's the whole corporate person bs, but primarily, it's.aplsce you go to, with others, to do a similar task together. The group can have rules for who they hang out with.
I really just taking about the notion of classifying the rights of everyone else to avoid interaction as "coercion". "I'm being oppressed/forced" ... and it's just ... people don't want to hang out with people who behave that way.
But if you dig deeper, you will also find a fascist mindset behind the idea. On some level, a fascist mindset is required to take a view of the form "I alone get to decide what the rest of the world is allowed to prefer, like, dislike, and be mad about."
In the end, what it amounts to is simple. These people have recognized that they're the bad guy, and what specific actions make it so, but they desperately demand that the entirety of society band together to continue pretending they're good. And once we lay it out, it's easy to say no to that.
The argument will naturally eventually descend into the exact same logical flow of the cancel culture argument. Society is free to not want to be around or be pleasant to unpleasant people, "but not me, or people like me, even if we do the bad thing."
And once we get to that moment, we have reached the same logical flow as the cancel culture arguments. "I want to do the bad thing, but I demand that everyone else continue to act as they would have if I did not do the bad thing." It's just coercion on society from people who do bad things.
Even then. That doesn't even stop it, technically. It might count as minor coercion, but no more than "also, you can't decide you hate the finance guy, and pee on his desk." Nothing is stopping bad behavior, there's just the very simple consequence of "we won't want to work with you."
I know there might be some use to the British lack of free speech, sometimes, but it really does create problems, too, like how being against the Israeli genocide is actually risking prosecution. Of course, there are more issues, there, but this is some shit.
They may not realize how much that headline will help him with the average person.
Show us the ones with teeth. O.O
Software engineer, here. I tend to listen to power metal, orchestral stuff, "epic movie music" type playlists, or stuff in languages I don't know when I need to focus in an office. The loud part helps with background noise, but the part where I don't care as much about lyrics is nice for focusing.
How is this not branded "deep throat"?
Note that the administration’s claim of a 700% increase in assaults on ICE agents is likely made up mostly of incidents like this: claims that a 71-year-old citizen “pushed” a masked armed agent.
It's more than that. They actively suppress proper progressives. It threatens their donors. They actively don't want people like him to gain traction. They actively don't want things to get better. It's particularly disappointing because they're all we've really got, outside fascists.
2. They push less "extreme" versions of his ideas, sometimes, and then never do them. This is meant to satisfy you so that you shut up. You're supposed to shut up. You're not supposed to want better. That makes their donors sad. You don't want to make their donors sad, do you?
It's quite simple, and there are two major elements. 1. He is saying things and claiming he'll do things that will actually help, in a way that will undermine their ongoing principle of not doing that, if they can avoid doing so. It makes them look bad, and makes the alternative look achievable.
They need to pay. Otherwise, maybe they should get randomized results. >.>
I have a feeling ... it ain't no passing craze
Following the rules when the situation has gone off the rails is the way the complicit comply with fascism while still pretending they didn't take part.
I don't know why, but I feel like this is right up your alley. The punch line, in particular [don't skip ahead, trust me] qntm.org/responsibility
If you want proof that I'm right, here it is. A progressive won the primary, and the DNC is prepared to run the sex pest as an independent, to the point of even losing, just to try to stop him. There not.Putting 1/10th of that effort into dealing with Trump.
I have said a million times that the DNC wants to lose. This is more proof. They're fine if their candidates are right wing donor shills, but not anything else. They seem unable to do a thing about Trump, but entirely capable now that a progressive has won the NYC primary.
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But then your profile says moderate Democrat, and these days, moderate Democrat is the same as pre Reagan republican, so maybe that's the problem.
But you're not aware of what the left and right political spectrum actually is, because you're fooled by the Overton window. And somehow, you don't think poor people will be compelled by a better situation, vs not that?
PPS. There is no hard left in America, and nobody you've heard of is pushing actual, full on socialism, at all.
Oh, and she was also strongly against fracking bans. Big oil loyalty is a big conservative mainstay. She also talked a lot during the 2024 election cycle about how the Biden administration had ramped up domestic drilling. Again, conservative stuff, right there.
She also worked hard, as the top cop, to ignore sexual misconduct by cops. She also defended dirty prosecutors. This kind of corruption, where having power puts someone in a special, consequence free place, is a very conservative attitude toward power structures.
She also took part in the big lie about sites like backpage, and helped to destroy it. It was part of bullshit conservative moralism, where the appearance is all that matters. Indeed, backpage wasn't helping human trafficking; it was helping feds catch it. That's a very conservative thing to do.
As to Harris, herself? The former prosecutor/top cop? She set her image up as "tough on crime". This kind of pandering is more common to conservatives. She supported using gov. force to deal with drug problems rather than other approaches. That's quite a conservative thing to do, overall.
Fun fact: Eveerything left of hunting brown people for sport is /not/ actually "the left". Conservative is a wide spectrum, of which current Republicans are at the extreme end. Similarly, a lot of what Republicans and republican media call radical left is actually their own policy from 20 years ago
PS: You know why Trump pulled the low information voters? Cause he stole rhetoric from Sanders, and talks a lot about the economy, and acknowledges that it's not ideal for some people. He's lying when he says he'll help, but ... low information voters are low information.
1. He's not hard left. On the spectrum, he's not actually left, at all. But, you don't actually know about that. 2. People tend to be fans of having a better economic situation. Add that this guy gets attention, and odds are good. 3. It sounds like him losing is a "they'll see" fantasy for you.
"Foreigners". Dude's a citizen.
It's also a great example of actually talking about things affecting the bottom half. He hammered cost of living, transit, childcare, groceries. The economy is not "great, actually"; not for the bottom half of America. Progressive shit just works.
I just spend a bit over the last few days talking to more whiny dumbasses who don't understand why the dems can't expect magical support while running shit candidates. This is more proof. Candidates owe it to us to be compelling, and when they put the effort in, it really does work.
Ok. Yes. Sure. But hear me out. What if I can get on my knees for donors, instead?
Also just, as XP proved, people will absolutely go on without the updates for years, if they think the new one isn't for them.
Yeah, so, that's still not what a landslide is. It isn't a synonym for "a lot". It specifically refers to winning by such a large margin as to be particularly noteworthy. Polling suggested the best case outcome was a supermajority. That would have been a landslide.
Realistically, it actually, genuinely wasn't. Nothing in our arsenal goes that deep, and they knew about this possibility a while ago, and probably moved it. The most successful outcome the attack might achieve is minimal damage, and that's a maybe.
Correct but we don't save voting by who we vote for. We save it by who we /can/ vote for. It makes 3rd parties viable. It makes it possible for someone to present a better option, and not end up being a spoiler. This prevents inaction driven reactionary authoritarianism.
I do insist. "You're having a different conversation from the one you're in" is probably a good indicator to read more carefully and respond more slowly.
I am back to reminding you that you don't really understand the system. As it turns out people who aren't registered as democrats are ... *checks notes* ... /not/ automatically registered as Republicans.
He ran on healthcare and climate change, prescription access for the poor, clean energy, and government transparency.
I don't seem to recall saying those things, as it happens. Funnily enough, the words I actually say are the words I say, not whiny strawman bullshit from morons.
No, you weren't. And you don't understand what I believe, either. You clearly want to paint me a certain way, and it's vastly incorrect on sooo many fronts, but you're also clearly failing to read what I wrote.