Yeah this was a fun photo op for Biden. His actual action with unions though was to fuck them over to support corporate billionaires. www.reuters.com/world/us/bid...
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Yeah this was a fun photo op for Biden. His actual action with unions though was to fuck them over to support corporate billionaires. www.reuters.com/world/us/bid...
I know everyone hates LLMs here, but for everyone who does use them you should know that "Take your time and use the web to be accurate and up-to-date. Provide a clickable link to your sources" is a secret weapon when trying to get it to do grunt work on things you want to verify
My wife really liked Frostpunk and the original game the studio made (This War of Mine) and both are essentially existential games about what you would do to survive and what choices you'd make. One in a war zone, and one in a horrible climate. Fair warning though, they can be depressing worlds!
Have you played Frostpunk? Your list of games has a number of similarities with my wife's favorite games and that's one not in your list that she's played 1000 hours of, so you might also like it!
This is simply a result of the Democrat messaging at this time. Newsom is the only one visibly, loudly pushing back and making news and the rest of the party seems like deer in the headlights. That makes him the de facto standard-bearer for Dems, so it also leads to the left being upset by that.
Uh...
The point is the most popular elected politician in the US using his platform to call for resignation & give details about the corruption/incompetence in play while also calling for hearings & interviews with the people who were fired to testify If we can't endorse that, wtf are we doing here?
Exactly the kind of response I would expect LOL You know just as well as I do the truth of the Democrats and you're just mad at Bernie for pointing out their corruption and hypocrisy because they're your sports team. And again "few left standing" he is THE MOST POPULAR ELECTED POLICITIAN IN THE US
Every other nation on Earth can figure out how to give healthcare to its citizens, but you already accepted that it would "never pass" because you KNOW that Dems are corrupt and would never actually help people, even if they had the power, even if it saved trillions and covered millions more people.
No, the problem is that Bernie points out how corrupt both parties are and how they are ruled by the rich and that if you actually accepted that fact, you might have to evaluate your own politics for a second to ask why you support a party more interested in billionaires than working class people
LOL okay man, sorry if I forced you to almost confront your blind spot by admitting that the only reason policies like "healthcare for everyone" wouldn't get passed if Dems had control is if Dems vote against it And you know Dems would never vote to help people if it hurt their corporate donors
Behind a platform that focuses on getting accountability for what's happening right now and actually moving forward together on policies that actually help the working class and combat the oligarchy. They need to be bold and move fast if they win, we need them to have candidates who are capable.
Do you disagree with healthcare for everyone, or not? And if you do agree that's something we should pursue, then why would it be something that couldn't pass assuming Democrats controlled Congress? The answer will be very telling.
Sorry, again, which specific legislation did you disagree with? You listed universal healthcare as legislation that NEVER had a chance to pass. Do you disagree that everyone should have healthcare?
Sorry my bad, let's just keep it to the facts and not involve Democrats. What legislation did Bernie propose that you disagreed with?
And we can now see the results of what working with MAGA to build coalitions accomplishes. What it gets to compromise with the right instead of having actual morals and convictions like Bernie. It gets losing to a felon rapist multiple times in a row and sweeping fascism that they help enact.
I think this sums up the feelings of a lot of people on the left about the situation in a more eloquent way than I could personally express: bsky.app/profile/ftra...
Dems work with Republicans to pass laws like Laken Riley that strip due process from immigrants: "Hey look how great these legislators are for passing laws!" Dems work with Republicans to block giving healthcare to poor people: "Look at this ineffective legislator!" LOL
He does try to get his legislation passed, but somehow "everyone should have healthcare" & "everyone deserves paid sick leave" are something that Democrats vehemently oppose even when they have control Again, him not passing legislation says a LOT more about the system and the two parties than him
Yeah, his time has come and gone and now he spends all his time training new leadership, touring the country to register new voters and listen to their concerns while organizing labor to fight back, and doing shit like this to hold the corrupt accountable. Three things that Dems can't bother with.
I'm glad that you agree that his common sense proposals to help people had no chance to pass because Democrats and Republicans both aren't interested in helping people. And again, he's the most popular elected politician in America whose approval rating is 3x that of the entire Democrat party lol
He's the most popular elected politician in America who ran the largest grassroots campaign in history. And the fact that his very simple, very common sense legislation to help people was blocked by both Democrats and Republicans says a lot more about the parties than him.
Yes, we're well aware that "a bunch of other DEMs" have awful messaging skills and can't actually manage to mount an effective resistance to what we're facing when somehow the 83 year old dude has no problem with that. That's kinda the problem.
Almost like you should stop repeatedly helping them appoint incompetent sycophants and stop voting to help them pass their fascist laws. Or, you know, keep making social media posts while collaborating to help them at every turn.
I don't have any special knowledge but wow this by @espiers.bsky.social feels right. www.elizabethspiers.com/why-dems-kee...
Reminder that Democrats control the California budget of $321 billion and that for $10 billion of that, they could end homelessness in the state of CA entirely You want to get people to vote for Dems? Start solving these problems you have the power, money, and mandate from citizens to solve.
BREAKING: Social Security Administration chief data officer and whistle-blower Charles Borges has resigned after bombshell report that SSA put highly-sensitive data at risk. He sent out an email to colleagues moments ago. Here is the text of his email shared with me:
Lot of stuff could happen. But what the left should be making clear is that we want fighters who stand for important things, while pointing at the Dems who aren't meeting the moment so that they can be replaced. We don't need centrists who laugh and joke around with Charlie Kirk and Steve Bannon.
I think any number of people could win but it's way too early to be talking about candidates. Right now is the time we on the left need to AGGRESSIVELY be smacking down the Newsom side of the party so that they don't pick him or someone like him and lose the next election. It's too important.
For 1/300th of the Missouri operating budget, we could buy and just give a house to every homeless person in the state. And that's not even the most efficient way to deal with the problem, just gives an idea of how homelessness in our state is a policy decision and not a resource problem.
Everyone Who Isn't In A Cult: If you nominate gavin newsom you will lose Dem Party: Oh thank god i wasn't sure we could manage it this time
If he's the Dem nominee then the Dems will lose. But more importantly, they will DESERVE to lose. Their 19% approval rating will drop even further because they will have proven they have no interest in morality and no vision of a nation where we protect everyone and preserve their rights.
No, people who don't vote for a fucking ghoul that laughs with MAGA fucks on his podcast and agrees with them that we should eradicate trans people all while sucking billionaire dick and working with ICE are not the problem The problem is a system and party where him being nominee is even possible
Any tips on where to go to start learning about atproto and how it all works? I'm terrible at coding, but it seems pretty cool and I just wanna learn more about it Hope someone cuts you that check!
No but seriously, you're a garbage person and the world will be better when you're gone
Imagine being the kind of loser that jumps in to defend a transphobic piece of shit from an online argument Lolol
The truth is that you sound like a dude who sniffs his own farts
"Not being transphobic gives you migraines" is honestly the level of intelligence I expect from these clown ass bigot goons
Yeah it does give me a headache when I have to see transphobic garbage from a bunch of fuckface moron bigots, good point
Can you point out who, under the original ACA with its mandates and expansions in place, would not have had healthcare coverage in the US? As it was written and before they spent nearly two decades gutting it of course, as now it's garbage without any real merits outside of a few provisions.
Great first steps. Ordering your police and prosecutors to arrest and prosecute under state laws any ICE agents that violate the Constitutional rights of Wisconsin residents and publicly voicing your support for the law enforcement of Wisconsin to hold them accountable would be a great second step!
Yes, the ACA is shitty. But it's still a universal healthcare plan. That's why it's important to actually phrase things properly and address the actual issue: single payer We don't need UHC, we have it already and see its flaws. We need single payer AKA Medicare for All to untie from employers.
Again, the fact that employers are involved in coverage doesn't have any bearing on whether a system is or is not UHC. The ACA had requirements for everyone to be covered and anyone not getting it under employers would have the market and subsidies down to the point of Medicaid. That's UHC.
If it's Newsom vs Trump then we don't have a Constitution and my solution won't be voting, it will be fighting in the streets But if it's Newsom that means Dems are just as fucking shitty as MAGA and just as cool with fucking over trans people & sucking billionaire dick Why would I vote for that?
Cool, so lets not nominate shitty people and not have to make that choice!
The ACA was literally designed and written as universal healthcare. From the ground up, that's what it was intended for and written to be. The fact that red states literally refuse to cover people out of spite creating gaps in coverage that fuck over millions doesn't change that.
"If you don't vote for the guy who invites Nazis on and agrees when they say we should get rid of trans people, you'll let the other guy that wants to get rid of trans people win!" What if...just spitballing here...we just don't nominate anti-trans fuckface assholes like Trump or Gavin?
Would love to read it, if it wasn't being hosted on a site that openly platforms Nazis like Substack. Any second location available that doesn't involve giving views to a company partnered with Bari Weiss that pushed a notification calling for a genocide and "an all-white homeland" this month?
Another morning to say that I will not vote for Gavin Newsom when he inevitably runs for president. If you want my vote, you should make sure to nominate someone who isn't a transphobe.
Because to brainwashed centrist liberals who are okay sacrificing vulnerable populations to keep their privilege and comfort, the thought of a candidate winning your vote by not being shitty and actually having good ideas and a functioning moral compass is too hard to comprehend.
I don't think anyone should look at us the same way again. We are clearly a broken nation and we've been headed down this path for decades. If we spent every year from now until I died trying to make it right, other nations would still be justified in judging and avoiding us. We are not a good ally
Fuck Putin for killing all these innocent people and fuck Obama, Trump, Biden, and Trump again for not holding to our agreement to defend them We should have had troops on the ground in Ukraine helping defend since fucking 2014 and our failure as a nation to honor our word is shameful cowardice
Oh neat, more transphobe garbage from a piece of shit bigot Exactly what the world needs right now
Feel free to look at any of the posts I've made saying he should stop using it. Along with the same posts for a lot of people I like. Notice how he didn't throw a fucking hissy fit and block me, nor did any of his followers try to make excuses for why actually the Nazi bar was necessary
As it turns out, I know better than anyone still using Substack how to fight fascism Step 1: Don't give money to fascists Step 2: Don't promote fascist platforms and drive people to them The guy who threw a fucking sandwich at ICE knows better than all four of these combined ffs Get better heroes
But please, tell me about what any of those three has done that has offset their funneling of money to fascists to allow the platform that hosts more than 500 neo-Nazi, Nazi, and white supremacists that defends them and says they "need a platform too" and refuses to remove them?
No, they're on Substack where all these "fighting" fascism people are using their influence to drive people to the largest Nazi platform online right now. You know, the one that pushed a notification saying we should eradicate minorites to build a white homeland? Yeah, that Substack.
"Look how much I'm opposing fascism guys! Not enough to be bothered to use one of the infinite number of other platforms that don't fund Nazis but it's a lot I promise! Now please give me money, part of which goes to those Nazis I profess to be fighting!"
Yes, unfortunately the bubble of people who think we shouldn't fund fascists is very small And libs have no problem using fascist platforms to grift people into thinking they are "frontline fighters" when they actually don't even have the guts to do the most basic fight: not giving money to Nazis
"The bar has a swastika over the entrance but 7 out of 10 of the beers on tap didn't involve murdering any Jews to make." What the fuck? It's sidelining "frontline fighters" (who can't be bothered to stop hanging out at the fucking Nazi bar) by asking them to use a different platform? LOL
Sorry dude, but the main focus of what we're fighting for is to stop fascism. So using a platform actively funneling millions of dollars to fascists while giving those fascists one of the largest platforms online to spread their hate-filled messages with impunity isn't just something we can ignore.
The always amazing @marisakabas.bsky.social breaks things down here. Although since this article was written they've done a lot more Nazi shit, so it's far from a full accounting of why the site is toxic and happy to partner with fascists for money www.thehandbasket.co/p/substack-a...
2. Yes a lot of good people create/subscribe to Substacks and that's a MAJOR problem given that they are partnered with fascists & openly giving platforms to some of the worst speech on the internet Pushing those good people to stop goin to the Nazi bar is important if you don't wanna fund fascists
1. Not charging doesn't mean anything If you go to Substack you're driving their traffic numbers which is making them money Money which they give directly to literal "kill all Jews" and "murder the n*****s" Nazis which Substack proudly proclaims "deserve a platform too" and won't take down
If 100% of Palestinians wanted me or someone I love dead for whatever reason (they don't and emails like this are gross and racist), I still wouldn't want their children to starve to death or be bombed or shot. My moral compass doesn't change based on someone else's beliefs about me.
Yeah, sucks to be blocked for that but I get the urge to be defensive. It's her livelihood, how she feeds her family. Change is hard and she's hardly alone being entrenched in that now-toxic site. Just wish people I like would at least double post in a second location to start trying to separate.
1) We should get rid of Taft Hartley for lots of reasons 2) We currently already have UHC, that's what the ACA is. Unions were not opposed to it and you can see the flaws in our current universal healthcare system 3)Unions that oppose single payer systems are wrong and members should tell them that
Being able to feed it a bunch of information and have it parse that info into notes or reference documentation is crazy useful and time saving. But not as sexy as, "replace all healthcare workers and make trillions" so it's not what these companies are focusing on
People hanging out in a Nazi bar REALLY don't like it when you point out all the Nazis in the bar all around them Yet another Substack funding pretender who gets so offended at the very thought of ever moving away from the platform actively partnered with, platforming, and funding Nazis
Sorry, can't even see the link anymore because asking if there was a second place it was posted where my visit didn't give revenue to Nazis was enough to get me blocked :(
Careful, pointing out the reality of the situation and that Substack is a Nazi bar is a good way to get blocked by people in that Nazi bar that don't like you pointing out all the Nazis around them
Yes sorry I don't like giving money to fucking Nazis LOL Of course I can't see the reply because people who are in the Nazi bar get really defensive when you point out that they're hanging out with Nazis and block you :P
The always great @marisakabas.bsky.social has some good info here but they've done a lot of additional Nazi stuff since December. www.thehandbasket.co/p/substack-a...
If a man is willing to break the rules to invade a woman's space, they will do so regardless of whatever bullshit laws you put in place to fuck over trans people. Men are not abusing self-ID to invade women's spaces and never have been. This is a non-issue you made up to justify your bigotry.
The thing that struck me most throughout reading all the details was just that this kid was in a ton of pain and making constant attempts to reach out to adults around him and was ignored until he died. ChatGPT didn't help, but neither did anyone actually responsible for protecting this kid.
Would love to see the discussion if it was hosted in a place that wasn't actively partnered with and funding Nazis like Substack.
What do you consider a HUGE donation to a billionaire? Cause from what I can see, if you add up every single charity donation that's been reported on for her entire life (she might donate silently to others of course) she would make it passively in interest in less than 2 months It's SO much money
Not just a billionaire, but an incredibly influential one with a giant fanbase whose actions could REALLY change things Instead she and Kelce decide to regularly hang out with MAGA fucks like Taylor Lewan and Will Compton (one of whom threatened to rape a rape victim again if she pressed charges)
It depends entirely on use cases And it's also still the infancy of this technology If you don't know how to code at all but you only need this one bit of code for this one thing, no it's not more efficient to learn for years to get that result than to just ask and instantly receive it for example
Do you understand the value to someone who has no idea how to code, being able to ask for code that does something they want to do and to get the results of that instantly for free?
Not sure what your prompt looked like, but out of curiosity I just did the same thing and it instantly gave me results. Actually gave me two methods and both worked. With links to the documentation and every line commented and an explanation at the end of the differences.
There's nothing hard about it Medicare sends us to insurance companies BECAUSE it has gaps in coverage The straight line is "1. Eliminate all gaps in coverage for Medicare 2. Everyone is now covered under Medicare" We can do it easily with the trillions we save by having Medicare for All
National debt isn't the same as personal debts, but if it WAS then you'd have to weigh that $37 trillion against our GDP of $30 trillion. Does someone who makes $300,000 a year having a $370,000 mortgage (for the best house in the city!) worry about debt before considering feeding their kids?
They are trying to make foods that are bland with little in the way of spices but that still fit certain nutritional needs It's not about comfort, we just associate it with that because our parents were told to give us those same foods at home when we were sick for the same reasons
Meanwhile Bernie haters have spent a decade on line attacking an old man like a bunch of fuckin weirdos, but can't point out a single flaw in any actual policy he proposes Just simping for corporations like it was their fuckin jobs
Why should we even have a fire department and put the government in charge of putting out fires if the people in the government are so anti-socialist and incompetent, eh? What a dumb argument LOL
They can't take action without first focus grouping their potential strategy and then hiring a few dozen consultants and then seeing if "Stand Up to Fascism" is popular enough among constituents and then hiring some writers to come up with the most inoffensive way to say they are doing so.
We didn't call it terrorism. We did it to the "terrorists" then and killed a whole lot of innocent men, women, and children including journalists and doctors. Everyone's favorite personable war criminal, Obama, was notorious for double strike bombing. scholarship.law.ufl.edu/cgi/viewcont...
He's absolutely right, and if we had any morals or standards we would be sending Israeli war criminals to the Hague right alongside Biden, Trump, Obama, and Bush who all have done this exact war crime.
putting aside the trans rights issues specifically (lol), I think part of what has me so frustrated with the Newsom thing is that Pritzker, Walz, and Zohran are putting on clinics for a popular, progressive politics and we’re wasting time talking about this used car salesman ass goblin.
For real, what is to consider? Action people. Fascism requires ACTION to resist. The fascists have no problem doing everything within their power and then bending or breaking the rules blatantly beyond that. People fighting fascism have to do the same or there is no hope.
I liked it better when we killed Nazis instead of watching them brutalize innocent people. Better times.
Liberal "Try Not to Call Fascism Communist" Challenge Level: Impossible
O shit, really? Off to listen!
Yeah, truly sucks to know that if worst comes to worst you can't just go get a job at a fast food place or construction like anyone able-bodied could do in a heartbeat That your livelihood/security are at the whims of finding a needle in a haystack and hanging onto that forever or relying on others
While I generally agree that the only ones willing to stand up and actually fight fascism right now are leftists, a liberal Democrat could try having guts too! Also, quick question, what's the most popular elected politician among Texans of both parties? Oh right...Bernie Sanders. LOL
Like, say, Google's codebases? All of which are now tied into Gemini API and which Google itself now uses Gemini to search, edit, and optimize? Or is Google not a big and complicated enough software company for proof-of-concept that LLMs seem to do this just fine? research.google/blog/ai-in-s...
And if we want to get rid of unnecessary things that are destroying the climate then we'll be getting rid of every social media and content platform online. Maybe we focus on YouTube which uses more energy and water in a month than ChatGPT uses in a year? Or we could just regulate things.