Seems worse for folks to not even realize their data was leaked

Ditto. Deeply frustrating.

I mean, I always thought Faye was obnoxious with unflattering clothes- but I also loved the live action series.

Nah, it was stylish and goofy in a way that made you realize how goofy the original was.

I resented that culture insisted I care about people who, as far as I could tell, hadn’t done anything. I don’t care about how much someone parties, or if they’re rich, or have a sex tape. Lohan was an actor, at least- I don’t want to hear about Paris or the Kardashians because why?

In an era when libraries synced automatically and space was valuable.

Bono did get Apple to do something invasive and shitty.

I love sumac too!

They do grow fast- sumac can give shade in a sunny spot in a single year.

The way light comea through the leaves is so soothing.

Out west, country folk fucking love ranch. Especially with pizza.

You’re completely missing the point of the trolley problem:

Do you take an action that causes a direct harm, even if it’s in service to reducing harm?

It’s a valid moral stance to decide you will not personally perform a harmful action. That’s not walking away from the trolley, that’s refusing to throw the switch.

Your framing of the situation is false. Voting for Harris is throwing the switch and dooming Palestinians. Voting third party/not voting is not throwing the switch: you are not condoning the system that runs people over, you are not taking an action that directly harms people.

To be clear, throwong the switch is also a valid moral stance.

Personally, I believe voting for Harris prolongs our faulty political system. I voted for Kerry, then Obama (first willingly, then let myself be guilted into it). The Democrats have only gotten worse with time, and I won’t vote for a party that represents me less with time instead of more.

The first book was a Roald Dahl ripoff, and I enjoyed it for that. Everything was downhill from there.

Beverly was always a self insert (like most trek characters) for professional STEM types, in this case the career doctor who loves romance novels.

I think the scariest thing is that it isn’t a disinformation campaign. Disinformation and propaganda are part of partisan politics (for instance, Republicans still think Joe Biden wanted to defend the police and Democrats still think there’s a pee tape). Just stating true facts is enough to get people arguing.

If we would just accept facts we didn’t like, a lot of these foreign actors would have a lot less power.

Michael Hudson calls it out fairly regularly.