No no, your mother died of sadness.
BECAUSE YOU CHEATED ON HER WITH ANAKIN?!
Damnit, son. I need you to back off the hatred for a minute and think about this logically. You need a mommy and a daddy make a baby.
Alright, who was your mom and dad?
Argh, okay, listen here you little shit…
A big joke about these mainstream publications is how quickly they’d open their pockets to accept fossil fuel industry native advertisement money. WaPo, NYT, WSJ, The Economist, et al - they’d always have some kind of AEI industry flak or Heartland Institute goober or Saudi stooge pen an Op-Ed about how fossil fuels are inescapable and alternatives don’t work / cost too much / have a secret downside orders of magnitude worse than O&G.
It was the same “We Report, You Decide” bullshit that FOX News played out in big bold letters for their rube base. The fishwrap editions just knew how to play their cards closer to the chest.
Soon I will probably become a landlord
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it
I wish these were proper failures. They’re such an entrenched monopoly, a whole lot would have to change before a $3.2T company sees any kind of tangible penalties.
Right. You can call for things.
I don’t want to be a “this is a distraction” guy, but debating the particulars of language used by a news source when the folks on record as being pedophiles still aren’t being prosecuted feels like a fucking distraction to me.
Like, they aren’t even going to Lock Up the Clintons. The one thing that almost everyone in America can agree on is Bill Clinton being a pedophile. He’s not someone Trump needs to protect. He’s not someone the DNC wants to carry water for anymore. He’s practically on death’s door anyway, I don’t know if even he would mind. And Trump’s DOJ still won’t lift a fucking finger.
It’s embarrassing to see a country this obsessed with “War on Crime” bullshit refuse to touch ex-Presidents caught absolutely dead to rights doing crimes. All we can do is language-police the billionaire(pedophile)-owned outlets from the cheap seats.
Why is neither party proposing an amendment outlawing this?
Proposals have been made.
But the majority party rarely sees an incentive to change the rules they won under. And a minority party never has the votes to overturn a majority-written set of maps.
Roberts and Gorsuch aren’t obsessed with winning every short-game match up. They need gerrymandering to be legal in the abstract and for the long term. If they start trying to thread the needle between California and Texas, they give the lower courts more opportunities to overturn maps in Republican states and a future SCOTUS more elbow room to overturn their whole reading of legislative maps.
In a wave year where Republicans are likely getting swamped out of dozens of seats anyway, there’s very little to gain and a lot to lose by creating an exception to the rule on when gerrymandering is legal.
I’ve had more luck with Mint, thanks to its Windows-adjacent GUI and user-friendly on ramp. Still encountered a few issues (a couple of peripherals that didn’t support Linux drivers). But on the whole, it’s improved system performance over Win10 and synced smoothly with my workstation.
Windows will continue to degrade as Microsoft fires more of its professional staff and turns to “Vibes Coding” for increasingly delicate systems development. They’ll keep pushing out the OS as a vector for unwanted third-party advertisements. They’ll keep ratcheting user control of the OS away from the hardware owners. And they’ll keep injecting bloatware into their applications and services.
This isn’t the end of enshitification. It is a brief retreat and regrouping by a company that has invested tens of billions of dollars into the AI sunk cost.
It censored Tiananmen Square
fostered a positive impression of China
The crime TikTok users committed was fostering a positive impression of Gaza.
Less crime before Brexit, too. It appears crime peaked during Brexit. Definitely something to think about.
The curious thing about US crime statistics is that we only count crimes against the state. We never count crimes committed by the state.
I would argue that US Crime has been sharply on the rise, from within the organs of the government itself (and its corporate affiliates).
Sharp Decline
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You could make this graph about pretty much any crime-news coverage over the last 40 years. “If It Bleeds Then It Leads” has become western media orthodoxy.
We’re moving from reality to orthodoxy. You’re making an unfalsifiable claim.
If you searched for Tiananmen Square
If you can tell me how to un-fuck this nation in a way that will actually wake people up
People are already Woke Up. They’re still powerless.
Whatcha gonna do about them?
It’s not like I invite any of them over to smoke a joint. They exist and I can’t do much about it
Strapping a lead albatross to your space program is certainly a choice