This is why all the hate at one man to me is meaningless. He’s a symptom, the issue is the rot of the general populace, the fact that he could get more than 5% of the vite at all shows how far we have fallen. It’s not one mans fault, it’s a society who is so selfish and ignorant that they vote in the most selfish ignorant leaders, and the most idiotic thing is that they truly believe someone just as selfish and ignorant as them will end up helping them, that they’ll be on the inside somehow. Instead we continue to spiral downward.

Just imagine, that ultra Karen had the option to say nothing, to go on with their day and it would never affect them again.

Instead they went out of their way to be a huge asshole. They chose to be an asshole that day.

It’s not either or, it is both.

You deserve a grocery store nearby. You also deserve not to be hit by a driver while walking to that grocery store.

As I said, a bill to ban VPNs from accessing piracy sites. Not forcing piracy sites to do anything, forcing providers to block access.

They just introduced a bill to ban vpns from accessing piracy sites, I don’t have the link on me but you can look it up. About 3 days ago

I don’t click on links without knowing what they are first, what is this?

Why do you think suddenly they’re trying to crack down on piracy?

Foreigner is amazing to see, you’d never think so as I personally find their rock just a bit bland, you know kind of blends in with all the rock of their time, but holy shit their concert is fun. They just go wild, they really bring the crowd in, and you’re right the lead singer is just nuts. I’ve seen them probably 3 times now simply because they’re so fun

This is interesting, I don’t think she’s ever really done a B-side beyond her re-records. I’ve had a theory for a while that 13 albums will be her last, fitting with her lucky number, this makes me wonder if she’s staving off #13

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As others mentioned, ICE are not police.

On top of that again it’s idealism vs realism. Yes idealism is what it could be, but the system isn’t changing anytime soon. I’m sorry, but it’s not. Unless the majority of people suddenly mobilize, but I’ve been waiting now 30 years and at multiple points thought maybe they finally would, but it’s not happening. Once you realize that it’s idealism, then you can move into realistic options.

AWS, Azure, and GCP had plenty of capacity 6 years ago for the entire “web” that they ran, now all of a sudden they need 20x the capacity.

AI requires insanely power hungry GPUs and massive cooling infrastructure.

It’s not exactly rocket science to see what happened.

“No more police” is an idealistic concept that would never make it out of committee and is routinely used by the right to “prove” to themselves that we can’t be taken seriously. “Demilitarized police” instead is a concept that could be actually implemented, and could get support from both the people and politicians and could actually be implemented.

If you seriously believe that we could pivot next year to “no more police” then you’re deluding yourself, there’s no politician in this entire country who would stake their career on that. Nice to dream, but no way in reality it would ever happen, and using it only fuels the right.

Who says I’m settling for it? It for sure could be faster, I’d love HSR but that’s not going to happen tomorrow, that’s going to be a generational task. In the meantime, yes I’ll advocate for what transit we do have, because the more people who ride will convince more to take it. There’s a reason that 10 years ago we had 2 daily roundtrips to Portland and now we have 6, with new traincars coming end of month. It’s because people started riding so they invested in it. You don’t get investment by ignoring it.

Being able to read, drink, or sleep during the ride doesn’t counteract the fact that it’s slow as that’s still a couple hours more that you’ll be spending on the transportation portion of the trip rather than at your desired destination.

That is an opinion. My opinion is that I would much rather have 3 hours to read or sleep than to have 2.5 hours in a stressful drive. Driving is not fun, I find it stressful and annoying. My opinion is that my time is better spent relaxing on a train reading or playing video games, I get nothing out of a drive.

The benefit of reduced stress that you listed could be accomplished by having someone else drive you there too

That is quite literally what the train is, I’m having someone else drive me there.

After 4 I’m pretty sure it is.

I take it all the time, and I’d like to see those gas numbers now that we’re at $6 a gallon.

I’m also really tired of the “its so slow” when that entire time you can read, sleep, or even drink if you want to. Personally I bring my deck and play video gamrs. Yeah it’s half hour longer, a half hour where I’m not stressed, worried about people swerving around me, needing to pay attention.

I agree with this, and it’s why movements like OWS and BLM have more or less done nothing. Those are complex concepts with lists of things that need to be done. The right has “Lower taxes” and “Let us be racist”. The left though has nuanced concepts and new things that people have never heard of. People hear “Lower taxes” and know what that means. Universal healthcare is new and complex, and so the right reduces it to something they understand, “higher taxes” and other fearmongering. Meanwhile we’re trying to show amortization rates of providing care to everyone and the right has simple phrases.

Rinse and repeat for everything. We tried “Defund police” but the right only heard “No more police” because there is a lot of nuance to “defund police”, like demilitarizing and focusing on sending in people who can actually help. “Climate change” is a complex nuanced subject that takes a long time to understand, but the right reduces it to “They want to take away your truck”.

Gay marriage I think worked because it was a very simple message, allow gays to marry. They tried to reduce it however they could but in that case their arguments were the harder ones to follow. I think we need to think about how we describe things, and try to avoid from the beginning needing to explain concept subjects to (I’m sorry but) simple people. Universal healthcare should simply mean “We run a government level insurance program, like all of the other countries, so no one gets denied coverage”. Or something like that.

rather than mourn, are they going after Samsung to replace said food? When I worked best buy our warranty covered food spoilage up to 2 years I believe (if it was the fridge/freezer’s fault, not just a random power outage or something). I’d expect Samsung to do the same.

That sort of nuance is never going to be noticed on the internet I’ve learned. It was obvious to me as well that by putting the thin blue line there right in the background that this was going to be “testing” his view of the thin blue line. Isn’t that obvious, from the image it’s something the character holds to be very important, so important that it brands him, and the whole movie is going to be chipping away at that.

But internet people don’t see that level of nuance, and immediate downvote.

after he was “engaged in a disturbance” in front of a business. He was unable to clearly speak or support himself

Wasn’t he hit with a hammer?! And they’re reporting like the above is weird?!