You would have been terrified? If you’re that scared of brown people, that’s your own issue.

So that’s a no. You spent a lot of words to avoid saying the word no, but you seem to understand we cannot fix that problem in the short term.

So why do you insist on acting as if we have an informed electorate that will weigh their options and come to an informed decision? At what point do Democrats have to stop the wishful thinking and join us in reality?

If it helps, I’d like the same thing. But what we want doesn’t matter. Winning elections does.

And for the record, I and a lot of other people read the article. Pretending ‘everyone who comes to a different conclusion than you did is uninformed’ is condescending. We simply choose to give credence to the activists that work for consumers over another corporate backed Democrat. “There are too many regulations on the books” is a right wing talking point and a nonsense excuse.

“This veto sends the devastating message that corporate landlords can keep using secret price-fixing algorithms to take extra rent from people who have the least,”

Edit: Open Secrets says the Real Estate industry is #2 in donations to Gov. Polis at $12,000.

Campaigning for a cushy job after he leaves office is also called “lobbying” because “bribery” is only when you hand a politician a bag with a big dollar sign on it and explicitly say “This is a bribe to do a crime for me”.

Do you think we can fix “headline only reactions” amongst voters, or do you think we should do things that make good headlines regardless of if it increases the number of laws, a metric absolutely nobody cares about?

It’s almost as if voters are human and we should care about what they think, rather than expect every voter to think like you do.

Not really

AI -> Actually Indians

I said “cut a forum by 90%”, not “a forum happens to be smaller than another”. Ask ChatGPT if you have trouble with words.

If you cut a forum’s population by 90% it will die.

This is one of the biggest problems with AI. If it becomes the easiest way to get good answers for most things, it will starve the channels that can answer the things it can’t (including everything new).

Can’t be arsed.

I’m not sure how to, and it’s not something I care about enough to figure out how. I generally think of posting here as more shouting into the void, so I don’t care very much to personalize my account.

I use Sync. I may be missing out on the perfectly simple UI that was developed to do this.

They’re actually more cotillions.

I do too. I haven’t used it in about 10 years, and this is at least the fourth computer it has been in. Maybe I don’t need it anymore, but if I throw it away, then I’ll surely have to read a DVD.

Thanks, Opabinia

Kitton mittons scientifically necessary. Don’t let your car stomp around making so much noise.

YouTube pushes right wing content because right wing goals benefit their owners. I don’t know how you define “right wing company”, but what else would you call a company that promotes fascists and strictly polices leftists?

There’s way too much malice in the world to rely on pithy witticisms too heavily.

This is odd to say when the YouTube algorithm has been proven to push right wing propaganda.

The concept of “conspiracies” is a bit off. It’s not a “conspiracy” when Bezos kills the Washington Post’s endorsement of Harris, or fires journalists who criticize him. YouTube doesn’t need to remove a video if the algorithm never shows it to anybody.

It is kinda crazy to imagine a secret cabal of rich people who surreptitiously run the world, rather than the well known cabal of rich people who openly run the world.

Apparently, it was DEI keeping the planes in the air, so our new crackerforce is dumping the planes overboard. Won’t have to worry about them if we give them to the orcas.

In your 40s, you will pay for the sins of your 20s. Pay attention to your ergonomics because by the time you feel pain the damage is already done.

I use thick cushiony gel wrist supports and an ergonomic mouse. Why would anyone want to be less comfortable and risk future issues?

This doesn’t make sense when it’s Americans using China’s pollution to justify not scaling back our pollution.

It’s pretty accurate to say the wealthy like fascism if you look at how the wealthy keep trying to implement fascism. The Business Plot was an attempted fascist takeover of the United States, and the Trump regime was a successful fascist takeover of the United States. Both were bankrolled by the wealthy.

I’m not interested in defining the word fascist. The word has a definition and if some people use it incorrectly, that is not my concern.

I think when you talk about the “economy” you’re not taking into account income inequality. Economic crashes are great for the capitalist class. They get to buy everything at fire sale prices, and pay their workers pennies. Even if they have slightly less “wealth” than they might, they have enormously more power (which locks in more wealth during the “recovery”).