nickwitha_k (he/him)

Jill Stein is pretty cool though.

No, she isn’t. She’s just another Putin puppet to help the far-Right.

It’ll be interesting what the Green Party does now.

Not really. They’re going to dump all resources into unwinnable national races where they can act as spoilers in FPTP elections while ignoring local elections and anywhere else where they could be effective in achieving their claimed goals. You know, like they have for decades.

I don’t know. They can be quite onery and aggressive. Plus, they’d probably want us to exterminate orcas.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_v._United_States_(2024) among others. They basically declared him a king above the law, contrary to the spirit and word of the US Constitution.

Oh. It also gets better when it comes to literacy. Starting somewhere in the late 90s/early 00s, nationwide changes were made to the curriculum to use commercial systems that were developed to help people with developmental disabilities understand enough written language to function (street signs, fast food menus, etc).

These changes have resulted in a distinct increase in functional literacy. As of last year, 54% of the US population was only capable of reading at the sixth grade level or lower, with 70% of children from low-income families (an income bracket that is consistently growing as upward mobility evaporates and downward mobility has become the norm).

Reading is a fundamental skill from which ones ability to self-learn, explore new ideas, and critically analyze things relies on. These are schools necessary to succeed in life. Written language is something that our brains did not evolve for and must be coaxed into properly understanding. So, we have at least a generation of young people who lack very basic literacy skills that one in a modern society needs to compete and collaborate on a global stage.

To be fair, I don’t think that this was quite the intended result, as much as a byproduct of redirecting public education funds into already wealthy people’s pockets. The result, however, is monsterous and, if we make it through the current shit, the people of the US are going to need a lot of help from the rest of the world to fix the educational deficiencies that have been inflicted upon us by Boomer politicians that have been robbing their children and children’s children for a good half of a century.

Yes.

Really more of a murder-suicide/doomsday cult. They don’t want anybody alive when they’re not.

Eat a bag of dicks, Murdoch. You were central to making this happen.

Haven’t looked too hard yet but, it seems like it might have a sanely repairable chassis/body. I think I see panels there.

Yup :(

Good observation.

I don’t believe that they’re even that capable. Probably really on LLMs to write every script for them and don’t know whether or not it actually works.

I’d say it’s to embolden police and violent racists, in hope of helping encouraging their race war to destabilize the country so that they can divy it up.

The interesting lack of forethought from the oligarchic billionaires is that their billions mean nothing without the US dollar and NYSE. The majority of their hoards of wealth are not backed by anything tangible that could be of use in the event that the US dollar ceases to be relevant. I suppose that this kind of thought isn’t likely to occur to sociopaths that were born with platinum spoons in their mouths.

We are boycotting Amazon products until they make another season of The Expanse

With the time skip, that’s going to be a long boycott.

I suppose I tend to think of it more as a Lisp interpreter that’s capable of self-extension.

0.7M more people who the government needs to handle logistics and civil infrastructure for. It’s about trying to exhaust the war resources in ways that don’t directly influence the war in Ukraine’s favor.

According to OpenSecrets, about $100k to Nikki Haley and Kentucky GOP.

Prove that they are irrelevant.

It is vitally important, not just in elections but also in life overall, to recognize that not all possibilities are equally likely and to use available data to evaluate them.

For example, it is possible that a white rhinoceros might come down the hall and join me for a spot of tea and biscuits. I can, however, safely say that that is almost definitely not going to happen, based upon these data points:

• I do not keep any white rhinoceros in my home.
• White rhinoceros are not native to this continent and are classified as near-threatened (a major improvement from their previous near-extinction).
• White rhinoceros average between 1700kg and 2300kg. My home was not designed and built to support that kind of moving mass. Any white rhinoceros walking down my hall would likely fall through the floor.
• White rhinoceros, while generally docile and gregarious, are not known for enjoying tea and biscuits.

Yes, this is a exaggerated caricature. However, data with even more clarity is available surrounding election outcomes. Betting on a possible outcome without any evidence to suggest that it is likely is foolish and betting on an outcome that one knows is unlikely, while increasing the likelihood of an outcome known to be harmful to vulnerable people is detestable.

Going to have to disagree there.

Thanks for this wonderful view of how actual historical fact is weirder than expected. I mean, it makes sense but the appearance is unexpected.