About 7 million Americans tried to vote in 2024 and couldn't because of common county level voters suppression tactics. Combine that with the flood of Russian propaganda and we were pretty well fucked.

When your crackhead neighbor who owns a fuck ton of guns is going through a thing letting your other crackhead neighbor fuck with him because you're hoping the two of them are going to off each other is not actually a sound policy. Because instead of getting two dead crackheads you usually get one of them killing the other one and then you've got a crazy crackhead running around without anything to keep it in check.

A better solution would be a intervention. Maybe help your neighbor get off the crack. But on the other hand you'll probably hoping that your neighbors going to kick the bucket and that you can take advantage of that for a quick buck.

They don't really give a shit about privacy and they're just going to have their own homegrown companies rape your privacy and push billionaire propaganda it'll just be more local billionaire propaganda as opposed to international billionaire propaganda.

The point I'm trying to make is this isn't your upstanding up for privacy or the rights of children or any of that this is just standard run of the mill international politics enacted by the same ruling class we should be getting pissed off at but we never actually do.

Time for new glasses, gramps.

I finally gave in and got glasses, and now I really appreciate subpixel font rendering again... at 4k. This is a 42.5" diagonal TV at arm's length plus 4" or so, though.

It's pretty nice hardware. If it would run Linux well, and you didn't need x86 compatibility, it would be reasonable. I've used both, I far prefer Linux. KDE delivers much better on the promise of NeXTStep than does OSX.

I can do it, but it's irritating. The most they have ever had me verify I'm human was three times in one day. They used to use a lot of irritating minigame type captchas like slide the puzzle piece, but now they are using mostly just a slider — at least visibly. I have firefox set to ask before allowing a site audio, and it asked me if AliExpress could have it and I told it no. They seem to have finally given up on hassling me for notifications, so right now I am relatively pleased with them except for their garbage search.

They have also recently inserted AI descriptions, which are predictably shitty. However, they are in small text so they are easy to scroll past. Where they actually should use AI is in metadata. Even if it was wrong a lot of the time, it would still be more helpful than what they have now, which is nothing. I think every Chinese seller would simply game the metadata constantly. But if it's all AI generated from the listings, photos, uploads, etc then it might actually be useful let's say 80% of the time, where I find search to be good about 20% of the time now, and only useful maybe 40% of the time.

Don't let the people who just don't bother to register off the hook. Part of my job is asking people if they want to register. Lots of them that could don't bother. Many of those still want to complain... Yawn. Not interested. At least vote, THEN complain.

Also the USA has been the eight billion pound gorilla since the forties, we should have been leading by example and using our global influence to fix the problem, not to pave the earth.

"The Victim Generation, earned their moniker with a participation trophy. Sponsored by Boomer money, who paid for the team jerseys and hats too. They're unaccountable to reality in truly embarrassing ways"

Yes, just another thing boomers ruined

I've known two people who got CGMs when they were told they were at risk for diabetes, and used them to better learn what they were reacting to. They are pretty nerdy types who wanted data...

Of American social media companies that have become propaganda arms for billionaires.

Not that the ruling class of Europe really particularly cares about billionaire propaganda but they aren't going to let foreign countries billionaires spread propaganda inside their borders because what kind of fucking stupid person would allow that?

I mean besides America.

This is always been how Facebook survives. Young people inevitably bail on Facebook because they don't want to be on the same social media Network as their parents and Facebook just buys up any competitor they move to.

But if you ban social media for people under 16 you can't do that and they won't get into the habit of using it so when they turn 17 they won't bother. Already we see social media use dropping because of all the bots and Nazis but if you haven't gotten used to using it and made it part of your daily routine you're going to log on and be slapped in the face with that nonsense right out the gate and without all the kiddy filters that were at least hiding the Nazis, mostly.

We here in America will be invading Canada and I'm not joking. Every failing empire does the same thing. You put incompetent corrupt psychopaths in charge and they burn through the treasury. Trump for example has added 25% to the national debt in just 5 and 1/2 years. That's 10 trillion dollars in debt from the king of debt. It would not be a problem except instead of putting adults in charge and raising taxes on the wealthy and doing sound policy to grow our economy we are likely to double down on more crazy pedophiles.

Every single failing empire does the same thing they start to use military expansion to loot other countries in order to fill their coffers. America will be no different. We will switch over to a wartime economy and begin a draft and we will start by taking Canada and Mexico and then the rest of South America.

From there we will take Greenland and then try to use that to take europe. We don't care if somebody has nuclear weapons because the people who are going to be making these decisions are going to be desperate to have a war going in order to stay in power and they're going to have to bite off more than they can chew to keep that pyramid scheme going.

It won't be like Russia because we're not going to put a competent psychopath in charge we're going to put another Trump or one of the dipshit billionaires like muskrat.

The problem is that this kind of bullshit is so far outside of what people are used to seeing because we've had at least moderately competent adults albeit sometimes ludicrously corrupt ones in charge for so long that the idea of everything just going to shit is impossible for people to comprehend

Speaking as someone who lost 80 lb and kept it off using Atkins for the reduction... This would be great for that, no guessing.

The underpowered MiniPC I bought for $300 before Donnie Dipshit fucked with Iran and before tech bros decided to replace everyone especially them is now worth $600

Exactly. Everything conservatives do is just trump lite. Then they want to pretend to distance themselves from him. The motherfuckers ARE him, just slightly less so.

Yes, of course it can. Every time there is a war, everything changes rapidly. It is therefore obvious to anyone with so much as half a brain that you're full of shit...ty excuses