(shrug)
Oh, I'm "scary" am I?

I myself was told directly to "shut the fuck up" since Biden won.
Oh, and through most of the Obama years.

Did you think that approach was never going to come back and bite your team in the ass? Of course not; your self-righteousness is infinite.
OF COURSE NOT: you morons couldn't see that the nonsense of Jan 6 was directly the result of your (gov't, media, allies) affirmation, tolerance, and outright praise of MONTHS of George Floyd riots and violence.

You didn't think perhaps that normalizing that conduct "Fiery, but mostly peaceful protests" was going to be used by (morons) on the other side of the fence you dumb fuckers?

Maybe 4 years of the Fed telling people how far they should stand apart*, or when they were allowed to visit their nursing home loved ones, or shutting down churches (but not strip clubs) has inured the average voter to absurd government overreach?
*which Fauci - sorry, "Mr I Am Science" has since admitted he pulled out of his ass.

Quiver all you like over how 'scary' it is but karma has always been known to be a bitch. Don't like it? Assemble voters* and change policy but right now my $ would be betting in favor of at least 4 more GOP years after Trump, if the best you can field are Sanders (lol), AOC (lol), or Newsome (double lol). Maybe you could find a candidate that self-identifies as a winner?

*actual voters, not millions of illegals you'd certainly intended to make into a guaranteed impenetrable Dem voting block.

Really, I have to congratulate those tireless organizers who have fought hard to unionize the lowest tiers of otherwise-unemployable workers doing scutwork in the bowels of Amazon's vast warehouse network. You have managed to ensure that these workers get better wages, better benefits, and overall better conditions than they originally agreed to in many cases. This is commendable.

However, you have also ensured and motivated the bean-counters at Amazon to aggressively pursue methods of replacing these workers as quickly as possible. Scutwork is scutwork, and in the same way we replaced ditch-diggers with backhoes, warehouse pick/packers doing nearly-mindless work in an industrialized economy were eventually doomed to the same fate.

To be sure, those workers certainly would have eventually BEEN replaced as automated systems become cheaper and more reliable. But don't despair - your efforts weren't in vain, you absolutely accelerated the process!

Congrats, Workers Unite!

Latest speculation (by the weather balloon company itself) is a Windborne weather balloon
https://arstechnica.com/space/...

Maybe the moment we said "we will ignore facts if they're painful or sad" was really the beginning of the end?

If a study came out that said white males are on average 10 iq points dumber than any other combination of race and sex, it would make the news.

Out of the (very roughly) 8 combinations, it's the only one that could be discussed without accusations of racism.

It would be peak irony if that was the only thing to survive the implosion completely intact and functional

Next you're going to tell me that Teams and OneDrive are shit too.

If you're trying to make a point it's hard to know what it is. Contributions is a widely used term and doesn't need nitpicking because you've never heard of it.

"Underinvestment" Sure, that's it.

China's spending per student, per year:
primary: about $2000
secondary: about $3000
tertiary: about $7000

OECD $14000 avg

US:
Primary/Secondary about $18000
Tertiary: $34000

Maybe it's not the spending that's the problem? Maybe it's the shit-value we're getting for the $ we spend?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/p...

1976-2018:
students: +78%
full time teachers: +92%
full time admin: +164%
full time other professionals: +452%

And meanwhile, yes, OBVIOUSLY Trump's 10 months in office is clearly the driver of USA's dismal educational performance for the past 50 years.

It's certainly not "educational professionals" doing things like applying double-standard racism to persistent disciplinary problems. Just punish black kids less for the same stuff = statistics even out! Solved! https://www.apmreports.org/sto...

I think unions are a good thing in general, however particular unions aren't exactly paragons of virtue either. Closed shops can be a shakedown racket and union contributions can and have been used for corrupt & fraudulent purposes.

Yes, that overwhelming 10 months in control?

Don't get me wrong, Republicans are certainly part of the problem but the tendentiousness and Internet-level stupidity of your comment is high even for you.

A lot of their reporting is extremely high quality.
Otoh, many of their editorial board and staff are afflicted with TDS.

I strongly considered a phev for my recent dec 2024 purchase because it's like to switch but we have a cabin 4 hours away and occasionally I have to drive to Chicago. Both would be inconvenient in a pure ev.

1) significant price step up from comparable ice cars
2) my commute is 10mi, so the 40mi electric range wasn't a deal killer...until I pressed the dealer on what happens to the range at -40 (which happens here maybe every other either now)... He admitted the electric range would be half of that, or a little less! Seriously...15 miles range electric, then it's just an over heavy weakly engined ice car.
3) we took a test drive, understanding that just local streets it should run mostly in electric and then kick over to gas in certain circumstances. This was complete bullshit. We left the dealership, drove maybe 2 miles in local suburban residential streets, occasionally tried hard acceleration and then about 5 miles highway. Aside from curb-to-parking-lot-exit, it was gas. So what's the point, again?
4) Aside from intrinsically higher repair costs with 2 drive trains, my local repair guy wouldn't be able to fix it so I'd be stuck with 50% higher dealer maintenance costs in 3-4 years when they start to hit.

No thanks.

Linux advocates "it's a tidal wave!"

I am sure my dedicated 5080 with cuda can run circles around your mac

Everyone = enough in a democracy to change policy, eg a majority.

The rest are just whining bitches in the shadows.