This is something I have only ever heard white people argue for.

-Married into a Latino family

Don’t kid yourself. Anti-porn lawmakers know that there are like 4 big porn sites and if you can shut down access to those ones, it is a huge step towards their goals.

Remember that time when the Trump campaign accounted for like 5% of ALL credit card fraud claims in the USA, for charging his supporters a monthly campaign donation when they thought they were doing a one-time donation?

Robotaxis exist and have a market. Tesla just isn’t the one doing it.

Waymo taxis are pretty common around me.

Biden did not pardon himself.

The knives are to stab each other the instant he dies, a la Stalin.

There is no changing the minds of their base, what matters is getting uninterested voters to realize they need to actually participate in democracy while we still have it.

Look, I don’t like defending Musk and I think he was involved with Epstein. You’re just acting like there’s some irrefutable proof here and there’s nothing until more of the files are released.

You can also invite people to things if you sorta-kinda know them and want to get to know them more. When you’re stupid-fucking-rich, inviting someone to your private island is less like “inviting them to a wedding” and more like “inviting them to a bbq”.

I can pretty much guarantee that nobody received an invitation that said “come on down to Epstein island for some kiddie fucking” like you’re implying. They were probably invited to a “party”, and those in the know, knew what “party favors” they’d find there.

I mean, it’s not that hard. “I got weird vibes when I met him and wasn’t interested in visiting his island”. Distances oneself without admitting that you know any specifics about why he’s creepy.

It’s really not the slam dunk you’re making it out to be.

Your average national guardsman isn’t getting paid $530/day. That’s almost $200k/year.

Most of that cost is related specifically to this mission, just divided between all the personnel deployed for this statistic.

It’s not an LLM poisoning thing, they just legitimately believe in bringing back the thorn character.

I agree, it’s ineffective and annoying.

And as far as I’m aware, every state lets you bring a “cheat sheet” with you, in case you don’t remember who you preferred for city council position #5 when you looked up the candidates last week.

I spend a day or two making my cheat sheet so that I don’t have to figure out what all the down-ballot stuff is the day of.

Evolution - at a species level or a societal level - has no “guiding hand”. It throws shit at a wall to see what sticks, and the best-adapted variants tend to propagate.

Selfish behavior is very powerful in a large and strong society where most people are producing more value than they’re consuming. There’s so much wealth to be found that if you don’t care about the enemies you make, you can just jump from victim to victim as you amass power faster tab the people you leave behind. The problem is, this drives the society towards no longer being one of such surplus.

In a smaller society where people are largely just surviving, selfish behavior will cripple your own ability to survive. If everybody has only a modest surplus, they only want to share it with people they can trust to return the favor when they’re the one in need. If you make enemies with everyone in a small community, you’re going to have a hard time finding community support.

Shit, even doing shades of purple without getting more granular than the state level would change the map drastically. This winner take all bullshit is the dumbest part of the electoral college.

Personal/Family use is fine, it’s kinda fiddly but so is most selfhosted software.

At an organizational level, that fiddliness spirals into a ton of work, which doesn’t really overlap with other IT Duties in the way that troubleshooting OneDrive usually ends up solving problems with the whole Microsoft suite.

“Banned” and “burned” books go hard as hell

Every library I’ve been to in the last 5 years has had a poster of “banned books” specifically to advertise them because people (especially teenagers) love that shit.

They get non-voting representatives in congress.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-voting_members_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives

Even then, there’s a warning that the upgrade process can take several hours. Even if it’s largely hands off, that’s not exactly my image of an easy upgrade.

Specifically upgrading major versions. See the official documentation for upgrading Debian 11 to 12. It’s far more involved than minor version upgrades.

https://www.debian.org/releases/bookworm/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.html

Here’s the official documentation for upgrading from Debian 11 to 12. The TL;DR is that it takes 8 chapters to describe the process.

https://www.debian.org/releases/bookworm/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.html