Not or, and. Sit out the elections and whoever wins is sure to simply ignore you.

Great. Show up to the primary and maybe nobody has to hold their nose to vote.

brain dead take

Granny’s crocheting group won’t know what hit 'em

Every dollar printed affects the value of every dollar already in circulation. Where that money goes changes who feels it. Printing money to blow up and then subsequently rebuild infrastructure in Iran is going to hurt basically all Americans, although some people (guess who) are probably going to see their share of the pie grow even more because their assets are not held in USD.

It’s all so goddamn stupid. If I allow myself to turn to illiberal thoughts I begin to feel like perhaps anyone who supported this clown should have their voting rights permanently stripped. He’s the worst president in maybe 150 years. I guess Trump supporters should be thankful the rest of us are so goddamned liberal.

It works well, until it doesn’t. That first part lulls people into complacency. I rented a Kia last year that had automatic cruise control and lane keep assist and it kept me on the road far past when I should have pulled over and taken a nap from being sleep deprived after a redeye flight. Dangerous? Yes. Skill issue? Maybe. What I took away from the experience is that it is frighteningly easy to get used to a thing “just working” and forget about its limitations when it is convenient. I also learned that I do not want lane keep assist or automatic cruise control in my personal car.

They turn into a soup-like homogenate. As is natural in the life cycle of a lab mouse.

And if they weren’t euthanized they would almost certainly die of horrible horrible cancerous tumors. Not because of anything the labs do, but because it’s a crime against nature for a mouse to live past maybe 2 years.

Could you elaborate wrt Fedora being a shitshow? It’s my daily driver and I haven’t experienced any kind of instability and (to my knowledge) I have not been compromised.

Invade Puerto Rico. Got it.

Obviously the solution is to invade Panama and make it a US territory

What a coincidence, I was bitching about how far away his communication skills are from anything Sorkin has ever written a mere 2 days ago:

https://startrek.website/comment/23278425

And to think i used to be mildly annoyed by sterile bureaucratic politician speak.

Edit: or one day ago as of the original time of the top post. Having a life is hard, I wanna go back to being a chronically online teenager with time to waste and the certainty that I could solve all the world’s problems.

Surely this gaffe will-

I can’t, even as a joke. I am so tired, so very very tired

bikes delivering scooters delivering skateboards delivering rollerblades delivering heelies

Don’t forget that if you do vote you’re pro-genocide, which means I don’t have to think listen to you. Also if voting changed anything they’d make it illegal. What, they’re trying to? See, doesn’t do anything. Wasted effort. General strike or bust. Discord counts as organizing right?

Yeah but you gotta admit theres something distinctly biblical about these tribulations, pardon the pun

I know it’s a distraction but I abhor the way the man speaks.

“I was informed this morning by the joint chiefs of staff that at so and so time in such and such operating theater we lost communication with blahblah asset. All US service members were recovered safely with no loss of life. We are committed to peace, but if this was, as we believe it to be, a violation of the ceasefire agreement, this provocation cannot go unanswered. I am urgently seeking communications with the leadership of the IRGC and am directing our forces in the region to move to a state of enhanced readiness.”

• serious
• sounds like something a Sorkin character would say
• leaves diplomatic buffer in case it turns out something other than an Iranian missile caused the loss of equipment

“Army told me IRAN shot down our very fancy helicopter in operating theater, amazing pilots safe but now im mad. I’m gonna bomb them back >:( >:( >:(”

• unserious
• less room for backtracking
• sounds fucking stupid

Lemmy Commenter Eviscerates CNBC Over Editorial Practices

If I was a religious type I would think God was mad at us for electing this dude

Ironically when it comes to the nature of God Muslims and Mormons couldn’t be farther apart. Like Christians, Mormons believe in the divinity of Christ, i.e. that he is the Son of God (or “Heavenly Father”), but they reject the Trinity, i.e. that God is one substance in three parts*. Mormons instead believe that God is three separate beings of one purpose and will. Muslims are more like Jews in that they don’t think he was the Son of God, but where Muslims think he was a prophet and the Messiah, Jews are… indifferent? Maybe they think he was some smart guy, or maybe he didn’t exist. Nice story, who cares basically. Muslims reject the Divinity of Christ because they reject the Trinity because the oneness of God is a core of their beliefs.

*the Trinity gets complicated when you start asking different denominations or even different congregations about it. it is a divine mystery, you’re not actually supposed to get it. i didn’t make that up, that is what a lot of christian doctrine actually teaches. but they still argue about it. religion is wild

**i’m also not a theologian so notes will be accepted

Those transmission losses don’t have immediate health and environmental costs, though, and even discounting those there’ll be conversion losses on both ends (e: for chemical energy carriers) if what we want to get out of it is usable electricity from renewables. Dont take my skepticism for poohpoohing btw, this kind of counterintuitive thinking is one of the more fascinating things about economics. Or maybe I just like to argue :P

I’ll look up the paper, this is an interesting topic.