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@QasimRashid@mastodon.social Voters need to understand it more so than leadership. Voters need to understand that there are some progressive wins this cycle so far, but "voting blue no matter who" isn't enough any more. A bunxh of Newsoms or Buttigiegs aren't going to save our country. If we want to avoid returning to normal it means continuing to push even if there is a blue wave. It means rooting out every corporate democrat and replacing them with an actual leftist.

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social Yeah but BROWN people were moving into urban areas, what else could be done? :0 White people inventing their own elaborate hell to live in is tradition at this point.

@giuseppegv@mastodon.uno @Tutanota@mastodon.social The inevitability of AI is a lie created by a wealthy investment class that has so thoroughly stolen everything not nailed down that they have to invent new things to put their money into. It hasn't even proved that it's useful or even able to turn a profit for anyone, let alone that it's "atom bomb" levels of significant. It is infact making people less competent, less literate, less functional. AI is still a bubble, that hasn't changed.

@Walruths@mastodon.social @xs4me2@mastodon.social @pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green Always hated this reasoning, just sounds like an excuse to avoid responsibility. Like, yeah, the literal rock of the planet will be here. Cool. Meanwhile, we're destroying life and ecosystems that have evolved over millions of years, forever. It's not some great comfort that slimemold and cockroaches will inherit the earth.

@QasimRashid@mastodon.social If McConnell comes back from the dead it'll be the greatest advertisement for the miracles of publically funded healthcare one could ask for.

@robchapman@ohai.social @theintercept@journa.host It's a great argument for why we can scale back funding for police departments if this is all they have to worry about.

@glyph@mastodon.social After tech enthusiasts finally figured out how to build an ocean-drinking, sky-burning, human-poisoning, soul-dismantling machine just to try and push artists and creatives out of the picture, and one finally had the realization that their interests and processes aren't that different after all from artists. I don't feel satisfaction, but I don't feel much sympathy either, as tech "progress" turns our planet into an ash heap and disintegrates what little culture we have left.

@BrianJopek@mastodon.world Remember that this is ultimately possible because of the collaboration of the Supreme Court. There should be no room in the opposition for anyone not calling to expand and reform the court. The power of individual SCOTUS judges must be watered down.

@TuutW@mastodon.nl @QasimRashid@mastodon.social And keep in mind that people's personal cameras will potentially snitch on you as well, even without the homeowner's knowledge. So be conscious of the route you take and how that might expose you or your vehicle to surveillance. Leave your phone. Oh, and, obviously don't destroy flock cameras yadayada, that's illegal or whatever.

@glyph@mastodon.social As an artist who grew up with tech-minded people telling me how useless and unserious art is, and how I shouldn't waste my time pursuing creative careers, how the social sciences were a joke, who had to listen to them sit in the back of english class and complain when we had to learn about subtext, symbolism, and metaphor and "Why don't they just write what they mean literally?" It doesn't really give me any satisfaction that an individual of that class of people became self-aware.

@TarkabarkaHolgy@ohai.social And people claim carpet bombing was invented in WWII.

@dpiponi@mathstodon.xyz This is kind of my political philosophy as well 🤔

@rasterweb@mastodon.social There's always more power in being for something than only being against something. Having a specific agenda created from populist policy is the antidote to the malaise of slow-rolling capitulation that liberals have put us in.

@jeffjarvis@mastodon.social It should be noted that this could've been avoided if the state governor, Kathy Hochul, was willing to increase the corporate tax rate by a measly 2%. Mamdani and his team are determined to find the funding for his projects and to balance the insane city budget deficit that the previous mayor created. Whether the governor is fiscally and morally responsible enough to help with that or not is on her.

@DavidNielsen@mastodon.social @QasimRashid@mastodon.social Turns out they have more in common than their moaning about freedom would imply.

@JulianOliver@mastodon.social Revolution is already under way. Liberals only are able to acknowledge reality in retrospect though, so give them another 50 years to catch up.

@nixCraft@mastodon.social Huh, even an ocean-drinking, climate destroying clock is right twice a day I guess.

@shoq@mastodon.social It's been pointed out before that conservatism itself was an ideology created explicitly following the decline of feudalism to protect the interests and wealth of the aristocratic middlemen. That's what the founders of the US largely were and why they did things like make voting rights dependent on land ownership and why originally they had it rigged up so the senate wasn't elected by the people, to keep things from getting too democratic up in here.

@AnnaAnthro@mastodon.social These kinds of weak local reps are the lowest form of toad.

@Natasha_Jay I wanna live in a book punk bunker.

@nixCraft@mastodon.social I'm tired of influential idiots.

@Netux@mastodon.sdf.org @MostlyHarmless@thecanadian.social As someone who works with engineers every day I beg to differ.

@OGJester@pnw.zone @FluentInFinance@mastodon.social I'll say I'd trust them with one more than Israel, just judging purely from how each party has conducted themselves diplomatically. Iran has shown a great deal of restraint. But more importantly; the Iranians don't even want a nuke. They aren't saints, but up until Trump/Israel started assassinating all the leaders they could, there was a fatwa against nuclear weapons as the religious authority viewed them as an abomination against god.

@ashwin @arstechnica The degree to which reddit tries to control speech, from the admins down to the individual mods, is pretty out of control. The culture is completely toxic and fosters super-concentrated ideological bubbles. I know people complain about places like mastodon.social having supposedly lax moderation, but it's a breath of fresh air in a sea of social media that want to test every word that you type against some pre-approved database of Acceptable Think.

@attoparsec@clacks.link I like to imagine this is an anarchist's trophy board

@QasimRashid@mastodon.social Centrists want people to see them as a stop-gap/less evil as opposed to what they actually are; a collaborating arm of the fascist movement that exist to sap the momentum of the left. It's why they are always desperate to keep progressives from getting past the primaries into any general race. It's why they rarely if ever endorse progressives who do, often even tacitly putting support behind the Republican candidate when the chips are down.

@dee@social.treehouse.systems Ofc, trans people are beautiful and cool!

@dgar@aus.social I don't have time for this unbridled optimism.

@raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie @jezdez@publicidentity.net @andrewnez@mastodon.social The element picker in ad blockers works pretty good to block those search engine summaries.

@hellomiakoda@pdx.social Not a perfect solution, but you could talk to your bank to block any transactions from their company. A friend had to do something similar when the pstaff at Planet Fitness gym told him he had to cancel his membership online and online they said he had to do it in person. So he just blocked the membership withdrawal directly.

@joyousjoyness@mastodon.social Congrats!

@Firr@mastodon.social Being able to draw is great because people love getting a drawing personalized to them or their interests. It's like cat nip for humans.

@erici @hakona@im.alstadheim.no The other side of that coin is that petty tyrant admins who will censor at the drop of a hat are reluctant to defederate from larger instances since it isolates them more than it works as a punishment for individuals. Personally, I prefer a more hands off moderation (barring obvious stuff like naked bigotry, spam etc.), I don't want to always be wondering if my opinions align with what the mods think I should think. In that way some of the larger instances serve as an anchor.

@nixCraft@mastodon.social If I was more financially saavy I'd find a way to make money off these idiots when they crash into a side of a mountain.

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social If they didn't grow our food and their land wasn't being bought up by billionaires it'd be easier to laugh about. But these dopes really screwed not just themselves but all of us.

@davidgerard Oh wait, I've seen this one before!

@mcnado@mstdn.social So...you're saying buy methylene blue from Alex Jones? Got it, thanks doc!

@warandpeas@mastodon.social choadeus revoltus (aka common orange choade) *taxonomist note; unremarkable

@camelliakyoto@mastodon.social The careful curation of the landscaping in the back in just as impressive as the photo, very beautiful. Like a painting come to life.

@stefanie@social.anoxinon.de @foone@digipres.club The interaction system that was more efficient and useful to what most people use a computer for won out.

@QasimRashid@mastodon.social "As if you're a moral authority" What in the hell? One doesn't need to be some moral paragon in order to judge a rapist...

@Nonilex@masto.ai Too little too late. Leopards and faces.

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social I mean, Musk might be dumber. Is that any comfort?

@ScottishGreens@mastodon.scot I find it kind of revealing that Israel is so invested in attempting to culturally tie itself in to Europe, it makes it so clear that Israel has always just been a colony of a bunch of European/American transplants with no real interest in actually being part of the middle east despite claiming some kind of deep heritage there. They want middle east land but don't want to be middle eastern.

@cmconseils I was so intrigued by this I had to look it up. For those curious, he tricked her into being his getaway driver without her realizing. Basically asked to stop at a bank and then came running out with a gun and money. He went to prison for 3 years, she wasn't charged.

@tangledwing@ohai.social He should be locked in a cell with no water and see if he changes his mind.

@QasimRashid@mastodon.social A reminder to not let the lesser evil be the enemy of good.

@Tutanota@mastodon.social Tuta looking to enshittify itself already?

@samlitzinger@journa.host The founders were wealthy, land owning aristocracy. They understood what they were doing. Remember that even after the Revolution only land-owning white men could vote. Many veterans revolted against our government for the very reasons the revolution was supposedly fought for to begin with; taxation without representation. The elites put their war debts onto the people, who they deemed unworthy to vote. Systems like SCOTUS were created to stop things getting TOO democratic.

@nixCraft@mastodon.social I don't believe in a literal soul, but I still find the proposal by Anthropic utterly revolting. Mostly because it cheapens and commodifies such a profound concept to the human experience and our history. To try and claim a product has the same innate value as an actual conscious being.