Yeah no one saw a need for this EIGHT YEARS AGO?!

Exactly! They’re putting in the work there and getting some fantastic things done. Lots of other great stuff on that ballot too.

And I’d add - get active the other 364 days of the year.

If we want better options we first need ranked choice voting and we need to get money out of politics. And none of that is going to happen if our only political action each year is voting.

I think you’re right that it’s simple.

If I stole a book to learn from I could be prosecuted for shoplifting. They stole millions of books for their AI to learn from. Seems cut and dry to me.

Can EU users install non-Safari browsers yet

I have similar trees in front of my apartment building and I love them, they make me feel like I’m living in a tree house in the summer.

I can’t remember what podcast I was listening to, maybe a Dan Carlin series, but it was talking about how in this post industrialization + propaganda era the breaking point for nations is far FAR more extreme than it was in the before times.

I really hope there is more gamesmanship going on behind the scenes at his office than ‘this doesn’t add up’. But I’m a little skeptical because just game this thing out:

The west claims to 100% support Ukraine yet so far have only done enough to be sure they can stay in the fight. Not enough to outright win. What do outside observers do with that info? If I was China I would absolutely see this as hesitation on the part of the west and recognize that until the west actually does go all in, this will be a source of instability that I can build on to increase my influence in the world. So of course I’m going to play both sides as much as I can get away with, at least until there’s a indication that the west’s stance on this is changing.

This guy capitalisms ^

For those who haven’t had their coffee yet this morning - ‘middle class’ is yet another term they use to divide us and make us fight with each other instead of the real enemy

Saved it but never thought it’d come in handy

Not to mention, Russia has been waging asymetric warfare tactics against NATO powers for years. If anything, it’s that they haven’t woken up to the nature of the conflict.

Yeah I told my partner about some of the stuff that goes on and her first thought was ‘they shouldn’t allow kids in religion until they’re old enough to decide for themselves’.

I grew up in a sect that I like to often describe as Beer Drinkin’ Christianity because it’s really chill about most things including homosexuality and gender. It wasn’t until I had grown out of it and basically gone full agnostic that I really realized how coercive even my version of religion had been. I could go on and on but the funniest thing to me was realizing during an Abnormal Psychology 101 course in college that my Church Camp basically used every last technique they listed for brain washing. It was a fun camp and not scary in any way but yet extremely manipulative in a subversive way.

I think their point is that nearly every other phone is in the Android ecosystem, isn’t it?

Apparently every major car brand has to go through its fascist phase

You mean the guy next to the guy that sorta looks like Snoop Dogg?

You didn’t know they had a thing? It lasted until Australia found out Pluto wasn’t really a planet.

You’re both wrong, it’s a car. I’m pretty crazy about one though.

And he’ll probably also be fine with a thermonuclear wasteland as long as he’s presiding over his part of it