It’s a game of Would You Rather and your answer is “screw you guys, I’m going home.”
You can join the Democratic Party and push them towards your beliefs or you can keep pushing them further right, but either way it’s only D or R for the foreseeable future.
The conspiracy would have to be way too big for all the polling to be as close as it was and have her lose votes pretty consistently across many different voting systems in the way she did. Maybe there was some meddling on the margins (still looking forward to real evidence) but the fact is it was as close as it was because a ton of people just didn’t care. Most of the excitement was that we could vote for both Not Trump and Not Biden at the same time.
Sorry bud, you’re straight up wrong. Aerospace and defense in the US very much still uses the inch-pound-second system of units.
I’m not a concrete guy, but I know that metals and composites have material properties certified for use in civil and commercial aviation are given in psi in MMPDS and CMH-17. I would be willing to bet that concrete specifications in the US are no different.
I could keep going. Our bolts are specified in ultimate tensile strength by psi. Structural steel standards use minimum yield strengths in psi. There is literally a type of steel called A36 because its minimum required yield strength is 36,000 psi.
They’ll do that if there is trash on the ground and claim it’s looting. They’ll do that if anything catches on fire and call it a riot.
Dropping rocks, lime scooters, and molotovs on police cars parked under an overpass doesn’t need any sensationalism to amplify AND it gives the police a great reason to start blasting.
Both people are right in a way here.
It’s the masses joining non-violent protests that gets shit done. They can’t ignore it when it gets big enough. Violence makes it that much harder to hold those safely.
The mainstream media and the right wing propaganda machine will amplify any small amount of violence to try to tarnish the whole movement.
There’s a lot of out of date info in there making your conclusions a bit innacurate. The yen is super weak right now, compared to USD and EUR especially.
Rice grown in California should not be cheaper than rice grown in Japan, just purely based on a currency analysis. Almost all other domestic foods in Japan are much cheaper in real terms than in California.
Eh maybe “wasn’t stupid” is more accurate before the brain worms got him.
I want to agree with you, but Elon is not stupid and definitely had something to do with the success of Falcon 9.
What I think he is good at is having crazy innovative ideas and pushing his engineering team to make it some kind of reality. Being able to spend the time to listen to engineering, work through the issues, find ways to do things to make it work while still achieving the fundamental goals.
My guess is that he’s not had the time to do that process and instead became the “do it my way or you’re fired” guy. Less Elon could be bad because they have less chance to talk sense into him. He certainly didn’t give up any control when he gave up his focus.
The graph on the right only shows that more variables impact unemployment than just interest rates alone, which you obviously know. It doesn’t prove or disprove the model on the left, which is a pretty simplified relationship. Monetary policy, like adjusting interest rates, was demonstrated to be quite effective just recently with the Fed successfully keeping inflation and employment under control with these tools over the past few years.
We know Eric Adams did something similar with Turkish donors in New York. There was also a ton of reports of this happening during Trump’s first campaign.
I wish I read this comment before wasting my two minutes as well…
This result has probably been priced in since it hit the current floor in March. The bump after the report is likely because there were no bombshells in it. They’re saying they’re still on track for all the vaporware that the valuation is based on. It will drop again when they’re inevitably delayed and it becomes clear the robots and AI taxis aren’t revolutionary but just exactly what other companies already beat them to.
I had scanned through it, and it looked like the exact same stuff that Google and Microsoft say. Paraphrasing: “we value your privacy” “we’re de-identifying your data” “the processing occurs on-device”…
Apple probably is better on privacy than other big tech corpos, but it’s a race to the bottom, and they’re definitely participating in the race.
Apple is the best on privacy though right?
It’s definitely highly edited. It probably isn’t AI, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the editing was heavily AI assisted. I found the original source on reddit itookapicture 1 year ago, which isn’t 100% evidence, but AI was way worse then and it doesn’t have any of the telltale AI signs.
back during covid
Few people mean this literally. We all know covid is still around and will be quite possibly forever. What it means, depending on context is “during covid lockdowns” or “during covid restrictions” or really just 2020.
It’s not a pandemic anymore, it’s endemic now. Get both your shots every year now. Covid isn’t the new flu, it’s flu’s new buddy.
Wrong thread
The failing was decades and centuries ago that led to this. Power has been consolidating in the presidency since the constitution was signed as the legislature and courts are happy to give more and more of their power over to the executive.
We’ve only been protected by being lucky having presidents and their staff with genuine care for the intent of the constitution.
This was only a matter of time. It wasn’t our fault. This is America.
Why would an optional feature be a deal breaker?
It also seems like an issue that could be easily solved by whitelisting.
Sounds like a great argument for getting more progressives deeply placed in the party. Too much of the power structure in the DNC is old libs, only way to change that is to get more of us in place.
Would Bernie be more effective if he was formally a member of the Democratic Party, like how AOC is? I’m not sure, but it is telling he ran in the Dem primary instead of as an independent.