Isn’t that what they’ve been doing in Africa?

I’m pretty sure after you collect more money than you know what to do with, the flunkies you pay to yes-man you and take care of your needs is not enough. You start needing power and being worshiped. You’ve convinced yourself you’re a genius so you ought to be in charge of the universe because you’re so damn brilliant. You have a vision for the world and use your vast amounts of money to position yourself to achieve it. It’s entirely onanistic; you don’t know or care how your vision will actually affect people and economics, because you’re so convinced your plan is perfect - if course it is, it’s yours, right?

And bring polio back to the US, because eggs are expensive.

I agree that probably everyone rich is being recommended to kiss the ring, but 1M seems excessive.

You have to wonder if the “absence” was intentional, a de facto no vote, but defensible. Sadly, the only reason I can think of why they’d avoid participating is because they wouldn’t want such a report released on them in retaliation, which implies skeletons in their closets or those of fellow Dems. If there are other reasons I’d like to hear them.

Yep with the exodus, you’ll have a glut of apartments without tenants. You don’t raise your prices in that situation, you lower them because a lower amount of rent is better than nothing. I’m friends with an apartment manager; yes we talk shop, this is what actually happens.

Eh. There are driverless taxis working really well in some cities already. I felt very safe riding in a waymo. Tesla is way late to that party, who cares?

I totally agree with you about how critical thinking is harder to come by. I do think some of it has to do with the vast number of information sources out there. There’s so much stuff competing for attention, diametrically opposed opinions, opinions presented as facts, etc that perhaps critical thinking is harder than it was in simpler times, when getting information was pretty much limited to books, the newspapers, and TV, all of which had to pass through editors in order to be made public.

There’s a huge amount of boomer hatred out there which is very misplaced. Nearly all the people who are leading MAGA are GenX at most and a lot of millennials. All the Proud Boys and such have to be young enough to believe they can physically fight. It is 100% stupid Republican ideas that are going to screw this country up.

So cars will be significantly more expensive no matter where they’re made?

That’s what it’s actually named in Twitter, so I’m not going to stop calling it that just because you’re triggered by … a completely different website.

I would love to see more Japanese moving over to Bluesky. I’ve effectively moved there, but can’t really leave Twitter because I follow a lot of Japanese game devs there, and they don’t have a strong reason to leave like Americans do.

And you don’t have one asshole owner boosting visibility of his own posts and those of accounts he likes, and lowering visibility/shadowbanning those of people he doesn’t. The “For You” feed tends to have not stuff you actually enjoy, but things that make you angry.

Surrounded by Trump voters there, I see

Yep, they were told the economy was terrible and so they just parroted that back. Now that Trump got elected, suddenly they think the economy is better even though Trump isn’t in power and has done nothing.

Spot on. There’s no winning for McBride here; if she does kick MTG’s ass, then that’s all the more reason for Republicans to go after “men” in women’s sports.

It’s people who vote based on vibes rather than facts and consequences. They saw both of them as “outsiders” who “tell it like it is” and want change.

I didn’t know latine had its roots in the language. As an Asian American, cultural appropriation bothers me and I want to be respectful to the language/culture/people. Thanks for the explanation, I’m a bit smarter today thanks to you.

Color me old and decrepit but why use 2 new terms when the language already has 2 terms that seem fine, Latina and Latino? Is this something akin to negro -> African American -> Black? I can kind of get Americans feeling that Latinx is more gender neutral, but Latine seems very redundant.

Power is more useful than morals for getting what you want.