The climate is self healing. The Earth can and will fix this imbalance. The climate will warm, and farmland will dry out, wet areas will flood regularly, food yeilds will crater, billions of humans will die of starvation, displacement, disaster, etc. The die off of humanity will slow the carbon emissions, and a new balance will emerge. I fear we have already passed the point where humans could possibly dictate and control 100% of this new balance. Some of it will be forced upon us. Also of note, the first people to die will have the smallest impact on the climate, so Earth’s solution will kill a huge population that could be saved if we engaged in collective action instead of profit seeking. Perhaps the survivors will develop a better economic system.

We SHOULD be passing laws that protect people’s rights from corporations the same way we protect those rights from the government. We SHOULD be passing laws that enshrine the right to be forgotten, by forcing companies to either respond quickly to delete requests, or have massive penalties per day, paid to the person, not to the govt. We SHOULD be building public, free alternatives like a library in cyberspace that is for public good, not profit. We should stop forcing ID laws, and start forcing encryption. Think bigger than tech withdrawals, instead take the opinion that tech should serve everyone, not the rich and powerful. Hobbyists and open source built practically all of the internet, and only later did money and politics take over.

The internet used to be a quirky free library. They turned it into an aggressive rent seeking monster.

She chose the name Dina Nina?

Get a load of Mr. Moneybags over here, having enough equity that he could mortgage something…

God forbid they set their sights as high as doing TWO things

https://www.dndbeyond.com/spells/2372-catapult

Is a solid choice.

What a time to be a fascist dictator trying to control the media! Easier than ever.

But what a way to go …

Wouldn’t the magnitude of forces involved make it impossible to keep the oscillation frequency “low enough to be easily noticed”? Like, to not collapse into each other you’re going to need some pretty high speeds, and conservation of angular momentum is gonna only make it faster as you “Square” the wave.

Except the DNC icing out Bernie in 2016 clearly indicates that they aren’t actually democratic, they clearly indicated that they are a private org with no legal requirements to enact the will of the people.

All that said, you better believe I’m still voting for the not fascist party, but also still trying in my weak little ways to advocate and advance ranked choice voting to enable the undermining of the two party system.

Perhaps the difference in anecdotal reports lies in the widespread corporate tendencies to post hollow job listings. Positions they are not really hiring for, just “keep a pulse on the market”, or trending data, or perhaps contact info of potential hires when they actually will hire…

Sow doubt and suspicion. Claim fraud, steal election. Martial law the riots, fascism.

Not trying to hijack, trying to draw an analogy. This is precisely the same argument that draws the ACAB conclusion. And it is the same argument that reaches the conclusion of “No one is free until everyone is free”. We all need to have the courage to call out those around us that are corrupt/predators/oppressors.

This is from the 2024 campaign. Which he won, bafflingly.

He is directly telling everyone that he does not consider Americans “we”. His “we” is, AT BEST, oligarchs in America.

A Styrofoam peanut, vibrating irregularly as an oscillating fan occasionally points at it

The difference is that we’ve allowed a private, for profit company to do the surveillance, and they are not beholden to all of the laws that we put in place to keep the Government in check. Capitalism’s latest innovation is outsourcing fascism. The privatization of all of this oppression is accelerating.

“The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself.” -FDR

Negative gay is where you are in the closet and trying to overcompensate by being very vocally homophobic, but then in your dark, secret moments, scroll grindr. That can be directly observed at Republican conventions.

To shreds you say…

"The Trinidad Police Department employs five full-time officers and several part-time officers. The officers will be transferred to the Henderson County Sheriff’s Office after the department shuts down Friday.

Trinidad will now receive law enforcement support from the Henderson County Sheriff’s Office. The mayor said the city will look into getting a designated deputy from the sheriff’s office. "

Same assholes, same job, same beat, different boss. I’m sure it will change EVERYTHING. End qualified immunity, make cops personally liable when lawsuits are pressed, make police pensions or unions responsible when the office can’t cover the entire penalty.