Joined 12 minutes ago and already posted three articles about third parties, two about Jill Stein.

I’m stumped…there was a “new” Meet app. Why didn’t they just use the same “new” app as an update to the old app? Why make users download another new competing, confusing thing?

My understanding is that after the Supreme Court overturned a formalized forgiveness application process, Biden has been using a different method and forgiving specific debt in waves, and that method has neither been challenged nor overturned.

Yup, I think everyone outside of Fox News knew it was just a thinly-veiled Trump rally, but Fox’s editing out comments from the audience members that they already were Trump supporters is the really damning part. Fox News knew it was supposed to look neutral and that is an admission that they were trying to hide it.

What are the solutions though? I don’t think this descent stops until the MAGA crowd gets most of what they want…

That’s where we’re headed, sure. What we need is someone to explain (a) the forces at play at some deeper level, and (b) tell us how we fix it.

That’s why this is a disappointing article: The headline proposes an interesting idea - treat the Trump/MAGA mental illness as a disease - and then immediately forgets about it. We deal with diseases all the time, and even if mental disease is a challenge to diagnose and treat, it’s a great framework! Studies may be able to show most MAGA disease vectors are people with X, Y and Z verifiable, objective psychological disorders or features. They may theorize that if we treat those disorders, we can save those people from this type of self-harm (which is what MAGA is at this point). That’s a fantastic concept! Similar to the far too unexplored concept of treating this as a cult deprogramming. If we work the problem maybe we can come up with a solution that doesn’t involve fascism winning, or us all killing each other in a civil war.

Instead, it’s just “this is bad…really bad.” Ok, thank you Mr. WHO epidemiologist.

(I know, I’m not helping either - but I’m not smart enough in epidemiology, or cult deprogramming. Comment posting is my therapy, nothing more.)

The earth’s orbital speed around the sun is 67,000 miles per hour. So this is really gravity’s fault.

I literally don’t understand how a grown adult writes all of that without immediately realizing how stupid it is and deleting it before posting on the Internet.

The depressing explanation is that the world is filled with children and teenagers in adult skinsuits, who have learned how to dress up their ideas in similar clothing.

This was such a disappointing article.

Yes, I agree with all of the things said and will be voting for Kamala. But this is a former WHO epidemiologist, so do we get information on how we would apply the learnings of epidemiology to treat this epidemic of irrational, self-harming personality-worship? Do we get any diagnostic characteristics? Any way to contain the spread? Any practical guidance whatsoever?

Nope, just a low-effort rant.

This is just another gawker, pointing and gasping at the slow-motion trainwreck of Trump running into democracy. I really really wish some of these articles would actually try to propose solutions.

Exactly… It’s almost too on the nose, unfortunately.

I want…juicy oil and milk

Your honor, I yield my rebuttal time and rest my case!

Are you Taliban and want someone dead, but frustrated with your fundamentalist movement’s pesky adherence to the rule of law? Upset at the heretic you can’t quite get proof of? Overbearing parents trying to arrange another marriage?

With new Taliban Ban on Images of Living Things®, you are back in the driver’s seat. Just take a picture of your target. After it’s done, the authorities will be practically begging you to murder that person to prevent the inevitable consequences, including the collapse of society and the rending of the fabric of space-time.

Sorry, soft cookie lovers, I’ll never understand you. You need to maximize that maillard reaction.

It can be hard to find a site that isn’t shareware spam. Try this list, find a freeware you like that hopefully uses FFMPEG, and bookmark the site for next time you need a pre-vetted list of good tools:

https://www.videohelp.com/software/sections/all-in-one-video-converters

Conjecture: I wouldn’t be surprised if the TeraLeak in question wasn’t planned out by Nintendo and Game Freak, to distract people from the fact that Nintendo is trying to harass a competitor out of the market and suing emulators back and right.

Sorry, but at its worst, Nintendo is lawful evil. There’s no way this is intentional.

What do you call cromulent’s mom?

I’m sure the embedded racism is deeeeep, yeah. All those “AI” hiring models are doing is pattern matching, based on whatever junk was fed into it.

So any discriminatory patterns are probably not only embedded, they’re impossible to remove without some hypothetically non-discriminatory training data. Not sure where they would even look for that.

God, how is Harris up by 3% nationally and somehow it’s a “dead heat.”

At this point it’s increasingly looking like we’re going to have the third presidential result in the last 25 years that is opposite the will of voters. Is it time to engage in a general strike yet? What’s the move here?

And in specialized fields, or really any career path, the way that you stand out from the crowd and actually have a chance at getting the job is to network and find the person to talk to that will give you a shoe-in.

So we’ve created this entire qualification & resume system, built on the idea of meritocracy. And it has gotten so ungainly and unusable that we have shortcutted the whole process and are back to “oh, I know a guy/gal.”

Wonderful.

Roku is honestly as bad or worse. Someone is getting promoted in their marketing team for finding new rectangular places on the various home screens to place ads. It started small with Roku and they built up a lot of good will. But they’re cashing it in, and it’s already deep down the enshittification curve.

“How do you kill… that which has no life?” Is one of the best lines.