“45% of program recipients voted, compared with 84% of nonrecipients. Public benefits recipients were thus over 20% of the voting-eligible population but only 12% of voters.”

Hey, remember that time when you didn’t get your Snap benefits? Do you plan to vote this next election? Don’t expect things to change unless you make an effort to change them.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10780874231191703#%3A~%3Atext=Abstract%2Cbut+only+12%25+of+voters.

Just more proof that DOGE was a scam.

If you’re lucky it will clear it. There were some folks complaining that they couldn’t install a system update because there “wasn’t enough room” according to the update process. This despite caches that could be cleared or apps that could be unloaded.

Strange. Was it meant to be ironic?

How do you fuck this up when you have such a huge customer base?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/stephen-miller-accidentally-says-i-when-discussing-trump-s-powers/ar-AA1OeFMr

Meanwhile small aircraft are still using leaded fuel. An actual health hazard he doesn’t appear to give a shit about.

https://www.popsci.com/technology/epa-small-plane-leaded-fuel/

Just doing everything they can to drive people away from Windows.

Do these weirdos practice these stances? Nobody stands like this with their fist under their chin unless they are posing for photos at Olan Mills.

Sounds like a made up reason to fire missiles over California.

“Young” Republicans who are aged 24-35.

Sure. Outsourcing all of your pharmaceutical development to other countries:

• means you are screwed in the event of a war (economic or physical)
• means you have no control over quality of said pharmaceuticals
• means that expertise is no longer available in your own country and you are again beholden to others because those countries can charge whatever they want or refuse to sell it to you at all (see battery tech, microchip tech, solar tech for other examples).

You want to go over there and learn how to adapt their tech? Great. (We did that with the Japanese auto industry in the 1980s and we imported rocket expertise after WWII.) But things like drugs, food staples, and construction materials should be made at home. There’s a reason we subsidize farming.

Personally I think the feds should be manufacturing generic drugs to ensure availability and quality, and to provide some competition to bring prices down.

Pfizer CEO is wrong.

Still too much.

There is no way this video cost $51 million. That’s more than the budget of most non-blockbuster movies and tv shows. Sounds like someone is stashing away taxpayer money.

For $1000 retail price, it had better.

How could it be? We grow it here. And we’ve already paid for it through subsidies. And buying it from China means we’d have to put it on a ship to get it here.

Wait, we’ve been importing cooking oil from China? 🤦

We are surrounded by government-subsidized corn, soy, and other vegetable oil producing crops. Why on earth would we need to import cooking oil from anywhere?

In case you were wondering how they would get a picture of the users face…

“DirecTV’s screensavers will let a user create an AI avatar of themself by scanning a QR code on the screensaver”

Or Bluesky. Or Mastadon. Or a blog. Hell, even Threads would be better than X.