The fact that they gave the peace prize to that fucking war criminal says all you need to know.

Its OK to dispute it, but you understand that you’re basically describing a filter bubble, right? You’re well educated and surround yourself with well educated people, but that’s not something that will describe the average person. Its a bit naive to assume that because you understand these topics and surround yourself with others of your ilk, your peers are doing the same.

Millennials had plenty of people who were well educated and could engage openly and honestly about hard topics. But they’re outnumbered by those that choose not to think too deeply. Just like Gen X, Boomers, etc. And unfortunately, without any evidence of the contrary, its a safe assumption that your generation will run along the same lines. I really hope I’m wrong. But as they say, hope in one hand…

Yeah, totally republican ass mentality to want to keep subsidies for people instead of caving on a vote that will totes happen. You ever think ‘their interests’ is having healthcare subsidies? Or do you assume the worst unless someone breaks out the crayons?

Fucking copium, my dude. My family has snap benefits and medicaid, and it would have been in my best long term interests for the government to stay shut down until the republicans caved and let the democrats help people. It was going to be a hard couple of months, but I was hoping my reps would have the stones to fight for their constituents, instead of rolling over (as is tradition) and letting the republicans have another win and take more from the people who have the least.

But hey, good thing they thought of the best interests of the economy and wall street. They’re the real ones hurt during these shutdowns. 🙄

Did they bring it about?

Did they vote for the clowns running this circus?

I seem to recall “Entitlement Reform” as bipartisan issue.

Always laughable to hear republicans call for ‘entitlement reform’, because the reform is always ‘fuck you, you don’t get this anymore’. Or they sell the service to a private company who gets to wring you for every cent, then tell you ‘fuck you, pre-existing condition, go die’.

Pedo-nald being the head of the republican party is a gift to the democrats, who can’t run a fucking campaign for shit. I really wanted Kamala to win, but goddamn if she didn’t absolutely fuck it up. Between not being able to be the nominee from the start (Thanks Obama Biden!) and campaigning along side republicans while being rather tone deaf in her messaging did not help her cause in the slightest.

Ignoring the more reasonable side’s fuckups because the other side is an active garbage dump fire is only going to push us farther along the same path. Maybe democrats will finally learn their lesson and actually campaign for the people instead of their donors. Actually run on a platform to help people, and maybe people will actually vote for them. Worked in '08, and while I’m not naive enough to fall for ‘hope and change’ again, it would be nice to feel like the person I’m voting for actually gave a fuck.

Look at the people who voted to end the shutdown: no one who’s up for re-election this next cycle.

Either Schumer is one hell of a terrible leader, or there was a very obvious attempt at co-ordinating the vote to take advantage of voters’ (lack of) long term memory.

AHAHAHAHAHA, must be one big fucking coincidence that all the people who caved aren’t up for re-election this next round, huh?

Totally not a co-ordinated cave

A little glass vial?

We all have to make sacrifices

The funco land near me was still cheaper than the Gamerz store that took the storefront when they closed.

Wouldn’t she have had to get an eye disembiggening (ensmallment?) since best buy was first?

Because Israel is a fascist nation, and many modern countries are run by authoritarians who will gladly line up to test new weapons on brown people and hide behind accusations of antisemitism whenever someone calls out Israel for their genocide

I use chatgpt when I care to, and while I was given a subscription by work, I’m not actively encouraged to use it. I really only use it for researching problems that Google search is too seo poisoned to help me with, or debugging scripts. Past that it doesn’t have much professional use for me, given how much time I spend validating output and insulting the AI for hallucinations and just generally being terrible at moderate tasks.

Basic data interpretation can be pretty great though. I’ve had it find a couple problems I missed after having it parse log files.

I take that for nausea, and I can confirm it’s hard as fuck to stay awake after taking a dose of that most days

An under the desk bike has done wonders for me over the last decade. Let’s me keep mobile during the day and burn off all kinds of nervous ADHD energy

I only have like 2-4 password I can remember, and one of them is a 60+ char string that protects* all of my random passwords

They do, it’s just a different product. You’d know if you had a can of clamato vs normal V8.

Everyone’s comes from within, cause there are no amount of words that would suddenly change human nature

I’m going to assume you’ve never had a real conversation with (m)any Christians about this. Because plenty will end up telling you their morality is external, rather than internal.

You have no idea how many times I’ve had this conversation and basically been told that they have no concept of where my morals would come from, because theirs comes from the Bible. I’ve even had conversations where Christians make comments about the shit they want to do but can’t because of their religious morality or gone out of their way to try to justify their actions in her eyes of their god. Their morality isn’t internal to them and their core beliefs, it’s an external pressure to behave properly for their religion/congregation.

the TV is benevolent

Bull fucking shit

TV was the largest aggregator of feeding bullshit and lies to normies before shit like qanon went mainstream and forever poisoned their brains

Just because you weren’t intellectually and/or emotionally competent enough to believe in the Creator

I always find it funny when believers think they have to be intellectually/emotionally more mature than non-believers when non-believers don’t need a spiritual crutch to get through life.

You’re welcome to believe in a creator if that helps you get through the day, but don’t pretend you’re a better person because you believe in a god. Pretending it makes you more intellectually or emotionally competent actually tells people the opposite of what you think it does.