Curious Canid

I appreciate your patient contributions to this discussion. And I agree with you. This is another case of blaming the victim. When someone makes a threat threatens you the focus needs to be on those making the threat. How you handle the threat is only important if no one stops the aggressor.

Large parts of the GOP want to turn our country into a “what it used to be” that never existed. Destroying our educational system is a critical part of that mission. The lies at the base of their movement are not very effective against people with critical thinking skills, so they want to avoid letting anyone teach those.

These people are a genuine threat because we have allowed them into positions of genuine power. There will be no long-term solutions to the problems they are causing until we get them back out of power.

You have given the correct and inevitable answer.

I try very hard to buy everything on physical media. I subscribe to a few streaming services, but I never buy non-physical media. You don’t really own anything that can suddenly disappear because a company changes policies, get bought, or goes out of business.

Everything I buy is then ripped and stored on my local media server. That makes them more convenient and allows me to store the physical media out of the way. If something goes wrong, I can always re-rip.

It is worth noting that optical discs age and can become unreadable over time. If that happens, I can always go in the opposite direction and burn a new disc from my digital copy.

Recession, as we define it, is only really meaningful to those of at least moderate wealth. That line used to be low enough that it included the majority of the population. Extreme wealth inequality has changed that. The majority are now below that line. Recession has become a concern for the rich. The rest of us suffer from wage stagnation and inflation to support ever increasing corporate profits, but that problem doesn’t have a simple name and is rarely part of the economic debate. “The Economy” is doing fine, but most of us who have to participate in it are not.

I’m sorry, but I don’t see how anything can beat “Put down that chainsaw and listen to me”. It may be the best opening line ever sung.

Translation: Elon Musk desperately searches for buzzwords that will boost the stock of his failing company.

I didn’t realize that "intellectual diversity’ meant giving equal time to politically motivated drivel that fails to pass even the laugh test for factual basis or intellectual rigor.

Excellent idea!

What can we do to push traffic to shoptrumpsneakers.com?

A potentially awesome service…from a company that offers no contact numbers or email addresses.

I just assumed he was there to get his annual review.

Only their constituents can really impose consequences. That desperately needs to happen.

Way back in the day HP was one of the best technology companies around. They were innovative, produced high quality products, and were a good place to work. It makes me sad that HP is now one of the worst tech companies and has among the strongest anti-consumer attitudes.

I didn’t say anything about stopping the manufacture of medications. There are any number of ways that could be handled which would be an improvement over our current pharmaceutical industry.

Inadvertently destroying the pharmaceutical industry would be one of the best possible outcomes.

This is what governing looks like.

Which is why none of them recognize it.

Sorry about that! I fixed it in the message above. I typoed the actual link, but the visible version was correct so I didn’t notice.

The correct address is: https://apps.aslanrefuge.org

I have already done that. My apps.aslanrefuge.org site has downloadable APKs for everything. It also has the code, for anyone who wants to tinker with it.

I just wish there was a better way. I need to look into F-Droid and other options.

I think that just indicates that they really do believe in diversity. They’re finding all kinds of different ways to violate what they claim are their principles.

There are two kinds of groups that push changes to society based on morality. Those who want to provide more freedom and rights to people who are at an unfair disadvantage under the system and those who want to impose restrictions and penalties on people who do things they don’t like. The latter groups are almost never sincere. The actions they oppose are just an excuse for making people they don’t like suffer. As a result, they are often caught do the exact things they say they oppose, because they don’t really care about the actions themselves.