Signtist

People will fight you tooth and nail to prevent something they view as immediately threatening to them. On the other hand, they’ll pay you to implement something they view as immediately useful to them. In either case, they don’t care at all about any non-immediate repercussions for anything.

They were filmed saying exactly this back in January/February.

I remember when youtube first came out. Thinking it was some kind of online TV, I searched for “The Simpsons” and got no results besides a low-quality upload of The Bartman music video. I decided there wasn’t really anything there for me and I left, not returning until several years later when there was content there that I wanted to watch and couldn’t find on TV. Now I primarily watch youtube, and again I find myself not wanting to switch to peertube until there’s enough content there that I want to watch but can’t find on youtube.

I bake. I like to try out new recipes, usually cookies, since they travel well and can easily be given to multiple people and enjoyed wherever. I’ll be making cinnamon rolls today, though, since there’s a breakfast thing at work tomorrow.

You don’t grow carrots in a rabbit enclosure and act surprised when they get eaten. Capitalism holds a lot of power in the world, and if we want socialism to succeed we need to figure out a way to defend against constant attacks from capitalism while we’re trying to grow. It doesn’t matter if it would succeed in a world where it’s left alone, we need it to succeed in the rampant capitalistic world we live in.

The biggest thing he should be showing you is that someone motivated can make noticeable positive change in a relatively short period of time. When you see another politician failing to make such noticeable changes, it’s because they’re not trying.

Yes, Mamdani still has a lot of work ahead of him - what we’ve seen so far is just a good first few steps, but they’re obvious steps in the right direction. Whenever someone says “these things take time” and can’t show any obvious first steps to prove that we’re actually moving at all, then they’re not actually doing anything - they’re just saying they are and hoping you won’t notice.

I was always a fan of just tossing a bunch of spices in there. The big ones were chili powder, onion powder, garlic powder, paprika, basil, oregano, and cumin, but I’d switch it up every time just to keep things fresh.

As much as I hate Dilbert’s creator, he got something right with the joke where you always have to give your boss 2 choices - one that you already chose beforehand, and another that’s only there for the boss to reject so they think they contributed.

I think it’s funny that one of the most well-known ancient pieces of writing is of a man complaining that he was sold cheap copper, and here we are over 3,500 years later still thinking merchants can be trusted. Flock was never going to serve the common people when they can make so much more money serving the wealthy instead. When someone chooses a career in making money over all else, the only thing you can trust about them is that they will drop everyone and everything for a buck.

I love how they greens it like a personal failure when someone isn’t able to hit the “life milestone” of being able to afford something that gets more expensive relative to median income every year. It’s like expecting kids born today to speak by 4 months old just because some random out-of-touch person thought it would help the economy.

All AI is slop, yes. Slop is anything made automatically without purpose, and while the human might have written a prompt with purpose, the computer can’t apply purpose itself. Fun fact: this also applies to factories churning out physical slop as well! I’m always down for a good photoshop, though - even a bad one is fine!

An inventor. I was so sure I could make flying cars just by strapping a few downward-pointing jet engines to a regular car. The only thing I ever actually invented was a pen (by breaking and taping together parts from multiple other pens).

Sounds like patient zero in a sci-fi robot apocalypse movie.

Everyone worth arguing with already understands that we’re not going to get to 0% evil through voting. Evil people don’t become good just because people want them to, and the same goes for the evil organization that puts forward all of these evil candidates.

In a working system voting can help stave off evil, but it can’t remove it once the system is broken and evil has taken hold. All we can do through voting now is pick our enemy, and it’s easier to fight a 20% evil guy than a 100% evil guy.

Sure, you can make the argument that we’ll never fight either, and it’s not a bad guess, but if we don’t then we just have no avenue for success, so I’d rather be ready for a revolution I have no faith in than just give up.

While yes, they are doing some things, it ultimately doesn’t really matter. If someone’s house is on fire and the firefighter goes in for a minute, comes back out having done nothing, and says “Hoo, that’s hot - I’m out.” they’re not a good enough firefighter.

Like, yeah, it’s hard to do what they signed up to do, but they’re the ones who signed up to do it, and in the case of politicians, they specifically went around making promises to be people to do it in order to get the job in the first place. Things need to get done, and they’re the ones occupying the position.

I’m not a politician - I don’t know how hard the left needs to work in order to undo what the right has done, but I know that they said they’d do it, so I expect them to do it. Anything less makes them a liar at this point - we can’t afford mulligans this late in the game.

Their strategy is failing and yet they both make zero changes and denounce anyone else from coming in to try something new. Regardless of whether it’s incompetence or malice, we need them out so we can get someone better in.

That’s the issue - 1 billion sounds like a big enough number. Most people hear it and think “Hah! Just desserts!” but it’s not. They make so much money that even 1 billion is something they can easily ignore. The average person has such a poor grasp on just how much money is being accumulated that its easy to fool them into thinking a fine is far more damaging to the company than it is.

Most republicans honestly believe Trump is in their corner, even now. They think the things he does that screw them over are being done to screw brown people over even more, and that they’ll eventually win the war of attrition and come out better on the other side once all the brown people lose everything and either flee the country or die.

The “I didn’t vote for this” people are the ones who weren’t lucky enough to be able to weather the shitstorm the way they thought they would, and can see that they’re going to lose everything too.

It’s like if God came down and said he was flooding the world again, and only 2 people would be chosen to board the new arc, and 77 million people all celebrated because they were all sure they were one of the 2. And they’ll keep believing that until they drown.

I don’t have any official heirlooms, but I like to bake, and have inherited a few quality vintage mixing bowls that my grandparents - and later my parents - used, so I consider them to be heirlooms at this point.

This is perfect - my wife and I have both been limping along on old falling-apart phones, and have been looking for something new that doesn’t make us feel gross for supporting a major company, and isn’t overloaded with so many nearly-useless features. Decided to take the de-google plunge at the same time, and grabbed the eos ones!

Sure, but they can increase the amount of cops working that night, and make sure that stay near the cameras. Might not make much of a difference in big cities, but smaller towns that only have a few cameras will probably be watched with much more scrutiny.