Can we also acknowledge how horrible reporting is on major cases and rulings? I've seen barely any coverage of Loper Bright and what the headlines say about it is largely inaccurate.
Hilariously the French title translates to "Fifty Shades of Fat: The Elf who loved French Fries too much".
I know the word "rigged" is overused in politics these days but I'm not sure how else to describe the method the RNC and DNC use to select candidates. We have a matchup of historically unpopular individuals who were both President already, and yet most feel as though there was an inevitable quality to each receiving his party's nomination.
I live in a primary state where party registration is arbitrary and I could have easily participated in the process for either major party (just providing this background lest I be accused of being something I'm not). Problem is, by the time it rolls around to my state, the momentum of previous caucuses and primaries has all but secured the nomination already and my ability to influence the process is effectively zero.
The DNC and RNC have created a system of managed coronation disguised as some sort of democratic process. And what's worse is they now set the precedent of rigged debates designed to exclude meaningful alternatives. If they have a second debate they'll probably make up something about minimum Twitter mentions or shoelace color to purposely exclude RFK and other 3rd party candidates again.
What a joke. She has less than zero chance. No charisma. Her initial campaign struggled to raise money. She had to drop out before the primary in her own state. Black voters in her state largely viewed her as a narc. Her approval polling is consistently terrible... She has similar approval ratings as colorectal cancer.
Trying to think of recent German films I've seen and the best I can do is Das Leben der Anderen and Der Untergang, both being 20 years old.
I do enjoy how both Asuka and Misato are posing like they have previous experience as car show booth babes. That tracks.
I just take Marques for what he is - normie entertainment tech channel.
All marketing hype associated with Apple is always to be taken with a grain, nay, a shovel of salt.
I do love having to give a 2 paragraph disquisition of caveats about how I didn't vote for either major party candidate in 2016 or 2020, before I can make literally any comment on either of these people or the current state of US politics, lest I be downvoted into oblivion or accused of being an evil Repub shill.
Ironically when we do this on Lemmy we are qualifying ourselves to a cohort of mostly people who didn't vote at all, or aren't even Americans.
You know it is pretty bad when a bunch of CNN commentators think he got smoked.
If you had done it with a sepia filter, this has "Cowboy Bebop outro" written all over it.
Don't forget the tradeoff with all the emerging automatic breaking in cars. If your car is braking "faster than a human" can react or brake, that has cascading effects to every car behind you, which may or may not have the same features. Following distance at highway speed just became way more important.
There is still great music and it is still a great time to consume music. But Beato is right that trap beats, quantized drums, and autotune all suck ass.
Agree. Not every hobby and common trait is automatically a "community" nor should it be.
The tiny house community
The pickleball community
The eating ass community
etc.
He even went out of his way to compliment the ridiculous amount of work Howard put in, and his art etc. Dude should consider it a win to even get a red marked up paper back from an actual respected scientist. That in itself is a pretty cool achievement.
Everyone who works a white collar job for a medium or large company should have access to a 401k or some other investment vehicle but I understand that many can't afford to fully utilize those benefits even if those benefits are available. The exec class gets richer as their portfolios gain value, as they tend to get compensatory stock. Everyone else takes an "L" to make that happen.
A rank-and-file accountant or developer can still set themselves up for retirement but they have to start early and be extremely aggressive.
I agree that with inflation, there are perverse incentives created. Most peoples jobs do not have any guarantee of annual raises, performance based or cost of living based. Effectively you are taking a pay cut each year due to inflation. This passively makes every company environment worse, because the only way to gain compensation is to jump ship to another job. Those who are capable and motivated will try to parlay every job into a better job within 6 months, and that makes it impossible to build up capabilities and culture. It effectively makes everyones job suck more, whether you stay or leave.
The "good" TP (Charmin ultra strong) is now 90 cents per roll, at bulk warehouse club prices. So that stuff is still pretty expensive and I don't think it ever went down after the crisis.
Cocaine Mitch has largely stepped aside and John Boehner literally hasn't been speaker since 2015.
Shouldn't this thumbnail show Mike Johnson, Hakeem Jeffries, Chuckles Schumer, or Nancy "totally valid investment strategies" Pelosi?