Going down the Toyota route my friend recommended Lexus recently as its the luxury version of all the same models

Alright then.

To quote a friend,

"Jabari Brisport. He ran as a Green Party candidate in 2017 with the backing of New York City Democratic Socialists of America. He lost 70-30 when he did that (that was a “respectable performance” for a Green Party candidate) and the Greens reaped exactly nothing from him running besides a “moral victory” that they haven’t improved on or built off of since.

When Jabari again as a Democrat in 2020, he actually won. He’s a big reason we got the Build Public Renewables Act passed–and a reason why bills such as the Clean Futures Act and the All-Electric Building Act get introduced and debated at all (because he helps introduce them and fight for them on behalf of the chapter). Thanks to him, there are now material, working class victories that socialists can point to for why people should elect us over moderate Democrats who don’t care about any of this. If he just kept running as a Green, we probably wouldn’t have been able to do any of that. running as a Green was a quixotic strategy that accomplished nothing for the working class, and he’d be the first to admit that."

It’s wild, but running as a democratic candidate makes it so that we are able to accomplish more. So to throw that away to “show the Dems what they deserve” is completely contradictory to what we need to be doing to actually accomplish meaningful changes in our government.

Electing Republicans forces PoC and queer politicians to step down from death threats and fear of their livelihood. It removes safeguards for students and the disabled, for protestors and for communities who are dependent on support from their government.

When socialists run as Democrats, they get elected and accomplish small steps. Small steps are about the only actions we have.

Lol, are you recommending it because it’s the opposite of what you were on?

So throw the country to the fascists polluting our homes, destroying our education system, rallying up people who enjoy committing hate crimes to other Americans. It’s the Democrats fault we will repeat the events of 2016.

Got it.

Which candidate who opposes both Russia and Israel’s genocide has a path to the presidency? Legitimately, fully feasible path in 3 weeks to get this candidate to have 270 electoral votes?

When the third party candidate admits that their campaign is solely to siphon away votes from Democrats? With the Green Party being primarily funded by Republican donors, like Home Depot, and Trump saying the quiet part out loud,

"Trump, has embraced Kennedy as an ally, has previously spoken fondly of both Stein and West.

“Cornel West, he’s one of my favorite candidates,” Trump said during a campaign rally in Philadelphia in June. “I like her also, Jill Stein, I like her very much. You know why? She takes 100% from them. He takes 100%.”

What is the purpose of the Green Party taking away swing states from Democrats? All that leads to is Trump in office again. So what is the purpose? So that Trump can continue the genocide instead of the Democrats?

Can’t vote Democrat because support of Israel. That means you also can’t support Republicans, because they support the full extent of the genocide even more with Trump telling Israel to finish the job. And that means you can’t support (most) 3rd party candidates, because the Green Party is primarily funded by Republican donors, and the candidates themselves have investments that go against everything the Green Party is supposed to stand for.

Where does that leave us? You say it’s hemming and hawing with euphemisms. Right now, all candidates lead down the same foreign affairs path. Not all candidates lead down the same road on policies regarding education, corporate regulations, federal health regulations. All things that were decimated under Trump’s presidency. Not to mention, the sheer amount of hate crime that conservatives feel more comfortable doing with Republican presidents in office, leading to people of color and queer politicians stepping down from fear of their livelihood.

But I guess Trump saying he wants to deport protestors and moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, on top of everything else his administration did to the U.S. is completely reasonable.

People like us getting into politics, which will only happen if we are allowed to hold positions of office.

Right now, we’ve seen that hate crimes and death threats against PoC and queer politicians forced them to step down out of fear of their livelihood because of the events of 2016, and we’ve seen that throughout 2008-2016 and after 2020 that Democrat-running candidates can actually accomplish small steps towards making progress, even if the machine as a whole still tries to stop them. If Republicans/Conservatives had their way, someone like Jabari Brisport would not be safe to exist in politics.

I would guess that most people don’t know, and as mentioned it’s ugly and sadly it seems the majority of people care about aesthetics more than efficiency.

And also like you, I would do this but my fridge space is also definitely too small. I also think our fridge is new enough to be one of the metal dissipators

What you don’t realize is that I did write up a response to the other one. Then I got distracted, the app closed, I lost my response and I moved on.

But sure, insult me more. Good discussion.

Thank you! I initially found the title of the lawsuit but I couldn’t find where to actually make the claim, so I appreciate it!

It’s really good. One of the only games where a pacifist run feels worth it, because the game design is done so well.

Play the game normally first though

Or we could, you know, force social media companies to not use psychologists to make their apps more addictive by design. Something called ethics.

It’s extremely telling that you can look for a job as a psychologist for Meta and all the opportunities that are available are UX researchers.

And from the corporate side of things, it’s not very business savvy to miss out on an entire generation or two of gamers buying games.

If you and I are parents and our Steam library has 1,000+ games, our child likely wouldn’t buy those games. But if they need to create a steam account for themselves, now those games are back on the table, securing future revenue for Valve.

There’s workarounds sure, like family sharing or just ignoring the ToS and sharing passwords. I think the real tell will be for our grand/great grandchildren, for once we are 100 or 120 then Valve will probably start wondering… Is averyminya really still alive and kicking, or did he share his library?

I feel like all it would be would be giving the account via your will, then having that transferred through an attorney, who has a copy of/access to your death certificate.

“we can’t change engines because we’ve figured out how to copy and paste really well”

Sound is just the vibrations of the air, so as music fades, the air calms. Echoes, reverberance, they are just a result of sound “dampening”, and as each sound wave hits a surface that it reflects from the sound waves are also dampened.

So is the question where does music go? Or is it really, “where does silence come from?”

I looked for it but it looks like it might not be available to join yet. If you find a link do let me know!