EldritchFeminity

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EldritchFeminity , to politics in One in three Republicans now think Donald Trump was wrong candidate choice

Democrats have been funding the most extremist and crazy of their opponents in political races for years now because it's a lot easier to run on the policy of "At least I'm not that guy" than it is to actually convince people to vote for you based on your policies and agenda. Hell, some lady wrote a book about how she did it to win a seat, only to lose to that same guy in the very next election.

It's one of the oldest and most effective campaign strategies there is, but it keeps biting Democrats in the ass and they keep trying it anyways. Democrats seem to think that moderate Republicans will vote for them over the extremist candidate, but Republicans don't care about who the candidate is so long as they're a Republican.

EldritchFeminity , to Curated Tumblr in Choice paralysis

I keep meaning to buy some of those like $5 bags of 100 stickers or whatever that you can find online for this reason. I love the aesthetic of something like a phone or a laptop covered in stickers, but I don't like the idea of losing one I care about, like you. So I figure if I just get a bunch without selectively choosing them, there's likely to be a number that I don't really care about and therefore won't be worried about losing that I can use to fill the majority of that sticker space with.

EldritchFeminity , to United States | News & Politics in Fred Mobster

Isn't this exactly what happened to Toys R Us as well? Bought up by a hedge fund, saddled with millions of dollars of debt to funnel its value to the hedge fund, then bankrupted and sold off for a pittance, laundering all the profit and wiping the debt away like it was never there. All while putting tons of people out of work.

EldritchFeminity , to US Authoritarianism in What Radicalized You?

I believe this was also passed after they unexpectedly closed a bunch of polling places in predominantly Democrat voting areas just days before the Presidential election, which led to lines several blocks long of people standing out in the sun with no shade or access to water or bathrooms.

EldritchFeminity , to Economics in Consumers are so demoralized by inflation and high rates they've given up on saving for the American Dream and are spending money instead, economist says

Yeah, every single time I see one of these articles, I'm just like, "Where have you been since 2008?" The "American Dream" has been dead a long time.

It's literally why "adult" became a thing you do instead of something you are in the 2010s. Because the traditional hallmarks of middle class suburban lifestyle (the house with a white picket fence, 2.5 kids and a dog or cat) have increasingly become an impossible pipe dream for the Millennial and younger generations. When the traditional markers of the transition to adulthood become out of reach for the majority of people, what does adulthood even look like anymore.

There's a very well researched video that goes over it that I stumbled across one day called the perpetual infantilisation of millennial women. It focuses on Millennial women (obviously), but goes into detail about how "adulting" became a word in the popular lexicon and how increasingly untenable a life like previous generations is for Millennials and Gen Z despite being the most well educated generation in history.

EldritchFeminity , to Fuck Cars in Cycling isn't legitimate transportation...apparently

TIL driving to and from work is "recreational" unless you have a TV or something in the back of your car.

EldritchFeminity , to Ukraine in A border guard near Vovchansk was saved by his ID.

IIRC, they were designed to be an alternative to metal plates for plate carriers. So the same size as the metal plates, but lighter in weight. Since they shatter, they need to be easy to replace in a vest, and I would imagine that they're probably fitted over a Kevlar jacket.

EldritchFeminity , to Ukraine in A border guard near Vovchansk was saved by his ID.

Ceramics work by redirecting the energy of a bullet into shattering the plate rather than penetrating the vest further. This allows a plate to absorb energy across its entire surface rather than just at the point of impact, but at the cost of only working once.

EldritchFeminity , to Space in NASA's Proposed Plasma Rocket Would Get Us to Mars in 2 Months

The first thing I can think of is sample collection. Right now, all the Mars missions have been one-way trips, and there's only so much you can gain from the readouts sent by the rovers. Plus, a crewed mission would be able to bring more varied equipment with them for data collection.

It would also be a major milestone in space travel. Mars is our closest neighbor, and being able to send a crewed mission there makes a whole bevy of other missions more probable.

Why did we send manned flights to the moon when we had already sent rovers there?

EldritchFeminity , to US Authoritarianism in The US is a Hybrid Democratic-Authoritarian Regime

About 10 years ago, several Ivy League schools declared that the US could not be considered a democracy (and hadnt been for about 50 years) and should be considered closer to an oligarchy after doing studies on public opinion vs policies enacted by the government since they started keeping track of that (since the 1950s I believe?). The US has always been more of a mix between a republic and a representative democracy anyways, but that's getting off topic. They compared public opinion of bills compared to the opinion of the wealthy and found that the majority of the time, the wealthy got what they wanted. If I remember correctly, the results were that if a bill was supported by both the wealthy and the general public, it passed about 90% of the time. If a bill was supported by the wealthy and opposed by the general populace, it passed something like 60-70% of the time, and in the opposite situation, the bill would only pass about 30-40% of the time.

The system is broken at a base level, between gerrymandering, Bush Jr. letting money sway policy even more blatantly than it already had, lifelong appointments (even for a number of unelected positions), and a myriad of other issues. 60% of Americans are considered to be more liberal than the government.

But, you're right that complaining once every 4 years isn't going to fix it. One of the reasons that Republicans have such a stranglehold over the government is that they have a base of supporters who will go out and vote for every single little thing, every time. And many of them can afford to because they're retirees or wealthy enough to be able to take time off to vote whenever. As my grandfather used to say, "Im a Republican, I vote for the nominee." What we need is to create support networks to help get people to the polls so we can vote in local officials who will help to get the bigger stuff rolling. Voting in the lesser of two evils every 4 years is only a stopgap measure.

EldritchFeminity , to Science Memes in where's my fur coat smh

May I introduce you to basically any interpretation of what dinosaurs looked like, ever (which is what this joke is about)?

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/dinosaurs-art-paleoartists-mistakes

https://d29jd5m3t61t9.cloudfront.net/dinosaurhome.com/images/fbfiles/images/10_0-lrv9yu42iu_v_1492003582.png

EldritchFeminity , to Nostalgia in Windows 7 with Aero Glass, in my opinion, was the last version of windows that actually felt warm and comfortable to use. 8, 10 and 11 all feel so cold, sterile and boring.

Not related to your point, but I would argue that computer usage is actually down today compared to when 7 was released, as computer literacy is proving to be more of an issue for generations younger than Millenials entering the workforce compared to generations older than Millenials. And that's because smartphones work differently from laptops and desktops. The UI and how you interact with your phone is fundamentally different enough to make the skills not interchangeable. I worked with kids in their first jobs for a number of years, and many didn't have a computer in their house because they did everything from their phones.

EldritchFeminity , to Nostalgia in Windows 7 with Aero Glass, in my opinion, was the last version of windows that actually felt warm and comfortable to use. 8, 10 and 11 all feel so cold, sterile and boring.

I remember having a Wacom usb tablet at the time, and Windows kept slapping a virtual keyboard in the middle of my screen. It was infuriating, to say the least.

EldritchFeminity , to Memes in A strong hunch

They were using the bike locks to claim that the protesters had ties to terrorist organizations, because "it's not the kind of thing a normal student has."

Despite the fact that the exact model of bike lock was part of a deal on bike locks advertised by the CU campus security on Facebook not 6 weeks ago.

EldritchFeminity , to Today I Learned in TIL: The Phrase “Death To America” Didn’t exist Before the CIA Overthrew the Iranian Government for Nationalizing their Oil in 1953

IIRC, the US got involved at the behest of British Petroleum (BP).

I believe BP owned basically the entirety of the oil industry in Iran and ran it like the company towns of old. The living conditions were bad, the pay was worse, and the work was as dangerous as it was backbreaking. So when a beloved leader was democratically elected partially on the pledge of kicking BP out of Iran - which he did by nationalizing the oil industry - BP came crying to the US. Who were all too happy to destroy the biggest democracy in the Middle East in the name of oil.

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