geekwithsoul

geekwithsoul , 3 days ago

Who is this “we”? You’re literally the only person pushing this crap. The poor horse is dead, let it be.

Criticize Biden all you want, but this idea of some sort of “Blue MAGA” following him in lock step is beyond idiotic and does more harm than good in furthering your criticism. No one likes Biden that much. Making up imaginary groups to hate for imaginary reasons is what facists and authoritarians do, and judging by your posting history that’s not who you personally want to align yourself with.

geekwithsoul , 3 days ago

An almost entirely unsourced think piece “reporting” on something trending on Twitter more than two years ago is not the proof you seem to think it is.

geekwithsoul , 3 days ago

Bwhahahahaha! The Hill YT channel? Really?! That’s adorable.

geekwithsoul , 5 days ago

Maybe the cultists have another faction that they’re rivals with and the leader is impressed by the party’s ability to sneak in? So he makes them an offer - do a similar job against the rival faction and if successful, he’ll release the captive to them.

They can then either do the new job or try and bring the mob down on the cult. Or some kind of double cross later? Plenty of opportunities for shenanigans or they can play it straight and try and to do the new job.

geekwithsoul , 9 days ago

There’s actually quite a bit of evidence that post-pandemic price fixing across multiple sectors is to blame for the “inflation” we’re seeing - one example is the energy sector and what the FTC recently reported on:
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/an-oil-price-fixing-conspiracy-caused

geekwithsoul , 11 days ago

“…never made it into the game…”

https://www.cyberpunk.net/us/en/update-2.1

It’s been in the game for six months.

geekwithsoul , 12 days ago

Whenever I see his uncanny face, in the back of my mind I always think he looks like what Mark Zuckerberg’s dad must look like

geekwithsoul , 22 days ago

The fines are limited by statute, so $1k per instance is the max the judge can order

geekwithsoul , 26 days ago

Did you mean parody?

geekwithsoul , 1 month ago

It definitely needs to be decriminalized but that’ll actually take an act of Congress. Public pressure needs to be applied but let’s not pretend Biden can do this on his own

geekwithsoul , 1 month ago

“…would 100% identify as female just to walk into the girls bathroom”

That’s not “boys being boys” thinking, that’s the thinking of a future sexual assailant.

geekwithsoul , 1 month ago

Wow, you’re just a sociopath it seems. My condolences to anyone who has to deal with you on the regular

geekwithsoul , 1 month ago

It would be excellent except on the premiere date it wouldn’t be viewable and repeatedly crash your browser to desktop. Even when you could watch it and enjoy the brilliant narrative, it would repeatedly just start buffering for no reason and weird visual glitches would be constant.

geekwithsoul , 1 month ago

Much like one of the ways stained glass was colored in the medieval period involved adding materials to the glass that acted as nano materials. For example this one particular shade of red needed gold.

geekwithsoul , 1 month ago

“Blue MAGA” - what does that even mean? MAGA isn’t even a cogent ideology, it’s a fawning cult of personality acting in lockstep and built up around a single man – in what way is there any equivalent on the left? Ask twelve liberals for an opinion on something and you’ll get fifteen different answers.

geekwithsoul , 1 month ago

Good article but I think the thing it misses is those that currently make up “the base” on the right seem to share the commonality of wanting to be conned. The Christian nationalists, the conspiracy theorists, the buyers of whatever snake oil are currently on offer all want easy, unnuanced answers that continue to validate whatever they’re used to. They ignore systemic issues in favor of the fear du jour because solving the real problems strike at their sense of identity and they’re willing to believe literally anything rather than face the issues that really matter. A feedback loop has taken hold of the GOP which just keeps cranking them further and further away from any sort of reasonable ideology and instead replaced it with spurious and unfounded anxieties and fears. The media has constantly exacerbated this because it increases their metrics and ad dollars to sell the side show.

geekwithsoul , 1 month ago

I think I remember this post - wasn’t this like an eight year old article that you posted to the News channel?

geekwithsoul , 1 month ago

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion

geekwithsoul , 1 month ago

You know the whole acronym vs initialism thing is a somewhat new idea? And there’s no hard and fast agreement on it. To correct people on whether something is an acronym or not (especially when they are using it within the term’s original meaning) is simply pedantic.

geekwithsoul , 1 month ago

“The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) records the first printed use of the word initialism as occurring in 1899, but it did not come into general use until 1965, well after acronym had become common”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronym

geekwithsoul , 2 months ago

I’m looking forward to this not going as planned - which seems to be the norm for the GOP these days. How wild would it be for one of their witnesses to just add “…as was directed by President Trump” after something particularly heinous? Hell, this will just keep reminding Americans of how crazy the Republicans are and it’s a presidential election year, so even without a bombshell I think this is probably going to backfire.

geekwithsoul , 2 months ago

About time - their polls have been divorced from reality for some time. While previously “leaning right” would be a fair description of a moderate bias, in the last few years they completely went off the deep end.

geekwithsoul , 2 months ago

I agree that as a free product, the ads are less loathsome. But from a company that just posted a 265% increase in revenue, it’s not like they’re worried about keeping the lights on https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/21/nvidia-nvda-earnings-report-q4-2024.html

geekwithsoul , 2 months ago

And by not voting for Biden, how do you expect the issue you care about is going to be addressed by a Trump administration? I’m in my 50s and have never been a fan of Joe Biden or most of the “centrist” Democratic Party - but you can sure as hell believe I’ll be casting a vote for him in November.

geekwithsoul , 2 months ago

With IVF, multiple embryos are grown and then analyzed - the best are implanted, the rest are usually either destroyed or (with the donors’ permission) used for research. You literally can’t conduct IVF without destroying some of the embryos.

geekwithsoul , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

It’s not a census year (only on the 10s in the US) and I’ve been involved in politics for more than three decades and the federal census has never been used to remove anyone from the voter rolls anywhere I’ve been. The personal data is not publicly available for 70 years except as anonymized, abstracted data.

EDIT: I did double-check myself and yeah, the Fed census has no impact on voter rolls. There are some places that do a city/town census - especially in Massachusetts - where you can be marked as “inactive” if you don’t complete a local census. You can still cast a ballot and are still on the rolls, but it will require some assertion that you still live in the same residence. But that’s a pretty limited edge case.