I wonder how Mamdani will handle these situations. Does he have the authority to tell Times Square to shut down their power consumption?

Hive mind would imply that people are simply following along and not making decisions on their own. I read the article and was thinking that the way they went about it was a fairly good use of AI to actually implement code.

Then I read the article posted by someone in this comment section about how the author and creator of ladybird is not only a homophobic asshole but an out and out racist. If you support him and use this then you are, by association, a homophobe and a racist.

So fuck you 🖕 as well.

Only Congress can declare war, anything else is just a “police action”. That used to actually mean something…in the 1800s. It lost its meaning with good ol’ Teddy Roosevelt.

Yeah give me that line again after your house actually has burned down and you have to fight tooth and nail to get any money from the insurance company that you’ve been paying to for the last X number of years.

They will actually make a payment in your name to the account and that will keep the debt alive for at least a year or two.

If the debt is large enough, the companies will use a myriad of tricks to keep the debt alive long after it is supposed to expire.

Around 50 years of near constant propaganda from our media convincing people that the government paying for anything is destructive to the economy and that taxing rich people more that poor people is not fair.

No, what this means is that they have increased premiums for anyone at 33 weeks of pregnancy and added something about premature births that will cost more if you’re traveling to America. Either that or put in specific language excluding coverage for premature births. Either way, insurance companies are a scam.

Just a stark reminder that all insurance, no matter where you get it from and what country it originates in, is 100% a scam.

Not running down Signal or any other e2ee client out there. But there are in fact ways to prevent the recipient from retaining and, at least via the device they are using to receive the messages, copying the data within messages. Several banking apps actually include such measures. And perhaps even having a Mission Impossible-esque self destruct on the message where it re-encrypts and then deletes the messages after they have been viewed is a viable way to prevent retention. It would not prevent somebody from using another device to snap a picture of the information in the message, but it would definitely cut down on people’s ability to easily leak private conversations that are intended to stay that way.

There’s no problem with Signal’s encryption. It’s the same issue with any and to end encryption scheme, at either end is a person who can very easily copy and paste everything that has been said in the conversation and send it off to anybody they wish.

No no, everything is fine. Las Vegas was too crowded before anyway. And last Christmas, people were spending as much if not more than previous years despite what you may have heard. Our economy is absolutely booming. Just look at the stock market, it’s the clearest indicator that everyone is doing very well.

Because it makes for a good distraction from actual problems that they don’t care to solve because those problems would require them to heavily tax millionaires and billionaires.

Because it is a corporate media outlet. And like every corporate media outlet in existence ever, they will always side with capitalism.

P. S. Despite this somewhat charitable program by Newsom, he is a true Reagan democrat. And I will never, and I mean absolutely fucking never, vote for him as president.

They have literally helped Trump do everything he has done. And, mind you, Trump is actually competing with Obama in the number of deportations he has set out to commit.

With compatibility layers being what they are these days I don’t think it’s going to be too much of a problem.

Yeah, but a bunch of extremely rich people made a lot of money.

There are 4,597 Walmarts in the United States. Not suggesting anything, just putting that fact out there.

MAGA voters are not as numerous as anyone thinks they are. The problem in our electoral system is the disproportionate gerrymandering and the number of disaffected independent voters who can’t see the difference between Republicans and Democrats, mostly because there is no real difference between Republicans and Democrats.

That interview was anything but milquetoast. I think it’s a landmark in terms of dealing with the Christian nationalist belief system. I’m atheist but even I can see that dealing with Christians who’ve been sold on the Christian nationalist agenda can’t be done through the lens of non-religious attitudes.