misanthropocene

Medical research. Oh that's not what they mean. That doesn't count. It's not worth funding for the right.

How about EVs? Solar panels? Advancements in battery tech? No, too beneficial for the world.

How about induction stoves/hot plates? Cooking with magnets. I use it daily.

I say I'll buy a house, the first thing that comes to mind, and the only way that ever happens. Because in this state, it's not happening from a paycheck. At least I can afford a car that runs.

Sometimes I think it's about getting their kids into college on an athletic scholarship. Not any sort of love of sports. Wait a second what kind of fucked up society requires one to be good at athletics to afford college. Sigh. The one we live in.

that seems to take a lot of privilege, at best most people can only do stuff for the love of the game in their off hours, if they are lucky enough to get them.

I think the problem is states like SC are deeply conservative and what appeals to conservative voters is a hard case to make to progressives.

SC basically NEVER votes Democrat for President. So it probably shouldn't matter for the Democratic primary at all.

to California's credit they keep playing the arms race, so that the CA votes at in by at least super tuesday, which is an improvement from when they really didn't matter.

I think busses supplemented with light rail/subways, but mostly really good bus service, are the realistic options for mass adoption of alternatives to cars. Everyone is simply not going to bike everywhere, not here anyway. But I have nothing against bike lanes.

the situation was not so dire under Biden, this is explicitly Rubio's policy I suspect. But there were some sanctions, there have been for a long time. It's a matter of degree, which is sometimes pretty important.

why is anyone reposting MAGA nutters, except if it is to point out that there is an anti-Trump MAGA faction. Ok I don't think they matter to elections, but fine it exists 🤷. Posting unhinged MAGA rants at that. These nutcases actual believe the nonsense they post, like in literal demons.

oof one only needs to look at how off the rails homelessness funding got in L.A. to know how complex, and this was money very specifically allocated to homelessness.

Irrelevant metric. The metric people cared about is unemployment. Eventually the recession ended, they usually do, but it was 5 long years of high unemployment.

you are going to hit gray areas, is reading an e-book reading? Like maybe it's not, since there have been studies on people retaining more of what they read off dead trees than e-books.

thanks for linking to a real source. I don't' know what the kind of source "patriotic blonde" was supposed to be (the original post). But apparently they are MAGA. They have their own agenda.

maybe not even necessary, the UN itself faces bankruptcy (loss of u.s./trump admin financial help probably doesn't help any). So it may be gutted at some point.

that said this is at the margins, Hillary did win the popular, it's not impossible for a woman, it's just harder because of the gender stereotypes.

those countries don't even comparable systems of government. What I think it is with the U.S. and women presidents, is people take very seriously that commander in chief of the armed services role of Presidents (which fine) and don't see a woman as being manly man enough for it (silly).

make them all millionaires, I don't care, it pays for itself.

yea looks sharp doing it, the most important thing

basically, though I have some basic tools even living in an apartment. But proceed with caution, you don't want to wreck the rental playing DIY games.

The Trump support is still too high (40%) but 10% of that probably never hear any real news, and the rest are hardcore fash. The 10% can maybe be educated, the rest would support Trump if the country was rubble. Can 10% be educated through pain? Maybe but pain sometimes just makes people double down

yea, the main lesson we learned from those displacements is that it's BAD. It's bad for the people affected and bad for society. Trump ran on some of it in 2016 and here we are. It's like saying to someone "you only oppose new wars because you got burned by the Iraq war being a disaster". Yea, so?

some % (maybe 40%) of that is people who would NEVER EVER EVER vote for Dems. And the rest probably could not define left wing. It's a vibe. A lot of people want to keep social security for instance. Many would like healthcare not tied to jobs. Increasing the minimum wage in popular. So is clean air

the logical position for AI stans is all of the above energy sources. It is not the sane solution for the planet which is off fossil fuel ASAP. It means climate apocalypse. But it is ALSO not the Trump administration position which is sabotage all green energy. So 3 separate positions.

may be necessary to be an authoritarian, certainly not sufficient to make one one. Of course we need people with heightened threat sensitivity, working in the CDC, planing for natural disasters, infosec etc. We don't need psychopaths and sociopaths much, or we need ways to protect against them

single women vote overwhelming Dem, more than married women. All the single ladies: your country is counting on you 🫡

at this point it's fascist not just capitalist.

no way someone as unpopular as Trump could have carried the 2026 midterms. How do you know he's unpopular? Oh ...

it seems to have bad environmental consequences in derailing progress toward decarbonization. But it like far from the only thing that does. Are people just jumping on this bandwagon brand new to environmental thinking?

Rasmussen is Republican polling, it scews Republican, it pleases Trump no doubt. No I won't believe that source.