SteveFromPittsburgh

harm reduction is not a potent political message, especially coming from the party that allowed Trump to run again

"YES" or "NO" is literally not on the ballot, why do you all keep talking this way? It's insane.

Stagflation

The Fed Chair is describing stagflation but does not want to say the word.

Republicans will keep winning until The Democrats have an effective counter-punch. They don't have one and it is why Harris lost.

Let me be very clear. It is not enough that RFK Jr. was forced to admit today that no causal relationship between Tylenol and autism has been shown.

We know that while disinformation spreads like wildfire on social media, corrections most often die on the vine.

Why do they need to reinvent themselves when they keep winning?

what makes you sure that "less harmful" is objectively true for all voters

The Democrats had a binary choice: Ensure the traitor who staged a failed coup can never run again OR pretend we can "turn the temperature down" ensuring he can easily reclaim power again

You'll never guess which one they picked

When the Democrats inevitably move to the right on the transgender issues & immigration will that be an attempt to appease their existing voter base?

Corporate interests and lobbyists do. Which is why Kamala's takeaway to win PA was to be Pro-Fracking. The only recalibration is to move to the right.

You didn't hire them. Their donors did. And that is who they answer to.

Then why do candidates spend a disproportional amount of their time courting swing states, especially those where they are losing ground?

When the FBI arrested Terry Rozier and Chauncey Billups, the basketball-watching public turned to sports media to help make sense of the story. What explanations were on offer? Before disclosing its own BetMGM partnership, The Athletic called “all of sports” complicit in the scandal. Bill Simmons dismissed the episode as ”a couple bad apples,” growing pains typical of a growth industry. Zach Lowe had ESPN's betting guy on his podcast; together they concluded that these issues can be tinkered out of existence by limiting prop bets and changing how teams report injuries. Lowe's podcast, like Simmons's, began with a FanDuel ad. The takeover of sports media by gambling companies imposes hard boundaries on the domain of these conversations. Most importantly, these captured discussions always obscure the social and political choices that enable the gambling industry to entrench itself. Allowing people to gamble on their phones and allowing sports gambling companies to spend untold sums on lobbying and advertising are choices. These choices, not some law of nature, are why millions of people have started gambling in recent years. Likewise, other sports media companies have chosen to offer up their audiences as prey to gambling outfits. Defector has chosen something else: We never have and never will take money from gambling companies. Subscribers fund our operations, which allows us to remain independent, critical, and uncompromised. Consider making that choice.

NBA media is not built to cover a gambling scandal, but Defector is: defector.com/products

Again, we're just recycling 1984, 1994, 2004, and 2014 arguments. They know people on SNAP have jobs, they don't care.

"Should they starve to death?" Yes! That is literally what Republicans believe! They believe anyone who didn't get their money the old fashioned way (from dad) should die!

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

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Seriously, who is the target audience for tweets like this?

People are always like why don't you get enough sleep and it's because at 11 PM last night I was using Python scripts to generate an isometric contour map of Pittsburgh from USGS elevation data so my pen plotter could draw the topography of my daily commute

i saw a prototypical wfh "marketing specialist" talking about how she lived so well in the south side with her $80,000 salary and i reported her video for misinformation. sorry, but i think yall should be more hostile to these people.

Pittsburgh is full of decaying, falling apart city steps, if that isn't a sign that we punted on having some degree of walkability decades ago I don't know what is

I asked a global question in my first reply. How can "WE" be more vigilant to avoid this happening again? By making this solely about me you are depriving the good people of BlueSky of your wisdom on this matter.

You can make this about me all you want but that doesn't change the fact that your "point" you spent all afternoon tweeting about is complete and utter bullshit.

Can't back up your point with substance so you resort to ad hominem attacks.

If a rube can see through your BS what does that make you?

So prior to the new revelations you have exactly two data points you can recall for an on-going "scam" that "people fall for every time" and should've seen coming a mile away. Got it.

Can you name more than two examples of “vaguely populist with white masculine aesthetics” so we can all be more vigilant next time?

Having trouble following here: how does the Platner revelation make it any less true that you are a terminally online troll?

If you're a writer/other creator in the United States, consider creating an LLC for your business and then signing up for a local area Chamber of Commerce. Many of them have health insurance plans that pool their members and members of other CoCs to create insurance efficiencies relative to ACA.

More walkable than Cleveland (for example)? not a chance

Uh I don't think this has any basis in reality