Being less horrible than the other guy while saying that you'll continue the status quo people are unhappy with loses elections.

And my state is ranked choice so I can vote for people I do like while still voting for a major party.

Most of your takes are pretty good, but ignoring Gaza was Kamala's downfall. You can't have people be angry with what the current admin is doing and tell people that you will do more of the same and succeed as a candidate.

My takeaway from visiting SF is that people who take Waymo instead of BART need to be taxed significantly more.

Not even term limits, just prevent them and their immediate family from trading stocks

Maybe next time Justice Thomas is in Bali he can notice why the air quality is so bad and why you can't drink the tap water there.

Trump administration cancels plans to develop a bird flu vaccine The Department of Health and Human Services is ending a $766 million contract with the vaccine company Moderna to develop an mRNA vaccine for flu strains with pandemic potential, including bird flu.

We are so cooked: www.npr.org/2025/05/28/n...

A real shout out to the now father of a half-SE Asian half-white baby born outside the US who told me in November that he didn't think that anything was gonna change. I was drunk at the time so I couldn't come up with something clever to say, but I think about his wife and kid a lot.

It's been really crazy watching the TOEFL ads change from "study in the US" to "visit Canada and New Zealand!"

The only better thing you could do is take up a lot of her time so she doesn't have time to knock more doors

My love of reading is strongly link to this man…

I don't live in the US, the chicken they sell here is so much smaller than American chicken. And when I last lived in the US, I never bought supermarket meat. I typically bought it from local farms, but at home my partner and I eat primarily vegetarian because neither of us likes cooking meat.

Capitalism optimizes for things like chickens who grow so large they can't support their body weight. Things like that are fucked up and are inherently different from raising animals with the goal of feeding yourself and your community.

I see you missed the "not act weirdly morally superior" part. That's the difference.

Veganism isn't inherently ethical, there is obviously nothing that will make you believe that.

Capitalist business practices around food are probably the least ethical. That's where you get the CAFOs and the palm oil plantations and the rich white people buying quinoa so the locals can't afford it

No, but I'm going to respect my friends from other cultures where they are and not act weirdly morally superior about not eating them.

I'm not saying that animals are perfect and we should emulate them, I'm saying that humans are naturally omnivores, so eating meat isn't ethically wrong. What's ethically wrong would be wasting food or being ungrateful for it.

Other animals eat animals, so I don't see why humans shouldn't too. We aren't special. I much rather be part of the food chain and eat real food than eat processed stuff that is made of things like palm oil which is killing the environment.

Not all animal products come from big farms. If people want to eat vegan that's their perogative, but if you are a vegetarian or omnivore you shouldn't be forced to eat vegan just because you don't want to eat meat.

I didn't say that that's what it actually means. I'm just saying that's what women read it as.

That being said, there should be an option for left of the Dems because on dating apps "Independent" means "I vote GOP but I want to date liberal women"

Hinge should come up with additional options because it's useful to know if they are Independent as in I hate Biden from the right or Independent as in I hate Biden from the left.

That's why Hinge having you list your political affiliation is so helpful. If they list themselves as Republican or Moderate, you don't need to bother with them because it won't work out anyways.

This is insane because you can park in the bike lane during commuting hours. What kind of weird timing is that

In most of the US, bad drivers will continue to keep driving even if their license has been taken away because there isn't any good public transport. I can't police all of that, I care more about pedestrians and bikes staying safe.

It's an accurate answer to my real life experience. I was driven around by an asshole who by speeding up to do so then almost hit a pedestrian in a crosswalk once. The system needs to protect pedestrians and bikes way more than it currently does.

But it will mean that drivers have a red light when pedestrians are moving and it will therefore be more safe.

My favorite way to drive in the US is to piss off the people behind me by going the speed limit and doing what I'm supposed to but slowly and carefully so that they don't just go around me.

Ugh. I'm so not looking forward to being back in the US. Being able to trust drivers to not hit you is really awesome.

I don't have a pic, but my computer science teacher friend had their students looking up computer science terms with ChatGPT and it gave them entirely incorrect answers.