That’s the problem. That’s been the problem. Personally I do like Biden and what he’s done but he’s clearly too old. Even back in November when they started more actively campaigning, it already seemed too late to find someone else. Now it’s 7 months later

The only other candidate that has successfully raised his stature is Newsom, but if the internet is representative, the entire middle of the country is reflexively anti-California (plus he was campaigning for 2028)

First priority has to be shutting out the Joker, then Alfred will even help find the next Batman

1. During Biden’s first term, we’ve made several of the biggest steps toward addressing climate change, ever
2. Biden has made huge steps, despite congressional opposition, in making education and healthcare more affordable
3. The real estate and rental prices are local, and some of us live where our local politicians are at least trying

Yeah, this was a good one: I spent way too long counting fingers and looking closely at the detailed parts of the picture before I saw it

3. My teens like it

4. I can predictably ask for either an artist or “like an artist” and get hours of what I asked for. (Apple just segued into random stuff so I always had to get it back on track. Someone I want listen to specifically someone do if I ask for that I expect to get that)

They’re not bribes, they’re gratuities …… given before important court decisions

She is shit because she was given the platform of VP with the sole job of developing name recognition as the next candidate, yet many of us have a worse opinion of her than we started with

I know VPs should generally be silently partners but this is the one time we needed one who succeeded at any initiative

Not at all, it’s just a reaction. When you drop your mentos into Diet Coke, you see a very excited reaction, but do you really call that an emotion or can you really connect that with any entity’s awareness?

https://www.fairtradecertified.org/what-we-do/what-we-certify/coffee/

I may have to try that again: at the time I got too many complaints from my kids. Now Spotify hugely increased prices, probably to pay for its attempt to collect Podcasts that I’m not interested in.

Unfortunately I agreed with my kids: other music services just don’t works as well

It’s the fish argument all over again. Some vegetarians reason they can eat fish because fish has simple enough nervous system that it can be aware of its suffering. Sure it reacts to pain, but is it aware?

Similarly, grass may react to damage, but have such simple systems that you can’t even call it pain, much less that they have any awareness of pain

I so agree. I mean I don’t watch streamers period because I don’t have patience for the ads, but my teen gets so excited every time he beats a streamer at any video game (or he beats a “college” team), I’m not going to piss on his campfire

Even more exciting than watching a pro soccer team beat whoever they’re playing is watching my kid beat whoever they’re playing.

Even more exciting than watching pro hockey is watching my college team beat whoever they’re at laying, despite never having a personal connection.

And yes, the medias attempts to highlight specific athletes around Olympic times and make us feel a personal connection used to work, until they overdid it. Now it’s just ads

This is also crazy to me - correcting the teacher was at worst a way to get extra homework and present the facts to the class.

Except computers. Those teachers were lost and welcomed any help

These stories are so crazy to me …… sometimes it seems looks I got a better secular education from my religion school in the 1970s, with nuns. For many years the science teacher was the only lay teacher, never mentioned religion and we were certainly never fed any of that creationist crap from anyone.

It was not a Jesuit school but they really left a great impression of the long history Jesuit pursuit of knowledge and science

I feel like this site is going to be a great source for many of these

• https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-ten-percent-myth/

LLM is plausible deniability!

Hence the dictionary changes

You sure about that? I also remember the discovery 💡 f Titanic, but Tunguska was always a meteorite

I would literally be irate at some of them