Yep. He doesn’t give a shit. It’s just that the leopard is currently eating his (state’s constituent’s) face, so he has to go against the party narrative. That’s it.

Bruh. You just fetishized a 10 year old kid because she’s a female Japanese minor.

You need to step away from your weird anime/hentai loop and step into society.

Go outside.

I love MythBusters, but their results are inconvenient to my unfounded opinions

There was even a Mythbuster episode where they confirmed it. IIRC, their test popped reliably after two bagels.

In true republican fashion, he didn’t care until his own family was hurt by the MAGA cult. Typical.

Also a very litigious society. Even if they mean well, going off the page and trying to figure out a “Haus” solution is just putting themselves at risk.

They have to check all the boxes for your insurance. They have to check all the boxes for their own malpractice insurance. Even if they followed procedure, they might get dragged through the legal system to defend themselves if a client feels wronged.

That turns you, the client, into a number in a dispassionated machine.

And I don’t have a solution to it.

Edit - that was a bit too bleak. There are a lot of doctors trying their best to retain humanity in a system aimed at destroying it. The whole med school journey is aimed at weeding the people out who are just in it for the money. It’s designed to gatekeep the industry to require a massive amount of passion to get your foot in the door. But the realities of the industry do their best to squash that.

That’s still a lot of people with criminal records whose lives are much more difficult for it, for something she’s now antagonizing her opponent for flip flopping on as well.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m voting Harris and donating to get campaign. But I find this particular attack vector to be massively hypocritical.

I wonder how many people she pursued possession charges on as a DA.

Edit:

But at different junctures of her time in office, she has been an enforcer of cannabis laws and an opponent of legalized use for adults in California.

Though she defended marijuana’s use for medicinal purposes as district attorney, her prosecutors in San Francisco convicted more than 1,900 people on cannabis-related offenses.

Trump argued that the legal actions against him set a bad precedent

Well, we finally agree on something.

The fact that he’s a free man and the republican nominee 4 years after attempting to steal an election and then subsequently attempted a coup is a really fucking bad precedent and shows that the legal system is impotent to stop large scale corruption.

taking a lot of fridge / freezer space

Maybe you forgot the freezer part.

Ok. Agreed.

But that doesn’t change the fact that Xitter is still number 1 by a large margin, unless I’m mistaken. And since no one here even seems to be disputing that, it seems we agree on that point.

So it’s the other point that seems to be what is controversial. That, even with all the bad shit Musk has done - maliciously gaming the algorithm so these things won’t rise naturally like they did before, actively banning “woke” accounts, etc.

Even with all these bad changes, Xitter is still the best way to get your crisis message to the masses, especially outside your country.

You can argue about idealistic things like “it won’t change until people are forced to look elsewhere”, but that’s not a luxury that people in crisis have.

And that’s exactly why I think this is more negative than positive. It takes away the most powerful tool available at getting your reality out of a war zone, out of dictator controlled media bubbles, etc, so that outside observers can get a glimpse at what’s really going on.

And until you have a real contender for a replacement that’s gaining massive traction, “not perfect” is a luxury of armchair activists.

The point of guerilla style social media activism that exposes oppression, is to reach as many eyes as possible.

Are there alternatives? Sure. But do they reach anywhere near the same size of an audience? Unless I’m extremely out of touch (I do not consume that kind of social media directly), then it’s not even remotely close.

Maybe BlueSky is bigger than I think it is, but I rarely ever hear about it outside of very niche circles (like lemmy).

My point stands. Despite all the mishandling of Xitter, it’s still a powerful tool to get grassroots news out for things like protests, oppression. The platform is certainly worse than it was before Musk, but it’s still a decent tool for this specific usecase.

Fuck Musk and everything, but Xitter has traditionally been a very powerful tool for the masses in impoverished countries to get the word out.

I know Brazil isn’t exactly a 3rd world country, but it’s not exactly the most stable of governments, either. They just recently had a Jan 6th kind of coup attempt when bolsonaros lost.

I hesitate to consider this a net good, despite hating Musk.

And wanting to eat the same thing for a week+ because making it in quantities that’s worth the time means that’s taking a lot of fridge / freezer space

And I doubt many of those who left are reevaluating the ethos imparted by the leaders they now are distancing themselves from.

Even if he sold at $1 a share, he’s going to get far more than its worth out of it.

When carplay works, it’s great. But mine constantly has issues connecting to phones. Both my wife’s iPhone, and my Android. Both are flagships that are a couple years old, so still very current and sufficient specs.

Meanwhile, my old aftermarket Bluetooth radio connects every time with no issue.

I do like the convenience of GPS and audio on the car tablet when it works. But honestly, it’s a distraction when it’s being fussy.

The credit card fee is the only one I don’t mind. CC fees siphon a lot more money out of what we pay than people think. It’s unfair that restaurants/stores have to take that hit because the CC industry has been successful in making credit cards ubiquitous.

All those rewards we get as consumers for using CCs come straight from the vendors pockets, and the banks get a much larger cut of the fees than they “give” back via rewards.

There is no reason why credit card fees need to be so steep in the digital age. And most vendor agreements require that vendors aren’t allowed to charge a separate CC fee to cover the cost to them, so they instead have to raise prices on all (cash) customers through a menu price hike.

It’s the same kind of bullshit as Apple requiring that app owners are not allowed to sell their app on other platforms for less than their Apple Store price.

I was curious, so a quick search yielded that they are both attracted to the CO2 from our breath, and scents from our skin. I do not see mention about heat, which I had previously heard was the actual old wive’s tale.