They’ve used the same strategy for literally decades and it has only ever worked once. That strategy is “our candidate is not the bad one”. And it worked in 2020 simply because that year was absolutely fucked and lots of people were looking for someone to “fix it”. Joe Biden might as well have been anyone in that moment. In previous years it…has…always…failed. It failed spectacularly with Mondale, it failed with Al Gore, it failed with John Kerry (honestly, you could had stood up a loaf of bread with arms and legs with a big D spray painted on it and it would have had a better chance than that milquetoast dipshit). It failed with Hillary, and it has now once again failed with Harris. People don’t come out to vote against a candidate. And never have. The base shows up sure, but they always will. But the unlikely voters or centrists only show up to vote for someone they believe in.

You should amend this because it’s not just “illegal” immigrants they are after. The rhetoric around the Haitians in Ohio is clearly directed at any and all immigrants legal or not.

One word. Tesla.

It became the Apple of automobiles and everyone was rushing to copy them. Then came the fall of Elon and everyone is realizing how full of shit the company is.

Sadly, in the anime industry in general, both in Japan and in the United States, anyone who is not on the money/management side of things basically gets shafted.

Well, this is The Register. Not exactly a paragon of stellar reporting here.

LoL, imagine the GOP nutters who get so offended by the Gay Rights Rainbow Flag when they are confronted by the ACE Rights Centaur. 😂

Well that explains why their hand jobs are so good.

Yeah, they’ve featured them in a number of comics. I don’t recall if it had ever been featured in any other media.

I switched to Firefox over the summer and have been mostly happy with my decision.

However, there have been a LOT of issues with video playback on certain sites and I really don’t know how to fix them. Searches have been just about useless in regards to finding a fix. The worst one is Nebula. The video often just freezes while the audio just keeps trucking along like nothing is wrong. This has happened to a more limited extent with some YouTube videos as well. And the TAB crash on some sites is quite infuriating.

1. Lack of competition in the market via mergers and acquisitions

2. Companies change things on the back end (“twiddle their knobs”) to improve their fortunes and have a united, consolidated front to prevent any lawmaking that might constrain them

3. Companies then embrace tech law to prevent new entrants into the market or consumer rights (see: DMCA, etc.)

This is the criteria he has laid out for the “enshitifacation” of the Internet.

This is funny to me because this is the exact pattern of every industry and service in the United States ever. The Internet isn’t special, it’s just the latest frontier for capitalism.

True. The instant response that exists now is only because this is a pilot program and they want to prove that it works. Once it’s normalized they will lay off most of the rider support and fuck you if you have to wait on the line.

No, but then the same is true of taxis and Ubers. They all have some kind of recording equipment in them for ensuring safety and cover in case someone claims something.

I lieu of that, I’d say the mods should just go limp. Stop moderating content and let posters run wild. The company needs to realize just how much their business model depends on all that unpaid labor.

Also, don’t forget to flour your galaxies in order to keep them in their respective places and prevent them from all rising to the top of your universe.

Was the panel listed as “adults only”? Lots of kids were watching the pilot on YouTube. I’d say a substantial volume of its audience is 8 to 12 year olds.

A bit judgy aren’t we?

I just never gave my TV access to the Internet and use my home theater PC to watch stuff. Never seen a need for more.

Now overlay that map with a map of all the states with the largest populations of poor people.

This is me but not with programming, just in my interactions with other people.

It would be nice if boomers and older Gen Xers would stop cashing out and then blaming millennials and zennials for the inflation being out of control and the economy not being the monolith it was in the 1980’s. You know, the 80’s during which that little tech boom thing happened right around the time a famous actor got elected president and immediately started de-regulating everything under the sun so that huge corporations could start squeezing employees and consumers like the chattel they are, thereby inflating the value of goods, services, and land.