I would say the second amendment got kinda screwed in how it was… Like the primary point was to not have a standing army. Almost all the founding fathers specifically feared the idea of a standing army, as one of the greatest threats to liberty.

“Always remember that an armed and trained militia is the firmest bulwark of republics—that without standing armies their liberty can never be in danger, nor with large ones safe.” - James Madison

“Standing armies are dangerous to liberty.” - Alexander Hamilton

“I will now add what I do not like. First, the omission of a bill of rights, providing clearly, and without the aid of sophism, for freedom of religion, freedom of the press, protection against standing armies, restriction of monopolies, the eternal and unremitting force of the habeas corpus laws, and trials by jury, in all matters of fact triable by the law of the land, and not by the laws of nations.” - Thomas Jefferson

So yeah second amendment is great and all… though I would say, it’s primary value was meant to be that we could rise up against authoritarians… because the people are in the same equipment league as the army… instead now somehow we’re watching the nation argue over if the millitary code saying not to follow illegal orders is actually a real rule, while ice thugs are literally grabbing people off the street. At this point I’m honestly not seeing the second ammendment working without actually having a second civil war.

Or just on twitter, or parts of reddit, or the internet in general etc… I mean there certainly was no shortage of outrage… with say the little mermaid etc…

Now I will admit a good portion of it is that producers have really gotten shitty on writing in general, and often try and compensate it by throwing in a less represented in media character. IE say the last 2 doctors, girl ghostbusters etc… IE things aren’t terrible because of diverse casting, but if it is terrible, diverse casting isn’t going to fix it.

same reason why every black person in all positions is considered DEI even when they have decades of relevant experience pages, graduated top of their class in ivy league schools, and some white guy with middling experience, possibly even in the wrong field… gets put in and nobody questions it.

It’s true but I mean the key point is, they had quite a few failsafes set up for this… why we have 3 branches of government all made to slam the breaks on eachother etc… it’s why many of the founding fathers didn’t even want parties to exist. Hell they didn’t even want a standing military, they were pretty adamanant of staying out of other nations affairs… even the nations that we owed favors to.

Because fraud is an official act of a president… even fraud commited before he announced he was running because, our founding fathers didn’t anticipate the possibility of all 3 branches of government being corrupt at the same time.

I fully agree as a tool LLMs are amazing. Throw in a config file or code that you know 99% of what it should be, but can’t find what’s wrong… and I’d say there’s a good 70% chance it will find it… maybe chasing down one or 2 red herrings before it solves it.

The bad rap of course is simply the 2 main factors.

1. idiots that use it to do the entire coding, and thus wind up with something they themselves don’t have even the basic understanding of how it goes together, so they can’t spot when it does something horrifically wrong.

2. The overall reality that, no matter how you slice it, it costs an absurd amount to run these things. so… while the AI companies are letting us use these things for free or off really cheap plans, it’s actually costing real money to process, and realistically there’s no sign of it reaching a point where there’s actually a fair trade of value…

Very 100% agreed it’s in the no shit sherlock category. The american people want you to at the very least pay lip service to the idea that you are going to try to make their lives better. Rather than just calling the republicans bad.

A podium… across the room from the actual podium… that’s clearly a random box he had lying around.

I mean I want to switch because I want the minimal evil. I’ve normally defaulted to using things that meet my ethics over convenience. Most things for my family I set up and work around the evils. Music is a harder one for me to work with becasue I don’t understand it, so it’s harder for me to find a good alternative. So for me on the surface all will be equal… for my son and wife, I can’t predict that because I don’t really know enough to see “oh she’ll hate this” or “none of her music will be in it”, because I don’t understand anyone elses tastes in music.

Yeah looking at it, it looks like tidal does… question I do have is what’s overall good for 2 people, who seem to like music a lot, My son probably more indie type things on youtube… my girlfriend probably more I guess generic music, plus techno I think. challenge I have is I probably need to set everything up and get it all ready for them to try out in order to get the switch…

but… I have no taste for music… or really understanding of most of it. So it’s hard for me to pre-judge anything because… not really a service I can use or comprehend enough to tell what’s actually useful or not.

So, I’m not a music guy at all, but my wife and son do like music and use spotify, and I’ve paid for spotify premium. I hear of a lot of alternatives, most comonly tidal.

what would be a good option to switch them to, prefferably something likely to have almost all their existing songs, and is there anything that can transfer their playlists etc… before switching?

Maybe rather than giving them powers, it just puts then into the right place, and modifies them slightly to be able to deal with it. Like say, makes them fat and teleports them in front of a runaway vehicle.

Exactly why dem’s struggle so much. Go on every damn tv station that will let you… get on every damn podcast you can… scream from the rooftops "HEY WE WANT TO PUNISH THIS ILLEGAL SHIT and they don’t want us to. Force them on the defensive… their base is already turning on them. We’re watching districts flip in real time, show the american people what you are trying to do, so we can actually help you do it.

I mean I guess the concept is that they are using a system that may not be so well trusted. On the surface there is some potential good, but it boils down to the government buying stocks. The fact that they are index funds make it a little less daunting, but at the end of the day it’s kind of a door to stupid corruption. IE company bribes politicians, government chooses index funds to drive up the stock prices they want. Stocks they want go up… politicians and croneys dump their stock in them at a high price, those stocks go down.

Well yes most anyone here knows he’s 1/100th as bad as trump. and honestly in practice as president, I have to say he may actually be the best president in my lifetime. Doesn’t change the fact that his age was a huge problem in his campaigning. and put simply the democratic party’s obvious coverup of his age, that all fell appart on debate day did a pretty awful weakening to the image of the democratic party, which I would say, contributed to a good portion of swayable voters staying home or voting for trump.

You’ll find them here https://president.ir/en/president/cabinet

I’m willing to bet next week we’ll get an MRI result, of his toe… and someone’s going to notice the date is this week.

Always good to know a strong political movement being lead, when the creators, don’t mention a single policy stance, state their past sides were based on which party hired them first… and formerly helped the tea party. So in short, their goal is to find districts of low turnout where voters aren’t arsed to show up… giving an independent candidate a shot, with no indication of what that candidate will stand for.

If I had to be a betting man, I’m going to assume, it’s going to be just like the tea party with a new strategy. IE it’s stances will be determined by the same money that dominates the existing 2 parties, given the false air of being “independent”, just like the tea party did.

Well I mean the bulk of the features they are railing about aren’t even currently in most cars, Emergency breaking seems about 50/50 on protecting you vs others (hits the brakes if it detects you mindlessly driving towards something), and then the system that prevents people from leaving babies in the back seat.

awesome good to know, fingers crossed this is actually a direction that may happen. still have to question if it’s enough to force johnson to bring it to the vote, and possibly needs a fillibuster breaking majority. (before we even talk about the senate).