Perhaps having U.S. space transport and classified space-based security operations dependent on a chaotic fascism-supporting billionaire is problematic. Also, if you are using Starlink, you're now supporting Trump and everything that means. And if you buy a Tesla now, you can't claim "you didn't know" that they're as much a part of fascism as the original VW was part of the Nazis.
My friend Sam Mehr and colleagues have a fun new online game that is also part of a public science research study.
I suspect more than half of you all can beat my 50th percentile on music. Can more than a sixth of you beat my 86th percentile on color?
This game probes your intuitions for how color tones and music tones fit together.
Try it!
Prisons really disappear people. You can lose your job waiting for a court date to come. You can't inform them and since being held by the State is the scarlet letter (next to being undocumented: you become someone undeserving of human dignity and fall into the Protestant vortex of having to work for it - a debt forced on you), you become fucked.
If you want to see if Americans would tolerate camps, go and try to find your nearest prison.
#SheldonWhitehouse and a slew of other Democratic Senators have cosponsored a bill establishing terms limits for Supreme Court Justices. This is just one version of the idea, but since it already has traction with Senate Democrats, it is worth a closer look as a harbinger of what Biden may be willing to get behind. Here’s Whitehouse’s press release describing the bill. https://www.whitehouse.senate.gov/news/release/whitehouse-booker-blumenthal-padilla-introduce-new-supreme-court-term-limits-bill/ 2/
Where I'm at:
I cannot believe we are fielding an 81 year old who can barely speak in complete sentences against the greatest fascist threat our country has ever faced in modern times.
I.
Cannot.
Fucking.
Believe.
It.
I fucking hate the Democratic Party for this.
I'll vote against Trump if I have to step across burning coals, but I wish I was voting for something instead of a fucking 81 year old bandaid that keeps falling off every other hour.
It goes without saying that political violence is reprehensible, and it is therefore good that today's example of it was unsuccessful.
But in addition to that, I'm not sure this country could handle Trump as a martyr. Any attempt of violence against him, successful or not, only strengthens his cause.
He and his ideology *must* be defeated peacefully.
#uspol, nihilism
I was all for #Biden dropping out to make room for a better candidate, but it's too late now. His hubris was overwhelming and he stuck around long enough that he's forced us to keep him on the ticket.
In doing so, he may have doomed our country and our democracy.
All we can do now is rally behind him, knowing that the people in the middle are probably going to vote for #Trump, just because he can actually speak somewhat coherently.
Well, that and we should probably stock up on ammunition, so we can go down fighting instead of passively being dragged to the gulag by goose-stepping thugs.
Wait, the billionaire is siding against the party that wants to tax him fairly?
Who could have possibly seen that coming?
FFS #Meta. I'm one of the biggest #FreeSpeech advocates in the country and even I recognize that "allowing political expression" is much lower on the priority list than "avoiding serious risks to human rights". The fact that you have to "weigh" the two means that you have no fucking clue what you're doing.
https://about.fb.com/news/2023/01/trump-facebook-instagram-account-suspension/
My kingdom for a dictionary website that can run without #javascript 🤦♂️ 🤦♂️ 🤦♂️
Software engineering contractor/consultant in Florida specializing in .NET C# #WebDev, plus #Indie #GameDev in #MonoGame, #Stride, and #Godot.
I like complex simulations and enjoy writing procedural generation algorithms for fun.
#Pilot in training. Burgeoning fan of #Aviation in general.
Fan of #1A jurisprudence and the kind of #FreeSpeech that applies to everyone equally.
Pro-Democracy. Pro-Rights. Pro-Freedom. In that order.
Politically moderate, but a registered Democrat since January 7th 2021.
He/Him 🏳🌈
High risk of rants, especially with the lack of character limit.