volkris @volkris@qoto.org

@uspolitics It sounds like the reporter from the independent didn't really keep up to speed with what was happening in the US here.

Mainstream conservative outlets had no problem dealing with the weird moniker. They easily pivoted and said that if Democrats think such and such is weird, well that just shows how out of touch they are. And then the conservatives went on to point out that their Democrats did things that they considered weird. It was an easy accusation to turn to their advantage.

Same thing here though. It sounds like the reporter from The Independent doesn't understand how this spectacle played for its audience. Conservatives like this stuff. And it's a rally, it's by conservatives for conservatives, so it accomplished its mission of preaching to the choir.

Really this just shows that the independent is out of touch with the US. It doesn't understand what it's talking about.

@knittingknots2 I mean, if you watched the segment... it kind of was.

And that kid glove handling might not be doing Harris any favors as people wonder if she is up for serious interviewing.

@curiousgawker Well it's because we've spent decades rewarding them for that kind of spectacle. It's been positive reinforcement training.

Their crowd wants to see it, so they gave it to them.

It's not mental disorder. It's performance for the people who want to see that performance.

@cdarwin The problem is, Johnson has to act on behalf of the entire House. He can't command their votes. So everything he does as Speaker of the House has to be done with awareness of what the members want to do and how they will vote.

If we want different direction out of the House then we need to stop reelecting the same idiots. But until we do, Johnson has to work with the people that we empower to be our representatives there.

@fkamiah17 No the opposite.

It says it's paying them NOT to hit targets that would do things like start WW3.

@LilHulkQ Well because we listen to her saying things that aren't serious, making proposals that won't work, many of which are even illegal, but most of which show this enormously ignorant perspective of how business, and governance, works.

She's not a serious person. The Democratic party made a huge mistake nominating her and risking Trump being re-elected.

We can see she's not serious based on her own words. So we're just screwed for the next 4 years. We should not let the Democratic party forget that they made this mistake.

@JeremyMallin Oh I definitely am.

And even just with regard to this platform, the standards behind it seem very inefficient when it comes to bandwidth. And there have been complaints from instance operators about that.

But yeah, It seems like with great capacity comes great disregard for efficiency.

@Reallyblue3@flipboard.social of course it's free speech.

You are free to lie. Hopefully people will notice that you're not telling the truth, but you are free to lie.

But terrorism? Come on. Of course it's not.

@spocko @emptywheel

@GaryRLundberg I mean yes.

Drilling does bring society more resources that do help with things like disaster response and recovery.

There's a good reason that DeSantis has been recognized for pretty good management of this stuff.

@alcinnz One option is they measure the voltage of the battery through an ADC, analog to digital converter, and based on the voltage they get a sense of how much charge is left.

The voltage will drop as the battery runs out.

However, with some of the newer batteries the voltage doesn't drop as fast, so the computer will try to keep track of how much current has been drawn from the battery and estimate how much is left based on that.

Both options can be pretty inexact, though, especially the second.

@AnthonyBaker but also let's say they are both awful and demand better of the parties next time around.

And probably just go ahead and get ready to impeach whichever one manages to get elected, because Lord knows both of them are going to commit impeachable offenses.

We get the government we deserve. We keep electing these morons.

@NeonPurpleStar I know that feeling all too well.

@lawprofblawg The fact that they were sticking with Biden should have been your first clue that they were trying hard to lose the election.

The fact that they pivoted to Harris without a reasonable primary or convention process should have been the second.

Neither of the two parties is particularly interested in winning this year. They would have chosen better candidates if they were.

Well we'll try again in four years.

@thelonious08.bsky.social It's funny because people complain that Trump is proposing to dismantle parts of the executive branch, voluntarily giving up powers of the presidency.

And then they turn around and complain that he has a well-documented history of being a fascist, even though they are complaining that he gives up power.

Sometimes when people don't call the guy a fascist it's because he's not a fascist.

He's an idiot, but he's not a fascist.

@spytfyre @wiredfire @trumpet pretty much laid out the discernible reason above 🙂

We want it. Facebook gives us what we want.

And over on this platform we see users complaining that they're not getting what they want because the algorithm is too simplistic.

Ideally it would be nice if humans were nice and healthy and wanted good things, but it turns out that's just not how humans are, so platforms give us what we ask for, Even if it's not particularly healthy.

@Tharpa Well it's a tool for us to accomplish things.

You might as well ask what the point of a hammer is. Well it's a tool that we can use to get things done, to build things, to create things, and all based on finding patterns that we ourselves would have trouble seeing.

@pzmyers@octodon.social What in the world?

NYT is notorious for its anti-Trump slant, having been long criticized for misrepresenting what's going on in ways that pander his critics.

@tshirtman you can look at different regions ranging from the Middle East through the engagement with the Pacific nations to see how US alliances grew at the expense of Russia's during the Trump years.

It's unfortunate that Biden dropped the ball on those efforts, but he seemed far more interested in domestic policy than international.

International energy policy is probably the simplest way to view it, as the US promoted itself as a source for trade to displace Russia under Trump but receded under Biden.

@dannotdaniel