Oh, suddenly she can move quickly on something when there's political cover to do what she actually wants.

Unbelievable corruption. And the liberal media is going to be tripping over themselves to talk about this like it's some complicated issue, rather than straightforward political corruption.

I appreciate the spirit, but people who read books are probably the wrong demographic to aim this kind of messaging at.

What a wild time to be around in. Imagine trying to explain to a Reagan republican in the 80s that by the 2020s they'd be following a guy who literally does nothing to hide the fact that he's a Russian asset for an ex-KGB strong man.

The right really has totally collapsed the notion of fact based reality.

It's actually illegal to threaten the president. It's not protected speech.

This is why conservativism is just not compatible with democracy. You can't have a society that adapts to a changing world and growing understanding of reality if people's political ideology boils down to "We need to ignore new information and instead keep trying the failed ideas of the past."

This is why when the Democratic party talk about the need for "balance" between the two parties it's so toxic.

I think the real division on the "left" can be boiled down to those using all the language and rhetoric of left wing ideology but in service of fascist and conservative ideas.

For example, tankies or people who have been brainwashed by tankies; a person can spend all day talking about how they support Palestine and BLM and LGBT rights etc. but then turn around and defend the CCP, which completely undermines any claim that they're actually on the left/center.

So in that way it's less of a "progressives never agree" and more of a "anti-progressive ideas are constantly pushed into progressive spaces to undermine them."

This can't be true. I was told that if she has nothing to hide she has nothing to worry about!

I can't speak for the anarcho-primitivists but I can say I've been alive long enough to understand that a lot of miracle tech is just a cash grab or a way or distracting from the real solutions. Like carbon capture instead of just investing in renewables and zero emission solutions that exist.

Tech bros are intellectually and morally careless and if what they say seems to good to be true, it's likely not.

Not totally surprising, I feel bad for the person who was in a desperate enough situation to become a con man narcissist's guinea pig.

It looks like we're learning the lesson we already learned back when Bill Gates tried to mess around with the education system and faceplanted; just because billionaires made a bunch of money selling a fancy toaster they invented or whatever, doesn't make them experts on anything else.

I'd sooner put a bullet in my head than something Elon Musk had a hand in.

-Looks out window. Lawn's engulfed in flames. Closes window shades.-

"All better."

This kind of cycle back and forth between full-throated conservative idiocy and then demanding to be saved from the consequences of their own actions is what really makes me so depressed about the majority of voters.

I could excuse a young person maybe for being naive and inexperienced enough to think conservativism might have some kind of merit, but grown-ass adults have literally no excuse to ever believe the right-wing ever about anything.

Not just in the UK, but everywhere.

I hate people who make a big show of being "outraged" over child abuse as a way to cover for their own repugnant, violent beliefs and behaviors.

It's the same way some prisoner who murdered an entire family will beat or kill pedophiles in prison because he thinks he somehow redeems him on some level by having a "code". In reality he's still a massive piece of shit.

It's deeply self-serving exploitation of a very serious issue.

Bipartisan is a really bad sign. My money says this is not going to be aimed at actually addressing the underlying profit motive that drives big tech to purposefully promote misery through their algorithm designs, instead it will be further restriction on users freedoms and privacy.

President Joe Biden warned Monday that a Supreme Court ruling granting presidents broad immunity from prosecutionwould make an unchecked Republican Donald Trump “more emboldened to do whatever he wants” if he regains the White House in November’s election.

And the justices kind of looked around quizzically and said "Yeah...no shit, that's the whole idea. Did you just get that?"

Lol, he has to do outside rallies because he already screwed over all the indoor venues in these areas during his last go round and no one wants to host him.

He never pays the venues and it's coming back to bite him in the arse.

Meanwhile, Conservatives:

I think this confirms what we kind of already know; Trump has maxed out his support, and it's not much. Turnout is key for Democrats.

The 100Gb version mentioned above does only have thumbnails/lowres pictures, yeah. Better than nothing for some types of articles, but not everything. The true text-only version is actually only ~53Gb though.

Because the term "woke" when used as a criticism is literally just a dog whistle for racists, misogynists, and homophobes.

"Please allow our machine to upload your development work directly to our servers in Schenzhen."