Seems reasonable. I’ve seen other people proposing that or similar solutions to the supreme Court.

Well then replacing Jeffries is a priority.

Most conservatives don’t care, and when they do care they don’t understand.

Increasingly, they see their fellow citizens as morally bankrupt. American citizens are far more likely to view their fellow countrymen as fundamentally evil than citizens of the other surveyed nations.

Maga hats are as evil as the Nazis were. They want death camps. They’re bad people. They are not a mirror image of socialists who want health care for all, nor queer people who just want to live lives.

Every political campaign relies on the explicit premise that the opposition intends to dismantle civilization — either forcing you into communism or fascism, neither of which, if we are being honest, sounds particularly appealing.

There aren’t any communists seriously running for office. Not even close. There are people who want to reduce inequality and give labor a larger, fairer, slice of the pie. That is not communism.

Meanwhile, trump and the like meet all the characteristics laid out in eco’s essay on ur-fascism. ( https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umberto-eco-ur-fascism )

They grew up watching the adults in the room treat the opposing political party as an existential threat to survival

The Republican party is an existential threat to survival if you’re queer or not white enough. They’re also a threat, on a longer timeline, due to climate change. And also the deregulation and incompetence that gives us like disease outbreals. We should not act like that’s an irrational response.

Also, historically, the Republican response to HIV under Reagan lead to incalculable death and sorrow.

This article feels like a teacher seeing two kids fighting, and their response is they’re both wrong. They’re not considering how one kid is constantly the aggressor and the other is fighting back. It’s a false eeuuvlance.

This article kind of sucks.

I’m happy I never developed a soda habit.

I pretty much only buy snacks and junks for parties. A normal sized bag of chips was like $7 yesterday. The smaller tostitos were labeled like $5.50.

I’d love to see some sort of general strike or mass boycott, but there’s not enough organization, and things aren’t bad enough for it to happen en masse spontaneously.

Cool. I don’t have kids, but I’m not the kind of asshole who doesn’t care about other people.

I buy albums. Built up a nice library. No drm. No Internet required. I can even share it or pass it on. It’s a lot easier to share than my parents’ big record collection

Surely this guy has an address

I wanted this to go to trial so the jury could nullify, but this is a shit timeline.

I think a plain cheese pizza is slightly different than a margherita pizza. It won’t typically have the basil leaves, and the cheese is more uniform.

I’m thinking of like dollar slice pizza. Like these https://secretnyc.co/seamless-dollar-cheese-slice/

But I’m not a pizza-ologist.

Speaking on behalf of a friend, as I prefer toppings: they discovered that a variety of things give them body problems, and it’s easier to just do a plain cheese pie than to try to guess if peppers are going to upset their body today.

The antithesis of a cheese pizza is a pizza with toppings. It’s an idiom, so I wouldn’t recommend thinking too hard on it.

where are the consequences?

Maga folks wouldn’t care if trump used a baby as a shield. Their brains are fermented in in-group loyalty.

Of course they are. I’m happy to never use twitch but I feel like most people don’t care or don’t have the self discipline to stop.

It’s because the decision makers are fucking stupid.

I would be happier at work if we could just solve interesting problems. Instead we have mandates from management to do nonsense, or work in nonsense ways.

The people at the top are so removed from how work gets done, and how normal people live, they’re useless. Worse than useless.

It would still be anti-labor and a force multiplier for confident stupidity.

I’m happy not using blizzard or other Microsoft products.

I bet they’ll try to buy discord soon.

I mostly get music from Bandcamp. They have a pretty big library, but it’s mostly newer and independent bands on there. You won’t find, like, the beatles or taylor swift.

Sometimes I’ll buy stuff directly from bands, if it’s not on bandcamp, via their store or label or whatever. I used to get CDs, too, and rip them, but I haven’t done that in a while.

I will continue to not use Spotify. Buying drm free music is a long term win.