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Speaking of which....
Go out and fucking vote!
It's no longer about seeing the small picture we've seen hundreds of times.
It's about showing their followers and friends on social media that they were physically there to take a picture of a portrait that everyone has seen hundreds of times.
Social media is killing our species.
I was talking to a friend of mine a while back who was interning with a state legislator. We got on the topic of bake sales for schools and my friend just about flipped his lid.
He went on a good 5 minute rant about how school budgets take these "bake sales" into account, with goals and measures. So in essence, bake sales allow for states to lower the amount of money they would normally get. (Let's ignore the fact that schools in affluent districts often have the time and resources to even have bake sales.)
No one wants to pay for schools. Schools don't win elections. Public safety does. You can still win an election if you don't fund a school but you won't win an election if you're "soft on crime".
Our entire system is fucked up.
I'm a JavaScript developer. But it is fully possible to create a site with no frontend JavaScript
Like many things, you should use JavaScript if you need it. If you don't need remote data sources or live refreshes, pure html and css work perfectly fine and, I would go so far as to say, may even be necessary for resistance web pages.
This is especially true if you're using tor. JavaScript can leak your IP address and sites will work more reliability if you have static content that's refreshed on the back end than using a bloated next.js app taking up RAM.
The US military for all their many, many faults, is real good at war, and marching like a toy soldier doesn't help you do war.
The point of a uniformed service is to show your enemy that you have control and command over people who will follow your orders. Demonstrating this lowers your enemy's will to fight back. It gets soldiers on the other side to think "If these guys are so organized that they march in unison, we don't stand a chance."
These military parades are no longer valuable except to authoritarians. Normal functioning democracies don't use national military forces to project power. They do so using diplomacy and other political methods.
But Trump, Kim Jung Un, Modi, and Putin all use it to flex their authority to their base.
It will not surprise me if in the next year, a new division in the army is created for parade duty for the president's birthday where next year their marching will be perfect.
All so that Trump can get his dick hard.
Roads typically go two ways. They may have one side of the road but eventually the billionaires have to come out the other.
We can easily mine the side just past the guards.
A couple of strategies depending on the problem you're dealing with:
Lack of motivation (assuming you're not neurodivergent) often is a result of not having a plan or you find the activity tedious. If it's the latter, I'd go the simple route and try to keep your cooking as easy as possible. This is essentially true if you're new to cooking.
If it's the former, consider meal planning. I plan my meals a week in advance, taking into account left overs I already have, left overs I'm planning on making, food I need to buy, and other factors.
If you're neurodivergent, I'm hesitant to provide advice as I am not a doctor but I suggest talking to your therapist about it and seeing if they can help you.
If you're in medical school, you would have been there at least in the beginning of Biden's term. Texas was still a shit hole then.
What made you go to medical school in fucking Texas?
The number of people I know who have voluntarily moved there with absolutely no reason have been shocking. I have a co-worker who moved from NYC to Dallas for no reason outside of "I wanted to move somewhere different."
Not a job relocation. No family there. Just straight up "I'm moving".
I'm so thankful for content like this. I've been in the market for an electric car and he's covered topics that seem to stop me and others:
It's becoming clear that we can't continue to compare electric cars to gas cars. They are different enough that you can't just do a side by side comparison.
Cars seem to be good "general use" vehicles whereas electric cars are more geared toward commuting. I've had to learn to measure an electric car based on my daily use vs the occasional road trip.
I've started seeing more shit like this, even TVs in exam rooms with ads like this.
Which is it?!
This headline came up in my news feed, from a very dubious source so I decided to investigate.
Headline after headline, many from identical sources, about how Walmart and Bank of America are either going to stop taking $1 bills or keep accepting them. The headlines read like a FUD article and I refuse to click through to read the details.
I can't find a reputable news source for this story so I'm assuming it's fake news.
It shouldn't be this easy to manipulate news feeds.
fmovies has been gone almost a month. I should have added "FBI" up there but really they used FBI to shoot down the service, not be like them.
I don't understand when these companies are going to learn that sharing their IP is going to get them more money than being so fractured.
I started using sudo-lol and seems okay. Streaming can be hinky at times but it works for most of the things I want to watch.
I know that torrenting can be a thing but sometimes I just want to watch and not deal with a whole finding a torrent, download, and then watch workflow.
No I mean our electoral system. I'm not saying voters aren't at fault. They completely are.
But fear is a much more powerful motivator than hope or even the future. (Read: conservatives)
It's much easier to get people scared about some nameless boogyman who is going to invade your house than it is to get people excited about a future of rainbows and lollipops.