Land cockroaches are taboo now…,

I had a think about that.

I think the Democratic Party became more progressive and “enlightened” at the same rate local politics lost its ability to do significant changes.

As activism across the political spectrum diminished in the 1990s, and as local grassroots movements dried up due to population movements. People turned to a higher yet inefficient source of power; state and federal democrats . It was about that time the party started to rebrand itself to seem more useful to these people

Most people who have grandchildren will remember that mainstream democrats were a bit scary back in the day. Certainly not any sort of pressure value ( in Texas even in the 90s they used to hold political meetings during hog hunts)

In many states, particularly the south, the older Democratic Party was completely replaced by others who had none of the connections, wealth or power.

I think to a while, after that, the democrats were a pressure valve, like you described.

But now we are in a time of political stasis. And nothing would change tomorrow if the whole party went away. At this time the only thing keeping us in check is us, the population, who is challenged to do anything

It has a very small effect in a handful of states with some local policy changes. I think it has no effect federally

Ultimately the approval numbers for democrats only matter in states that do not hide the counting of votes and allow recounts

Elections and democracy do not mean much when precious few people have no any idea how the ballots are handled.

Even when all the votes are accurately recorded in every precinct in the nation; new political parties are stillborn and votes cannot reverse corruption and mismanagement .

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Any technology after coming down from the trees is bad and should be avoided. However, survival depends on increasing usage of tech stacks.

It was out of control 3 million years ago and is certainly disaster now. Exponentially growing worse.

I find articles like this inspiring but it’s also a misrepresentation

The actions are no surprise to anyone who knows the area. Appalachia has a long history of fighting authority in any century against any government , and being fair minded. Like any place it is a mix of people both good and bad.

Articles like this will selectively point out inspiring actions, who others can talk about and say “look! their actions mean something different and new”.

But here, this is not new, not really, and nothing can change yet, no matter how many inspiring people are talked about.

Witnessed this first hand yesterday. Key fob battery failed, resulting in a series of events that lead to the car entering theft mode. Locksmith had to come and reset it

Similar for me, but the stress of it all helps burn calories, the fear like a little boost to the exercise. Poor joke.

I think the state of Israel itself has become similar to a false prophet warned about in all Abrahamic religions

But only some distros should be used !

So, anyway… I am using the rise of cost of produce in the stores as my economic indicator because it is tied to so many other things

It’s what an Enron would claim

The china hawks are very amusing, in a way, because they embrace values that people poorer or richer than them are indifferent.

What the article does not cover is a suspicion of mine. I think he is laying the ground to confiscate property from Muslims , some deported individuals, protestors against Israel, and any other people they can target.

The reason for those wars, and the decaying infrastructure, and the bottom 90% becoming poorer were all the same.

I think he will be regarded as a mass murderer by the future. It’s weird seeing his early days in current events.

Never heard of this site, the article seems solid but too bbc light for me: drawing in opinions from “both sides” without having too much opinion of the morals.

The effort to put the AI into Firefox harmed the project and unrelated services. My opinion is it was not worth the cost

To me, AI in Firefox is a symbol for why and how Mozilla lost its momentum. I could have used other bone headed and incompetent decisions, but the switch to the AI had such a large burden that it’s literally the poster child for inept management.

Narrator: it was not over until the year 2031