Idk, looks like a cigarette to me. /s

Twice, she’s surprisingly pro-palestine and a lot better then most dems on calling it a genocide and for an arms embargo to israel.

Horrible on almost everything else though…

I don’t think daily usage necessitates addiction. In my opinion addiction is continually use despite negative repercussions because of fear of withdrawal / not being able to operate without it.

Like I have sugary coffee almost every day but I wouldn’t say I’m addicted because I’m not experiencing any negative consequences from it. If I were gaining weight or having heart problems and still kept to it then I’d say that’s an addiction.

Same with pot, some people can use it every day without suffering many consequences. If your gaining weight from the munchies, or getting a smokers cough, or becoming antisocial etc. and still use it, that’s when it becomes problematic.

No joke this is how I got my girlfriend of 5 years, had on my tinder bio:

i can solve a rubiks cube in under 60 seconds

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if for some reason you haven’t already swiped right here’s some other stuff

It’s not even just the bad they’re not showing, they aren’t showing anything outside of a suburban straight white guys point of view. Which does reflect a lot of 80s media but doesn’t reflect the experience of a lot of people in the 80s

This is the same guy who tweeted that the progressives on San feanciscos city council should die a slow painful death.

Yeah, let’s put up another California democrat that’s too centrist to attract progressives and too California to attract middle America, it worked so well last time…

Nah, The more you learn about mormonism the more you realize how stupid it is.

It’s more like vegans, the more you learn about it the more you realize they’re right but you don’t switch out of convenience and familiarity. The preachiness and eir of superiority is annoying though.

California may redraw its maps* Gavin can’t actually do this unilaterally unlike in Texas and this will be put to a referendum on the November ballot.

The ballot measure won’t be a sure thing even though California is very democratic, 38% voted for trump in the last election. It’ll be a very off year election as well so turnout will probably very low and only those who are motivated. So the question is whose more motivated, the anti-trump resistance who want to stop him at any cost, or the conservatives in the state who are effectively having there representation taken away.

Maybe one good outcome of this is the conservatives will feel so unwelcome they’ll actually follow through and fuck off to Texas and help ease the housing crisis.

I don’t think Bernie is getting cheque’s from aipac, think he may be more motivated by aipac dumping money into a rival candidate. Although his term isn’t up until 2030, and by then he’ll be 89, so hopefully he won’t be running for re-election anyway.

I agree, that’s why I hate shit like this, it just further entrenches the current system and allows both parties to continue ignoring calls for change. The democratic party have proven they’re not gonna be the ones to change the underlying structures of the current system as they benefit from them almost as much as the republicans.

That’s the line democrats always give whenever they want to force through an unpopular item. They said that would happen if trump got elected the first time, and when he got re elected but here we are saying that the second half of his second term is when hes actually going to destroy democracy. Don’t get me wrong it’s a shit situation, especially for the poor and minorities, but the system has not collapsed. This is because established powerful corporate interests don’t want the country to collapse, and they’re the ones who call the shots. It’s why trump chickened out on the tarriffs, they won’t let him run the country off a cliff.

Even if trump is an existential threat to democracy, 5 extra seats from California isn’t going to stop him. We’d need a supermajority in the senate to impeach him, and that’s not happening. If he is going to try to subvert the election then this sort of move only helps his case as it discredits California and allows him to call all the representatives from there invalid. In what case are these 5 reps going to save democracy?

That game theory assumes only two agents though, the republicans and the democrats, when there is a third agent that is losing if this escalates, the democratic will of the people. If Texas gerrymanders to win 5 seats and California gerrymanders to win 5 seats then it’s not just a wash as the people of California have lost there right to determine there districts democratically.

If anything both sides have a perverse incentive to gerrymander to further entrench there power in the areas they already have and make it harder for challengers, again at the cost of the people’s democratic will. Tit for tat assumes there’s some cost to the agents to incentivize stopping, but the democratic party of California may not necessarily care about Republicans getting elected in Texas, especially if there gonna get a majority in the house anyway, which all signs point to that outcome. They do care about getting democrats elected, and this tit for tat will help them with that, so they have an incentive to escalate.

Everyone a month ago:

gerrymandering sucks, the two party system sucks

Everyone now:

let’s let the democrats gerrymander all they want and further entrench their power to secure a “win” in 2026 that we’re almost definitely gonna get any way

$5 says this new map just happens to get rid of progressive districts too because “they have to spread out votes to cancel Republicans.”

Let the midterms go how they will. This is all premised on the idea that texas’ map change will secure the house in 2026, when all the signs point to a democratic blowout in 2026.

• midterms almost always swing towards the opposition
• the Republicans have one of the smallest majorities in history right now
• Trump is very unpopular right now and a lot of Republicans only get elected riding his coat tails these days.

It does look like a clone, but fuck IP law. Sony winning this will only hurt games because any publisher with a genre creating / defining game could gatekeep any competitors from coming in *cough Nintendo.

The original horizon came out 8 years ago, that’s plenty of time for them to cash in on the monopoly they get for all the creativity that went into creating the genre / style.

Its not like they’re marketing it with a similar name or main character or any other identifier that could trick someone into buying it instead either.

Ah, I was hoping this meant chatgpt would give canned responses, ie. “Seek help”, whenever it detected it was being used for mental health issues, which it should. But no it’s just open air flipping off anyone who asks why there chatbot pushed a person to suicide.

Self proclaimed “5 star man” Dennis Reynolds is the top suspect

This study isn’t about total clicks, or a drop in traffic to Google caused by people not liking the ai overview. It’s about for each Google search that was executed, how often did someone click on a link. Without ai it was 15% and with ai it is 8%. So if anything its proving the customers like the ai overviews and believe they are getting enough from them to answer their query.

Sure there are probably a couple people who see the overview at the top and hate ai so much they leave Google without clicking anything, but those people will probably only do that once or twice before they stop using Google entirely or disable the feature, and thus wouldn’t count much in the data about ai overview searches.

Yeah, and unlike gas prices going up there are readily available alternatives people can switch to easily with little cost.