lol Musk dumped triple this in PA on a whim.

After all, $60,000,000 to Musk is what spending $20 is to someone making 100k.

File that under when I care for your opinion.

If you had respect and do care, ask why.

Not quite the same gap but I grew to be good friends with a work buddy in his 40s when I was 25.

Throughout my life I tended to connect better with people older than me.

But if you have bad vibes beyond just the age then it may be worth talking candidly with your son about your concerns.

Honestly I’m all for it; then handing the keys to Trump lmao.

Or implement a No Fly Zone and fully commit NATO forces to air defense. See Putin squirm on what to do and how to react. Makes the Putin-Trump relationship tense. Trump backing down would be seen as weak. Putin wouldn’t retaliate because he wouldn’t risk losing his puppet.

I like this. Bonus: read children’s books and bilingual books; watch news or children’s shows in Spanish.

Find a good way to crunch vocabulary memorization with digital flashcard programs you can work during any downtime you have.

I’m mostly surprised by the “faces consequences” part.

✅- White

✅- Conservative

❎- Rich

❎- Male

Tough luck…

The more voter accessibility, the better vote turnout. It’s no different than going the opposite way with voter suppression strategy or Jim crow laws. Most states already utilize digital transfer of voting data to state secretary central branches to my knowledge.

Not only this but it (a) actually helps prevent voter fraud while (b) improving turnout by way of digital accessibility.

If we shot down every idea from the peanut gallery because it wasn’t simple on its surface we wouldn’t have a lot of things.

But what did I notice is that you’ve now twice dodged the fact that the thing you’re most scared about implementing this is already a reality.

So can you explicitly tell me what unavoidable downside it would bring that doesn’t already exist in reality?

Ironically, you’re accepting fascism is here by preventing us from advancing with a more secure election system that would permit a more responsible, accessible digital voting, are you not?

You’re holding us back for fear of what could be.

Even in the wake of what already is a practical reality as I showed.

Ok, Abed.

What’s so scary about that? While the reason seems obvious, I ask because if you know what sort of sophisticated voter identification models the parties have right now, they can easily ascertain your voting history with 90%+ accuracy and predict fairly well who you’ll vote for in the future anyway.

I was just thinking of this recently but if Trump utilized his immunity to the fullest extent and we descend into Kristallnacht territory, these voter models would be how they began purging, “the enemy from within.”

So given we already are at that point, then maybe the benefits of such a ledger could outweigh the cons.

Also goes for stories covering children, too.

As an aside, I always wondered if the opposite rings true in countries where the minority is white. Ethnocentrism?

I remember exploring how it could be a way to secure digital Democratic elections. Any thoughts on this?

I appreciate the insight. So if I’m understanding you correctly, the AfD while they’re picking up fringe support, hasn’t really been able to broaden its coalition and lacks the capacity to hijack the government, even from a position of plurality.

I’m curious how the overall public perception of immigration will be for Germans going forward, considering the assimilation of the Syrian refugees Merkel took in, Germany’s aging workforce, as well as the existing need to fill jobs like medicine. Are there polling data trends available on this?

I’m glad we’re moving on, but the damage is done.

The xitter takeover to me seemed entirely planned to help suppress media for this election and it worked. It helped muddy the waters even more.

Only thing I can think of is air and noise pollution impacting quality of sleep and benefits from walking. No idea about the water though lol.

That’s cruel & unusual punishment, that is.

lol is this even a question? Yes, I’ll take the genitals kick over the possibility of traumatic brain damage.

But that’s entertaining this is a valid analogy, which it isn’t. Here, let’s try this on for size, shall we?

• You’re in a concentration camp and the President who oversees the Warden is up for reelection.
• You watch from outside as the Warden who is brutally terrorizing those people.
• There is a binary choice between 2 people for President.
• The one has openly instructed the Warden to (1) “finish the job” and undermined every humanitarian aid and even (2) obstructing a “ceasefire” to the guards at every turn, all the while (3) completely and utterly ignoring protesters, if not beating them up.
• The other has at least expressed support for (a) Statehood and self-determination of the population, and (b) that the killing must stop, and (c) is clearly more amicable to persuasion and outside pressure.
• You in all your infinite wisdom, choose to vote for the former in this unfounded perception that there is no difference. As if there isn’t a spectrum of genocidal damage and conditions can’t get even worse (and they always, always can).

lol. So while you sit from the comfort of your own armchair, patting yourself on the back for your little Pyrrhic victory, you’ve only exacerbated conditions for years to come both in Gaza and Ukraine alike. You cannot be taken seriously.

Perhaps you you should sit out geopolitics a tad bit longer until you’re actually out of grade school and learn a few more lessons in critical-thinking?

Edit: “Israeli Right, Pushing to Annex West bank, Sees Allies in Trump’s Picks” — Gee, thanks Uncommitted! lol.

Hmm…

Germany was one of a couple nations we’ve been considering immigrating to. My wife is an experienced RN, too.

My main concern is whether Germany will be able to brunt the far-right movement there or if it’s as inevitable as it was here in the US.

I too am holding Tlaib accountable hereon for the genocide in both Gaza and Ukraine for her blatantly ignorant action to not choose Harris over Trump, who will be orders of magnitude worse for both.

I kind of just want to send him letters in prison, pages long of just, “hahahahah.”