Doug Holland @ DougHolland @lemmy.world

Obese gray male, introverted, cranky, woke but needs a nap. Enjoys solitude

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This is damned difficult to believe from the Trump administration. My prediction is, it's pressure to get something out of Google — probably a promise to make search results more MAGA friendly, or finger people making un-Trump-friendly search inquiries. End result, a fine at best. There's just No Frickin' Way this administration would actually do something to rein in Google.

Thanks for this. I'm a few thousand miles from Illinois, so my Pritzker awareness isn't robust, but with what you've written and quoted here, I'm moving him to my list of good guy Democratic politicians.

There are 9, now including Pritzker.

Most Americans are, as you estimate, center-to-right, but that's because America has no political party of the left, so lefty ideas are simply unknown to 90% of us. When genuine leftyism is spoken aloud by candidates who actually believe what they're saying — AOC or Sanders and very few others — it's very nearly undefeated.

America is center-to-right the same way someone who's never eaten kiwi fruit thinks kiwi fruit looks icky. Give 'em a bite of kiwi, though, and they'll be kooky for kiwi for life.

I simply cannot bear to watch the debates, ever. Not for decades now. Even the alleged 'highlights' are unendurable. The questions are imbecilic, the answers are rarely even answers, and by unanimous agreement of everyone involved, the questions that matter most are not allowed to be asked.

I don't know about the hardware, but I think the software is substantially older than that — dates back to the 1960s. I might be wrong, though, and I'm too stoned right now to Google it.

I'm also an old person who yells, and I agree.

Mostly, though, if we're going to 'modernize' the system (with or without AI), it needs to be done smartly and methodically, and by people who aren't philosophically opposed to Social Security's existence.

I tried, but can't bear to read the "article," which, being Axios, is merely a collection of blips instead of actual writing and journalism.

As for the headline, I'm pleased to see plenty of common sense in the comments here. Seeing an MD in America is difficult, expensive, time-consuming, often preachy, and frequently not worth the co-pay if you're lucky enough to have insurance. "Health care providers" have made it such a hoop-jumpy and slow process, that when I'm ill seeing a doctor is about my fourth choice.

What the fuck and why? What's to be gained from this, for The Atlantic or its editor, Jeffrey Goldberg? Shit-can this dumb idea right here and now, please.

Rebuke away, ya dumb fuck Dems. What the young Mr Hogg is attempting — funding primary challengers to the most empty-suit Democrats — might be futile, might not, but you gotta respect the effort.

"Wake up, wake up," he shouts at the corpse of the Democratic Party, which will probably wake up only long enough to smack him away, and then go back to sleep.

There are enough genuine outrages in America these days, I was inclined to think nothing much of this one.... until Franklin Graham weighed in on the store owner's side. Nothing more needs to be researched or considered; as much as Donald Trump or Elon Musk, if Franklin Graham is on your side you're on the wrong side.

Good stuff, thanks.

That's not a "slip-up" unless there's an apology and the info is taken down, which hasn't happened, and won't. It's a DHS doxing.

Court orders can be either followed or appealed, but in the entire history of me reading the news, I don't remember ever seeing a headline about someone "resisting" court orders.

That headline is a masterwork of obfuscation, softening an obvious fact by hiding it behind "fears grow".

I've wondered, too. Is it driven by an obsessive hatred of Arabs and Muslims? The Christian Right's fetish for armageddon? Oil? Kickbacks?

This is nice and all, but court rulings against the Trump regime are moot. Everything Trump doesn't like gets emergency-docketed to the Supreme Court, which he owns, and in the rare instance where the Supremes rule against Trump, he ignores it.

Thanks for a quick & helpful answer!

The real problem is all the anti-Semitism.

Monkeys will fly out of my bunghole before this trial could amount to anything but a lot of lawyers' paydays.

The road to today was littered with "Trump is nuts, but he's not nuts enough to do that."