I remember when the current generation of consoles came out (Series X/S and PS5) that both MS and Sony and all the various gaming magazines were claiming that they would be the last hardware consoles ever. Uh huh.
This level of disconnect from reality is painful. Why don't you just hand the keys to our government to the Red Menace now and be done with it? Why even pretend?
This is what people don't understand about electives in college. They think they are just bullshit courses that are a waste of time. You should go into picking an elective as a way to relax, learn something about a subject you are interested in but might not be all that knowledgeable about. You might come out of it with a new hobby or interest you want to pursue further. Maybe people more two dimensional.
I know people aren't going to believe this, but honestly, you don't need to be a bazillionaire to collect vintage cars. It sure helps (a lot!!), but depending upon what he was collecting, you can buy certain classics for (relatively speaking) cheap.
The director at my old company was into classic cars too and we would shoot-the-shit all the time about his cars and mine.
We do the healthcare debate in this country about once a generation. It takes years for the situation to get so bad that people are so sick of things that they legitimately start demanding change. That's one of the things that got Obama elected around 15 years ago. And all this talk about us demanding change and a better system vanished almost overnight when the debate actually started. All those people who weeks prior were all for some kind of universal coverage, all of a sudden they fell quiet as these people got cold feet. So just as the people who wanted change quieted down, at the same time you had right wing groups trying to scare people with accusations of "death panels" and a bunch of other pro-business bullshit. So in the end, Obama being the pragmatist that he was, settled for a much watered-down healthcare program that barely passed Congress.
So pardon me whenever I hear this nonsense that "a majority of the US supports universal healthcare" all I can do is laugh because polls are utterly meaningless because the one time in recent history when we could have gone that route, we fell far short. And to be clear, I absolutely think we need universal healthcare, but I just know my fellow Americans say a whole lot of things in non-binding polls, but rarely follow-through with that when it comes to electing like-minded individuals.
The Hollywood elite know this strike will end eventually and they know they want to fill movie seats. Endearing her to the masses and making her looking like "one of them" is exactly what people want to see and is just the kind of thing that will fill those movie theater seats when this strike is over. That one photo, assuming it was picked up by all the usual celebrity-worshiping publications and websites, will have upped her desirability by quite a bit. Smart move by her and her people.
You see that shit literally every single day on Lemmy and Reddit and every other social media platform.
A divided America means a more powerful Russia and China and the benefactor tends to be the Republican party who has members, like Trump himself, who are in the pocket of these foreign nations.
The scariest thing isn't even that it is happening.
The scariest part is that so many just don't realize it is happening.
They think it only happens elsewhere or in some dark corner of the web. Literally people you respond to and posts you upvote and downvote are part of this disinformation campaign. Every time you see a post that is painting an especially bleak picture of the economy or our future, step back and think that this could very well be another one of many posts by trolls looking to create dissent, get people angry or apathetic toward our country and your fellow Americans.
The janitor doesn't usually have to address an entire room full of people.
I know hating on CEOs is par for the course for Lemmy, and I tend to agree most of the time, but being fair here, it isn't that often that lower (or even middle) ranking employees have a chance to speak to 10, 20 or 100+ coworkers at the same time.
But that is being timid. Because the Right has made universal healthcare a "communist" thing, but the Left is so utterly clueless in this country that they can't make a unified, cohesive argument for it. They are too timid to attack the Right, even when the Right never misses a chance to go on the offensive.
The Left in other parts of the industrialized world can be credited for universal healthcare, paternity leave, low-cost higher education and stuff like that.
The Left in the US can be credited for fucking up pronouns.
One is useful for getting working families what they need most to not just survive, but actually prosper. The other is just uselessly wasting everyone's time and energy on pointless issues, and as such, it is no wonder that the Left in the US gets little support and even less respect.
There is a main road in the "middle" and then small side paths that go to these houses. And the houses usually share common walls. It is all VERY tight. I wouldn't even bike on most of those roads because it is also very hilly and steps all over. Literally thousands of years before cars so most people have to walk.
I remember when the current generation of consoles came out (Series X/S and PS5) that both MS and Sony and all the various gaming magazines were claiming that they would be the last hardware consoles ever. Uh huh.