Billiam @ billiam0202 @lemmy.world

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It's an older meme, sir, but it checks out.

Or an American man married to a Chinese woman whose father is a shipping magnate.

Looking at you, Yertle.

This, exactly.

The whole point of CVE is to make sure everyone is on the same page regarding exploits. That necessitates a single point of truth for the whole operation.

Well this is just flat out wrong.

The fact that people started appending "Reddit" to their search terms to find answers to what they wanted to know would probably be a gigantic indicator that Google's results without it were less than helpful.

A useful search engine returns the most relevant result the user wants as fast as possible. An advertising company wants its users to look at as many ads as they can for as long as they'll tolerate them. Thus it's apparent the goals of Google (the search engine) are diametrically opposed to the goals of Alphabet (the advertising company).

So yes, it's in the best interest of Google's bottom line to figure out how many ads they can show you (read: before you stop using Google altogether) until they show what might be relevant to you.

They said "useful," they didn't say "relevant."

In this case, "useful" means "the most results we can get paid to show you without you going to a different website."

Yeah, but what was I supposed to do? Vote for a brown woman? Are you insane!?

Excuse me , it's THE broken trophy for THE Ohio State University.

The thing.

The thing we're all thinking of but can't say because truly free speech doesn't exist.

A couple of options:

1. Imagine the media circus that would occur if Garcia came home. He'd be plastered across every website and front page of every newspaper, which of course takes attention away from the Toddler in Chief. Furthermore, the GOP doesn't want Garcia to talk about how absolutely inhumane the conditions he would have been subject to, for obvious reasons.
2. Bringing him back is an admission of wrongdoing, and that's one thing the GOP and Trump can't do under any circumstances.
3. They can't bring him back, because he's dead.

When they fight back, those fights can get very messy and very expensive.

Good thing those law firms that bent the knee pledged to spend a collective billion dollars defending Trump.

This (is) the person that is at the forefront of eliminating public education in the US.

Just wanted to clarify her role a bit. Hope it helps!

Having only two major parties and “winner takes it all” elections is a shit system and it was doomed to fail (...) That’s not how a democracy is supposed to work.

I agree. And yet, it's what we have (well...)

Especially if neither of the major parties allign with your ideals. Of course the consequences of this non-compliance are dire but it was inevitable.

That right there is the crux of the issue. It is mathematically certain that the US electoral system, as it is now, will result in two parties. And it is equally certain because of that fact that voting for anyone other than one of those two party candidates will result in helping the other candidate. Knowing this, a responsible voter should decide to support whichever party most closely aligns with their values, because otherwise they're helping the major party they lease align with win instead.

If you agree with the Dems on one issue, and agree with the GOP on zero issues, you should still vote for the Dems in the general election.

Holy shit my dude, calm the fuck down. I neither expressed any agreement nor disagreement with the facts, and you're just making baseless assumptions about how I feel about them.

No, I am not "more angry" at the Green voters than I am at insert whatever reason you think was the most important contributor to Gore's loss you want here. But it is ridiculous to assume they (you?) share no part of the blame for Gore's loss, when it's demonstrable that in fact they bear some amount. Also I find it amusing you're telling me who I should be mad at and you never once mentioned the Republicans who voted for Bush.

Did SCOTUS make a bad ruling? Abso-fucking-lutely they did. But you know what? If NH had gone to Gore SCOTUS wouldn't have even mattered.

Does our system suck? Abso-fucking-lutely it does. You can rant and rave all day about how unfair and undemocratic it is, and how much it needs to change and I'll spend all day agreeing with you. But the difference between us is, I recognize that voting is a tactical decision, not an emotional one. I don't particularly like the Democrats, probably for many of the same reasons you would list. I vote for them in the general election, however, because I understand that not doing so helps Republicans win. Again, this is literal demonstrable fact. And I agree with the Dems on a hell of a lot more than I do with the GOP.

edit: also the popular vote literally doesn't matter. Source: non-Presidents Gore and Clinton.

I looked at the totals for the 2000 election and found that, had every Nader voter instead voted for Gore, there would have been only two states that would have flipped:

• Florida, by a tally of 2,912,790 Bush to 3,009,741.
• New Hampshire, which would have been 273,559 Bush to 288,546 Gore.

Now, it's entirely possible we still get the ratfucking from SCOTUS and they still throw the state to Bush. But New Hampshire had 4 electoral votes, and had they gone for Gore then it would have been 267 Bush - 270 President Gore.

Bush won because 22,198 people in NH didn't understand that voting for a third-party only hurts the major party that most closely aligns with your ideals.

It's nepotism if the person doing the hiring/appointing employs their relatives. If your husband didn't hire you, it's not nepotism.

Also to note, nepotism has a connotation of being bad but there's nothing inherent in the definition that says it is. If your husband hires you, it's possible you might be the most qualified person for the job. However, there's always going to be the appearance of favoritism or cronyism, which is why it's ethically frowned-on.

As a wise man recently said,

They tried to rig the game, but you can't fake influence.

Money can buy everything but it can't buy respect. Nobody respects Musk getting to level 90+ in SSF HC PoE2 because he just bought his way there. Nobody respects him on Twitter, because he bought his way there. Nobody respects Tesla, because (say it with me kids) he bought his way there.

Needed more accordion hands. And it should have been one sentence with about ten different tangents.

Also orange.

The queer community will be marketed to if you do right by us. Break that trust and it can be earned back.

Which is how it should go, because it give corporations incentives to do socially moral things.

Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Margaret Atwood, and others like them weren't super fortune tellers or anything. They just studied humankind enough to know what could happen. And we Americans by-and-extra-large are too arrogant to learn those lessons.

Thing is, the economic indicators will still be there.

If there's been two full years of recession because of GOP policies, what do you think the odds are they'll go into a third year if the GOP is allowed to stay in power?