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He's retiring after the end of this term, around the time he announced (I think) is when he kept "freezing" in public...

But he's back out of his shell, and seems to have a reverse Fettermen situation going on...

https://newrepublic.com/post/196689/mitch-mcconnell-pete-hegseth-russia-ukraine

But McConnell has always been about the long game, he's spent an entire lifetime setting up a conservative coup of the US government...

And then trump showed up out of nowhere and has zero patience or planning and is blowing the whole thing up by acting early.

It's possible McConnell isnt pissed about what's happening, he's just mad they didn't wait another decade or so till the coup would be a sure thing. But out of all the Senate Republicans, he's by far been the most critical of this admin.

Blue states can take care of themselves, and in this political environment they're unlikly to pitch in for red states.

trump is stupid and doing things too fast, the Republican M.O. has always been delaying consequences till a Dem has control

A lot of shit is going to break before midterms, and that's going to depress a lot of votes

And he's not gonna shrink the federal workforce more than Bill did in the 90s...

Well, really Hillary was taking credit for it at the time, but even though they campaigned as a "two for one" people don't want to give Hillary credit for all the damage she did as first lady.

Because they were randomly attacked by a genocidal far right country...

What the fuck did you expect would happen?

And the best search engine was HotBot. Fight me.

Dogpile 4 life...

30 some years ago?

Everything was just more fractured. Instead of a handful of options for social media, there were thousands of forums on their own websites. ICQ handled IMs and away messages was basically twitter. Before YouTube/spotify everyone used Winamp and internet radio streams for music, you didn't have songs on demand, but compared to local "real" radio or MTV it was an overwhelming about of choice.

It's honestly not that much different though.

but could not find a clear reason for this new flip-flop

trump wants 3k deportees a day...

ICE won't go after actual criminals or gang members because they're scared...

They already can't meet the quota, even going after workers allowed to be here. And they're never going after actual criminals because that's dangerous and difficult.

But no matter what they do, they're eventually going to run out of targets who will comply. Either because they deported them all already. Or because they rethought what compliance gets them.

Trolls trying to argue in bad faith.

The brand new accounts that keep asking this same question over and over again?

Yeah. They're absolutely trolling this sub...

But uv blocking sunscreen literally impedes the body's natural synthetization...

And that's not even getting into how OP is explicitly talking about correlation, and people still keep confusing it with causation

What?

Vitamin D is something we don't get much of from a modern diet, and we need a substantial amount to make very important neurotransmitters, the lack of which causes depression and anxiety, or at least symptoms to be worse, meaning complaints are more likely.

Like, that's a real scientific thing we've known for decades.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9468237/

A correlation with increase use of sunblock, I'm not really sure of. I'd assume it's more that people spend substantially less time in the sun in general regardless of UV blocking.

It was a meme in the Navy, if anyone looked sad or mentioned depression while out to see, the first fucking thing everyone said was "drink more milk" because they put a shit ton of vitamin D in the milk for that reason.

The second was usually "smoke more cigarettes" tho, because most of the time to smoke you had to go stand on a deck in the sun.

But especially for /shower thoughts, there's not a lot to judge OP on here. It's pretty accurate and something that someone very well could have just realized one day

Yeah, most people are just going to block them and be done with it...

You realize women could hold bank accounts in America for most of the countries existence...

Right?

Then they weren't, and then in the 1970s they were allowed again.

Same goes for owning land.

But if you want someone to explain stuff, you might want to ask nicely, it sounds like you want an argument. I don't have time for that.

It's programmed to maximize engagement at the cost of everything else.

If you get "mad" and accuse it of working with the Easter Bunny to overthrow Narnia, it'll "confess" and talk about why it would do that. And maybe even tell you about how it already took over Imagination Land.

It's not "artificial intelligence" it's "artificial improv", no matter what happens, it's going to "yes, and" anything you type.

Which is what makes it dangerous, but also why no one should take it's word on anything.

Another person, a 42-year-old named Eugene, told the Times that ChatGPT slowly started to pull him from his reality by convincing him that the world he was living in was some sort of Matrix-like simulation and that he was destined to break the world out of it. The chatbot reportedly told Eugene to stop taking his anti-anxiety medication and to start taking ketamine as a “temporary pattern liberator.” It also told him to stop talking to his friends and family. When Eugene asked ChatGPT if he could fly if he jumped off a 19-story building, the chatbot told him that he could if he “truly, wholly believed” it.

So...

I think I might know what happened to Kelon...

This has never happened in America before.

Yes it has...

If you think this is the first time a movement of Christians has stripped rights away thru a political movement, it makes me think you're not aware of how long this fight has been going on.

Like, from the first colonies, expansion into new colonies, the revolution, the civil war...

At almost every major turning point of our country's history, fighting off Christian extremists has been one of the few constants. They spent a couple decades working behind the scenes with both parties, but just because it was less visible for a while doesn't mean it stopped and especially doesn't erase our past.

Like...

You're not wrong that it's bad now, and I'm glad you realize that.

But people need to understand history to understand how to fight today.

It won't last forever though...

A lot of the non-upgradability is the pursuit of smallest form factor. But then everyone throws a case on it anyways. Miniaturization has diminishing returns and we hit that long ago with laptops.

Eventually we'll hit it with phones, and then it's just a matter of time till a solid "base" with swapable components come out. There's been a couple already, but they still require a sacrifice of size or speed/power.

That's why manufacturers are trying to push us to watches or glasses. They need to shrink the form factor to keep up the (insanely profitable) strategy of selling a brand new unit every 2 years.

Religious people are all mentally ill.

I wouldn't say they are for all religions...

But definitely the "true believers" of the Abrahamic religions, like if you read any of those texts and are 100% onboard its all real. Abraham was a schizophrenic who heard voices that told him to kill his son, had textbook visual and auditory hallucinations and obviously delusions of grandeur. It's so fundamental it's present in all the big branches, schizophrenic symptoms are viewed as a legitimate communication with God that are often commands that must be followed no matter what.

So some well adjusted people see it as "just a story" but if you sit thru that indoctrination your whole life and start hearing voices, there's a good chance you see the voices as religious instructions.

Apple aggressively throttled CPUs when new models came out.

They claimed it was due to age of batteries and to prevent overheating. But then Samsungs started exploding and I think people just let it go.

Not sure if they still do it or not.

"You can't fire me, I quit!"

Is basically all this is...

Ms. Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, had supported Mr. Martin’s rival in the chairmanship race early this year, Ben Wikler, the chairman of the Wisconsin Democratic Party. Mr. Martin subsequently removed Ms. Weingarten from the party’s Rules and Bylaws Committe , a powerful body that sets the calendar and process for the Democratic Party’s presidential nominating process.

In her resignation letter, dated June 5 and obtained on Sunday evening, Ms. Weingarten wrote that she would decline Mr. Martin’s offer to reappoint her to the broader national committee, on which she has served since 2002. She had been on the Rules and Bylaws committee since 2009.

Like, this is one of the super delegates who pledged Hillary in 08 after Obama won the primary.

That's not even getting into how she's a self described Zionist, and spends a lot of time talking about how both sides are responsible for one side getting genocided for decades as an American labor union leader.... Not sure what the connection there is.

But good to see billionaire media framing her as a fucking victim.

Quick edit:

Ms. Weingarten from the party’s Rules and Bylaws Committee

So...

The ones who didn't follow the DNC election rules for the vice chair elections that just had to be re-done?

https://democrats.org/news/dnc-rules-and-bylaws-committee-votes-to-recommend-2025-rules-of-procedure-for-election-of-dnc-officers/

Gee, I wonder why she was let go...

Good to see Martin cleaning house and fixing it so it doesn't happen again.

If you're actually being sincere, you might want to ask people how to articulate your view, you'd have to let them know what your view is though. Or ask for peoples opinion on the question.