ryathal @ ryathal @sh.itjust.works

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No, if you go twice as fast, it would only align with one at 12 and one at 24. It's not about speed, it's about the intersections of forward and backward laps.

Lots of people know a broken clock is right twice per day, but many are unaware that a clock running backwards is right 4 times per day.

You'd rather rely on feels and a mythical silent majority?

We just had tons of exit polls. Foreign policy was a primary issue for around 5% of voters. Support for Israel was considered not enough or about right by a significant majority 60%+. You can pick whatever news source you like, the results are within a few points of each other.

This was also a complete failure on the media to do the supposed job of the 4th estate.

They get credit for the good stuff beyond their control too.

The failure of Democrats is their own. Giving them a pass because of Republicans is lazy. There's always opposition.

You don't get to just blame the opposition for making sure nothing got done. Especially when the other party manages to succeed when they have power.

Politically supporting Palestine is a terrible move for either party outside the Dearborn area in Michigan. There isn't a relevant mass of people that actually care, Lemmy is a massive echo chamber of a minority position on this.

This is like saying drugs aren't a problem because quaalude use is at an all time low.

Trump got massive gains in several key demographics that are key to long term party success. Most notably Hispanics, which are closing in on the predominant demographic. The wins for men and non college educated people are also a problem, they aren't as important, but you can't afford to lose such large demographics by such a large margin.

While no Republicans have really shown to be able to maintain the a fervent base like Trump's, it's extremely risky to just trust that people will flock back to the Democrats in a future Trumpless election. A more palatable republican with 75% of Trump's base could easily see a Reagan level landslide victory.

Salary really depends on value provided or enabled. That's why more knowledge stops mattering at a certain point, someone with a month of experience driving a forklift is less valuable than someone with 3 years, but 6 years of experience isn't significantly different.

There's also benefits to being closer to money to show value. This is why sales jobs tend to pay better, as showing direct responsibility for 1 million in sales vs keeping the machines running that made the product.

A generation of people used a comedian for news, and now they are mad it's a different comedian.

If you are getting calls about this, it means you are costing them money. They want you to use their nurses and doctors through telehealth visits first to dissuade you from more expensive treatment like er visits.

I'd maybe be better, but I'd still have a kickass life.

There are reasons to pay 350k for a degree. Facebook only exists because Zuck went to Harvard. It wasn't the education though, it's the exposure to rich people. If you don't do the networking though it's a huge waste.

In small amounts. It's not economical at all to extract on it's own, maybe as part of desalinization, but even then it's probably marginal.

Centuries of fire suppression across the state have led to massive fuel stockpiles for fires. Controlled burns have been recommended and blocked for decades.

It's Australia (of course) they have fire hawks that will try to use fire to flush out prey at times.

That you may have to get the justice system involved to support your rights. I suppose you can call that a consequence.