stewie3128 @ stewie3128 @lemmy.ml

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The two major national parties are rushing rightward no matter what you do. Best I've come up with is moving to a state where the controlling party is as left as possible.

The only way out is through. Best case scenario I believe we can expect is patchwork fascism across the country, so choose your enclave wisely. After things really collapse, and after the fighting is settled, we can do our best to set things right. But as long as we are going to be shackled to the whims of previous generations going back to the 18th century, actual progress is a dream.

The foxes have run the henhouse since the late 70s, and they're not about to give it up.

One begins to think they're just belligerent shitheads

I think there are examples of it working, and examples of it not. Singapore's system works as intended, but here's a list of yearly salaries for high-paid heads of state >$500,000 USD (sources from Wikipedia). Draw your own conclusions.

• Cameroon President: $620,000
• Denmark Queen: $11,000,000
• Hong Kong Chief Executive: $568,000
• Japan Emperor: $3,000,000
• Jordan King: $848,000
• Kuwait Emir: $165,000,000
• Luxembourg Grand Duke: $12,000,000
• Norway King: $33,000,000
• Oman Sultan: $7,000,000 (could be a very old number)
• Qatar Emir: $33,000,000
• Saudi Arabia King: $9,600,000,000 ($9.6 billion)
• Singapore President: $1,400,000
• Singapore Prime Minister: $1,600,000
• Switzerland President: $507,000
• Syria President: $576,000
• Tonga King $2,100,000
• United Arab Emirates President: $4,600,000,000 ($4.6 billion)

They pay their government leaders really well, which I think is kind of interesting.

That continues to be my parents' view (I suspect the same is true for many of our parents). It'll be a few generations before the fiction around Hiroshima gets wiped away. Hell, the '21 Tulsa massacre is only now getting some actual cultural awareness, and that's only because it was depicted in the first scene of The Watchmen.

It was the style at the time

If I could live in West Virginia but without West Virginians, I'd probably do that.

Dead cat bounce before it settles into its long-term valuation

This is more Direct Action than waving signs though. DA gets it done again.

Stupidest law I've heard of this week.

They power our cars

iPhone or Mac?

They've said that it costs them 1.5 cents to answer a search query, so that dollar a month wouldn't go very far. I probably incidentally run 40-50 searches a day between my devices... $10 is a value that works for me.

I've been using Kagi as my default since June, and don't plan on stopping anytime soon.

Well, it costs Kagi about 1.5 cents to answer a search query. Consider how many searches you use in a month to determine how much they're making off you at $10/mo.

I'm lucky enough to be in a position to be able to pay for products that I use, instead of relying on freemium, or ad-supported, or data-mined, or pirated products. That hasn't always been the case for me, so I don't judge anyone for making a different choice.

Kagi. It's better here.

Portage

I would love to believe that the GOP losing the Senate and White House were likely.

Is there a way to USB boot Tails on a phone?

Well if the Heritage Foundation says so then it must be true. /s

But she was the first female parliamentarian. They couldn't possibly do that, or replace her. She was doing such an important job: the job of being the first female parliamentarian. Think of all the little girls who, every day, look up to her as the first female parliamentarian, and then to see her not listened to by Chuck Schumer. What will all of those little girls think?

/s because that's apparently necessary to spell out