very_well_lost @ very_well_lost @lemmy.world

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The chances of the DNC telling Biden to take a hike are exactly zero, and no one should take that possibility seriously (because it's stupid).

What may yet happen is Biden deciding to step aside voluntarily, in which case the fact that he won the primary is meaningless; the party can't nominate a candidate who refuses to accept that nomination.

I don't think anyone seriously expects Biden to resign over this, but there is still a chance he'll announce that he's no longer seeking reelection, like LBJ in 68.

Right? I guess all the good names where already taken

And also, I mean, like... you guys have all seen the moustache, right?

Richard Head

I'm sorry, his name was what?

The Splurge

Fromsoft PC ports have always been notoriously bad, but it blows my mind that after 15 years, they still don't support something as important as custom keybinds.

The typical news publication is written at a sixth grade reading level. Do with this information what you will.

A part of me hopes they fine him $130k. Fining him the exact amount he paid Stormy Daniels somehow feels like an even bigger "fuck you" than the maximum possible financial penalty.

Luckily for America, Trump has less money than ever!

I love how he waited until the day after Trump's conviction to announce this, when the news cycle is still too busy covering Trump to spend any time on a covering it.

Too cowardly to do this when people are actually paying attention, which really is the perfect summary of his career in politics.

"You can't put lipstick on a pig" was popular for about a year in the US, circa 2007

Foot-longs make him uncomfortable.

Good point, that's much more apt

It also adds clutter and noise to a public space, making it more irritating to scroll through comments. It's like someone having a private conversation on speaker phone while you're waiting in line at a Starbucks or whatever.

the fossil fuel industry has entered the chat

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're refering to as Stallman, is in fact, GNU/Stallman, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Stallman. Stallman is not a man unto himself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

I think in the end it all comes down to putting power back into the hands of regulators — power that corporate America has been slowly and steadily eroding for the last 40 years.

A more powerful regulatory state could start enforcing the anti-trust laws we already have on the books by breaking up the massive tech monopolies. Once that's done, new regulations and new legislation against anti-consumer practices are needed, but those will only work if the punishments scale high enough to work as an actual deterrent against the multi-billion dollar tech giants.

Of course, we'd also need massive, MASSIVE campaign finance and lobbying reforms so that monied interested aren't able to sabotage the system all over again.

Or we could just bring back the guillotine... that would probably do the trick too.

The bill doesn't really "cancel" any debt, it establishes a grant fund with tax money and allows people to apply for grants they then use to pay off their medical debts.

Rather than telling the debt holders to pound sand, the federal government will front you the cash to pay the debt holder.