Ugh. Best of luck to your youngest.

I saw something maybe a year ago that was about how Florida has some of the best education stats in the USA.

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Yeah…

Ignorant voting is the most common kind of voting.

I hadn’t listened to anything from Maher for something like a decade by the time I heard the podcast. He wasn’t really all that funny then, and really seems to have slid into the blue conservative space since. He has to be running on momentum or blackmail at this point. I don’t think he could get a laugh at a comedy club if no one knew his name.

Also, went and checked out If Books Could Kill. It was so painful to listen to I stopped after 45 minutes and gave up. Listening to two supposed professionals saying ‘then he said 1+1=3, which is just such horseshit, because everyone knows it’s 11,’ over and over again was depressing and annoying.

I swear I saw a little documentary piece back in early 2025 about members of the DNC essentially hiring consultants who then came in and told them, more or less, they were listening too much to consultants and not enough to the electorate and it had cost them the election.

Just found out about the ‘I Hate Bill Maher’ Podcast, where some comedian hate-watches Maher’s show and then mocks him on a podcast. The roasting was so much funnier than Maher’s attempts at jokes, though I slightly worry that it’s a bit like The Necessary Conversation in that it might just be mocking a senile old person for being senile.

‘Class,’ as a word, has been used for longer, more commonly, and more recently, to mean a group with a shared quality. Class is like energy; both words are rather meaningless alone and need a specifier to make them useful. Just as energy can be thermal, electrical, or various other kinds of energy, but referring to energy in general is usually not sensible, one can be of a socioeconomic class, a protected class, a school class, the managerial class, a or various other kinds of class. Only the very narrow class of people who have taken a class on a bit of Marx but not a class on the classes of words used by classmates in classes on English or Programming think ‘class’ can only refer to ‘class’ delineated by socioeconomic relation to the mode of production. Ol’ Karl didn’t invent the word. He used one that already had broad use.

Bombing various middle eastern countries into powder? Pretty sure that’s still an ongoing project.

Newbies often need guidance on the norms of the space they have come into. Hopefully, they will learn.

Trump said something hateful? That’s news?

There are literally over a dozen people on Lemmy. There may even be more than twice that. Don’t expect a single, cohesive view on anything. It’s rare enough for even a single person to have cohesive views. If you expect a single, cohesive view from a group of multiple people, that’s about as realistic as expecting your romantic relationships to work like ones in Disney movies. The person calling for the death penalty as a comment on one post is probably not the same one calling for care in handling a homeless man’s issues. This is a collection of individuals, not a collective hivemind.

The sentence in the middle of your comment is technically true, but the surrounding joviality of lol and stupid emojis is horrible.

Misread that for a moment as ‘feral judge.’ The idea of lost judges wandering the streets, ajudicating alleyway arguments, eating out of trash cans, loudly mating outside your window, and then being taken in by someone at the courthouse with a soothing manner and a bottle of scotch as a lure…

Don’cha know, adding Chuck Tingle books to the training data can only make the output more truth-aligned?

Try swapping servers. Mine works.

At this point, I don’t know how any vaguely sane person can want to be associated with the modern Republican party.

Ten years is awkwardly too recent to have emotional distance from the consequences and too late to be timely.

I’m also not sure it would be a winning issue. There are a lot of liberal voters who simultaneously can be relied upon for negative partisanship against anti-trans rhetoric and violence because they don’t like obvious bigotry but would, if asked, not really understand/support trans people. Most people can get behind live and let live, even many of the people who support Red team/are anti-blue team, but actual pressure to support trans people, not just accept them but look for ways to support them beyond a freedom from violence, is much rarer and more lacklustre.

I hate it, but I’m not sure that’s true. A part of me always wonders how much of the Red Team’s anti-LGBT shouting happens because there was a subset of them who are dogmatically hateful of minorities of basically any type, which the Blue Team then used in smear tactics to generate negative partisanship because America is, in theory, supposed to be against discrimination against minorities, but by making the issue more prominent, the Blue Team may have forced the issue to polarize into something for the Red Team either to fully ignore, as they do with other inconveniently ugly elements of their support base, or turn into a central pillar, and they decided to centralize it, turning what was a quiet minority hate, bad but limited in scope, into almost industrial scale hatemongery powered by politically aligned media systems. It seems worryingly plausible that by creating a political codification of trans-ness, it took anti-trans hate from being caused by religious delusions and turned it into a way to ‘be a good American’ for a much larger audience. When you also consider how the Dems don’t really change much of anything when they do ‘stand against’ anything because they seem mostly to do it for the looks rather than real support, I have to wonder if turning trans people into a rallying flag will just lead to more trans people being attacked, legally and illegally.

‘But they won’t catch ME. I’m smart. The fire will burn all the evidence of my crime. I totally won’t post about it later on social media.’ - the arsonist

People who commit crimes and make wild bets are not usually known for their impressive executive function.