alikkon.bsky.social
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You mean deficit? The Democrat who just won won the democratic primary. Yes, of course a Democrat was going to win that.
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They’re either afraid of political retaliation or they’re complicit. So yeah, their popularity is way down. They need to show that they can actually be relevant because right now everyone just sees them as classic translated Godzilla movies. Disasters whose mouths don’t match their words.
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Democrat poll numbers are low because they’re all talk and not achieving anything. They let republicans control from a minority position for over a decade, and now that they’re in a minority position, they’re letting republicans continue to run rampant.
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Every one of them is a victim, as far as they’re concerned.
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For sure. You don’t need AI to spellcheck. You don’t need AI to grammar check. You don’t need AI to reduce your linguistic capacity. You don’t need AI to create your own analogies. Art is art, and it need not be perfect to be true.
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His base believed these things before he did. Why would it hurt him with them? The other republicans, whether or not they agree, can’t speak out against it or they lose his voting base. The republicans created trumpism. They can’t be afraid of it now or they’ll look weak.
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Shaka, when the walls fell.
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Darmok and Gilad, at Tenagra.
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I should probably finish setting up that profile and do things like add a profile image.
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I think they’ve been seeing dystopian stories as guidebooks instead of warnings…
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Follow the law and you can deport people to their country of origin when they break it. The law says everyone, including immigrants, is entitled to due process.
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If we really want to support police, we need to stop escalating, and get them back to doing the same. We need to move toward a society that treats everyone with respect and dignity instead of suspicion and disdain. We’ll never have that with the party of fear in power.
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The man supports police in the same way he supports the church: in words, but not in action. He holds up an upside down Bible and uses it to attract attention and profit, but he doesn’t believe anything.
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That said, AI poses a serious skill and knowledge danger. The argument “all we really need now is senior devs. The junior dev jobs are now obsolete” means we have nobody training to be senior devs. We can’t afford to outsource all of our knowledge to machines, lest we become idiocracy.
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UBI + Universal Healthcare takes care of so many problems the US economy has. Done correctly, it also removes much of the incentive the medical industry has to hike their prices. Insurance and medicine have no right being for-profit industries.
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It is what many of them seem to want. There seems to be this belief among them that if a Republican President does it, it’s right, so nobody should speak up against it, but if anyone else does it’s bad, so everyone should be against it. This is an extension of that.
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Honestly, they might. Which is why we should tax the expatriation of money over a certain amount.
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I think that will severely hinder profits. We’ll see a dip real fast when that happens.
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The stock market is designed for that - it’s pretty resilient. Until it’s not. Once people can’t afford enough things, the market collapses because profits collapse.
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The stock market doesn’t care about people at all. Only about revenue. It’s why tech has been doing so much weird stuff. They’re just trying to increase profits and care zero about long term or user experience.
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I can. Profits are up. When costs go up, there’s usually a proportional increase in price over cost. If wages don’t go up to match, that’s just a ton more profit.
If something costs $5 and sells for $10, costs go up $1 (10%), prices don’t just go up $1. They go up $2 to $12. Revenue score!
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They can’t just say it, though. They have to show it. Even if they can’t get the bills to a pass or a vote, put them out. Make them seen. And when they win a majority, they need to actually try to pass some of them.
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Democrats need to step up to the plate and actually show voters what the party is supposed to stand for. None of this standing by and business as usual BS. Come out strongly in favor of Universal healthcare, restoring the DoE, anti-corruption legislation, and supporting workers.
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Also going to try to stop punishing myself if I do miss them.
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Damn right it does. I’m tired of missing my writing goals, so I set a low 250/day goal recently and will be doing what I can to achieve it. No more demoralization. Heh.
Also, I finding that if I get working even on that small goal, I often make a stretch goal of 500, or even exceed that.
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That certainly isn’t helping the issue. The best way to stop abortion it’s still sex education, and support for birth control. Follow that up with supporting the population and you have an equation that results in positive growth. (But reinstate roe)
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Transferred to the rich, while everyone else falls behind, I’m glad I made that choice.
Want people to reproduce, stop making the world a worse place.
Universal
- college
- healthcare
- basic income
- childcare
- elder care
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1/ I’ll acknowledge that I chose to be child free. I did it because I saw the state of the world and the country when I was a teen and said I wasn’t willing to subject a child to that. We’ve only gotten worse since then, not better. As more and more social programs are stripped away and wealth
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I’m not sure it’s nations that are the problem. It’s systems and indoctrination against mutual aid and civic duty. If we were able to foster an environment of caring for each other within a nation, I think we could be successful. Sadly, as long as conservatism exists, I don’t think it’s possible.
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The sci-fi horror is at the top of my list right now. It’s the one with the best momentum, and the one that I believe has the best chance at publication.
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It’s kind of a coping mechanism. When I get blocked on a story, or feel like something isn’t working quite right, I’ll take a break and move to one of the others for a bit, then come back fresh. It does help, but doesn’t get me moving as much as I’d like it to.
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Currently sci-fi/horror. I have an another sci-fi on the burner, and a fantasy that’s been cooling off for a bit that I eventually want to get back to… also an urban fantasy that I’m cowriting with someone. Basically, I have a little bit of writers ADHD. :)
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Other countries are going to start refusing US passports without proof of vaccination… honestly, it’s something they should probably already be doing.
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I mean, there are characteristics that provide inherent benefits for any given sport. They change by sport. Weight is one often used in sports like boxing and weight lifting, but there are likely others (height, for example, in basketball)
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First shot doesn’t even mean getting the role necessary. In general they should be given first thought and opportunity, but if someone else turns out to fill the role better, great.
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You can’t reverse that. A minority experience isn’t as well understood. Gay actors in straight roles are already common, and I don’t really see any reason they shouldn’t be; it’s not hurting straight peoples’ chances in Hollywood to lose a dozen roles out of a thousand. The reverse isn’t true.
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I don’t think that’s even necessary. I think that gay actors should be given first shots at gay characters in general, but I don’t think that needs to go both ways. Everyone understands straight stories. There are a million of them. You could cast a woman as a man and it wouldn’t change the story.
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I lied. I do know why. Because men are afraid to be outclassed by women.
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I’m not even sure why we’re have gender divided sports. There are classifications that make way more sense than gender. We already have weight classes in many sports, and even those sports still subdivide by gender.
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Absolutely. A thing I’ve heard from other men before is “I don’t care if he’s gay, but he better not hit on me.” It’s not even full objectification, but there’s enough fear there that it’s silly.
If you’re not gay and a guy hits on you, just say “thanks, but I’m straight” and go about your day
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Know what would have been an easy answer and one that could have been completely safe to make?
“I’d like to leave the roles of gay men to gay men. They are few and far between in Hollywood, and I think some deserving man should get the chance to play this icon.”
This was just homophobia on display
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Others still are simply afraid that gay people will treat them the same way they treat women (as objects for gratification, not people)
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The term homophobia, which is absolutely bigotry, is a reference to the source of the bigotry. Many homophobic people are scared that either they will enjoy it, might harbor feelings for the same sex, or that somehow can be turned gay. Those are all fear based.