Being angry at voters and calling them idiots over choices the democratic party made doesn’t help defeat trump.
Mostly kind chonky weirdo. Gentle nerd freak of the pacific north west. All nation states are vermin.
Being angry at voters and calling them idiots over choices the democratic party made doesn’t help defeat trump.
Anyone not voting for Biden because of Gaza is a fucking idiot.
The democracts insist on maintaining this position despite the mountain of evidence that it’s driving down turn out in their base, and does not represent the wishes of the electorate.
Why is it that voters have to swallow genocide, and not that democrats have to stop perpetuating electorally unpopular genocide?
Of course trump will be worse and i’ll be holding my nose and voting for biden but it makes no sense to blame voters for the inevitable and foreseeable consequences of the imperial cowardice of the democratic party.
I wish more kremlin-backed politicians were referred to as kremlin-backed in contexts where it’s clearly relevant.
“Because” often doesn’t make sense in the real world where anything that happens is the sum total of multiple factors. Especially a trend as broad as enshitification.
Being publicly traded seems like a contributing factor, but a sole owner can still enshitify through greed or incompetence.
I would guess that market consolidation and low competition are more of a factor.
This has nothing to do with the article nor with @some_guy’s comment.
How do you mean?
They said that the world and the US are pretty fucked but at least you probably won’t get kidnapped and imprisoned for speech, and I agreed and expanded that we tend to kidnap and imprison people for different things.
probably won’t be kidnapped and imprisoned for what we say
We do still kidnap and imprison people when they challenge the power or form of our state, it’s just that
what we say in the west is generally less threatening to the power of our governments.
Let’s not forget that the US locks up more citizens than any nation - including China with 4x the population - and spent a good part of this century kidnapping and torturing people all over the world.
“Kelp Highway” is a common name for the theory, since it involves exploiting rich marine ecosystems while expanding down the coast relatively quickly.
“Pre Clovis Sites” should get you to the level of specific digs.
“Western stemmed points” are the most solid link back to the cultures in East Asia after the last glacial maximum. I believe the genetic data is not as clear on this yet but is coming together.
The Oregon Archaeological Society’s YouTube channel has a number of professional lectures for amateur enthusiasts that touch on this - https://youtu.be/KPpgn-NVeLI?si=SCKpePUNp3pKyPSa i think this is the one with a lot of info on the evidence for links to cultures in Japan.
Humans reach North America is listed at ~16k years ago. That’s based on the Clovis First model that was still dominant then.
Now we know small populations of humans were already in the Americas when this chart begins, having traveled along the coast from around what is today Japan.
Archaeology is progressing so quickly these days that even XKCD is no longer an up-to-date source!
Interesting topic but this isn’t an article it’s just an ad for a podcast episode.
This article:
won’t sacrifice lore
Also this article:
“Throwing the Dune encyclopedia out – with the blessing from the Herbert estate – appears to have been a necessity, rather than something ego-driven.”
What?
one of the better monetization schemes out there.
Let’s not let minor arguments about which is the lesser evil disguise the fact that they are all still evil.
Think of how much good you could do with 8 figures, if it wasn’t being spent to lie about being good.
I’m sure this will boost his fundraising. That’s guaranteed to happen anytime he’s held to account. But the alternative is to not hold him to account for his many publicly committed crimes. I fear that much more.
I read an article years ago, maybe like a decade ago, of some game industry person saying it was a cycle:
Incredible new graphics come out and people will buy the shiny regardless of anything else, then slowly they have to start making actually good games with those graphics to sell, then incredible new graphics come out and you don’t need to bother with story for a while.