Music to my ears. Thank you for lifting my spirits. We just all gotta vote.
Interesting, I've heard the opposite in terms of betting odds v. traditional polling. Good to know it changed though as Trump was like +5 as recently as like 2 days ago. Thanks for posting.
https://www.realclearpolling.com/betting-odds/2024/president
Feels a wee bit early for the "I told you so" stuff. She's currently losing in the betting odds.
Edit: it's good to be wrong
I get the frustration people feel, but I'm kind of getting tired of the reductive takes people just casually throw out in social media. I guess that's my fault for expecting anything different. Maybe I should go outside for a while.
I feel like that's sort of the word you might use to describe the tangled Christmas lights, but I still think that's hyper simplification. It's like we're running full speed on a treadmill and even though we agree this can't end well, there's the matter of getting the thing to stop. Let's say we could snap our fingers and start fresh. How do you propose our system should work instead?
A lot of women, even in the US, don't really have the agency you might think they have. There are many women in echo chamber communities, follow only a certain narrative of news, are married to men that wear down their beliefs, or even could be threatened if they outwardly supported anything other than what they have been told. Many of these people have existed in this kind of environment their entire lives. When you think about things like that, it's very sad, but it starts to make a lot more sense. I'd like to emphasize with these people. Some of them are men too. It's not just women affected this way. We're often very much the products of our environment.
I'm just kinda tired of so many people distilling our issues down to singular and often mysterious groups like "they" or the "ruling class". If only our issues were that simple, but most things are far more complicated than just bad people doing bad things. I think of a lot of our issues (e.g. climate change) like trying to root through a box of Christmas lights. They are a tangled web of knots and twists. It takes a lot of work to figure out how to untangle each bind. Most of our global issues are incredibly complex and need to be broken down into smaller parts if we want to solve them. Some people are doing good. Some people are doing harm. Most people aren't doing anything at all.
At least things have gotten confusing again, because that's like 5 different potential political groups now.
As usual, barely any mention of it in the news. Standard procedure for Republicans, just like Nixon and Reagan.
That's essentially what happened here. She wasn't at risk any longer and the murder was premeditated. The prosecutor did their job here as they are supposed to, and it was sentenced as it should have been according to the law.
That being said, this is really why we have pardons, and I hope one is granted in this case.
I think of JK Rowling the same way as Orson Scott Card. They have opinions that differ from mine, but I still like their work. Am I missing something? I get that Rowling's opinions suck, but I don't really understand the extent people go in the disdain for her. She's allowed to have opinions on things we don't agree with. She's not out there stabbing babies.
I have owned an Anova sous vide cooker for probably 6+ years. I use it probably at least once a week. The hardware is great. I have never once used their stupid app, though. It's totally pointless. If I want to cook anything for 90min I just set an alarm from my phone. If you fuck up food using a sous vide cooker you've gotta give up on cooking food entirely.
A couple of those things "everyone should know" are downright wrong and hateful.
Yeah dude I don't get it. They really are. There's so many people in this thread egging on this evil shit too. What is wrong with people?
It's fair that you'd perceive it this way, but that's not exactly what I mean. The missing word is "regulated". Again, I'll break it down more tomorrow (I am going to bed) but my ideal structure is one that publicly govern, supports, and maintains all of the "means of production" (e.g. highways, police, fire, healthcare, retirement funds, labor law, etc.) so that an actual free market economy can operate, but also do so without monopolistic consolidation. Another way I have referred to it when I was trying to make this case as part of my thesis 20 years ago in college is a "Guided free market economy".
I think we're on the same page with the "frictions", and I think you're fair in saying there are likely solutions to those frictions and the concerns I've posed. Honestly, that's what I focus on with regard to most forms of government. It is a very hard problem to solve, no matter what system you employ. I think the discussion is around which are more/less vulnerable to these forms of "decay".
Let me put some more thought into this overnight and happy to keep this conversation going in a more thoughtful reply. Consider this a placeholder for now, but I sincerely appreciate you taking the time and having a civil conversation. Sometimes I forget I'm not on Reddit and not everyone is A) A bot or B) Already angry.