We're stuck between an overabundance of constant "elon musk said this concerning thing" reporting on his every move because that brings in ad revenue but not hearing about his might be worse because he's basically operating without any kind of spotlight on him.

God what profit seeking and media consolidation has done to journalism, and our collective faith in journalists is an atrocity.

Correction, that's not how reality works in terms of voting systems, you'd be surprised just how few people actually understand how voting systems work and why different voting systems break down in various ways and the greatest mathematicians for the last 150+ years have not devised a perfect voting system.

But at this point, you took my conclusion about how the reality of voting systems break down and strawmanned it implying people already know government is corrupt.

At this point, we get to make a lengthy explanation about First Past the Post always leading to a 2 party system because of the spoiler effect, we get to a lengthy history explanation about how the (at the time) progressive republican party won the election with Abraham Lincoln because the (at the time) conservative Democrat party split into Dixiecrats in favor of slavery and northern Democrats who didn't care either way and the Whig party just up and died in 1850 and that's the only way a 3rd party becomes viable in FPTP. And then we just argue back and forth of "well if people just spontaneously saw things the way I do they would vote third party too!" to "That's not how reality works."

One point of clarification after I say there were people who just didn't vote, I also intended to say add Republicans launched several purges of voter registrations that tended to hit anyone further to the left of them and employed every voter suppression tactic in the book to depress Democrat voter turnout.

I think Dems lost because a some of missteps along the way and some external factors. I think Biden should have said he wasn't running again sooner, there should have been a proper primary, there needed to be even more of a focus on economic populism and making actual progress, not just trying to maintain the status quo. There were a lot of people who just didn't vote. And then Republicans

At the end of the day, the only people who have an opinion about Palestine are politically engaged leftists who want to see the genocide stop and anyone watching Fox News who wants Israel to win. For the rest of America unfortunately, it doesn't matter to them. That's a fight happening halfway around the world between 2 nations that aren't us.

I would have loved to see a peaceful end to the conflict, but that's wasn't going to realistically happen either way, but I would much preferred to see as little escalation as possible, and trump is nothing but escalation.

So again, we punished democrats in the way democracy punishes people who actually believe in democratic processes and let republicans who don't give 2 shits about democratic processes get to run rampant in the government. Good. Fucking. Job.

That seems to be the end goal...

Reducing all kinds of violence to the same Violence(tm) does nothing to address the myriad ways that different kinds of violence happen. All these different kinds of violence makes each kind of violence more manageable that trying to stop Violence(tm). Focusing on different kinds of violence let's us allocate resources and attention and research toward dealing with it.

A domestic assault is a much different kind of violence to 2 drunk guys fighting it out to a mobster telling his underlings to "take someone out." All of these things need/have different things to handle them. Shelters for domestic abuse creates somewhere safe to go, bouncers will break up a fight and kick the brawlers out, for organized crime there RICO legislation.

Stopping All Violence(tm) is too big of a task for any one person or organization to handle.

I don't like violence either, so much of it leads to unnecessary loss of life and limb and innocent bystanders get caught in the crossfire. But lumping all together into Violence(tm) brings us no closer to resolving conflicts before the start or helping people when things do go wrongf

If more people had made more noise when Biden continually violated the Leahy Law and circumvented Congress to provide arms to an ongoing genocide... We had a chance to fix the system. To hold him accountable and make sure no matter who was the next president, they'd also be able to be held accountable.

Citizens did make noise, citizens did point out that he violated Leahy Law, and the way to hold politicians accountable in a democracy is getting them out of office and away from the levers of power. Well here we are, Biden and Dems are going out of office and the genocide is going to be actively being accelerated by the Trump administration gleefully flooding Israel with more weapons "cleanse" Gaza so they can build their gaudy hotels and fulfill some Book of Revelations prophesy because the republican party is absolutely flooded with Dominionists.

Good. Fucking. Job.

Totally understandable, not trying to say you need to play the genre if its not your cup ofntea, I'm just highlighting what draws people to these games.

Oh and beyond the "it's a challenge to overcome" crowd, Soulsborne games also draw in the lore nerds too. There's a lot of stories about the world and it's inhabitants to discover though the flavor text on items and through the environmental storytelling.

The draw of elder ring and soulsborne games in general is the challenge. Taking the time, failing, learning and getting good, finally beating that challenging boss, the thrill and rush of seeing the big "You Defeated" text across the screen is truly unmatched by most other games.

I also totally get not wanting to go through that. The low moments in the game can hit really hard on the motivation to play. Hitting a difficulty wall and just not having the ability to progress, dying a second time and losing a ton of souls/currency you were going to use to level up.

It's a lot. Like a lot a lot. GPUs have about 150 billion transistors but those transistors only make 1 connection in what is essentially printed in a 2d space on silicon.

Each neuron makes dozens of connections, and there's on the order of almost 100 billion neurons in a blobby lump of fat and neurons that takes up 3d space. And then combine the fact that multiple neurons in patterns firing is how everything actually functions and you have such absurdly high number of potential for how powerful human brains are.

At this point, I'm not sure there's enough gpus in the world to mimic what a human brain can do.

Not just hamlet but the entire body of works accredited to Shakespeare

That's where you might look into getting involved with the district's school board. Look up [Your School District] Budget Allocation and you can see how the do their tax calculations, where they get their revenue from and how expenditures are being allocated. It's going to be pretty boring and dry, all kinds of charts and numbers, but you should be able to see it.

What hospital is going to test the boundaries of what immediate or imminent risk to life in the eyes of the law? Especially with any government official salivating at the chance to punish any abortion care.

What defines a medical emergency in rhe eyes of the law? How many hospitals are going to perform an abortion they deem a medical emergency only to be potentially sued by an AG who disagrees that it was medically necessary?

You need to work on your reading comprehension. I am primarily pinning it on the algorithm but I'm also pointing out that Rogan's podcast is leading people to right-wing commentators, partly because of the guests he has on and partly because the algorithms push people in that direction.

Got a source on those policy positions to back that up? Any politicians that explicitly are running on encouraging 3rd trimester abortions?

Congratulations you've pointed out the obvious they're douchebags who lean further right than rogan, it doesn't change the fact that algorithms have linked Rogan with these douchebags.

Cocaine and crack are the same drug in different form factors. Those forms factors are tyoically used by different demographics and certainly nudged in that demogtaphic distinction by the CIA and given the excuse to the DEA to selectively enforce policy against racial minorities.

Don't fight against them, expose the sources of funding they get and go after the money. Almost immediately after Tenet was found out to be a Russian front paying for and delivering talking points to Podcaster like Tim Pool, Lauren Southern, etc and was shut down. All these shows suddenly started dropping what they could do because they lost a significant source of funding and content.