https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/when-republicans-became-red-democrats-became-blue-104176297/

But who will pay for our campaigns if we don't lick the boot of oligarchs?

Ditto. Was surprised to hear it that far along, with absolutely no prior leaks/hype, except maybe they learned from CP2077.

Eventually sorted out they mean 'production' in the movie sense, not the product sense. And I suppose that's fair, given how much modern ARPGs incorporate voice & physical acting, foley work, motion capture, etc

Yeah, the message I get is that a 10% one-day decline doesn't look like much on the tail end of 70% losses. Worthless paper is worthless.

Does he thin[k] drug manufacturer/dealer all come from mexico/canada/china?

Yes. That's the racism.

Less than a third of eligible voters voted for him, so it tracks. Close to half the country not voting suggests they understand tariffs, but either just fine paying 20% extra for everything or don't believe he'll actually do the things he's been most vocal about doing.

A key part of federating, at least notionally, is ease of migration. The local pub locks their customers because there's no alternative. Twitter locks their users because their "followers" aren't on the new platform.

The fediverse facilitates migration, all the way down to redirecting from the previous account. Doesn't look like there's a way to automatically update followers' following, and there probably shouldn't be, but follower count (including all of the inactive and bot accounts) is one of the tools commercial social media use to scare people into staying.

Exactly. I'm just here to say that regulation isn't a solution to corporate malfeasance - at best it is a patch until the corp lawyers figure out where the loopholes are or how to accomplish the malfeasance in a different way.

Sensors. Especially sensors in your living space where fans or other noise from the proper server would be distracting, or in a tight space - inside your HVAC, for example - where a proper server wouldn't fit.

Media front-end. Most of those SBCs are more than enough to run a kodi or jellyfin frontend, fanless for minimum distraction.

Robot. Low power requirement so it could be mobile; but there are lots of stationary possibilities. GPIO libraries are great for running servos and there's tons of libraries to facilitate.

In your opinion. Unless you're a Missouri judge, that opinion is not useful.

federal EMTALA requirements have not changed, and continue to require that healthcare professionals offer treatment, including abortion care, that the provider reasonably determines is necessary to stabilize the patient’s emergency medical condition

At the time of the discussion, Farmer was medically stable, with some vaginal bleeding that was not heavy.

Sounds like she was not experiencing an emergency medical condition that would have required stabilization. It could have become more severe, which explains why conventional care would have been abortion, but it was not, at the moment of presentation.

Sure would be nice if they would just let the physicians practice medicine, without having to second guess which law takes precedence.

For small businesses, a president taking power can immediately affect business. Small business owners make decisions based on their expectations of future, colored by their emotional state, so if they believe that a Republican President will be good for business, then they're more likely to order new machinery, hire an extra person, etc. In an ecosystem of small businesses, that optimism feeds on itself.

Happens in big business, too. S&P500 gained 3+% the day after election, which (if you don't believe the daily stock market is just gambling) presumably means that 'the market' expects 3% more growth out of all those companies, just by Trump's win being formalized. Stock price up makes it easier for companies to raise capital to expand, buy out competitors, etc

Neither of those things is "the economy," but they can feel like it, if you're close enough.

This one's not going to be close. According to his youtube channel, he's on day 50 in Kansas. Got a Red Bull partnership and enough money for hotels & Uber for off-trek travel.

Who was that demon-sperm doctor? Close runner-up.

I can see that. If you just want to hang out in a space, then VR Skyrim definitely has some cool places to hang, but how long are you really going to spend in that Skyrim tavern?

When OP asks whether VR is a long-term option, that's what I think. My favorite 2D games I have 500+ hours, probably a half dozen of them; I can still go back to those, some 10+ year old, and sink another 50+ hours. The only VR game I have more than 50 hours is the mini-golf game that's glorified chat.

For me, VR as an experience has been really amazing. It's a level of immersion that's just indescribably better than anything 2D, but each of those experiences has had limited staying power, which I think is because the physical demands of VR constrain my playtime and focus. I can left-mouse-button all day, but my back gets sore if I stand for three hours. So I can handle beat saber because I treat it like a gym session, but the idea of VR walking 7000 steps to Skyrim's Throat of the World...just no.

It's not going to replace flat screen gaming. It's hard to be in VR for hours, especially when you have to manage battery life, but I've had a headset for a year or two now, and it's still amazing where it's good. I'm better with smooth moving, but I still prefer teleporting, for headache/dizziness.

Tried Skyrim, couldn't make it stick - VR just isn't right for massive open worlds. Halflife Alyx is amazing - it's the right scale for VR, the attention to manipulatable objects is amazing, and some of the puzzles just couldn't be done in 2D. Blade & Sorcery is good, too.

Games I keep going back to are Beat Saber, because I'm old and need something to make me stand up and move, and Mini-golf, which is mostly a focus for hanging out with remote friends.

RFK's version of the conspiracy is that vaccines are a scam inflicted by private pharma. Given his druthers, he would probably outlaw not just vaccines, but all corporation-produced medicine.

Money doesn't win the election, it's more of an entrance fee, and campaign financing is more complicated than just 'the campaign.' You have to account for PACs, party, and all the free messaging from sympathetic media outlets. Bernie pinned his hopes on going viral on social media, and mostly demonstrated that it's not a viable strategy, at least at the Presidential level. Might work OK for smaller races, like AOC, in a geographically small, relatively young district, but not nationally. Most people actively avoid political messaging, which is a fundamental problem if you plan to rely on organic distribution of a political message through social media. Especially social media controlled by billionaires that might be hostile to messages like 'billionaires bad, unions good.'

The reality of American political process is that it takes at least a billion dollars to run a Presidential campaign. (Thanks, SCOTUS) That kind of money doesn't come from unions, social activists, or proletariat donors. It comes from corporations and billionaires, and those people don't like revolution.

Until someone can demonstrate that you can get more votes with progressive, worker-friendly policy proposals than with a well funded propaganda machine, the DNC is going to keep chasing the less conservative billionaires. And no third party will even be relevant.

Yeah, rereading your text, I may have confused all the negatives and inferred that you support the post's implication that they're targeting children, but I meant to comment on the data in the context of 'biggest bar,' not to criticize opinions. Seeing OP's chart, the first thing I wanted was a population chart, and I'm glad you'd already provided one.