How little empathy can a human being have?

Nobody snatches defeat from the jaws of victory like a Democrat.

Biden could have decided not to run at any point. Many people were calling for him not to run and he didn’t suddenly become an 80 year old.

Biden waited until after the primaries to step down. I’m glad he’s gone, but “she was the only choice” because of Biden’s choice.

You can’t tell progressives “Vote in the primaries!” when you don’t even hold primaries.

more of the people bitching about the ultimate candidate actually voted in the primaries

I want to push back on this. “The people bitching” were probably out knocking doors for their candidate with me. It’s just one more insult that moderates use. We don’t have the massive get out the vote machine that the establishment does, but my guess is that the most vocal people are pretty active.

they may have made a difference

“May” is doing a whole lot of heavy lifting here.

The DNC is a private entity able to pick it’s candidate however it deems fit. The primaries are like a basketball game where the refs are wearing the other team’s uniforms.

2016 and 2020 make great examples of how the Democratic establishment rallies around their preferred candidate to ensure that The centrist choice wins. There was a lot of activism in the primaries, how in the world can you call that “showing up to bitch”? Then this year Biden conveniently did not allow us to have primaries.

You really can’t tell progressives to just “vote in the primaries” when it’s very clear that Democrats will do everything in their power to prevent a progressive from being nominated.

There’s one party that pretends to support it publicly as long as they can blame the Republicans for “blocking it”.

Ftfy. This is the Democrats go to game plan.

It is insulting to pretend Democrats support ranked choice voting while they’re suing to keep it off of the ballot in DC.

Ah, I get it. Really interesting, thanks!

Cool! Are there different Finnish accents? Geographic, socioeconomic, or otherwise?

The signal to noise ratio is so low these days. There’s so much information out there but everyone wants to profit from you before you can get it. Even worse, the people with good information generally can’t buy as big a megaphone as the people who profit from lying to you.

Honestly, I think humans have been more likely to believe an easy lie than a hard truth all along, but it’s easier than ever these days.

I suspect it would be difficult to generate enough data to intentionally change a dataset. There are certainly little holes, like the glue pizza thing, but finding and exploiting them would be difficult and noticing you and blocking you as a data source would be easy.

Or the store just got their Dasani shipment. Or they ordered twice as much because it’s so popular.

Sometimes jokes are funny as long as you don’t think about them too much.

The dystopian part is something about having a robot standing between us and human contact. I prefer texting over calling as much as the next millennial, but no one asked for them to insert AI into the process. No doubt this is an opt out “service” primarily designed to allow Apple to use all of their customers’conversations as training data.

This scenario is a comic exaggeration of the worst case, but serves as a good example of exactly what’s wrong.

A cab with no driver is just an incredibly expensive gender neutral toilet. I shudder to think what will be done in these if they ever exist.

Didn’t he say full self drive was two years away at least 5 years ago?

With no information, the blurb is almost designed to be infuriating. But remember that they didn’t just drop a wall there. We’re talking about grading and building roads for heavy equipment to get there, probably storage, and who knows what else. My money says that was the grift in the first place: scam Trump voters into paying to turn a worthless piece of land into something usable.

That’s not the same story?

By “How 2016 turned out” you mean the Democrats ran a conservative, establishment Democrat when literally everyone was saying we want change? Then she was beaten by an “outsider” and the Democrats went all ‘shocked Pikachu face’ and blamed progressives for their choices?

Dems think that we owe them our votes while they refuse to represent us. That is not democracy.

Tell that to Chelsea Manning.

Sure, the US is mostly freer with information than a country that is unabashedly authoritarian. But ask Ron DeSantis what he was doing at Guantanamo, or the CIA what they did in Latin America. If you don’t think the US hides plenty from its citizens, you haven’t been paying attention.

Our Tianimen Square was Kent State, or maybe the MOVE Bombing, or all of the documented police violence against protesters and marginalized people. Fat lot of good it does that we can talk about them when nothing changes.

I think it makes more sense to hold our government to account than point out the flaws of people we don’t like.

Everyone knows the moon landing was faked at a secret soundstage on Mars!

Americans will post a meme about Tianimen Square while eating a Chiquita banana.