Eldritch

In the era of global fascism, satire is dead. These aren't bad ideas when you don't care about anything passed your self image, and no one that matters will stand up to you.

They should know by now what a target rich environment for rubes they are. They should, but they don't. That's what makes them such good targets.

Yep, reliability and popularity. There's still plenty of space for it. But I think piefed has kind of come in and sucked up all the extra oxygen in the room for the moment.

That and conservatives abhor thinking. They need someone or something to defer to. And LLMs can give them all sorts of moderately intelligent bullshit they've come to expect . From their leaders and politicians. But better and faster. With possibly even less accuracy.

Not enough money for big bird. But money to spare for a fascist private jet. Tragic

Something so predictable only a life long Republican would have taken odds against it.

It's global. El Slalvidor, Argentina, the United States, Russia, China, Hungary, etc etc etc. There's a plague of people with more material resources than brain cells. And they will gladly sacrifice us all for just a bit more.

While I would love this personally. I think this is still a bit of a browser support issue Etc. But yes jpeg XL please. Smaller size for similar fidelity as JPEG. Even lossless with transparencies much better sizes than PNG. Though I know there is traction on the PNG side again and they are talking of implementing something other than lzma compression. That's still the future. Jpeg XL is here and now. Not As tied as webp is to a single company Period and not quite as esoteric as avif is.

LOL as someone with significant autoimmune issues this rings to true.

Absolutely. None of us are immune to propaganda or our own biases.

Or Marxism and Marxist-leninist.

Say what you will about Democrats. Outside of the elected ones. Most of them don't have a strong ideology. Just actually wanting things to improve. But I'm sure of how to go about it. And when you approach them like that. Are plenty likely to be sympathetic and allies.

Yes, Unity cannot be enforced. Unity can only coexist with consent. And those that would violate consent to enforce Unity actually despise both.