High in Vitamin D...
"Pro-life" unless it's within specific prescribed guidelines dictated by religious zealots.
Otherwise fuck you we're let that unborn baby die and then blame the mother for not being chaste enough.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Internet_connection_speeds
07. United States 274.16 Mbit/s
19. Japan 212.06 Mbit/s
According to this page, seemingly sourced from Ookla, US has way higher average speeds these days.
Japan had way faster internet on average than the US like twenty years ago, but the US actually did a decent amount of broadband growth even if it still doesn't cover rural areas well.
Never, the answer is never. Never criticize, just bend over and take it just like the Republicans do. No choice, no voice, shut up and support the politicians who support the billionaire class.
Source: I have been seeing this same song and dance for 25 fucking years.
You know why Republicans get support? Because they at least lie and say they are supporting common people. Democrats give us this wishy washy bullshit of "well we did studies and we can't really make that happen" and fucking nobody wants to endlessly be told "no, we can't" by a bunch of policy wonk nerds.
Pixel 6a users got a big change to their battery life, on the other hand.
... But gone are the days where the back of the phone pops off using only your thumb and you can just swap batteries.
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The economics of over-the-air TV are crumbling, more likely.
Local stations have been dying for two decades, and without local affiliates... what are you even offering to most people that's valuable?
We joke about how few people actually have cable and how its pointless that FOX News is the most watched cable network because all the people who watch it are octogenarians who will surely die soon and take their subscriptions with them... Yet we don't seem to realize even fewer people care to fuck with an antennae, or if they have cable, are even bothering to watch NBC, CBS, or ABC.
Traditional TV is dying and has been for two solid decades. Ever since Anne Sweeney, President of Disney-ABC Television told her daughter that “You’re going to have a television if I have to nail it to your wall ... You have to have one." in 2009. She said this at a Reuters event, promoting this as though she was tough and knew how to fight the upcoming streaming behemoth. The people running this dead fucking industry have been completely out to lunch for two decades as the internet has been eating their lunch.
Web-TV Divide Is Back in Focus With NBC Sale NYT, Dec 3, 2009
“Mom, you don’t understand. I don’t need it,” her 19-year-old responded, saying she could watch whatever she wanted on her computer, at no charge.
That flustered Ms. Sweeney, who happens to be the president of the Disney-ABC Television Group.
“You’re going to have a television if I have to nail it to your wall,” she told her daughter, according to comments she made at a Reuters event this week. “You have to have one.”
I always took panel 3 to be dad seriously considering giving Calvin his wish.
Get A Life was at least a decade ahead of its time.
The premise of the show was Chris Peterson (played by Chris Elliott) was a "Dennis the Menace" type figure who was in his thirties but had never socially progressed past his teen years and was constantly annoying everyone around him.
The first season he lived with his parents, the second season he lived in Gus Borden's (Brian Doyle-Murray) garage.
The show was flat-out absurd and included ridiculous antics like Chris accidentally becoming a male escort and befriending an alien named Spewey who would projectile vomit when emotionally distressed. It was far beyond what Fox was willing to handle and the planned third season where Chris was a homeless drifter never came to fruition.
This show would have absolutely killed on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim which later featured another insane show starring Chris Elliott, Eagleheart. (and also featured many other actors who were also on Get A Life) It was the exact type of show that would have had a cult following on Adult Swim.
It's also worth noting, the episode where Chris becomes a male model is the source of the name of the 90's Dan the Automator and Prince Paul collaboration Handsome Boy Modeling School. Two songs on the album use audio clips directly from the episode from which they got their name:
Handsome Boy Modeling School - Look At This Face (Oh My God They're Gorgeous)
Handsome Boy Modeling School - Modeling Sucks
If it wasn't for Handsome Boy Modeling School, I'd still have sixty dollars.
It's not a nice thing to have to embrace, but it's true. When Vera Papisova spent a year undercover dating right wing men, this was her takeaway, too. That part of the reason they get so radicalized is because rational people have a very hard time wanting to even try to see good things in them and socialize with them at all. Yet that isolation promotes exactly the radicalization we'd like to see less of in our society. Continually saying "no, fuck them" feels right but builds more and more echo chambers where these people are only talking to other highly toxic people in a spiral of enabling terrible thought-patterns.
It's extremely valid to feel like "why would I waste time on these monsters?" because they are indeed monstrous. Yet, we have to have a growth mindset and believe people can change, and not just believe that, but give them opportunities to change. Continuing to isolate them in right wing communities where the only viewpoints they are exposed to continue to radicalize them is not working. When they say "the liberals gave me no choice but to turn to the right" what they actually mean is no liberals or leftists would take the time to talk them down from their own idiocy, so they continued to lean into it out of pure spite, not reason. They like to call people on the left "snowflakes" but these people are so fucking broken and hurt inside and so deeply just want to be accepted that they will chop off their own limbs in an attempt to somehow teach us a lesson, as long as we get hurt, too. Desire for acceptance is literally what drove them into the MAGA Cult. They are broken and hurt because we did not accept them, despite the fact that they are too stupid to see how their own behavior is why they are not accepted.
I know many people here think the solution is to go whole hog and crack down harder on this than we did on the South during reconstruction. Unpopular opinion around here, but I disagree. I think that will create more young conservative people, because what they will see is a wide swath of people being vilified and potentially put to death by the state for their political views. They won't think "gosh those views were so dangerous they must be snuffed out" they will instead erroneously think "they must threaten the broken system that is hurting us to be snuffed out, therefore they must have had some positive ideas." We don't live in a system where people trust the decisions of government or of large groups in general. Putting them all to death (especially without trial) will just radicalize a whole generation of young people who will question why the things those people thought were so "dangerous." That doesn't mean there doesn't need to be consequences for being a part of this, there absolutely has to be, but the penchant for retributive violence on the left is going to harm things more than it will help things, in my personal opinion. It's like the US War on Terrorism. Did killing people indiscriminately win hearts and minds of the Iraqi people or did it radicalize a whole generation against the US? Because I am pretty damn sure it was the latter.
https://saidit.net/s/freemediafuckyeah/wiki/index.m
This still exists