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I interpreted it as general disgust that this is the only thing that seems to have put a real dent in his support from the Republican base. Maybe I'm projecting. Don't get me wrong, I get why people are upset about it, but it just strikes me as crazy that "oh no, the man who's a petty tyrant and obviously a rapist and probable pedophile won't release the files about the pedophile human trafficker" is the straw that broke the camel's back for so many.

I'd want to know what they count as bullying. The days of movie stereotype bullying like shoving kids in lockers or whatever are gone. Modern bullying is either excluding, underhanded comments, or social media harassment.

Schools haven't kept up, either. Suppose kid A goes on a targeted harassment campaign online against kid B. B gets mad about it and confronts A at school, maybe even gets in a fight. B will be labeled the bully and aggressor.

Source: Have kids and live with a middle school teacher and attend social gatherings of middle school and high school teachers.

I'm exactly the same. I get that it's not for everyone. I understand that, and respect it. But I hate people framing this as you having a trust issue.

It's the opposite of a trust issue. I trust my wife to be responsible with my bank accounts. I trust my wife to see my location because I also trust my wife to only bother checking if she has a reasonable reason to do so, and to not be a weird paranoid freak if I'm somewhere she doesn't expect. I trust my wife with the password to all my online accounts because it's easier to just share a Bitwarden than it is to segregate everything, and I completely trust her to not invade my privacy.

The thing is, our lives are online. If I get hit by a bus or something, I don't want her to have to deal with my death while ALSO figuring out how to convince banks and insurance companies and whatnot to let her in. Much easier to just share my Bitwarden with her.

I'm not in some panopticon, worrying "Oh no, what will my wife think about me being within 500 yards of an ex's house" or whatever because I totally trust her to trust me. It's just not an issue.

I mean, just because he already did it doesn't mean it's too late to stop. I'd argue that stopping immediately is still a good thing.

Sadly this is rapidly becoming untrue. There are at least two small mom and pop restaurants near me that have gotten rid of their delivery driver and just deliver via one of the app services.

I'm so used to him being wrong about everything he says that it feels weird when he's right.

Regulating demand like this is supposed to be like the one thing a free market is good at, isn't it? Supply can't go up, so prices go up until demand evens out. Am I supposed to believe that all the free market stuff I hear about isn't working?!

Reliable public transportation that doesn't cause or get stuck in traffic jams, also.

It seems to me that they can be stretched just shy of infinitely, because sources aren't reliable and people aren't paying attention. That is, when a source reports on what's happening with as little bias and editorializing as humanly possible, it is labeled as "left bias" while the conservative news sources don't bother talking about the problems with ICE at all. As long as that's the case, they can basically get away with anything because their human rights abuses won't get enough coverage or will be dismissed by enough of the population that it won't actually have an impact.

Okay but hear me out: We replace the entire executive branch of the US government with AI. It'll be roughly as prone to making shit up as the people in charge already are, but since it's trained on data sets made by people it'll probably act more in line with what people actually want.

I don't recall any rights about not having my memory wiped. Wait a sec...

Unironically, Street Fighter. That scene where he says, "For you, the day Bison graced your village was one of the most important days of your life. But for me, it was Tuesday."

I think about it a lot in dealing with other people. It was supposed to make him sound like even more of a jerk, but I actually think it's a good commentary on what it's like to deal with the public. Imagine being a doctor. Sometimes, you get to deliver good news. Sometimes bad. Sometimes you can do something, and sometimes you just can't. If the doctor tried to care as much as the patients, they'd be emotionally destroyed in short order. For them, it HAS to just be a Tuesday.