Yes, based on nationalist reasons, to chnage facts to suit governments.
This is no different to google kowtowing to China's imagined borders.
The fact is the worls knows this is the Gulf of Mexico. Not whatever Trump imagines it to be callled. Denali is still Denali, as well.
Chatgpt is also censored.
Changing facts to suit a nationalist and fascist state, purely for jingoism, is appeasement.
Its not couch locky, but is very relaxing, and it does seem to calm the brain to do creative tasks better. Or at least, it feels that way.
Everyone assumes every country's overton window is aligned with the US.
Canada is no leftist paradise, but their overton window is far more left than the US.
Bernie would a Canadian centrist, or maybe a left leaning politician, for example.
You raise prices, and sell less. And let all customers know its the new Trump Tax they are paying.
The only possible liberation is self liberation.
We need to cast off our chains, ourselves.
Most of the people I’m around are not rich by any means, but they are not living paycheck to paycheck.
Most Americans are a single paycheck away from being destitute... Like, the average savings for a person in this country is 2K. That's not even a single paycheck of mine, and hell, I even find it hard to make and plans past 8 or 9 months out.
pixelfed instance has a wonky "Select location", and the best I could do was "seneca, ny" lol. It's WNY, specifically, on the Cattaraugus Reservation.
Well, except the part about steam rolling into Canada... Because US forces will have US citizens shooting at them while they attempt to enter Fort Erie, or Niagara Falls.
Assuming that the US takes the most strategic point of entry, which I kinda doubt... Like they'd instead do something stupid like invade via Alaska, which I feel would have less pushback, in numbers, but a better armed citizenry fighting them on both sides.
Alaskans love hunting with AR-10s.
Most people are in this fog where current events are only an ephemeral storyline that they tune into periodically like it’s a TV drama.
No, I think most people only have the spoons to handle what is in front of them for the next 3-7 days. Its a systemic problem, that's been promoted by both parties: Keeping voters head's spinning, and the cloak of darkness providing cover for what our oligarchs want to actually do.
I've recently had to explain this to another person: The further down you are, in getting your needs met on the Maslow diagram, the shorter your planning becomes.
If all your needs are met, you can plan for this year, next year, and make decent plans for beyond. If your basic physical needs like food, shelter, water, and housing aren't being met, then your planning is reduced to 3-5 days, if that.
Its purposeful by design, for the working class to have their needs met partially only, at best, by the ruling class. So, we CAN'T plan further out.
Notice during the pandemic, when food, housing, water, etc were all being met better, due to a reduction in transportation costs, food distributions, moratoriums on eviction? We went from people re-learning to make bread, to "Fuck the system!" in a matter of a couple of months?
Scrubs was written by someone who got through med school, and washed out during residency, I believe.
So, yes funnt af, but accurate! I even asked a surgeon who picks the OR music once, bc I saw it on an episode.