Why don’t we just wait and see if even these idiots want that in a few years? It’s been a couple of weeks and it’s already starting to look like most of the polling locations will be covered in rubble by 2028.

Is that what the “you can’t download your shit anymore” is really reaching at?

Because the speculative “economy” necessarily grows faster than the actual economy.

That’s becoming alarmingly common, and I’d like to see it go away entirely.

Random question: do you happen to be downloading all of your Kindle books? 😜

I think citizen’s united. The spirit was dead probably before I was born, but legalizing corruption made the full death inevitable.

I don’t remember a flu causing massive shutdowns throughout the country, empty downtowns, bank runs, empty store shelves, rampant price gouging, large bailouts for industry, an entire program setup to enrich the already rich by raiding the treasury, a massive grifter program for “small business”, large scale free vaccination programs, etc etc etc.

You’re not reading my posts and then claiming I’m skimming yours. The US hasn’t seen the type of large scale unrest you’re predicting here in a hundred years, and this dude’s approval ratings are up, not down.

Everything seems to indicate that people will indeed continue to tolerate things getting worse, and that they will continue to blame the unfortunate for their own misfortune.

I had a meeting with a young person who had to have the concept of a directory structure explained to them for a half hour…and they’re in charge of designing a file browser. 🤦‍♂️

I don’t think the exercise was even successful.

Like it or not, for most people, covid was a minor inconvenience. For most people it did amount to a flu.

I think your COVID denialist is showing a bit. The impact of the virus itself isn’t what I was writing about. They were running large amounts of con job and swindle programs and engaging in what would best be described as crisis capitalism. That’s what I’m talking about. If you seriously think the red states – the very same red states that voted a guy back in that had run the cupboards bare and sold off whatever wasn’t nailed down, used the pandemic to pitch beans to the public, and then tried to stay in office by throwing a coup – are going to ever come around to acknowledge that they were swindled by this loser and turn on him en masse, I’m not sure what to tell you.

But I don’t think that will be possible, because it really seems like there’s no way all of these piss poor executive orders won’t have very tangible repercussions on the working class.

I think that’s where the rubber hits the road in this country. I don’t think any mass movement against Trump will start up until there are large repercussions that are clearly linked to his actions. But unfortunately, the bar has been raised over the years as well because the rich people are mostly for the pain he’s inflicting and the country is organized and run by the rich.

It’s starting to look like COVID was the test run the right-wingers on social media were worried about, but as per usual they viewed it through the wrong lens. COVID taught the rich that allowing mass disease, pain, disaster, wealth transfer, and death in the country will not make it more community-oriented and compassionate and will not result in any political repercussions for those exacerbating the problems. COVID was a test run for just how much suffering the people of this country were willing to tolerate without getting unruly (which apparently we as a country have a much bigger appetite than I would have guessed), and the lasting narrative of COVID isn’t that the Republicans did too little, it’s that we shouldn’t have bothered doing as much as we did to help those suffering.

It’s difficult to see how there will be even a splintering in this coalition before it’s way too late to do anything about it.

I don’t know why the country and its leaders didn’t see that getting him out of office in 2021 relatively easily was a miracle and we’re not likely to be blessed twice. I think we have a long, and difficult road ahead of us to ever align this country even slightly in the interests of its people.

America has no principals therefore any movement peters out without any resolution.

I think this is very true. However, I don’t think it’s wholly unique to the US. Canada’s idea of being a “mosaic” is also based upon multi-culturalism and I don’t think that the entirety of the country holds that as a principle either.

America has no identity outside of money.

This is also a true statement. We used to hold other values until every organization that trumpeted them also turned toward the all-mighty dollar (including – and in a lot of ways led by – religion).

Trump’s fault

Meanwhile 🦗🦗🦗🦗 from the genocide Joe caucus.

🎶 Ain’t that America? Home of the fee, baby! 🎶

No algorithmic suggestions and therefore, no curated daily taste playlists, no sorting your library by genre (at least not as granular and specific as Spotify unless you put in as much work as they do at tagging your music), finding new music manually takes at least 10x more effort and you’re limited to the taste you already know you have

I haven’t used Spotify much, but I found Google Music and Pandora to be very shallow with regards to discovery. There’s not really much to them other than “people who liked X tend to like Y” or “here’s something that sounds similar to an artist you like”. It’s discovery sure, but it’s discovery on autopilot. It’ll keep you treading water in the same shallow area of the ocean forever unless you make a concerted effort outside of its algorithms to listen to something new.

I usually don’t want something “similar to…X” when finding new music. I usually want things that are completely different. I subscribed to Google Music for around a year and found maybe two new artists I liked to listen to. I switched back to a manual discovery process around five years ago and this year alone I’ve found probably a dozen.