Insane people exist, that doesn’t make it a trend.

Also true.

What a nightmare, and AFAIK no country will accept trans people from USA as refugees (yet).
I hope you have options.

Undermining the health of your population is also how you lose even faster to China.
USA is devolving in every significant aspect of life quality. And this is already hitting the economy too.
USA is making itself irrelevant through immense stupidity one would have thought impossible.

It makes sense if you don’t think about it. Which apparently the DOJ never did.
It’s all about creating enemies the ignorant bigots can stand together against.
USA is a disgusting society.

That’s a stupid oversimplification to make it look like both sides are the same.
So I’ll call that an attempt of a false equivalence to discourage the opposition.

If Democrats and Republicans hadn’t done everything to prevent modernizing democracy away from the 2 party system, they probably would have.

As it is, the ones that need to go is clearly the right wing democrats that constantly undermine the party to pander to the petrified established systems, and as I understand it, there is work going on to attempt to modernize the democratic party.

It shall be interesting to see what new people like David Hogg can achieve together with for instance AOC, Ilhan Omar and other more socially responsible democrats, that are gaining a pretty strong foothold in the democratic party.

This reeks so much of bullshit.
To me it sounds like claiming young men would rather date a picture of a bunny, than risk rejection.
Like WTF?!?!?

There is no dating an AI, you are fucking not on a “date” of any sorts. You are chatting with a fancy bot, that will parrot whatever bullshit back to you it has compiled from more or less reliable sources.

This is the 2017 Smart-Vision_EQ_ForTwo_Concept.

No pedals or steering wheel rear view mirror or anything to drive the car, means exclusive 100% autonomous.
I don’t think that’s possible by next year. Especially not as a tiny city car. At least not at anywhere near a reasonable price for such a limited car.

Maybe a Smart Fortwo will arrive next year, but it will be nothing like what’s shown in the pictures.

Wikipedia is also backed by the engines of capitalism.

Stupid knee jerk “no you” response that doesn’t make the least bit of sense, where YouTube is obviously a major engine of capitalism, owned by one of the richest most capitalistic companies in the world, and everything in how YouTube operates is governed by their capitalistic principles.

How do you figure in any way the same is true for Wikipedia which is a non profit organization running on donations?!?!

Bullshit!!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation

Revenue $185.4 million (2024)
Expenses $178.6 million (2024)
Employees 363 (2024)
Volunteers 277,000 (2024)

How did you ever convince yourself that the 10th most visited website, that doesn’t have any revenue other than donations is rolling in dough? That would be an extremely rare thing if they did.
Apart from smoothly running servers, and administrating almost 300000 volunteers, they need lawyers, both to ensure they stay within local laws in more than a 100 countries, but also to stave off idiotic lawsuits. Just the recent changes to UK law has been a major legal headache.
Without donations Wikipedia would quickly fall apart.

They don’t need donations they have lots of money,

Being a free service with no advertising, I’m guessing the only reason they have money is because people donate.
But for some reason your description quickly skips over the part about where the money comes from?

aggressively begging for donations again.

Aggressively? Showing a banner for about a week once or twice a year?? That’s aggressive???
How the fuck can anyone be so butthurt about a free service? I’m definitely NOT clicking your link to support something so stupid on YouTube.

PS:
We always donate a small amount kr 100 DKK ( about $15 USD ) when they are campaigning. Wikipedia is an amazing service we’d sorely miss if it disappeared.

Good on Argentina following up on this.

70’s comics where he loses all his powers one by one in the span of an entire year.

First step is to not be an idiot, and we have failed that for 20 years, not adopting Open Source where possible.

Or maybe he is just pretending, because how could anyone no matter how stupid have expected otherwise from the policies of Trump? You’d have to be a MAGA republican to be that stupid!

Oh wait…

How surprising, countries working together against a country that is clearly trying to undermine them!

Even fucking Europe and Canada are working closer together with China now, because Trump forced them to.
Trump is a traitor and a Russian asset, he is just pretending to be upset by the results of the policies he was instructed to by Russia!

I’ don’t condone torture, but in this case, my protest would probably accidentally arrive too late.
Tolerance towards intolerance feeds intolerance.

Paradox of tolerance:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

JD Vance is an expert in pleasing his master. Pleasing the people is not the goal.

True, but I wrote “have” because I didn’t want to count things like debt. People with debt still have things, and sometimes people living like billionaires also have debt so their net worth is close to zero.
The meaning was what they “have” money to spend on themselves, and some people “have” enormous privileges, disregarding whether it’s their own money or not.