Blood donation is one way to purge heavy metals from your body fyi, if you’re able to donate.

Bus drivers shouldn’t have term limits

It is in the interest of the Democratic Party that their stated goals are never achieved, lest they have nothing to campaign on. How can you sell someone medicine if they aren’t sick? The Republicans do them a favor by making the country sicker and sicker.

I recall getting banned from one of those subs because I made some comment about not giving a shit whether I’m called a communist or a socialist as long as the meaning is understood

The post still smacks of typical Reddity individualism, idealism, and Great Man Theory. I’m not confident this person actually learned anything at all; if they came to the right conclusion, it was for the wrong reasons.

I just get tired of Redditors soapboxing like anyone should give a fuck what this guy in particular has fact-and-logicked to believe.

I don’t see much value in declaring victory when it rests entirely in their own shitty ideological terms. If you want to see more of how this guy talks, go look at r/CapitalismVSocialism, for example.

Yet, I’m willing to grant that this could be the beginning of a beautiful leftist blossoming for this Romanian.

Edit: it’s also been a long day but I’ll stand by my crankiness

Imagine being on track to quit and taking this instead lol

For op sec I’ll keep it vague, but it is nowhere near 130 hours.

Would it spoil the show to watch episodes out of order?

I will check this out, thanks!

I had to download Acrobat in order to use a proprietary feature a couple months ago. The process to start a free trial, download the creative suite installer, run the installer, open the suite, find Acrobat, download Acrobat, figure out how where the proprietary tool was, figure out how to use the tool, and finally, uninstall it all — it took me like 30 minutes. And I consider myself good with computer.

Adobe is beyond bad. It’s a farce

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So I get the supposed point of these social media posts by politicians. Schumer wants to apply public pressure onto other members of congress because he lacks the support for [thing] to do it without the public. (Of course he also does this when he doesn’t really want to do it, but that’s a separate point.)

But at some stage in the development of electoral politics and the news media, the involvement of the public in the political process is so extensive and detailed, what’s the point of having representatives at all? Just feels like a glaring contradiction at some point, where the spectacle of politics undermines its own foundation. The general public might as well have more direct involvement in legislation if they’re expected to micromanage each bill proposal that reaches the floor.

Born to ha, forced to hee

Thanks, I just noticed I wrote 4x when I meant 10x. And lol “screaming” is an interesting, and inevitably accurate, word choice

Nvidias stock was $13 only four years ago, and until a few days ago it was 10 times that? Jesus Christ.

“Rough” neighborhoods exist. Naive lefties can run into trouble based on an idea that all of the society’s problems can be reduced to propaganda. Fact is, some streets you have a much higher risk of encountering violence, and you aren’t necessarily going to find help from 911. Don’t fall into the trap of thinking that exploited communities are less reactionary than any other community. Bigots exist even in the “bad” areas because they’re just people.

In equal parts as police actively cause violence, they also neglect to provide any sort of safety for residents of these communities. This is why, in the worst examples, residents sometimes have to take justice into their own hands. The state intentionally fails to uphold even the most minimal standards for social life.

I don’t disagree with your overall point which I think boils down to basic humanism. “Bad” neighborhoods are full of normal people just trying to get by in a bad situation. Whatever real danger exists is also exaggerated because of racist, classist, and ableist reasons.

Military and its contractors like to feel cooler than they actually are. This guy bragging about being part of the intelligence community is not that different than wearing tacticool gear and pretending you’re John Wick.

I believe this guy was part of (un)intelligence work, but I don’t believe he’s as cool as he wants to appear. Just a random marine who was made to shitpost on forums for four years before he got out, propagandized the whole time about how scary China is.

Voice recognition for things like text to speech (TTS) has improved quite a bit.

My smartwatch has helped me work out more regularly and keep to a regular bedtime. I like knowing that I have a history of vital statistics like heart rate, O2, sleep quality which can be directly sent to my doctor if needed. Having data from when I’m healthy is useful for catching trends early or confirming whether a problem is new, if and when one does arise.

It’s not life changing but I do enjoy the improvement in phone cameras, even cheap ones.

I agree with the overall point that tech has stagnated with regard to functional life changes. It has progressed a lot in terms of refinement and improving speed/size/cost. Those aren’t dramatically different in daily use but they change the use cases. SSDs have been around forever for example, but their recent cheapness and small size makes them usable in many cases they would not have been 10 years ago.

the proliferation of backup cameras in cars has been very nice

Keep in mind this only happened in compensation for a decrease in rear visibility. The cameras were added because it would be impossible to back up otherwise. Though, I agree with the overall point that safety features have improved a lot: collision warning/braking, IR parking sensors, lane keep assist, adaptive cruise (if you can get it).

Yeah they’ve improved in every aspect since the early SSDs. Cost, physical size, storage size, read/write speed, and longevity. SSDs have existed for a long time, but they’ve improved a lot too.

Gabriel Rockhill just gave a 10 min talk about this 2 days ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8S1N4F-IPio

He’s not the first to say this stuff, but he does bring it together nicely.