Yup. Herd mentality. If you’re not part of the herd, you’re a valid target for reinforcing the herd’s stances.

Finally! I found the name for what I’ve been thinking of. Thank you!

Yeah! I think liquid democracy is practical with today’s technology, especially if it is encrypted correctly with verification and privacy in mind.

They already can by putting your finger on the camera and lighting up your finger with the led light. Then it detects the rhythmic changes picked up by the camera… At least 10+ years ago. It was a good novelty feature, but turns out, for most healthy people, checking your heart rate gets old after a few runs.

… I think we read different articles.

There are a lot of community-driven websites, but they’re all out SEOed by profit-driven garbage sites.

Even in the article:

According to a 2023 study, a day on Earth was approximately 19 hours for a significant part of Earth’s early history…

Reminder that a McDonald’s new burger campaign failed because people thought a ⅓ lb burger was smaller than a ¼ lb burger.

I have an USB hub with a Type C to HDMI output. I switch with my laptop, Steam Deck, and Switch 1.

Additionally, when I’m traveling, I prefer to take the small USB hub over the chunky switch dock.

My biggest gripe is how petty it is to disallow it. That’s like HP levels of petty… Actually, they’re really starting to adopt a lot of shitty HP policies.

Being the most financially successful product *could* mean they excel at ripping people off the most. See HP and their printers.

Non-democratic/psudo-democratic socialism/communism: “You’re paying for this service whether you want it or not. There is no motivation to make a quality product.”

Democratic socialism/communism: “Well, only 60% of you care about this enough to vote. We’ll put some funds into it, but definitely not what it needs. And oh dang, everyone hates it now, guess we’ll defund it.”

Edit: I’m not disagreeing with OP. Capitalism sucks too. Socialism and Communism *can* suck. It depends on the governing body. There are good examples of all three economic systems working and bad examples of all three screwing people over. I’m anarchist and believe good systems will eventually fall to corrupt politicians if safeguards are not in place to prevent it, and there’s a bunch of sneaky intentional and unintentional loopholes to sneak in power grabs.

The saying I heard was “Don’t argue with an idiot. They’ll drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.”

No publisher is going to pay a professional to narrate their audiobooks when they can have AI do a shitty job for much less.

A shitty narrator can get me to hate a book I like. A great narrator can bring the characters to life, enhance the experience, and turn me from a listener to a fan. I’ve searched for books by narrators like Nick Podehl and Jeff Hayes and bought audiobooks I wouldn’t have otherwise.

I wouldn’t support it even if the author couldn’t afford it otherwise. There’s no test to confirm that and knowing profit margines, all publishers will use AI for all their books.

Yes, I’d want smaller authors to have people listen to their books, but without oversight, it’s going to ruin all audiobooks.

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It’s not gay if it’s TSA

Also: https://www.fiftyfifty.one/ Seems like a direct source. You can search for events near you and who is organizing them.

Not gonna play the “carry all the groceries in one trip” game greater than 100 yards (1 football field (514 bananas))

Also, the newer massive trucks that are so high they blind anyone lower than them regardless of how properly it’s configured.

*Hugs self*

I would stop following the tarrif news if it wasn’t the headline on everything. Is anything else going on while he’s doing this? Did he overthrow the judicial system or something?