Yes. But for every $1 they spend on ICE, they… generate… oh no, no produce is getting picked, construction is stagnant… (Seriously if we ran similar metrics on GoP crap we could probably say we lose ADDITIONAL $s per $…)

Well… Yes, but let’s not forget he’d still get hamstrung by his own Congress even with Dems in power. They wouldn’t even pass Biden’s milquetoast agenda. Your fantasy needs to involve a populous that actually understands that Congress primaries matter, which is even more farfetched, unfortunately.

I meant it as a joke, though not gonna lie I wouldn’t mind seeing AOC vs MTG. Though knowing the Dems, it’ll be a Hillary or Kamala reboot and… Ugh, we’ll be saying President Greene in 2029.

I’d vote for her (in their primary to make it easier to elect a better Dem)!

Mumble was… fine. My friends actually moved to Discord from Mumble for our MMO stuff but that was primarily because it was easier to invite randos to the chat. That quality makes it almost impossible to break away from atm.

I recall the latency being only a little worse than Discord, but I think that’s because a friend set up the server at his work as a side thing (he also hosted Minecraft and Terraria). It’s not too complex to setup, but your quality will depend a lot on the computer and network you’re running. At least, it did for us, back in the day.

We’ve thought about alternatives to Discord. Old names were Ventrilo and TeamSpeak but they’re just not very modern. Plus, now almost every chat app has voice, too. Just, for features, it’s hard to beat Discord at this… though I’m willing to read the other comments to get for ideas, too. Lol

It also went up from earlier polls after the Trump endorsement, which helped minimize the impact of the actual GOP runner Silva.

Bigotry is certainly a strong sell to a large chunk of voters, but hell I think the red scare bullshit was probably even stronger. It’s wild how many people are still capitalist brainwashed and have no idea that socialism isn’t communism (or that either isn’t inherently bad somehow).

Kat’s an underdog contender in the same way Zohran was; I wouldn’t count her out so handedly. She’s paying attention to how to run a primary campaign and her opponents (who admittedly are more established) likely won’t have as much energy. Admittedly, they aren’t Cuemo levels of disliked, though.

Simply the fact that anyone is talking about a house seat now outside of IL-9 says much, though. Personally, while I enjoy her journalism and like her stance, what I’m more curious about is her connections to The Onion through her partner, uh… Tim Onion (I forget his name, but he’s a chaotic progressive rich guy who bought it recently). Will it make for a more impactful campaign? She obviously can’t make it into a joke run but they must have some very creative and interesting people on their side, not to mention some private money to counter corporate interests.

If it makes you feel better, I’ve noticed a lot, lot more private security in the uber-rich neighborhood I have to pass to get to work.

They’re scared.

People talking about how they could have just CGI’d it traditionally for (maybe) cheaper, but what about even the non CGI option most ads go with? It’s a gimmick.

They’re doing this to get people talking, which it does. That said, don’t drink coke. Like, regardless of the ad – it’s super bad for you, lol

I like this. I also like the one I saw in the wild “I’m speeding because I need to POOP.”

Well they need someone there; if you just exile people to hell without a plan you end up with Australia.

I’m with a lot of Californians reluctantly voting on Prop 50. It’s a backslide for democracy but when the whole county is avalanche levels of backsliding, it seems unavoidable. At least the language emphasizes temporary (though it still has lasting impacts as it messes up incumbent advantage, not that I like that either).

I just wish Gavin wasn’t growing in popularity as he has been over these moves, he’s such a smug rich asshole kind of lib. We need what NYCs been getting with progressive minded folks.

Y’know, I want to dismiss Americans being dumb, and they are, but thinking a little deeper about my own neighborhood and it might feel like there’s more crime because… surprise, there’s more homeless or struggling financially. Things very much look worse outside, although it’s somehow not understood that cities often provide care to the poor which reduces crime.

Admittedly, a majority of those ignorant people also just… never visit a city and get all their news via propaganda, but I wonder if their small towns also have increased poverty without the safeguards we have in the city, resulting in increases in crime. Wouldn’t be the first time the right projected their problems onto the rest of us.

NPR did a story on this and to paraphrase from memory, their conclusion was that the definitions vary depending on who analyzes the data. The bigger takeaway was that killings have been more personal and harder to profile as a result.

Like, some might include Luigi in the left category while others put him in neutral category because CEOs aren’t political figures. Yet, the Trump ear shot often gets clarified as left violence cause Trump is right, but the kid was seeped in the right culture so that seems misleading.

Suffice to say, it’s data ripe for cherry picking when it’s not like, an organization doing the killings.

Didn’t have mpreg Bill on my bingo card this election…

There was a post the other day pronouncing female like tamale and it made me take a while to read this post and made it a little more fun, too

My dad got a gimmicky aurora beaming lamp thing and it’s kinda cool but if it was mine I 100% would set it up in my kitchen for this exact reason.

I found that odd for a Lemmy post but also, one year milk is in much worse condition than this image. Unless they froze it for clout? Why go through the trouble?

But that just makes me wonder even more why that is blocked out, lol.

Sounds like some Filipino style crackdown, which did actually eventually lead to ICC arrest. Trial pending, anyway.

Not to be off topic but I’d like to clarify, you’re not supposed to use secondary sources regardless if you’re supposed to cite primary sources. Wikipedia is legit, just not primary so you’re getting information loss. You 100% could use it to lead to primary sources, though.

Not everyone understands why, though, including teachers. :/