I hope she gets fantastically rich from this. I hope it becomes financially non-viable to criminalize miscarriages. I hope a bunch of black women make big bank over it, because if there’s one thing white conservatives hate, it’s pregnant black women.

Largely agree. It was, ironically, a realistic ending where they call for help and are rescued. Would’ve preferred something closer to Goonies or Home Alone.

I wonder if they held back answering some questions for season two. There’s a lot of ripe potential in the unanswered questions. Overall I enjoyed the show.

Eh… it’s hubris to equate America with democracy. Democracy will do just fine, just perhaps not here. Not being pedantic, I just think it’s time to start thinking like a global citizen. This place may be truly lost for a time, but the world spins on. Perhaps we’ll be the cautionary tale for the next generation.

Yes. When you consider that means making the left suffer. This is exactly what MAGA wants.

That’s an old article if they were looking at integrating “popular platforms such as Google+.”

They’ll just replace them with Russians with plenty of Intelligence experience.

uTorrent is an application, torrent is a protocol, zip is a file format. You’re comparing apples to oranges to zebras here.

Anything that downloads slow is because there are few seeders and they have bandwidth that is either limited or saturated.

I personally gave up on torrenting when 80%+ of them wouldn’t start downloading even when there were apparently many active seeders. I still pay for my vpn just in case, but I haven’t even had a client on my machine in over 18 months and I can’t recall when I fired it up before that.

I just pay for streaming services. All I really miss is the blu-ray quality.

Those were some entertaining movies (as I recall—I don’t know if I’ve seen them since I was barely into double-digit age). Worthwhile, even if they are based on beliefs I don’t share.

Kinda shows there is a limit to how far you can get simply ingesting all text that exists. At some point, someone is going to need to curate perhaps billions of documents, which just based on volume will necessarily be done by people unqualified to really do so. And even if it were possible for a small group of people to curate such a data set, it would become an enormously political position to be in.

They are either humiliated, or they literally believe 4 years of genocide is worth it to send Democrats a message. I’m done giving a shit about their opinion. Half of them were probably Russian or Israeli anyway.

Problem is it wasn’t illegal. So the law is no use here. So exposing the activities they are engaged in right in public is no use. It’s like whistleblowing on Trump colliding with Russia. He did it right in front of everybody and got away with it.

Also, ultimately profits don’t have to always increase. In fact, it’s an impossibility over the long term without diversifying, and even then growth will slow. There’s not a damn thing wrong with a business that consistently, reliably turns 1B into 1.1B (or whatever).

killing a CEO is very likely to result in either imprisonment and/or death and unlikely to directly cause change. It’ll spark some discussion on the news, but is that really worth throwing your life away?

Maybe? I mean a life lived in misery isn’t worth much. At the end of the day, only he can answer whether it was worth the cost, but the rest of us have the opportunity to build on the message he sent. Will we capitalize (lol) on that opportunity? Probably not, but Mangione was undoubtedly a spark. Eventually a spark will catch, but of course it’s never certain who will get burned.

Every revolution begins by breaking the rules to bring someone untouchable under the status quo to justice. There is a very real threat of copycat vigilantes or worse that public sentiment will somehow lead to actual change. Power seized by the proletariat is always a threat to those with power.

At the end of the day, I think the problem is that so many people don’t identify Thompson as a killer. I think if more people saw Thompson as a killer, sympathy would be less controversial.

I don’t condone vigilante murder, but this is a case where I think the calculus that Mangione did to conclude the benefits of his action outweigh the consequences was probably correct and that there wasn’t a more reasonable way to address his grievance. And if you do something wrong and it turns out for the best, you still did something wrong, so get outta here ya little rascal and don’t let me catch you again.