Church is just another form of entertainment for Americans.

Americans have been looking for an excuse to invade Venezuela since the coup failed in 2002.

you fucking dumbasses started calling it “communism”

Oh sure. That was half the joke of 2009. Insurance lobbyists going on TV and predicting America would become Venezuela for getting subsidized private coverage.

And Democrats were happy to play along. Lieberman filibustered the Public Option from within his own party because the TV news made the bill so unpopular

Did we ever find out if Iraq had WMDs, like the State Department and the CIA claimed?

democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”

I’ve heard this used as an argument against democracy more times than I can count. Nevermind that vaccination is overwhelmingly popular or that the anti-vax policies have to be jammed down the public’s throat.

Clown planet invented the measles vaccine, so… good luck off-world

All my friends got married and now half the table is spouses with a few spots reserved for a cameo from one of the kids

how fucking notoriously US diplomatic staff in china absolutely cannot keep it in their pants

Hardly unique to China. Obama’s SS famously all got busted visiting prostitutes in Brazil while scouting venues for his visit.

But it always seems to get blamed on the Yellow Peril when it’s in the news

Adding an “AI art” tag to filter against would go a long way

Apparently a bunch of right wing Internet media keeps trying to name him “Edward Crabtree” and cover up the fact that he’s Muslim

Of course not. It’s the evil foreigners what done it. Americans couldn’t just air their dirty laundry through ineptitude and need for validation.

Young, female, Asian. It’s everything Andrew Tate warned us about. Amazed we let anyone like that over the border.

No shortage of American planners. They just work in hedge funds and board rooms

This is probably unachievable in Western countries, since they expect the metro systems to make a profit, which makes no sense whatsoever.

It’s the difference between making profit

• Widening gulf between price and cost, then pocketing the difference

And value

• Widening the gulf between cost and utility, then increasing the overall value of the economic system

Businesses are absolutely profiting off Chinese HSR. They just aren’t the rail network operators. They’re the operator’s clients.

Incidentally, America does have comparable systems. We just do it for cars and planes, not trains

China: “We’re revolutionizing mass transit for 1.4B people”

America: “Okay, but they still have a lot of problems”

Orange juice? Disease due to climate change.

That’s very recent.

A more historical look at orange production - particularly in Florida - shows it peaked in the early '00s at 250M boxes, then plunged to 12M boxes thanks to disease, hurricanes, and real estate development.

But the root reason is that orange surpluses were thinning profits. Drastic reduction in production pushed up unit prices without materially increasing costs.

Orange agribusiness is doing fine. It’s the retail purchases who are eating shit

Remember olive oil going up in price? Crop failure due to bad weather.

The destruction of historical olive groves has been a major Israeli tool for displacing native Arab peoples.

This isn’t just bad weather. It’s manufactured poverty through ethnic cleansing.

We’re seeing similar events in Central Africa, Ukraine, the Kashmir region of India, and now the US military campaign against Venezuelan fishermen.

If you seriously think the internet is better now than 08 ish, well I dont agree.

I think it’s heavily predicated on what you’re using the Internet for. In the business world, we’ve improved system redundancy, backup/recovery, and transfer speeds by leaps and bounds.

Back in 2008, I was in my car driving to Dallas to escape Hurricane Ike, with a trunk full of server hardware needed to keep our business running. Datacenter proliferation has fully eliminated the need to do anything like that again.

We have significantly more high speed broadband. We have superior wireless connectivity. HTML5 is much better than it’s predecessors. We’ve modernized APIs and broadly adopted JSON for transmission. The hardware is so much better, from phones to routers to raspberry pis for self-hosting.

I get you don’t like the current content of big Web 2.0 publishers. But you’re really missing the forest for a few big ugly trees

They happily voted for a guy who had a health care policy that amounted to “concepts of a plan” for like a decade now.

They were the same guys voting for Romney in 2012, the man whose health plan was good enough for Obama to crib wholesale.

I can’t think of a single time from last election season where this was agreed upon as a bipartisan issue.

Joe Biden Has Advocated Cutting Social Security for 40 Years

What Bloomberg campaign?

He’s the thirteenth most prolific campaign financier in 2024

In 2008 you could do a web search and have relevant real results

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

Google had (mostly) solved this problem by 2007. I couldn’t name another search engine that could claim the same.

But the process of Spamdexing has been an ongoing war of the websites since the nineties. Google never fully solved it, they just did a better job than most up until the big executive shift in 2018.

The spam site takeover of your search results in the modern day is as much a consequence of modernization in Spamdexing as it is any search engine’s own failures. None of those AI content mill sites existed to index 20 years ago

This is like the “I’m calling ICE on my neighbors that I know have undocumented family members because one of them voted for Trump”.

I’m sure liberal has done this IRL. The desire to punish brown people for voting incorrectly is strongly bipartisan.

Did they vote for the clowns running this circus?

Giving every die hard Ted Cruz supporter a free pass