I’m curious as to how the fundraising for Palestine actually benefits the situation. Is it even possible to get charitable donations in?

The mainstream media is owned by billionaires. The real question is why you expect them to care about Project 2025?

Attorneys for the plaintiffs argued that six of the Trump Train drivers violated state and federal law. Lawyers for the defendants said they did not conspire against the Democrats on the bus and that their actions are protected speech.

I don’t know how, given the harassing and objectionable temperament of Trump supporters, that anyone could argue this with a straight face. How is it even a question that this was a violent incident? Because they didn’t fire a gun at the bus?

“As young people, we’re poised to inherit a world that needs thoughtful, informed leadership more than ever. But if we’re not even willing to watch a debate

I think it’s fair to say that Gen Z has seen enough of both major parties to know definitively that neither of the two leaders up for the job are going to do anything meaningful to change their lives in a positive way. Their entire lives they’ve watched presidents of both parties promise to raise wages, improve health care and education, and spend less on war. Instead, they’ve watched both of their parents working full-time jobs while still finding themselves unable to provide for the family’s needs and education.

And it isn’t lost on them that when money for a war or corporate bailout needs to happen, it happens overnight, every single time. During COVID the government even made a few trillion we didn’t have appear out of thin air overnight.

It’s unreasonable at this point to expect Gen Z to care. Why waste a badly-needed day’s work to vote when you have observed for your entire life that things stay consistent regardless of who’s elected?

Compared to the US, very hefty.

Is it enough, though? I can’t say if it is or not, but my gut tells me it’s not enough.

Mostly Neverwinter Nights.

We’ve had more active players on the server I DM for, so I’ve been popping in more often to run quests and ambience for all the newbies.

To be clear: I 100% think people should be able to enjoy their things without being robbed, public or no.

I’m not amused, just glad I have different habits.

Fair point.

Let me be perfectly clear that I think you should be able to look at your phone 24/7 without getting robbed.

Still glad I don’t, though.

Not blaming the victim here, just glad I have different habits.

Stories like this make me glad I’m not one of those people glued to my phone 24/7.

It’s way harder to snatch it when it’s in your pocket.

But the fun of these stories is when someone writes an article about the thieves trying to scam the victim into giving up their codes. That’s always amusing.

Yeah, that’ll be misused. Without a doubt.

What an awful development.

Barf.

I love the idea of using AI as tool for studying the past, because conceivably, you can train it on every piece of art and writing a particular civilization ever produced and it can analyze that information in a more thorough and efficient way than a human. In my head I hope it’s possible to see ancient cities, or dinosaurs, or battles in historically accurate (and safe) VR experiences one day.

The problem is, as we’ve seen, AI tools are trained on garbage and stolen IP and none of the companies producing these tools care to differentiate between junk and good data, so the information these systems produce is always going to require human validation.

What then is the point? Yes, the image may be pretty and look suitably historic, but we can’t really trust a tool trained on shit not to spit out bad information.

I respect your honesty. I think gun control’s going to take a few steps backward before then, myself. We’ll see how it goes.

I like those headlines as much as the next guy, but a year from now, would it surprise you if these are still the only two instances of parents being held accountable?

I agree.

But I’d wager my life savings that laws holding parents accountable will either simply be unenforced or fail to pass in most of this country.

I want it to be different but it’s never going to happen. School shootings are a fact of American life whether we like it or not. That’s just reality.

He’s right.

They are.

It sucks, but he’s right.

Please read what I wrote again. The answer’s already there.

Yes, I am.

And I’d suggest that you use a defense other than: “Their guy is as bad as our guy.”

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