Basically Dems were just out of touch with the most important part of their base until it was too late.

Which is their consistent problem every election when the prior Republican admin hasn’t made a catastrophic fuck-up.

You can’t run on the “we’re pro labor” platform and expect the working class to show up for you when your pro labor stance hasn’t put money directly into working class pockets since the 1970s or 1980s.

Where are the big public works programs? Where’s the massive government spending that employed millions? That’s why labor showed up for Democrats in the 1900s, when there were huge govt contracts that employed organized labor, and it’s no surprise at all that when Democrats abandoned those policies labor stopped being reliable supporters.

You want to run a successful campaign? Talk about the massive public spending that employed hundreds of thousands during your prior admin. Talk jobs. Talk improved standard of living. Talk taxing corporations to pay for those things and voters will hand you a landslide. Democrats are so afraid of taxing corporations to pay for social spending that directly recruits voters to their cause that they’re seen as corporate stooges. And honestly, they kinda are at this point.

You don’t need a union to strike, you can self organize and just do it

200% markup doesn’t matter when you’re billing it straight to the client anyway 🍻

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We need folks <55 to show up for every single election to get progressives elected into local, state and national positions.

2016 is when the youth vote started reliably turning up for presidential elections. That’s great but it’s not enough to drive policy change, we need young folks participating in primaries (which they tend to sit out,) congressional elections, state elections, county elections and local elections to build real political power

>55 still outnumber <35 by anywhere between 2:1 and 8:1 in almost every election except the presidential race. Until that changes progressive candidates don’t have a chance at local, state and national positions that act as the springboard to higher office and progressive stances aren’t a day to day political priority.

TL;DR: The <55 vote needs to turn out in force for every election every year (plus primaries!) and vote for progressives that represent their interests. Until that happens politics will remain dominated by neoliberal and conservative homeowners who show up reliably every time.

The problem with accelerationism is that it almost always leads to authoritarianism rather than the glorious socialist revolution everyone wants. We don’t need a global economic crash to shift to progressive policies, we need everyone to show up to every election (not just once every 4y) and vote for progressive candidates at every level of government. You do that and suddenly progressive policies are on the menu and progressive local politicians start running for state and national posts - then you can start doing things to address poverty, income inequality, the low taxes the wealthy pay, etc.

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That matches with our experience from the US to the EU. Long haul is about 50/50 IIRC, you have to hunt a little bit to be sure the flights you book are Airbus

You have to check each flight for long haul. My SO did a round trip from the US west coast to Germany recently for work and something like 2/3 of the Lufthansa flights were Airbus, the rest were Boeing

Yeah, I have exactly the same feelings about ket. I’m sure it works for some people but it doesn’t for me, the fun psychedelics leave me feeling a whole lot better afterwards

That whole paragraph is probably a commentary on my life lol

Welcome to the club

I never understood the appeal of disassociatives either, the fun psychedelics are a lot more fun

Usually European companies prefer Airbus. Lufthansa is usually a safe bet.

US companies? Best of luck.

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I watched it again a few years ago and it’s still pretty good

I’ve had the idea for a while to use an LLM to gather metadata about books for me as well as generate tag lists for themes, plot, writing style, etc for everything in my ebook library. You could also generate non spoiler plot summaries and produce recommendations for similar books.

SpaceX has a very robust management system that manages musk and keeps him out of the day to day. That’s the most impressive thing about them IMO. Tesla used to be better about this as well, but with the whole eDumpster (aka cybertruck) fiasco that system seems to have largely fallen apart.

The real benefit of super high refresh rates is the decrease in latency for input. At lower rates the lag between input and the next frame is extremely apparent, above about ~144hz it’s much less noticable.

The other side effect of running at high fps is that when heavy processing occurs and there are frame time lags they’re much less noticable because the minimum fps is still very high. I usually tell people not to pay attention to the maximum fps rather look at the average and min.

Look at MIT and UC Berkeley’s CS curricula and start tackling things that you haven’t covered. They’re both available freely online and you might still be able to find video recordings of Cal’s lectures somewhere (they recorded every class for students who weren’t present or had difficulty understanding in real time until 2015 or so but were hit with an ADA accessibility lawsuit because they weren’t captioned or something.)

Apple brandy would like a word. One of my favorite liquors, it’s fantastic.

Even being able to generate enough lift to send a payload into orbit would be an amazing advancement. We can solve propelling craft out of the solar system later, first we need an economical way to get off planet that isn’t just burning fuel to lift fuel.