To me it seems like abortion happens to be the canary in the coal mine for a lot of people, and the loss of democracy is carbon monoxide.

Wasn’t expecting to laugh out loud here. Thank you for that

Based on our sun’s life cycle, it’s not likely.

Even if all emissions stopped tomorrow for good, temperatures would continue to rise, our climate would continue to destabilize, and the mass extinction event currently underway would continue.

Like your comment says, we have likely fucked the climate enough that we’ll probably be gone within a couple hundred years.

The problem is, we’ve killed off so many species and damaged our biodiversity to such an extent, that by the time biological life could evolve to a similar level of biodiversity like we once enjoyed, our sun will already be expanding enough that earth has become uninhabitable.

We did it guys!

Doublespeak

Before I even finished reading that comment I thought, “Fuck. Ken Paxton would probably just take it as inspiration to accept money from Roku.”

Congrats to those in other states though. I am envious.

Thank you for this. This should be the top comment.

I wonder how the new Cemex framework affects this.

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I applied to a small tech company back in late 2021, when everywhere was hiring like crazy. It was my first full time role, but I have my bachelor’s and had work experience.

Overall I had:

• a phone screen with the recruiter
• a video interview with the recruiter for the specific role
• a video interview with HR
• a cognitive aptitude test online
• a personality test online
• an interview with a team member from the department hiring
• a take home assessment that I completed then went over on a video call/interview with my would-be manager and the same team member

I also had my credit checked, and had to provide 3 references which were all called.

The job paid $36,000. Though it is definitely getting worse, these people have always been out of touch. My company was just ahead of the times, I guess.

When I left last year, they had just excitedly announced that they would be using video interview question submissions for all candidates going forward. The only feedback I gave in my exit interview was that I wouldn’t apply today with the required video interviews.

I saw an instagram profile that “specializes” in Trump related AI art, and is run by a German teenager. It looked like there were paid features Trump fans could sign up for, and a lot of them were eating it up in the comments.

The account owner has just a couple pics of himself posted in a suit, and one brief explanation + a few short comments on why he loves Trump, and how he came to being a huge Trump fan. Which are all very vague/surface level reasons and come across about as genuine as the more lazy sponsored videos on YouTube.

I’m convinced this is what he’s doing lol. Also a little impressed tbh

I was thinking it’s like the LinkedIn version of yahoo answers

Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, and Texas do not pay incarcerated workers at all for their labor.

This only adds to your point, but I wanted to include that several states (in the South of course) do in fact pay absolutely NOTHING for their prison labor.

Some areas may pay prisoners minimum wage for work release jobs, but I believe many of those can turn around and garnish those same wages for room and board at the prison. It’s ridiculous. The second you make more than a dime for your labor, we will start charging you for the right to live again.

His last election was the most competitive of his career.

The public in general leans pro-choice, so Republicans are absolutely losing support with their insane anti-abortion policies even if it isn’t obvious yet.

He’s also been in national headlines a lot lately for his extremism. He has always been horrible, but he has never been so visible for it.

Next election, he will be hanging on by voter suppression, a wish, and a prayer.

What worries me though is why he’s gone off the deep end already if he still believes he needs to get re-elected…

I like this and will probably end up using it for things I can’t find online.

I’ve been building up my collection via buying the content directly on the iTunes store, and am slowly moving copies of everything onto SSDs for long-term. I’m subscribed to cheap charts alerts so I get emails when anything on my wish list is on sale, and basically price watch so I don’t pay full price for anything. You can get pretty custom with the alerts. I haven’t looked in awhile, but there’s also a buy sell trade subreddit for digital codes where people will sell their content really cheap.

For now, I can stream my entire library via the Apple TV app which is pretty convenient. Eventually I’ll want to add more to my actual library/storage that isn’t available via iTunes, so I’ll probably search online and use the method you shared when needed.

Agreed on it being really convenient once you have your library set up. The first month or two felt a little sparse as far as exploring, but once I had a decent base of my favorite content, nothing beats having it consistently there all the time. I don’t miss streaming subscriptions at all.

All my homies love Bernoulli

That’s also typically why you see efforts to raise the mandatory retirement age for publicly held offices, like this one on the Texas 2023 ballot