Your two braincells are misfiring, bud.

When all the music “radio stations” effectively changed nothing but called their algorithms “AI” to follow the hype.

And even then, depending on where you live, 4km to the shops is pretty ridiculous. I walk/metro to everything and take the car only for very rare Ikea trips and stuff. Even rural towns needn’t be so spread out so most of those folks should be able to walk their village, too.

Also when there needs to be a choice made and they rabidly choose the obviously bad one: “It’s a just a pick your poison thing, ya know?”

If I were to pick between two poisons I would certainly not choose the one labeled “100% for sure death” that was surrounded by an aura of death and decay but they just can’t stop themselves slurping that shit down like it’s juice.

Conned them and then Nashville, I think it is, is also paying him for it. True stupid, the US isn’t a country of learners, it seems.

Except I literally already told that being unique is less important than being able to actually do what’s promised. New Yorkers understand the power that a mayor has and know that he can get this shit done for their city. His policies are good and they’re a strong swing away from the center and the right and people are excited about that, and he’s been shown to even explicitly say he won’t make promises he can’t even attempt to keep(price of eggs, anyone?).

The establishment hates this because he’s doing things they know will energize people and show them just how much better things could be. The US has long operated on the bullshit idea that they couldn’t have nice things because “it’s different here!” but that’s always been a lie that was easy to tell because the good shit was happening across an ocean that many US citizens couldn’t even point to on a fucking map. Now it’s going to be right there, in their big New York City, and it’s going to be hard to ignore.

I’ve explained all this in the previous comments, you can re-read them if you need to.

Just a fun fact about “think tanks”, “institutes”, “foundations” and most of those little groups is that when they appear in the news there’s a solid chance that they’re being propped up by corpo money. Every time they appear you need to go double check their bias and you’ll often find that it will be they themselves saying they’re “a conservative think tank” and, if not that, there will likely be a Wikipedia article and a bunch of other sources confirming it. I’m sure there are good ones, but it’s largely just oil companies and banks and big tech funding some corrupt as hell “academics” in order to buy some credibility.

I loved when I got into with one person over climate change and all they could do was send me articles that use oil-backed think tanks and which quoted a climate scientist who’s such a huge liar that whole webpages exist to organize and debunk all his paid-for bullshit.

Because I know how cities work, ya dingus.

That’s your misunderstanding of how cities work, bud. Mayor is a far more powerful position than people believe and municipal elections are crazy important for bringing about real change and bringing it to the people directly.

Except that what he’s doing he can actually do. Someone who ends up in Washington and gets outvoted by the majority centrists isn’t a bad thing, and actually sorta helps their image without forcing any real change. Mamdani, though, he’s the top dog in a mayoral position and can actually get shit done. They’re scared of him not because his ideas are unique but because they can actually be realized at this scale.

Ok, but I did specifically point out that AI is doing a worse job than those people. It’d be like replacing your dishwashing guy with chimp that go to shadow him for a bit before he was fired. Another analogy would be replacing a carpenter with a van full of his tools as if they could do the work on their own.

Numver 3 is crazy too because it’s putting people out of work even when it’s worse than them, the bubble bursting will have dire consequences and if it’s held together by corrupt injections of taxpayer money then it’ll still have awful consequences, and the whole point of AI doing our jobs was to free us from labour but instead the lack of jobs is only hurting people.

On average, we have slightly less than two, even.

They have zero, actually. No arms, either. They’re molluscs like clams and snails and the tentacles are actually a single modified apendage we call their foot. So, by that, they’ve actually got not enough legs and eight “toes”.

Damn, if that ain’t affirming though lol.

My non-binary friend was telling me that they felt kinda like the doctors weren’t taking them seriously and I’m like “Congratulations! Also that sucks.”

Trump is, despite a lowering crime rate in DC, claiming that DC is full of crime and that he needs to take direct control over the police and military and have them run around the place intimidating everyone.

The US is a deeply fucked country and now they’re just going full mask-off. They’ve been setting for this for a long time so it looks, to someone less informed, like it shouldn’t be happening this quickly but really none of this is surprising.

I just didn’t know what to name a follower in a video game and jumped to “Soup” for whatever reason so that’s what we’re working with lol

I didn’t know what to call the owl thing in Monster Hunter: Rise and was like “Fuck I dunno uhhhhhhhh Soup sounds good”. So that’s that haha

For sure, but considering all the women who’ve simply been manipulated and abused by men in their lives and aren’t at the point of getting out of it…

I mean, if you read this guy’s comment about women “malfunctioning” and “destroying civilizations” as anything but incredibly toxic I’m geuinely worried.

How often do you do it? Do you exercise otherwise? I’m tall af and I’ll get dizzy standing up normally so fuck it, I’ma try this because it’s not gunna get worse and consistent practice may actually help.