Democrats are fighting for people to have health care and food. Republicans are fighting to starve children, rape children and steal our money. There is absolutely no comparison. You're comparing the Republicans who are Nazi fascists to the Democrats who are moderately competent administrators who occasionally line their own pockets a little.

This isn't 1994. Republican party went full Nazi and never looked back. There are nothing but pedophiles and Nazis now.

This is about surveillance and eliminating anonymity on the internet. A handful of victims lobbying doesn't do jack shit anymore if it ever did.

That kind of naivety is why we can't actually solve problems.

They want to dismantle capitalism and installed themselves as feudal Lords.

They are sick and tired of being dependent on consumers and employees. So they want to automate basically everything so they can eliminate virtually all employees and then keep a handful of people around to keep the machines going and then a handful of thugs to keep the engineers in line. Maybe mix in a little bit of religious zealotry and extremism. Set themselves up as gods like the emperor of Japan did maybe or the Pharaohs.

The rest of us, including you, will live in the most unimaginable abject poverty. Think like South Sudan or the remains of Gaza or the Indian reservations before the casinos. Every now and then they'll probably use drones to fire bomb us when our numbers get too high and we might pose a threat. Basically pest control.

It remains to be seen if they will pull it off they've been at it for about 60 years and so far they have achieved all of their goals. They have unlimited money and power so they never stop trying and the vast majority of us are blissfully unaware of what they're doing.

But holy fucking shit did you see those 14 trans girls playing field hockey in the midwest? Stop whatever you're doing right now and stop whatever you're thinking that is the most important thing for you to be concerned about right now.

Facebook was aware of the scams and was actively ignoring them. These are cases where they had upwards to 500 reports that the advertisements were scams, their internal checks detected they were scams and we have leaked internal communications where Facebook employees talked about them being scams.

Those leaked communications also say that they made sure to let the scams go so that they could keep getting money from them. All told 16 billion dollars.

At that point you're just plain complicit in the scam and you're committing a crime. It isn't legal to allow criminals to make use of your business when you know they are criminals. There's a wide variety of laws governing that that were put in place back in the days of the mob.

Then all the other theft combined. Look it up. Corporations steal more from you than any Petty criminal ever has or ever will.

They knew how to spot the scammers and kept taking their money. 16 billion worth

Off of the most scammiest of scam advertisements on their site. I don't mean all the other ones that are probably scams but the ones that are so obviously scams that they had been flagged hundreds of times as scams.

Some internal documents leaked where Facebook employees were talking about how they needed the extra cash to fund all the stupid AI bullshit they were doing.

The government should obviously be stepping in and investigating and regulating. It's one thing to get duped into running a scam ad it's another thing to know that you're running 16 billion dollars worth of the worst and most obvious criminals advertisements.

But fuck me laws don't matter anymore. Keep an eye on your grandparents people or your parents if your old like me. It's open season on them.

Diligence my ass. They won't do that because means testing helps dismantle programs and because they get off on hungry children.

I mean, if those 14 year old girls aren't poor and hungry then they're not going to be as impressed when a republican picks them Up in their beat up Camaro and they're not going to put out.

You're going to do a 60 minute commute one way and you're just now noticing the bridge you're stuck under is crumbling because we haven't built infrastructure in 30 years.

It's almost as if giving all of our money to the rich because we were busy being distracted by moral panics was a bad idea.

The funny thing is when I say moral panic everybody agrees with me but if I mention the specific moral panics that caused you to give all your money to the rich then everybody gets upset.

This - a million times this. For my own part, I was raised with little sips of wine or beer as a child. No big deal. Our families allowed it. None of us kids went on to drink much as adults.

Smoking. At 13, I started smoking because it was ciool to do, forbidden, and made me think I was both rebelling and being an adult at the same time. Fortunately, I saw the error of my ways after a couple years.

But the forbidden aspect of smoking was what drew me to it.

Anti-alcohol purists have a limit of 0 alcohol imbibed - ever.

I had watered wine and shot glasses of beer as a kid, at family gatherings. A wee bit of Chianti with my spagett. As an adult, I drink a lot less than people who were sat on by the US system. Little bits of alcohol for kids is one thing the Europeans have over us.

My family, on one side was eastern European, the other Italian, would give us kids watered wine, or beer. Not a whole lot, but we knew what it was.

Two things - none of us drank to excess as adults. Seems to be a thems for most kids I know who were raised that way.

Contrast that with the way I see so many American families do. Treating any alcohol use at all for people under 21 as a mortal illegal sin, and you suddenly become an adult when you are drinking, in my college town, there are so many young people finally free of their parents who seem to be in a hurry to destroy their livers.

This is especially a problem with the young ladies who try to keep up with the boys, despite their lower mass. If a boy drinks5 shots and 5 beers, it is a much different situation if a young lady who might weigh 50 pounds less tries to keep up.

CamelCase! I thought all of us geeks knew about CamelCase. I guess the capitalizes letters looks like a two humped camel

Part of me wonders if Disney is still somehow nervous about the old deals forbidding toy deals around Spaceballs.

As far as I know they no longer apply and Disney can do whatever they want but when it comes to weird edge cases companies can get weird.

Vibealicious!

Looks like another word gets redefined. When are we going to get to vibe physics? Like feelings over facts.