Of the many targets Donald Trump has attacked over the years, few engender less public sympathy than the career workforce of the federal government—the faceless mass of civil servants that the former president and his allies deride as the “deep state.”...
This is what Republicans have been pushing for 40+ years now.
Defund agencies to a level where they can’t properly function, then use that to claim they aren’t doing their job. Then state that we should just cut funding for those agencies. A self fulfilling prophecy.
Copenhagen, Denmark — Denmark’s Lego said on Monday that it remains committed to its quest to find sustainable materials to reduce carbon emissions, even after an experiment by the world’s largest toymaker to use recycled bottles did not work. Lego said it has “decided not to progress” with making its trademark...
The material properties of PET are not the best for this application. It isn’t as rigid or as durable as ABS, for example. And when it isn’t virgin material, those properties degrade even further. LEGO has a very high quality standard (their dimensional tolerances on their parts are ridiculously tight for plastic parts) it would require any material it uses meet, so I’m not shocked that PET-based blocks didn’t pass. That satisfying feeling you get when you snap 2 bricks together was probably very high on their list and compared to other materials, recycled PET would feel “smooshier”.
That’s because Republicans are masters at marketing a message that connects with average folks. They are absolutely terrible for those folks, but as you pointed out, the US economy is so massive, it takes time for legislation passed today to actually affect people in hometown America. So while Republicans are great at pretending they are all blue collar folks, Democrats are absolutely inept at explaining their policies to regular people. All those regular people see a bunch of Democratic lawmakers wasting their resources on teeny, tiny fringe groups. So regular people who represent large voting blocs that can get politicians elected watch this on the news and wonder when are Demcrats going to pay attention to their problems.
At my last company, we had a TV in the break room that was tuned to the news. Mind you, it wasn’t Fox News or any obvious garbage like that. I vividly remember seeing reports on the news on how all these Democratic politicians were spending all this time helping DACA people. They would promise them Healthcare and free education. I could hear my coworkers mumble to themselves. They just had to send in a fat check to their kid’s college to pay for classes while these DACA people were being promised free education. Regardless of of these coworkers supported the DACA folks or not, it just doesn’t look good to average voters when they are scraping together a tuition payment and the elected officials you helped get into office are telling these people who aren’t even citizens. It’s very tone-deaf when the masses have the same or similar problems and yet onky these fringe groups get visible attention from Democrats. And this is but one example of many similar instances which really help solidify the image thag Dems are out of touch, even if that isn’t true. In politics, image is more important than just about anything else.
“Nobody uses water,” one man in a Dodgers cap said in Spanish when Maria Cabrera approached, holding flyers about silicosis, an incurable and suffocating disease that has devastated dozens of workers across the state and killed men who have barely reached middle age....
Exactly. It is funny that the same people here who make fun of people who died of COVID because they willfully didn’t wear a mask, wash their hands, and get the vaccine. Well this ain’t that different. The process is there. The tools exist. Do the job right. You aren’t smarter than the engineers and scientists who developed these processes and wrote the safety instructions. Your stubbornness is not an excuse.
They know to fall in-line because a strong Republican Party helps all of them, from the president, all the way down the line to locally elected candidates.
I grew up in a rural community, began my career as an organizer in small towns, and now lead one of the largest efforts to rebuild pro-democracy, pro-worker civic capacity in rural America. So I can speak with some authority when I say that President Biden, somewhat surprisingly, has ushered in a new economic paradigm that can...
Being good for a group of people is not the same as them knowing that you’ve been good for them. This is eternally where Democrats fall flat on their faces.
Republicans have spent literally decades convincing these people they are the best for them. They have honed that false image and every Republican knows to fall in-line and go after these folks. They hammer that point home every chance they get.
Democrats have a couple of campaign events here or there every couple of years, maybe a couple of articles printed, and then they go back to endlessly pandering to teeny, tiny demographic groups that couldn’t get anyone elected.
Panos Panay did not present at Microsoft's recent Windows event in New York City—his departure from the titanic technology corporation was announced on September 18; so only three days before an official unveiling of new Surface products. Panay and his (now former) executive colleagues painted a positive picture regarding the...
100% agree. Google has the same problem. They are like hyper 5 year olds chasing the next shiny ball that gets their attention and they forget about all the other cool toys they already have. Products take generations to get refined enough for non-early adopters to buy. But way too few products from these companies get a long enough life to get multiple generations
One of the big winners of the Unity debacle is the free and open source Godot Engine, which has seen its funding soar to a much more impressive level as Unity basically gave them free advertising.
Oh god. Please aim higher than that. Not saying that Blender ain’t powerful, because it clearly is, but it’s UI is just plain shit. (Unless there have been some massive improvements over the last few years.)
I might have to one of these days, but man do I doubt it’s UI is usable after being such hot garbage over so many years. Such a shame too because fuck everything about Autodesk and I know Blender has some incredibly powerful tools.
I find this data very suspect. Greece is one of the poorer countries in the EU and somehow it takes fewer generations than far more rich countries like France and Germany? The only thing that makes sense is that they mention the mean salary, so Greek wages are so low that you don’t need much to get up into the mean salary range, I guess.
The fact that after all these years, after so much damage his media empire has created, various governments around the world couldn’t find something to arrest him on is beyond frustrating.
Or the more likely answer is that they have always hidden behind Free Speech laws. They have known to keep their nose clean because if they did do anything illegal, they would get the book thrown at them.
Why do something illegal, when bamboozled idiots are freely throwing money at you?
It’s like the old mafia cliché. These mob bosses used to work in the underground to launder money and were always afraid of getting caught by the law, but their kids got smart and simply went into big business to do it legally and out in the open.
This is far from new. The best selling vehicle in the US has been the F150 for some 30+ years now and the top 5 spots have typically been pickups from GM and Ram/Dodge.
It’s funny you say that because there was someone on Reddit that would argue with people who stated that trucks are a ton bigger than they used to be. Their shtick was that trucks of yore and today are within a fraction of an inch.
The Open Plot to Dismantle the Federal Government (www.theatlantic.com)
Of the many targets Donald Trump has attacked over the years, few engender less public sympathy than the career workforce of the federal government—the faceless mass of civil servants that the former president and his allies deride as the “deep state.”...
Lego drops prototype blocks made of recycled plastic bottles as they "didn't reduce carbon emissions" (www.cbsnews.com)
Copenhagen, Denmark — Denmark’s Lego said on Monday that it remains committed to its quest to find sustainable materials to reduce carbon emissions, even after an experiment by the world’s largest toymaker to use recycled bottles did not work. Lego said it has “decided not to progress” with making its trademark...
Trump edges out Biden 51-42 in head-to-head matchup: POLL (abcnews.go.com)
California workers who cut countertops are dying of an incurable disease (www.latimes.com)
“Nobody uses water,” one man in a Dodgers cap said in Spanish when Maria Cabrera approached, holding flyers about silicosis, an incurable and suffocating disease that has devastated dozens of workers across the state and killed men who have barely reached middle age....
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, who has long been one of Trump's biggest political targets, says he'll back the ex-president should he win the GOP nomination (news.yahoo.com)
They’re all falling in line…
‘Bidenomics’ is a godsend for rural America (thehill.com)
I grew up in a rural community, began my career as an organizer in small towns, and now lead one of the largest efforts to rebuild pro-democracy, pro-worker civic capacity in rural America. So I can speak with some authority when I say that President Biden, somewhat surprisingly, has ushered in a new economic paradigm that can...
Reaganomics (lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz)
Jupiter and Io (New Horizons) (lemmy.world)
www.nasa.gov/multimedia/…/image_feature_956.html
Panos Panay Reportedly Quit Microsoft Due to Budget Cuts (www.techpowerup.com)
Panos Panay did not present at Microsoft's recent Windows event in New York City—his departure from the titanic technology corporation was announced on September 18; so only three days before an official unveiling of new Surface products. Panay and his (now former) executive colleagues painted a positive picture regarding the...
Godot Engine hits over 50K euros per month in funding (www.gamingonlinux.com)
One of the big winners of the Unity debacle is the free and open source Godot Engine, which has seen its funding soar to a much more impressive level as Unity basically gave them free advertising.
India has officially labeled Canada an international terrorist sanctuary — “a safe haven for terrorists, for extremists, and for organized crime,” in the words of the Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson. (www.mea.gov.in)
Transcript of Weekly Media Briefing by the Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson. (September 21, 2023)
Social Mobility in Europe (landgeistdotcom.files.wordpress.com)
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‘Rupert Murdoch is a symptom’: Fox’s future politics look the same as past (www.theguardian.com)
Little will change at Fox News under new leadership, analysts say, as Republicans can rely on yet more outrage and division...
This is Willow (pixtagram.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com)
She says hey
Mother gets 30-day sentence for waterboarding baby, putting him in freezer, authorities say (www.kktv.com)
How the heck did we get here? Most best selling "cars" are now superzied pickups and SUVs. (www.caranddriver.com)
And I hate their blue-rich eye searing headlights to.