Real wages are up for three straight years; they were unmoved or negative for nearly four decades before that. Your feelings about the economy don’t matter when the data all goes in the other direction
Joe Biden has led the most progressive Administration in the nation’s history, investing in social justice, environmental programs, curtailing abuses by corporations and predatory institutions, stood with workers (both on the picket line and in the halls of government), developed initiatives and instituted policies to combat racial injustice, staved off a nuclear power’s assault on a weaker neighbor, overseen the largest growth in real wages in over a half century, passed keystone legislation which committed the largest investment ever into green policies and programs while also committing the largest investment ever into revitalizing the nation’s infrastructure, put more federal judges on the bench in his first term than the last two presidents combined, weathered the highest levels of inflation in generations so well that US fared markedly better than peer nations, guided the economy through that inflationary period without the need for a Volcker Shock, expanded trans rights in every corner of the federal government, oversaw the largest reduction in childhood poverty in the nation’s history, reduced pharmaceutical prices for Medicare users by over 20% on average and brought the cost of insulin down to less than $30, and that’s just off the top of my head.
It’s trendy for the terminally online to knock Biden, but he’s gotten more done in three years than any President in recent history has in eight. I’m not ceding this ground to low-information voters like the commenters here seem to perpetually be. I’m excited to vote for the President who has achieved more leftist goals in three years than any other American elected official has over their entire career.
Grumbles about generative AI’s shortcomings are coalescing into a “trough of disillusionment” after a year and a half of hype about ChatGPT and other bots....
Yeah, even a high-quality truck or SUV compatible tent is a minor fraction of the cost here. I could walk into an REI with $3,000.00 and end up with an incredible kit of camping gear. This is highway robbery.
I’ve found two things to be true after moving to Arch:
The users on forums and other help boards are actually quite willing to link directly to the thing you should have read before starting a new thread and are generally polite about it.
The Arch Wiki is really that good, so you should read it.
Bill Gates name-checked Elon Musk and Steve Jobs during a fireside chat on Thursday. The Microsoft founder said he considers himself “very nice” compared to his fellow tech leaders. But Gates acknowledged that a certain level of intensity is required in innovative fields. Bill Gates said he considers himself a more relaxed...
Russian security forces raided gay clubs and bars across Moscow Friday night, less than 48 hours after the country’s top court banned what it called the “global LGBTQ+ movement” as an extremist organization....
The article doesn’t specifically state it, but it does appear to indicate that the relationship is correlative and not due to direct causation. This makes sense and shouldn’t be surprising.
Eleven antiwar protesters were arrested Wednesday after they occupied the office of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Capitol Hill to demand the senator support efforts at diplomacy over sending further U.S. aid, such as weapons, to Ukraine....
India’s visa processing center in Canada suspended services Thursday as a rift widened between the countries after Canada’s leader said India may have been involved in the killing of a Canadian citizen....
Modi is a fascist and India in its current state is a material threat to a peaceful international community. The world has a moral obligation to bring the country to heel.
CNN's Burnett asks Biden how he is going to turn the economy around. He said he already has. (www.cnn.com)
Seen this countless times
‘Sleepy Don?’: Trump Nods Off During Trial of the Century (www.thedailybeast.com)
Chatbot letdown: Hype hits rocky reality (www.axios.com)
Grumbles about generative AI’s shortcomings are coalescing into a “trough of disillusionment” after a year and a half of hype about ChatGPT and other bots....
Tesla starts shipping $3,000 Cybertruck tent, looks nothing like what was unveiled | Electrek (electrek.co)
Arch users be like (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Instagram will no longer recommend political content to users (www.nbcnews.com)
Is politics a major buzzkill? Instagram execs seem to think so....
I should probably check to see what South China Morning Post has to say about it. (lemmy.world)
Biden wins South Carolina Democratic primary, AP projects (www.axios.com)
The President has captured over 96% of the vote with most of the ballots in and reported.
Riot Games Now Requires Kernel-Level Anti-Cheat Software for League of Legends, Following Valorant's Implementation (tuta.com)
Vanguard, the controversial anti-cheat software initially attached to Valorant, is now also coming to League of Legends....
"Piracy is a service issue.." (Image is a real story btw, link in post) (lemmy.ml)
Image comes from the monstrous work the Asahi Linux team did to get Netflix working on Linux on ARM Macbooks: asahilinux.org/2024/01/fedora-asahi-new/
I'm Done With Windows, Are you? (youtu.be)
Is DNS Bloat too? (lemmy.sdf.org)
Bill Gates thinks of himself as 'very nice' compared to Elon Musk and Steve Jobs (www.businessinsider.com)
Bill Gates name-checked Elon Musk and Steve Jobs during a fireside chat on Thursday. The Microsoft founder said he considers himself “very nice” compared to his fellow tech leaders. But Gates acknowledged that a certain level of intensity is required in innovative fields. Bill Gates said he considers himself a more relaxed...
Gas Station Dick Pills (lemmy.world)
Police raid Moscow gay bars after a Supreme Court ruling labeled LGBTQ+ movement ‘extremist’ (apnews.com)
Russian security forces raided gay clubs and bars across Moscow Friday night, less than 48 hours after the country’s top court banned what it called the “global LGBTQ+ movement” as an extremist organization....
Why advertise on YouTube?
Why do companies advertise on YouTube when their ads are only used to annoy people into paid accounts? I never see anything, I am interested in.
Just 2 Servings of Red Meat Per Week Raises Your Diabetes Risk (www.webmd.com)
I'm not kidding when I say for the FIRST time I actually can grasp the size (startrek.website)
A little short for a starship, isn’t he?
Isreal's Security cabinet approves declaration of war (www.jpost.com)
11 arrested in protest at Sen. Bernie Sanders’s office over war in Ukraine (www.washingtonpost.com)
Eleven antiwar protesters were arrested Wednesday after they occupied the office of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Capitol Hill to demand the senator support efforts at diplomacy over sending further U.S. aid, such as weapons, to Ukraine....
Gimme some of that Bay Leaf confidence (i.postimg.cc)
India suspends visa services in Canada and rift widens over killing of Canadian citizen (apnews.com)
India’s visa processing center in Canada suspended services Thursday as a rift widened between the countries after Canada’s leader said India may have been involved in the killing of a Canadian citizen....
DrowningPool.wav (i.imgur.com)
Source: businessinsider.nl/ukraine-killed-49-elite-russia…