Of course, one of the the things we all need to be considering is how to vote tactically... so here for your consideration is one guide to how to vote tactically in your constituency.
Just type in you postcode for advice (based on polling) on how you might vote tactically to get the Tories out (or if you have other priorities, how to maximise the impact of your vote under the current FPTP system)
@ChrisMayLA6 Tactical voting is a losing strategy because it's all about keeping or getting someone out, not who you want in. That's not really conducive to keeping people democratically engaged given there's no democracy in just voting between two parties, neither of which may reflect your views and in some cases might have nothing to vote for as neither will be better than the other.
Oh trout, why did I doubt you. Old reliable got me to work smoothly, effortlessly, without drama. I love you so and have something special planned at lunch.
I even played my break-up album, the one I can only play and enjoy when I've ended a relationship AND IT WAS GOOD.
Media coverage of Republicans stampeding to NYC to attack Trump's trial as illegit is marred by euphemism. This isn't just "currying favor" w Trump or "expressing loyalty" or auditioning to be his VP. It's placing Trump over rule of law
Rs are attacking judge, witnesses, prosecutors & trial as illegitimate. This isn't just helping Trump evade the gag order. The point is also to display in spectacle form that their fealty is to him over the rules that make the system function
@GottaLaff Saw this coming, they're going to raise hell if he wins or loses at the polls. The election doesn't matter, probably never did to them given you can invalidate any loss by saying "nuh uh" and prepare to stage a coup.
Three climate activists have been found guilty under the new law that seeks to repress protests that interfere with key national infrastructure.
With the jury instructed to ignore the defendants' reasoning behind their actions its perhaps unsurprising they were found guilty... all a bit ironic given the unseasonal heat in the court room.
Sentencing is to come & will show how serious an impact the law may have... but its not going to be good!
The true power of #genAI is not technological, but rhetorical: almost all conversations about it are about what executives are saying it will do "one day" or "soon" rather than what we actually see (and of course no mention of business model which doesn't exist).
We are told to simultaneously believe AI is so "early days" as to excuse any lack of real usefulness, and that it is so established - even "too big to fail" - that we are not permitted to imagine a future without it.
@PavelASamsonov Yeah, it's all potential which feels like hedging for a future that might not come (and most likely will not). Much like the blockchain before it, that's just what they were told by the con artists selling them on this snakeoil and have no actual knowledge about how it works. All they saw was a miracle money generator machine, ethereal and unexplainable but definitely the future... eventually. This will fail and we will be the ones picking up the pieces, not them.
AI already uses as much energy as a small country. It’s only the beginning.
AI will make bitcoin's environmental devastation look like a picnic.
"If ChatGPT were integrated into the 9 billion searches done each day, the IEA says, the electricity demand would increase by 10 terawatt-hours a year — the amount consumed by about 1.5 million European Union residents."
@gerrymcgovern Just a reminder that many of those behind the AI chase will burn every atom of carbon if it means getting their benevolent AI godhead that'll undo all their waste.
Downplaying the risks of COVID has shifted the Overton window, and now we also get to worry about measles outbreaks and a resurgence of HIV denialism.
I'm not asking for everyone to be as cautious as I am, but I'd appreciate it if more people of good will spoke up when others minimize or dismiss the severity of the situation.
This isn't a respiratory disease. It's a vascular, multisystem disease that we do not know how to treat.
@josh The notion that as long as you have vaccines then you're fine seems to be a big problem as repeated infections are taking severe tolls on some. Might need more education for the general public on this though I doubt anyone really wants to given even mentioning the last four years feels like a social taboo.
@thepoliticalcat A smart child is a dangerous one, what if it starts to question the orthodoxy? No, keep them stupid and docile, they're easier to manipulate. /s
Trad Wife memes are always like a traditionally attractive skinny blonde woman in a white dress, in a field of flowers, holding hands with their immaculate children. The text always says something like, Why are you working a job, instead of doing your true calling? This is Godly Motherhood!
This how I know these are made by people who have never been around children, or possibly even women, and also never had to worry about money.
@RickiTarr Never ignore the Arayan messaging behind the Trad Wife memes, it's all a strange bouillabaisse of keeping wimminfolk in their place and assertions of white supremacy and returning to the distant past of the 1700s or whatever.
@lucp The ice caps are melting and the best they've got is taking chunks of that ice for... cocktails? This does have a distinct amount of hubristic thinking, the amount of waste involved so rich people can have glacier ice in a desert, it's a cruel joke.
Back in the 90’s when I worked in pubs before minimum wage was introduced, I can remember we had to give 50% of our tips to the pub chain…we were paid about £3 an hour and punters were rarely generous. All staff inc kitchen staff split the remaining 50% of tips.
Do I tip now? Yes, but the beneficiaries of a tipping culture are not the staff, it’s ultimately the employers who pay poorly.
@JugglingWithEggs We don't tip, not because we're stingy but because it's not really expected, we assume staff wouldn't need tips to survive. Tips are a sort of corporate welfare to help businesses not pay for their staff properly but instead shift that to the customer under to shore up the cost. Tipping as a custom feels conflicted for me in general because of that.
We are in a surge where COVID levels are higher than they have been for over 90% of the pandemic. One of the reasons that the authorities aren't properly warning you about it is that, inconveniently, the largest COVID surges happen during the biggest shopping season of each year.
Podcaster A: (paraphrase) billion dollar nasa probe almost lost due to ambiguously named signals getting misswired
Podcaster B: who do you fire in this situation?
Me: (shouting at car speakers) NO YOU FUCKING AMERICAN PSYCHOPATHS. You don’t fire people for mistakes. Go to fucking therapy. And anyway you WANT an engineer who cannot forget the time they nearly pulverized one point two billion dollars.
Clarence Thomas bought a Ferrari(Corvette?) then shortly after was whining and crying about how his pay was too low and couldn't some rich creeps give him some money please?
He's one of those irresponsible, shiftless dudes who assumes everyone is as bad as his is. Hence? A stingy crab in a barrel perspective on life.
Not the quality of person who should be on the board of a co-op or organize a bake sale. Let alone the supreme court.
Hey @ActionRetro, have you pre-emptively blocked threads.net? I personally don't want to deal with that instance but it is returning a 503 error when I try to block it so do I need to?
