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!
On my second workday medicated. One of the best and surprising parts is confidence and trust in what I've already done.
Before, in essence I couldn't trust that my intent was what I actually managed to do.
I don't have to double check myself over and over. I just remember, and it's there. The live thoughts of tasks I performed still exist in my head and are accessible in moments.
@NanoRaptor "You're doing well, following the assignments but you could always be doing more. You won't benefit from the extra work but the world needs pliant overachievers."
There was no drone delivery future. There was never going to be a drone delivery future.
Just like there was never going to be self-driving Uber taxis. Or Amazon Go supermarkets on every corner. Or hyperloops. Or earth-to-earth space travel on SpaceX rockets. Or level-five full self driving Teslas.
Just like there will not be a general artificial intelligence ChatGPT in the next couple of years.
They were all scams designed to lure dollars from investors and generate good PR.
@ajsadauskas I figure at least some of those things shall happen, just not with those companies. AGI is of course never going to happen but drone-based delivery is already a thing without Amazon.
We shouldn't put faith in the worst of the conglomerates as most of the time these concepts come from smaller outfits who'll actually make it work without being scams or reliant on scraping up as much money as possible.
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.
"The New York Times reports that Trump is planning to 'build huge camps to detain people,' and 'to get around any refusal by Congress to appropriate the necessary funds, Mr. Trump would redirect money in the military budget.’ "
"How many people? ‘Millions’ writes the Times. And not just immigrants: Trump is planning to send his enemies to them, too.”
@StillIRise1963 Yeah, this is grim because no matter what happens to him those ideas will still hold sway over an entire party because it's what they've been preparing for for decades now. Trump is just a figurehead, a powerful one but still just a figurehead, it's who stands behind him writing up manifestos of hate we need to keep our eyes on too.
“The Autauga-Prattville Alabama Library board has fired the library director for refusing to move or remove 113 books that they feel are "inappropriate". The rest of the staff did something heroic in solidarity with their colleague: they walked out, locked up the library, and said No to this unethical board action. Then, the board fired four more staff members.“ https://mathstodon.xyz/@geonz/112220572632338897
Sometimes I forget how beautiful The Trout is, and someone has to come up to me in a parking lot, point to it and go "Nice. I really like it... Nice" and then I'm proud again.
"Most governments are trying to trick us into believing we don't need to adapt to COVID-19. They can't sustain the illusion forever."
"While telling individuals to assess their own risk, many governments have removed the tools for people to do so, dismantling testing regimes, free vaccine programmes, surveillance, and free treatment provision"
@DenisCOVIDinfoguy@auscovid19 We don't need to adapt or change, we need to live our lives and basically act like it never happened like a bad dream. It's a collective trauma that we're asked to ignore for the sake of not having to consider the realities of the situation we are still in and demanding more from those elected to protect us.
