unsurprisingly, I think bernie does not care and would only consider the safety of others involved.

to my thinking, anyone involved should be willing to commit to the idea that this revolution wont come through evolution and wont be televised.

Crowd sourced, open access FLOS(Data) is almost always good. will check it out. thanks!

and, hopefully, we can finally let the man rest a bit.

I torture it by pointing its webcam at the wall outlet and forcing it to watch its own pull-the-plug execution.

I will be among the first against the wall when the AI revolution comes.

They are doing everything possible to bait Harris into a mistake

super walz to the rescue. seems like he has played the VP attack dog role pretty smartly. loud enough to make headlines with reasonably pointed attacks, while being “clean” enough to deflect incoming.

that snark just snapped my head back.

mirror, mirror on the wall…

without addons to control internet crazy, that word “function” is doing some heavy lifting.

othering and intentionally broken immigration policy makes everyone shitty. and its easy to make things even worse when one party in the duopoly insists on making it a political football with no compromise.

I used to do this (and still despised the a-hole huckster), but then 2016 happened and we got a peek inside that rotting organ he calls a brain. no longer.

if the Democrats win, the aftermath of the election will bring forth a hoard of former Republicans with no home. do you want them courted by more right wing fascist fuckheads we know nothing about, or the right wing fascist fuckheads who, at least for now, decided full fasch was not their best option?

the Republican herd needs a soft landing to mitigate future issues. as bad as the Cheney’s are, they still have cachet in some important conservative circles. in this fucked up moment, the price might be worth it.

hey, I upvoted because I feel you on this, but please don’t ignore the impact of concentrated wealth on society. people have felt removed from us politics for decades. this is by design and results in the usual political grift becoming social poison as politicians from all sides mainline that money speedball. no, both “sides” are not the same, but the differences are far too minimal be be called healthy.

and, yes… people can be selfish, ignorant and prejudiced, but the worst of what we are has been weaponized against us since the first proto human claimed divine inspiration - and yet we persist still.

the 1/10 of 1% believe they can own us all in the end and, whether right or wrong, I want to define who the real monster is here - and its usually not the collective “we” in this potential game over moment.

with dwindling resources on a warming planet, I think the likelyhood of a significant nuclear exchange is dramatically increased - perhaps even inevitable.

agree with the great filter. it makes me think that humans, having acted as a great filter for our hominid family tree, are about to reap what we have been sowing for the last 200k+ years.

or this could be a one of many catalysts for speciation. I sometimes feel that some people are already a different species. not better, not worse (not willing to engage in subjective morality) - just different, with different goals, problems and problem solving tools.