*Because of one issue that Trump explicitly said he would do much much worse with

This guy will literally say anything if he thinks it will get him what he wants.

“That was some weird shit.”

— George W. Bush after Trump’s inauguration speech

I wasn’t shocked at all (except the general shock that a person like this has ever come close to the presidency). Particularly in recent years, I’ve seen him take bait so many times which wasn’t even intended as bait, but it triggered him. And because it slightly grazed his fragile ego, priority number one for him is to go on an ego-defending tangent that only confuses and undermines any points he could have made about the actual topic.

Harris knew that as long as she peppered her responses with a trigger here and a trigger there, he would be unable to help himself every time. And that’s what we saw.

It’s because the AI has no idea what reality is. Note also that Elaine’s praise took on the perspective of the wearer.

You’re not a fan of being aware of social inequalities?

Yeah, I’m not as addicted to Lemmy as I was with Reddit, because there aren’t as many comments and niche communities and an algorithm messing with me, but like I check Lemmy throughout each day and if I’m honest there’s not much purpose aside from getting that hit.

It’s comments like this that make me think of the old adage: “Never wrestle with a pig because you'll both get dirty and the pig likes it.”

People who have thought about it critically for 3 minutes

I don’t know what country you are from or how your voting system works. But I will guess that your country has many parties and after the election, a governing coalition is formed.

In the US voting system, similar parties get punished by stealing votes from each other. So, in effect, we have to form our coalitions before the election and choose the single candidate that will stand for all of us. So, you can think of the Democratic Party as the Democratic Coalition, made up of some truly left-wing factions, as well as some not very left-wing or even centrist factions, and so our candidate will be much more watered down than what you’d see in a different system.

I am Gen X

retards

Yep, your credentials check out

It’s like I’m wiping a marker

I guess I’ll be the person who points out that OP is describing social anxiety rather than introversion.

And you clearly can’t recall the good things he did in the previous years, thereby exemplifying the goldfish memory that incentivizes doing big things in an election year

moderation of disinformation and illegal content

Those are strange names for yachts

In some applications, people still say that about touch screens and they are not wrong.

Spatial Audio can be cool. In this application? I’m unconvinced.

As a father who is very involved in my kids’ life, I feel this frequently. At the start of each school year I submit my contact info as the primary contact info and yet sometimes emails will circulate among the class moms anyway. Or I’ll get a text from another kid’s mom asking for my wife’s number so they can plan something.

When we started making friends with parents of my kid, all the moms in the group created a chat group which they still use to this day. The dads didn’t make one because that’s just not a thing you do, and I wasn’t invited to the moms group, even though I knew them at least as well as she did, and I am the extrovert and my wife is the introvert. So I frequently feel lonely and isolated (I also WFH) and my wife is socially overwhelmed.

Yes I could just buck the system and try to get the dads to have a group, or have my wife add me into the moms group, or similar things in other areas of life. But that’s the point: any time I do that I’ll be going against the grain.

You should have suggested you put sunscreen on each other’s backs at the same time to get it over with quicker.

How dare you say “first”. Don’t you put that bad mojo on me

If we just overthrow our existing government, why would something better magically show up in its place?