As soon as the militant right wing fucks up, it’s no more politics in public allowed.

The sad thing is that everyone agrees, until the right forgets they’re the bad guys and then it’s RIGHT back to red caps and thin blue lines EVERYWHERE.

I believe if the ultra wealthy leave California, very little will change in the California economy.

If I’m wrong, they’ll just move to a neighboring state and prove me wrong.

If they prove me wrong, we will have two strong state economies and we can take it from there.

It’s not THAT big of a deal for regular Californians. Having multiple stronger state economies would be a good thing in the long term for our children anyway.

No, it often cannot. That’s what I mean by “fully enclosed”, and I can see how you might have thought I just meant walls and no roof. I should have been more clear, but I was trying to differentiate between just having walls vs having full private enclosure for recreational spaces, which is common in Iran and also in a good chunk of other countries.

Schools or gyms often do have roofs as well, with vents or small/high windows for air circulation but no way to actually see inside because physical privacy is especially valued in Iran - not just because of the government but also because of cultural and religious traditions.

It is very common for buildings in Iran to be surrounded by high cement walls and fully enclosed courtyards, even private residences. This is partly due to their oppressive regime and a desire to keep having parties and generally normal private indoor lives.

What are the geopolitical implications of him striking Iran? Will any allies likely retaliate?

I would think Iran would be on its own, given it’s people are also attacking the regime from the inside.

This is some BS propaganda from the Iranian regime. It isn’t believable at all.

Everyone who knows an Iranian, knows that real Iranians want their regime outright assassinated by any country willing to do it.

What is the similarity? Just dead people?

This is a government killing its own people. Israel has been embroiled in a conflict with an outside nation, albeit a conflict of disproportionate forces.

Why do strangers photograph and spend time thinking about what other people do around them when they have zero contextual understanding of what is going on in those other people’s lives?

I’m pretty sure this photo tells us more about the photographer and OP than it tells us about the kid in the photo, because we can see more of what the photographer sees(and thus understand more of what the photographer is doing/implying) rather than what the kid is seeing/doing.

Yeah, that’s what apps like “jobright” do.

All language is a mental model, shared between the speaker and the audience. Math without any context like this is just a language like any other, encoded for two or more parties to communicate something abstract.

If the speaker and the audience both believe two plus two equals five, then it is true.

“Five” might look like “4” and be called “Five” or perhaps “Two” is instead written “2.5”, but the truth of the original statement is only actually dependent on the shared mental model of the speaker/audience.

There is no telling what the objective meaning could be, if there was ever an objective meaning at all. For example, the entire meme itself could be a password that means “buy Bitcoin”.

Or for another example, two plus two is five if this is a shorthand for two 1.25lb baskets of strawberries plus two 1.25lb baskets of strawberries being equal to five 1lb baskets of strawberries.

You might say “Hey! That’s adding outside context! Not fair, it’s nonsense!” but consider that the original statement didn’t specify any context for the numbers at all. What are the numbers in reality, without any context? They represent nothing but the concepts they represent until they relate to a physical context anyway, just like any other fragment of communication.

Maybe they’re just trying to learn how elections are supposed to work?

Have you noticed what’s going on with Marjorie Taylor Greene?

There is a small wing of the extreme right wing that is kind of like that “tea party” movement after the last Bush administration that is starting to question whether Trump has their best interests in mind.

If that continues to grow, and I do not believe Marjorie can stop it now that she’s started it, then America really is on a bonafide track to violent uprising. That momentum is why there is urgency over the upcoming open enrollment period, because doubling annualized healthcare costs will activate a LOT of conservatives when they see the whole year’s bill in front of them.

As much as left-wing politics makes people mobilize to march peacefully, it’s usually been the extreme right that has the weapons to take it from protest to open murder in the streets.

I think that administration officials know this, and that is why they are afraid of the protests.

They fear their own supporters if they become disaffected and they know that a bunch of lefties peacefully marching is going to signal permission for one of their own to start shooting(stochastically, statistically, not intentional permission nor official support for violence).

Oligarchs in America have the dangerous desire to enjoy American society using their very mortal fleshy bodies. Unfortunately, that requires enough support of the populace to not get murdered.

Sorry if it was a weird phrase. I just didn’t know if other racial identities were allowed/wanted there. I didn’t want to presume what the intent of the community founders was.

Thank you for your answer(and thank you to the others too).

Is Blacksky a racially self-segregated competitor to Bluesky?

I read the article and watch one of the videos linked in it and that’s the impression I got, but I’m hoping someone can confirm/explain.

I’m not on either network, so I think I’m woefully ignorant on this. I apologize if it’s a silly question.

Yep, this is exactly the controversy I was referring to from two years ago. It only applies if you choose to upload video to their cloud, not your local storage hub.

If you read more about this, you’ll find that the vulnerability has been sensationalized by Gizmodo. A malicious actor would have to go to great lengths to obtain a very long hash string and then append that to a URL to get access to the unencrypted content. That hash string itself is not accessible, so it is highly unlikely.

With that being said, I wouldn’t recommend putting a security camera of any brand inside your home and pointing it somewhere you can’t risk being seen on the off chance of a breach, but how many people are really looking to do that anyway?

I agree that this is a meme. It’s not a meme with widespread meaning yet, but I think a chip on the forehead, the obvious young age of the boy, and his expression of mixed happiness/fear is enough to convey something about the state of society that calls for nervous laughter.

Eufy, by Anker, is a great choice imo. They keep data local by default, no subscription required. Very minor record of controversies.

I 100% agree with you.

I do, of course. I even do my hair. I didn’t mean to imply that one should not care about it hygienically, just for your own health and personal self image.

I just don’t understand the urge to thrust gender identity onto hair style and then argue about what that means to the polity online.

Why do people put so much energy into projecting identity politics on a superfluous detail like hair? Who cares? It’s all just a vanity concern, selfishly obsessed with what others think about how you look.

Does your hair make you have some intrinsic identity to others that you are or are not going for? Fuck you, I don’t care.

Do you authentically care, yourself?

Maybe you care about the politics - I can understand that. There is legitimate fear around legislating serious, dangerous things to your identity (not hair). Why the fuck are you spending your time and energy on hair???