I have been high on this kind of hopium several times since the first nomination in 2016.

However, as a person of only somewhat higher than average intellectual ability, it’s never lasted longer than a few hours

Well, okay I will admit to nearly a week after the last election when I belive-hoped that the Biden admin must be working on some smoking gun election manipulation that would come out and day to save us all.

Panama requested/offered this arrangement a few weeks ago.

They* too, are bootlickers

*the current Panamanian regime

Old Soviet/Russian doctrine is to always play both (or all) sides of a conflict

Could Elmo be prosecuted for being an illegal immigrant.

This is the kind of DOJ weaponization I can get behind

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/oct/26/elon-musk-illegal-immigration

Well gettchyo ass in gear and join the party for your own good

You have made a very good case here that resonates strongly with me

Where is rhe line between “us” and “them”?

Is it leftist vs liberal? Lib vs conservative?

No. It’s all of “us” vs the them that are in the 1%

Because…

Grandpa Joe worked with the mob rum-running, in order to amass the family fortune, and fhey in turn delivered several major cities in the election, but then JFK let RFK Bobby loose on an aggressive anti-racketeering rampage

Among other reasons ofc

I’ll agree that Dems have given up way too easily, mostly based on naive “for the good of the country” white knighting.

It probably didn’t start with Al Gore and the hanging chads, but that would have been a good time to realize that sometimes these fights are existential

Doesn’t change the fact that Stein is currently a russian-funded spoiler and she’s a drag on the Greens and does great disservice to all of the non-major parties.

I hope No Labels and other serious ‘third paries’ spend time focusing on voting reform like RCV or similar. Of course, many nerds will (probably correctly) claim that RCV is flawed in whatever way and we should try to move to some other even more complicated system. And then nothing will happen and we will continue to be stuck in a bi-party system with smaller factions only ever having the opportunity to act as spoilers in national or even state-wide races.

I recall there being a LOT of those watches out that were “mobile data connected” for very cheap.

The catch? The mobile data radio was 2g, and those networks are all obsolete and gone now (I think)

All of the wyze stuff seems to be decent, but not super premium.

The headphones are 85% as good as the Bose, but for $49

The scale is quite good, nothing even remotely off about that and it integrates with Fitbit just fine.

The Color smart bulbs have been solid. One of the wyze smart plugs lost its memory once and needed to be re-setup, but fine since.

The cameras all work great too, as long as you’re comfortable with the fact that the video goes to some cloud location.

Seems like asking for disappointment

if you want a decent cheap option, the wyze watch seemed okay

Indeed. I might vote for some Greens down-ballot, but Stein is a stain on the party and its cause

Certainly if she has been trying to effect real change in a realistic way, rather than an egocentric impossible run at the presidency…

Things would have been different. She was one of many straws, which if subtracted, would have prevented trump

So for that and that alone, she and the rest of the greens can fuck right off.

See the No Labels folks for a more common sense way to be activist on national level politics.

Greens would be great if they would focus on good, winnable races from the bottom up…

What that called again?? Uhh ‘grass roots’

Not exactly ------ no one really buys enough sex toys to become a 'known regular ’ in a sexshop

For-sure he was known to so many staff because he was regularly visiting the ‘video booths’ area, which generally have gloryholes or other forms of public, anonymous sex.

Chances are very high this guy was giving and/or getting blowjobs to/from strangers every weekend

I’m not a huge trek nerd, but recently watched the whole series, and the two main irritations were the blatant/unnecessary/annoying/offensive sexualization, and the theme song.

It’s easy to skip the opening sequence but the gratuitous fetishizing was pretty awful. The whole series would have been better without.

Someone has no idea how memes work

One of the two men you mentioned will win – barring a death before the election, either Biden or Trump will be elected.

All the wanking in the world isn’t going to result in a third option with even the remotest chance.

Doing something about International Law on international waters is a totally different matter than within the the borders of a sovereign nation.

Pretty much everyone, including the 3rd party apps, agrees with what you’ve said.

Reddit needs to monetize the API, and spez has really fucked this up.

Reddit posted a chart showing the top abusers of the free API, with an implication that this was the reason they are now going to charge third party user apps for access.

However — according to Apollo, which has been pretty credible and is apparently the largest app, they aren’t even close to the excess usage levels shown

I expect those top-ten abusers of the free API, exceeding the limits by 40000% and whatnot are all LLMs sucking up text for training.

Reddit has been letting those project hoover up very valuable (given recent valuations of LLM/AI projects) textual discourse (authored by all of us of course) for free. They may feel a bit foolish, and they are realizing their worth, in terms of the value to LLM efforts.

SO, I think the pricing is related to what they believe the various AI projects can afford to pay.

It’s still an easy win for them to kill the third-party apps that they wish were gone, given the NSFW and in-app ads issues.

If reddit wanted to, they could create a seperate pricing tier for usage that passes through to individual humans, rather than to language machines. They are different use cases and absolutely have different value propositions in terms of potential revenue generation.