Thanks Pelosi

You may need to manually pollinate. The flowers are MASSIVE so get out there at night and get a look.

be the change you wish to see in the world.

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dude isn’t gender neutral?

You should watch this from the “don’t be evil days” days of google.: https://youtu.be/mhBpI13dxkI

Copyright isn’t, and never has been, about “protecting the artist”.

It was, and is, and has always been, about controlling the means of distribution.

Interestingly, if you look into the lecturerer of that video, they are very active on mastadon.

yeah. it’s mind blowing to me how the Internet was convinced to give up its a culture of piracy and privateering and become sycophants for corporate protection of IP under they imaginary impression that they are “protecting artists”.

There were industry executives and think tanks litterally quoted (in the 2000s) for saying that their job was to effectively convince people that piracy “hurt the artist”, that this was the way to stop piracy: convince people they were hurting artists by piracy.

Turns out, almost no artists except the most extraordinarily successful make any money off copyright or IP. They mostly make their money the way they’ve always made their money: ticket sales, merch sales, performances, etc.

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UGH

He needs a W and has pissed off anyone capable of giving him one.

ugh

That’s a really interesting question, and questions like this were areas of active research in the earliest days of tissue culture; or specifically how to do the opposite, some times: how to effectively get the properties of soap without the bubbles.

Google tween 20, which is a product made for this specific purpose. However, I do know that in a lab setting, it maintain its properties a deal longer that 24 hrs.

I think your answer would depend on the nature of the soap solution used to create the bubbles. My guess would be that something is being oxydized, and with exposure to oxygen, the molecule responsible for the bubbles is reduced and not as effective.

Just keep singing this in your head, you’ll make it.

Yours is a daft take and if the Democrats proceed with this mental framing, they’ll continue to lose elections. You think you’re right, but same same people who think like you do were the ones making decisions for the Harris/ Biden campaign. This kind of take is presented as wisdom, and yet, when proceeding with it, Democrats consistently lose in its application.

Lets start it off right: firstly and most importantly, bloc’s of voters don’t move elections, and haven’t for almost 30 years. Going after “swing voter” has been a losers approach, and when the Republicans gave up on this strategy in 2000, they began defining the modern political hegemony we find ourselves in, and have found great success. Modern elections aren’t between two parties. They are between each of the two parties, and their likely voters respective couches.

The two most successful political movements in the previous 40 years have been a) the MAGA movement, and b) the progressive movement. Both found their footing in identifying and acknowledging the real pain people experience in their lives, and giving them something to do about it it: vote, march, dial, campaign, etc.

The Harris/ Biden campaign ran in almost direct opposition to all of the movement the base had in developing the progressive platform. It focused almost entirely on the basically fictitious “centrists” and moved entirely away from the base. They refused to be honest with voters about both Biden, his adequacy as candidate, and his competency in office. They elevated Republican voices while simultaneously pushing away their own core constituencies.

If you continue to both think and campaign using the political hegemony which died almost 10 years ago, you will not win elections.

Yeah you are just wildly fucking wrong. Barely the time in life to have to keep swatting down this idiotic take.

Harris didn’t lose because she was black or a woman: She lost because she ran a Republican/ corporate race in a Democratic lane.

If Democrats keep trying to be Republicans, they’ll keep losing, and your take steers them in that direction.

Democrats aren’t ever running against the Republican in the race. That’s not how elections in the US have worked since 1992.

Democrats are only running against the couch, and when your campaign principal message is “Nothing would fundamentally change”, when the incumbent was polling at 33%?

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Open AI:

I think of this meme daily.