Fascist movements do not end when a leader goes.

And while the gop will be splintered, they will coalesce, eventually, in time to elect someone we will curse in the 2030s

I suppose Newsom may win the presidency in 2028, and then caretake the country while doing the minimum for 4 to 8 years.

Just in time for another gop to win after that, and drive the USA to the brink of ruin even more than Trump

Back and forth. Same pattern the last two decades or more

Worms have mitochondria ; perhaps they are promoting theirs be used to supplement the primate hosts?

If the worms do the mental work, that saves some sugar for the monkeys. Sounds reasonable. I do not know why people are making fun of it. Worms are good; be one of us…

Yes, and the way to solve this is to develop the platforms more. I tend to think of the fediverse as a work in progress, and will be maybe the grandparent of better networks that have less failings. Certainly it is a necessary step.

We can help by both supporting the current iterations: either in funding or programming or just using it. And thinking of the next steps

I do not understand all the changes in tech, so much new happens each day. Some changes each day are good. But like you imply, much bad happens daily. I say daily because millions contribute.

But change is the only constant here. And a state of constant flux, historically, is not helpful to the ruling classes. Its not that helpful to the workers either. But the stage is not set for one to win over the other yet.

We have a few decades before nano technology ensures the wealthy will win. It will be a challenge between that, and climate change. Surely we are in the most decisive moments of human evolution, and world history for life. There are so many ways to fail, and only a few to succeed.

In hindsight this is not surprising at all, I would argue that it is the social duty of all developers to assist with such things.

I was fruitful and multiplied, its hard to organize a large migration of people, some of whom want to stay.

I will travel, but am rather tied to this area, even if I do not see it changing for the better in my lifetime

I agree with mastodon, even though eventually Texas will enact similar legislation forcing me to use a vpn to read it

Exactly, that is why decentralized or federated social media, or its descendants - what it evolves into - is so valuable.

Its how I installed pop on my desktop. Not my favorite distro, but it works out of the box with my hardware.

I tried to install some other flavors, the screen was color challenged. After some research I found I would have to adjust a text file. I was not doing that. I was impatient that day, and wanted it to just work.

Jokes about it happens periodically. Its a sin to waste the opportunity

I think its not so much a “they” than a breakdown in society structure.

Since the 1980s, a lot has changed in the workplace and industry. Computers were only part of it. Globalization of industry happened. Most people in many countries changed jobs and careers at least once, if not more. In the UK, Japan, Germany, etc the population moved around some. In the USA, the population moved around a lot, at much greater distances than most other countries.

In the USA, this change uprooted many families, friendship networks, community ties. People started to socialize less with their neighbors. There were less community activities. At the same time, interest and participation in municipal and very local politics collapsed. People started to pay almost exclusive attention to state and national politics.

New political parties and grassroots only come from local politics. The internet so far has not been a replacement for what was lost in a sense of community. This is why there are no significant protest or street movements by any political group in the USA. The mechanisms are broken.

The only way to have significant interest in local politics again is to either grow the internet in new ways, or to abandon it. Until then, there is a vacuum in politics, which is exploited by the rich. It is not a coincidence that this time is also when the wealth disparity increased dramatically.

There cannot be a socialist revolution, new parties, or even a mild reform of current politics, until there is a greater sense of community in the USA.

The next chance to significantly change the USA is when online social networks evolve enough to allow community politics to have a resurgence. Maybe in a few years.

Until then, the best possible outcome is stagnation

Only outrage, but no logical defense. Do not be so hard on yourself if you later regret such an outburst.

Many people must believe in this system, often for deep seated needs. But these “machines” have no reasonable defense.

I think Democrats will win the midterms by a landslide.

If a population in a democracy cannot insist on public counting of ballots, and instead rely on private companies to tell them who won.

Then there is no hope for change until there is a complete replacement of the entire political class. And that can only happen in the future

Until Congress recognizes these operations as highly dangerous workplaces and closes the agricultural industry’s labor law exemptions — and better funds OSHA — more tragedies like what took place in Colorado are inevitable.

Looks like it will not happen in my lifetime

This is probably another thing that will have the megas and liberals fighting.

I personally do not care, having seen too many war criminals given the same honors.

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Maybe : meteorologists should now give serious consideration that the psychic power of sharpies on maps can alter storms.

I think I am funny, then remember how fragile science really is