This. Having homework is stressful. Being responsible for the uptime of systems and the inevitability of getting calls in the middle of the night is stressful. Having stuff follow you home is a different kind of added stress.

Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good. These people were inundated with powerful propaganda and influential family structures and managed to escape it. MFing these people and calling them twats isn’t going to win their hearts and minds and working people need as many allies as we can gather against a billionaire class that continues to tighten their grip.

I’m just as frustrated as you and people like them voting these ghouls into power is the reason they’re in power, but they speak some truth here and maybe they can convince some of their mags family to change course.

While I do appreciate this, their search results aren’t great. I hate to say this, but even with horrible AI forward results, Google still returns better and more relevant results. I’ll still use ddg first but it generally leaves me wanting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_Act_of_1996

One of the worst pieces of legislation passed in our country’s history.

Agreed with not going through red lights, but there are definitely situations where it’s safer to go through a pink light than slam on your brakes. In these cases, you’re still getting punished by a camera.

Look at it this way: If there are 2 crap drivers - one makes 500k/year and one makes 35k/year, which one is going to miss paying rent and going into debt due to a $200-$300 traffic ticket?

Just another tax on the poor and working class.

The 2nd and 3rd ones are still fun, action-packed movies with ground-breaking effects. The Matrix set an impossibly high bar and it was not originally planned to be a sequel, let alone a trilogy. They also whipped them together much faster, so in that context, I think they did a great job.

I’m not 100%, but I’m pretty sure Lana undertook it to destroy the series and get the movie studio to stop asking for sequels. It’s like the central theme of the movie.

I would bet that Chinese auto manufacturers aren’t taking 6 billion a month out of their company to pay shareholders in stock buybacks. Maybe reinvesting in the company to remain competitive is in fact, a good strategy.

He wouldn’t because he’s never had to buy anything himself in his life.

Right - the Department of Injustice

Thank you! The poor/working class were just as repressed after the revolution. It’s a dumb comparison.

This is something that I always think about when people mention guillotines and why the example is so stupid to me. The aftermath of the French Revolution was bad for the Feudal Monarchy, but also wasn’t good for Robespierre and the Jacobins. If you recall, he was also beheaded by the guillotine after shooting off his own jaw and the sans-culottes were repressed by the bourgeoisie after the revolution “stabilized”. It’s critical to have a well-developed plan in any power vacuum or there will be far more bloodshed, instability and other bad guys will just take over.

Laura Fine took a ton of AIPAC money to split the vote from Kat. They were also paying influencers $1500 a post to disparage Kat. She’s Palestinian, so they threw millions against her in the final days of the race to ensure democracy didn’t function.

I like them. Even if it doesn’t hide a loading screen in a specific instance, as others have pointed out, it breaks up the pace. It’s never very long and usually it makes me focus on some art, animation or music that I hadn’t noticed or was taking for granted. It usually lasts a very small amount of time. I think our attention spans have just shrunk so much.

Had to look this up to verify. Holy shit is this grim.