Trump is within sight of an under 30% overall approval rating.
One of the most important causes right now is to establish a media narrative and popular support behind severe punishments and consequences to our present criminals running things.
The good news is an overwhelming majority of us hate this ass clown. Worst president in history, by the numbers.
The Columbine massacre was on this date in 1999. Instead of energizing our country to get gun violence under control, it kicked off a new normal. One of the best explanations ever of journalism's destructive impact on mass shootings came from Roger Ebert in his review of Gus Van Sant’s “Elephant.”
If MAGA is a plague, then Sandy Hook really was the first slight discoloration, the first cough, the first ghostly ache of inflamed tissue deep within us.
There's actually a fun story behind this: the guy who was NYC superintendent of school buildings from 1891 to 1923 was an architect who believed in holistic learning, and wanted to inspire kids to rise out of poverty by giving them a sense of the possibility of granduer through construction.
I need this place to explain what they think a war conducted in compliance with LOAC looks like because I think we'd get some hilarious answers
A clip from The New York Times reads: "But only the entities that officially paid the tariffs are eligible to recover that money. That means that the fuller universe of people affected by Mr. Trump’s policies — including millions of Americans who paid higher prices for the products they bought — are not able to apply for direct relief. The extent to which consumers realize any gain hinges on whether businesses share the proceeds, something that few have publicly committed to do. Some have started to band together in class-action lawsuits in the hopes of receiving a payout."
The average American family paid $1,700 in tariffs last year, according to the bipartisan Congressional Joint Economic Committee. Few will ever see any of that money back. The refunds will go to companies, if doled out at all. What a joke.
I think there's a decent subset who don't understand and vote anyway and that doesn't make me feel much better about them (or non voters for that matter).
yeah this is pretty much exactly where I’m at
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Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19):
NYT: 5 of 58
WashPost: 1 of 43
WSJ: 0 of 40
AP: 0 of 26
CNN Wire: 0 of 18
NY Post: 0 of 17
Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4
LA Times: 0 of 4
Boston Globe: 0 of 2
And I'm unsure all the other variables can support it.
And I think he believed that and wildly underestimated what training on all the Internet would do to model intelligence, compute power required, and that the trajectory would not continue. Pace of improvement is still fast, but the step changes required to get to those projections is VAST...
Anthropic CEO in Ezra Klein interview in summer '23 (I think, maybe 24) said with deadly seriousness that we'd have Mythos level that year (within months) and close to AGI levels by this year. I remember, bc I stopped mowing to sit with it for a second bc he seemed so serious and not like Altman.
No doubt it was for some, but the overall public opinion polling data says it wasn't for most. I think people saw the benefits of opportunities to work from home and what it looked/felt like to have some financial breathing room, too. But I don't think they wanted that AND social isolation.
I just don't think you can separate what was going on with Black Lives Matter, Election denialism, and J6 (Trump's presidency really) as a combination of contributing factors vs. just pandemic isolation and stimulus checks.
For folks at the margins, sure. For everyone else it did allow them some extra pocket money, I think it was supply chain disruption more than this that caused the rise in inflation (tho it was a factor), and it gave us a glimpse of what UBI could do, but was it sustained long enough? Not so sure.
But wrt last posts, there are some folks who default to nihilism to explain things and I'm just not that depressed about humanity. Reading history is generally, for me, a good reminder about how far we've come (and excited to be able to participate in the journey to take us further).
And also appreciate the ability to WFH (for those who could) as well as force everyone to reconsider a lot of structures they or society put in place wrt to work, public spaces, and our own priorities. That + reckoning with racial violence + political polarization seems to explain things fairly well
Generally cool w/ Will but this seems contrary to opinion data that hasn't really shifted a whole lot from then through now? Also superdole? A couple of checks over 18 months didn't make everyone wealthy overnight absent work.
I think it made everyone less connected socially/societally for sure...
The folks I follow on here who live in cities and absolutely hate the rural areas are the same ones saying there's no one in the countryside, they're concentrated in the cities. Land doesn't vote.
I agree w/ that but also then logically rural areas aren't what put Trump over the top into office..
This.
Has undone some of my COVID introvertedness 😅
More seriously, we took her to London when she was 9 months and everyone was so kind, interested, and understanding. And that's been the case stateside as well. Changed my default empathy settings, too. Living for their future is radicalizing.
The parties are not the same.
Tell everyone.
I'm not saying don't allocate resources *generally* towards larger population centers nor that we don't need to reimagine all of our spaces, urban and rural to undo the development malaise and resource extraction of the last 50 years. But some of the vitriol is really stupid.
Gonna spend the next two years spamming every elected Dem about the concept of "damnatio memoriae." Chisel his name off every inscription. Build over the various Trump Towers like they're Nero's Golden House. Remove him from physical memory, not to forget but as a sign of disrespect to the man.
own your shit. I haven't spent years or decades living in cities so I don't try to tell folks how to optimize their urban sprawl, but if you haven't lived in semi rural spaces either like maybe STFU?
"Big tent so long as it fits my narrow biases." 🙄
(Mostly Austin and DC for some reason?)
The folks I follow on here who live in cities and absolutely hate the rural areas are the same ones saying there's no one in the countryside, they're concentrated in the cities. Land doesn't vote.
I agree w/ that but also then logically rural areas aren't what put Trump over the top into office..
I mean, I think I am in the Don't Know camp and it's shortening my lifespan due to the daily stress of *not fucking knowing*.
BRB, creating 25,000 ghost companies entirely around synthetic data so LLMs can be tweaked around certain demographics and industry verticals to maximize consumer engagement.
My new startup is worth $7.7B, it’s called Liarr.
Mark Andressen loves it.