Midterms.

Governance is a thing of the past, it’s all campaigning all the time now. Why do you think they fail so hard to accomplish anything? If they actually fix things they have to find something new to run on. It’s like studios who focus on sequels and reboots, it’s a known quantity. They know people will show up for those platform positions, so they don’t want to remove them as an option.

They’re not quite sure if they want to rock us yet.

What does homelessness have to do with anything? Gentrification isn’t specifically about homelessness, I don’t see anyone else mentioning it before now… where did you pull that from?

Gentrification seems to mean the rapid renovation of an area to appeal to a wealthier crowd, which this could easily cover.

employees calling out

Why would the employee have to look up a publicly listed number to call their employers to call out? That’s something a private line could easily take care of.

Why even have a phone number if it is useless?

Really? Are reservations the only use for a phone?

A publicly shared phone number for the restaurant? Pretty much. It has limited uses for checking hours and holidays and such, but the primary use is going to be checking availability to eat at the restaurant. If that’s not something you can get over the phone, 99% of the reason to have a public facing phone number is negated.

That’s not what you said, though, you were just proud to… not have a specific kind of image in a thumbnail. Which, at best is just virtue signaling.

The point isn’t the thumbnail, the point is literally every other action he has taken up to this point. The thumbnail in a vacuum is just a picture.

So you do your best not to inform people about nazis among them?

Hmm, I dunno, that sounds like something a drugged up hippie might do with their marijuanas.

He owns a car company, why would he glorify what he sees as competition?

Free Waterfall IV?

When you’re jiggling around in your pocket for it and there’s other coins in there too, it becomes harder to do.

Well, sure. Adding many variables usually makes anything harder to do. But that generally just means it takes a little more effort.

Are your hands horribly mangled or something? Am I bringing up something hard for you to deal with?

A nickel is smaller and thicker, and has a smooth edge compared to the quarter. Can you not tell the difference?

At least two.

I imagine the implication is that no cryptocurrency stuff is inserted in the spot that google once occupied.

… hunter2?

They’re conflating tech with tech bros.

Tech can and does make lots of things that make our lives longer and better. Just not most of the consumer level shit that is constantly peddled by snake oil sellers. That tech is not meant to make your lives easier, it’s meant to get more money out of you without giving it up to the little people at service level.

The problem isn’t the tech, it’s the people who are controlling the tech.

Yeah, but most cries (including this article) aren’t “We want both” but “We want small instead”. The article goes out of its way to ridicule “huge” phones.

The battle cry seems to be demanding it their way instead of variety.

I think they’re just another kind of echo chamber people use to espouse views.

Until people change the way they express themselves, and open themselves to different ideas, nothing will change. Moving to a different social media tool because people think similarly to oneself there doesn’t expand horizons or change perspectives, if anything it narrows them.

There’s good solutions, and there’s easy solutions. They just don’t align. It’s just those with power prefer the latter over the former, cause it helps them keep that power. Their end goal also generally isn’t peace…

Which is really what this post is about. It’s about the tactics used (by “both sides”) to vilify their enemies and galvanize their base. To create extremists and reactionaries who think little and act a lot.

The real rub is those parties, the “good guys” and the “bad guys” (interchangeable depending on which power player we’re talking about) are vastly outnumbered by the people caught in the middle. If they stopped reacting and started thinking, those power players would lose their momentum.

We also shouldn’t be trying to propagandizing people to try and fanatically support us instead of “the other guy”.