Semi-Hemi-Demigod

They pioneered the use of computers in education. They gave educational discounts, in part as marketing, but also because both Steves believed computers could be used to educate, and not just about how to use computers.

I can’t think of a US president in my lifetime who shouldn’t have been tried and convicted by the ICC.

We’re Americans: We don’t get nice things. Especially government.

The game isn’t “get people to approve of my performance.” The game isn’t even “get most people to vote for me.” The game is “get a marginal victory in a few states, because land matters more than people.”

They’ll try to find a way to win without them. Support of Israel by the US isn’t going anywhere, no matter how much we don’t like it.

Just like the last 250 years of US history: We need to be deal with our country to do heinous shit we don’t like. Because it’s gonna, and there’s nothing we can do about it.

It’s not “the perfect is the enemy of the good” for me anymore. It’s “good is no longer good enough to do anything meaningful.” It’s not anger, it’s despair.

After two decades in the tech industry, a lot of it supporting sysadmins, I’m surprised it doesn’t happen more often.

You know what they say: An enemy is just an ally who has komoromat on you.

Exactly my point: Lower your expectations.

It’s not going to happen overnight. It probably won’t happen at all, given the structure of our government.

But he’ll make nice noises while the world burns and we all go broke and that will be a bit more pleasant.

I appreciate your upvote, my dude

I really think people would be happier if we set reasonable expectations for elected officials. Biden says he’s gonna eliminate student loans? Yeah, no. Maybe, if we’re very lucky and the lobbyists are feeling lazy we’ll get $20,000 for the most in debt. The rest of you are on your own. (I don’t blame Biden, the illegitimate Supreme Court did it, but there’s nothing we can do about that.)

Stopping war? Nah, the US has been at war most of its history. Neither side is gonna stop it. Too much money to be made. But at least if we vote for Biden he’ll pretend to feel bad about it, which is nicer than being a dick.

We’re not getting universal health care. We’re not getting better education. If we elect Biden next year there will still be twelve million children who are food insecure. Capitalism will continue to exploit you, and make you miserable, and then make you feel bad for being miserable.

But at the very least the government will feel badly about all the things they’re doing/can’t do. And that’s about the best I’ve learned to hope for.

Voting isn’t supposed to make you feel good. You’re not supposed to be satisfied with your decision. It’s going to suck and continue to suck until you die.

Kids these days…

Civics classes have been cut for decades. Even when I was a kid they never explained that you had to vote for someone you didn’t like.

I’m just imagining a court-appointed accountant sitting next to him with one of those ticker devices, clicking it over and over again

Idiots that have the same voting power as everyone else.

Reminds me of a song:

There’s no point for democracy when ignorance is celebrated

Political scientists get the same one vote as some Arkansas inbred

Majority rule don’t work in mental institutions

I don’t know why people are arguing about this. Having and raising children is a huge amount of economic activity, and only women can do that. Plus most of the people getting college degrees today are women.

If it was NASA building a global Internet satellite network, I’d be all for it.

Instead it’s these two douchebags.

It’s probably a cost issue. Running one wire harness to a touch screen is a lot cheaper than running a wire to every button in a car.

Plus it was one of the few portrayals of a working class family and their struggles. Here’s an article about it

In the first season’s finale, Roseanne inspires her fellow workers to quit their jobs when a new supervisor raises quotas on production; she then jokingly compares herself to Sally Field’s character in Norma Rae. And a 1992 episode features a skeptical speech directed to a state representative who promises tax breaks for corporations as a way to revitalize the local economy. Audiences—and advertisers—took notice: The AFL-CIO aired a pro-union commercial featuring the famed labor activist Lech Walesa during a 1989 episode of the series.

It also stops working when the vast majority of the population lacks capital. The recent experiments with a UBI in Kenya show this pretty well. Folks who decided on a lump-sum payment rather than monthly invested in creating businesses and were better off.

Which we will constantly be in danger of because you don’t need to win the popular vote to win the presidency