They don’t believe it. It’s just a talking point to cover for genocide. Nettanyahu, like all the right-wing authoritarian fucksticks before him, is about as attached to his excuses as the Navajo nation is to water polo (spoiler: they’re not). It’s just some bullshit to spout while you fucking murder people. If the excuse runs thin, fuck it, just make a new excuse, but this is the one they’ve spent decades cultivating by literally funding hamas.
Alright, so, real talk, this is an appeal directly to the people in police work who are in it for the authority (spoiler: too many, unfortunately), as well as to the asset owning class that depends on the police to keep them from losing their investments or worse. The message being sent is: vote for me, work for me, and you’ll be free from accountability.
This is about as predictable a failure as passwordless logins. If you can’t secure your software product against it being used outside its intended use case, then stop, go back, you fucked up.
I don’t think the build is strange, personally. It’s really only strange if California is only made of San Francisco and LA, and it isn’t. The central valley cities would be major metros in any other state, and they currently have few to no options for travel that don’t involve a car.
No. The LA-SF connection was THE connection to make for a number of good reasons:
-HSR is a direct replacement for short-haul airlines. The LAX-SFO corridor is one of if not THE busiest air corridors on earth, and CAHSR is going to put a tremendous dent in it.
-There’s not really any easy way to get from California’s interior (the central valley cities like Bakersfield, Merced, Fresno, etc that everyone likes to dunk on for not being LA or San Francisco) to LA or San Francisco. Basically, your only options are a shitty drive or a shitty bus, though the Amtrak San Joaquins and ACE extension line can at least get you to the bay area if you can access them. CAHSR makes it much easier for people in California’s interior to visit the metro area’s without becoming traffic, and makes it easier for folks in the metro area’s to visit the central valley in case they uh… Um… Want to see a cow? Oh, go to Yosemite or Sequoia national parks, yeah, that.
-Brightline West is NOT real High Speed Rail. Brightline is sort of at the high end of Mid-Speed Rail, which is still not bad, we could really do with a lot more of it for longer haul passenger service and intercity service where HSR doesn’t make sense. But they operate below the official HSR speeds in order to dodge a lot of really expensive FRA regulations. CAHSR can’t do that because it has to be a true replacement for the air route, which means that cost overruns are going to happen.
-The first true HSR project in the US was always going to be insanely expensive. California took the hit on this, but hopefully the knowledge, experience, and supply chains the CAHSRA creates will get picked up by other HSR projects in the states who can leverage it to build their projects cheaper.
Notably, the legislation calls for the U.S. government to reassert control over “recovered technologies of unknown origin” currently held by defense contractors. Some analysts suspect that corporations potentially holding such exotic technology are exerting undue pressure and influence to oppose the provision in Schumer’s legislation.
Found why. It’s absolutely amazing how consistently bad and stupid the financialization of everything has been. The apparent government conspiracy to hide UFOs and aliens isn’t down to a nefarious plot to control the world or keep the peace, it’s to protect the investors. Jesus wept.
It’s worth noting that the laser was much the same way. It was described early on as a solution in search of a problem, and lasers have had an incredible impact on technology.
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I want to disagree with you, but I just can’t wrap my head around team Biden’s messaging feeling this completely disconnected from the reality on the ground for a lot of Americans. And when you call out the disconnection, the answer isn’t anything approaching empathy or understanding, it’s “you’re wrong lol”. It just feels like they’re not even trying.
I keep seeing messaging that essentially amounts to “Biden doesn’t have to try, everything is great actually, and, besides, Trump is unelectable”. Clearly the democrats learned nothing from 2016. This is too big to fuck up, don’t phone it in.
It’s just wild to me the lengths these people will go for a guy that honestly looks like blonde Grimace.
Thanks for sharing. That is… Weird in ways I didn’t anticipate. “Weird cult of pseudointellectuals upending the biggest name in silicon valley” wasn’t on my bingo board.
I’d like to know why exactly the board fired Altman before I pass judgment one way or the other, especially given the mad rush by the investor class to re-instate him. It makes me especially curious that the employees are sticking up for him. My initial intuition was that MSFT convinced Altman to cross bridges that he shouldn’t have (for $$$$), but I doubt that a little more now that the employees are sticking up for him. Something fucking weird is going on, and I’m dying to know what it is.
Look, if your point is that “they deserve to use shitty messaging if they want, don’t worry about it, bro”, well, okay. That’s your opinion, and that’s fine. I don’t think it’s a smart choice, politically speaking, and that’s where I’m coming from. People are feeling the hurt right now, and I think you’re going to find that correcting their complaints with “we should be thanking Biden, actually” is bitter medicine. Maybe they know what they’re doing, but somehow this feels familiar from the '16 Clinton Campaign; like they’ve got permission to fucking phone it in because the other guy is unelectable. I hope you’re right and they really do know what they’re doing.
I mean, it’s not like Democrats have never managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory before. I’m just saying, this is shit tier messaging, and when the whole ass republic is at stake, it sure would be nice to see them actually trying instead of phoning it in with shitty messaging because “the other guy is basically Hitler and we’ve been doing pretty well”.
I kinda get the vibe you’re trying to be smarmy. Look, saying “you should be happy you’re not in a recession, stupid” is not effective messaging. If it’s going to take losing this election for you and the DNC to learn that, I’m going to be awfully fucking cross.
I’m really sick of this line of reasoning that functionally goes:
And when somebody says “hey, this doesn’t align with my experience, can we just acknowledge that things aren’t actually that great and work towards fixing them?” The response is
MF, I don’t, but if the people don’t feel seen by Biden, they might not vote for him specifically because of all the tone-deaf paternalistic “stop whining about my economy, you’re fine actually” messaging. It’s kind of a similar vibe to answering “can we not support genocide in Gaza, please?” With “why do you hate Jews?!”. It’s just an attempt to avoid dealing with legitimate criticism while deflecting it back onto the asker. The clinton campaign already tested this strategy in 16, and we all saw how that turned out.
The stock market is not the economy. Just because stocks have had a soft landing doesn’t mean that that’s translated to people’s lives experiences.
Going to the car wash as a treat really nails the vibe for me. I hope things get better for you guys soon.
Illegal for the people doing and taking the bribe, with real teeth.