It’s such an alien thought process that I don’t even know where I would begin with discussing politics with such a person.

The Vending Machine one is actually pretty good.

If the past is any indicator of the future then we can expect the next four years to be non-stop Trump posting.

The real problem is that these people get away with it. There are no consequences to their actions. If no one is going to hold them accountable then it’s not just a belief they have, they really are above the law.

I imagine what they’re trying to contain are angry Puerto Ricans living in the US from going out and voting. The higher the voter turnout is, the greater the chance of Harris winning. Making Democrats angry enough to actually go out and vote is definitely something the Republicans want to contain.

Not sure when things changed but all I know is that when I bought mine years ago the Kobo site redirected me to Walmart and that’s where I had to buy it. My e-reader even displays the Walmart logo on it when I power it off.

Kobo was sold exclusively through Walmart in the US (at least when I bought my Kobo). I think they recently ended the partnership.

“It doesn’t really replace proper journalism though”

Yeah, that’s an even bigger problem that doesn’t really have much of a solution. Things like Fediverse might allow for the distribution of news outside the control of corporations but it doesn’t help in actually getting access to unbiased journalism.

The joke is so obvious there’s no need to comment on it so others, including myself, are using this as an opportunity to post our opinions on the difference between sci-fi and fantasy.

I would argue that science fiction and fantasy are the same thing and the only difference is the explanation for how all the cool stuff works.

Functionally, there’s no real difference between a portal that takes the characters to another world using a wormhole and one that does it through through magic. Just like how there’s no difference between Vulcans/Klingons/Wookies and Elves/Dwarves/Beastmen. Both are intelligent non-humans.

The Great Sea (From Legend of Zelda Windwaker) - The Marcus Hedges Trend Orchestra

https://open.spotify.com/track/1D644kNnetS59dp2wUoVMl?si=pBwszva0ST2URvBEEVrSCQ&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A6N6jfTjyhTM3TMcLXumRBN

They think when the chaos hits they’ll be the ones climbing the ladder instead of the ones being used as a ladder.

George Jetson was able to support his whole family off his single job working one hour a day, two days a week and his job was to just push a button.

The people in the past were Incredibly optimistic about the future.

Her quote never really felt that outrageous. She wasn’t even calling all Trump supporters “deplorable”. Here’s her quote

“You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right?” Clinton said. “The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic—you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up.” She said the other half of Trump’s supporters “feel that the government has let them down” and are “desperate for change.” “Those are people we have to understand and empathize with as well,” she said.

That’s exactly what I thought as well from reading the headline. It definitely could have been worded better.

I thought it said “his shole had teeth” and it took me awhile to both notice the B and to really be it was for censorship.

Reminds me of the Trump supporter that was surprised when her undocumented husband got deported.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/04/04/the-last-ditch-effort-to-save-a-trump-voters-husband-from-deportation/

This and the Nike ad have been the worst ads during the Olympics.

Kind of reminds me of the left pad incident only much worse.

https://medium.com/nerd-for-tech/that-time-a-guy-broke-the-internet-23c00903ad6f