If DC were converted to a state, presumably this would be changed so there would be no district. The federal buildings would just be buildings in that state.

“The Constitution doesn’t say a state has to have an airport or a car dealership.”

“WeLL It ShOuLd! We DoN’t WaNt sHiThOlE sTaTeS!!1!!”

I was gonna say it’s ridiculous to make DC a state, it’s just a city!

Turns out more people live in DC than Wyoming or Vermont LOL. So I’m down!

Also I’ve heard that monkey’s brains, although popular in Cantonese cuisine, are not often found there.

I can just hear those MAGA morons smugly chuckling, “What can they do LOL they can’t even vote, fuck 'em!”

No, fuck you.

Correctamundo! Intellectual property law is yet another thing that needs reform. I don’t even like the term “intellectual property”. It’s a modern invention. For thousands of years everybody just repeated what they saw other people do, in a process called “the spread of civilization.” It worked great until inventions like the printing press created opportunities for business people who didn’t create anything to get rich by getting exclusive rights to other people’s ideas. But even then, copyright was always something you held not something you “owned”. The modern IP industry has done a very effective job at converting everybody to think of rights as property and infringement as theft. We need to return to the original concept that creators, who used to be freely imitated, can temporarily have exclusive rights to what they create because the public lets them. There’s nothing evil about this, it’s just a return to sanity.

In a way he’s doing the country a favor by shining a spotlight on how the power created by wealth can be blatantly abused. This should make us rethink freedom of the press and corporate control of media. News publishing is probably the most important area where antitrust laws should be applied and strengthened. In general, wealthy individuals and corporate boards have gone way past a reasonable point of simply buying controlling interests in something to acquire more power and influence than the public has through government. Democracy means nothing if kings and queens can sprout up inside of it. And that’s not “communism” talking, it’s commonsense-ism.

One of them is even running for President! It’s not dementia it’s The Weave.

Dunno how that’s relevant but thanks - LOLOL worth the watch.

FoxOS - coming soon?

Speaking of a chromebook experience, installing ChromeOS Flex on my wife’s slow, outdated Surface Pro made it sleek and fast again. Can you suggest a Linux distro that would be similar on old laptops?

As a retired software dev, for me Windows is simply a longtime habit enforced by past work environments. I did use Linux for over a year on my main PC but went back to Windows so I could keep using my old copy of Visual Studio. My deeply conditioned shortcut keystrokes didn’t work in VSCode - in fact, why did they change so much of the UI? But now that I’m used to VSCode, which I only use for hobby coding anyway, there’s no excuse and I intend to go back to Linux by year end.

This is the definition of cherry-picking data to support your point.

“As high as 45%” is another definition of cherry-picking. Here are two articles citing polls that say Harris and Trump are tied and Harris leads Trump, both from the same day. That’s the definition of “depending on which polls you look at.”

• https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/10/21/harris-trump-tied-battle-latino-black-voters/75682566007/
• https://thehill.com/latino/4944585-harris-leads-trump-battleground-latino-voters-poll/

Calling whatever contradicts you “cherry picking” is the definition of denial.

…and as low as 29% - depending on which polls you look at. The important thing is to make it seem like a close race so people will keep looking at ads.

He’s not, the media just wants it to look like a super-close race so people will keep watching ads.

I love how Bonespurs is campaigning so hard for Kamala Harris. It’s good to see him doing something useful for a change!

Same here. And speaking of bubbles I haven’t seen anything about NFTs in quite a while. I don’t think that bubble burst tho, it just sort of shriveled up and blew away.

She’s a former prosecutor. If MAGA pulls shit I’m sure she will pull out the fan.

It’s almost like some people with a lot of money do shit people without money want to do but can’t afford to.

The AI bubble might be the 2020s’ dotcom bubble.

So they’re more worried about misinformation about the results than misinformation that influences the actual voting. Well alrighty.