After it became less acceptable to explicitly hate the gays in public they needed a new target. There’s a lot of people who like being riled up with hatred, who are fearful and need a bogeyman, etc. It’s either human nature or something deeply embedded in our culture. Eventually they will move on and find a new target to focus their hate on.

“When you’re a star, they let you do it”

The Republican party, and a shocking number of people in general, are perfectly fine with whatever. They don’t actually have any kind of genuine moral or ethical system. I feel like such a fucking old man now talking like this but goddamn is it gross that a guy who paid children for sex is going to be the Attorney General, that is not how it worked when I grew up. I mean, it was how it worked but if you got caught that was it. Everyone shunned you and your career in public service was over, you had to go work as a lobbyist or sit on some corporate boards and keep your head down.

Maybe. US history is full of crazy fucked up shit that the nation has made its way through thus far. This kind of situation hasn’t really happened in the US before though, and historically these kinds of situations do not work out well. We are past the point of no return in that the status quo Washington Consensus or whatever you want to call the previous era is gone now, whatever is coming is something new and different and the US role and position in the world are never going back to what they were before. Really I would say this process started with Bush II but there is no reversing it now that Trump has won a convincing electoral victory. Whether we’re past the point of no return for the US constitutional order isn’t really clear yet but it’s not looking good.

The internet doesn’t really live up to its reputation in that regard. There’s all kinds of things that never end up on the web, or if they do its so obscure you won’t find it unless you know where it is already. If someone has an obituary in a random little newspaper you’ve never heard of in a town you might not associate with the person who died because they lived in your city for decades, and that town is on the other side of the country, even if that obituary does get indexed it’s not an easy find unless they have a very unique name. I have a friend who moved less than 50 miles away a few years ago and I found out he died earlier this year, I’ve never been able to find his obituary. There may not even be one, and if there is it could be published in any number of different places because he lived in a lot of different places. I think most of the people I’ve known who have died haven’t had an obituary at all, or if they did I wasn’t aware of it. It costs money to get them published and I don’t think it’s a priority for a lot of people after someone has died. Even if they do get published they aren’t always easy to find. This is in the US at least, maybe things are different in other countries.

Not everyone gets an obituary. Most of the people I know who died didn’t get one, or if they did it was in a small town newspaper thousands of miles away where they grew up instead of where they lived their adult life and died.

From what I recall it’s actually the majority of pregnancies that end in miscarriage, it’s just that they usually occur before the woman can even really notice she was pregnant or is having a miscarriage. From the woman’s perspective she may of had a particularly unpleasant monthly period when it was actually a miscarriage. It’s one of those things no one likes to acknowledge because people find it disturbing and it completely undermines a lot of assumptions people like to make about “the miracle of life”.

That does seem very suspect. Maybe it’s adjusted for miles driven? Even though less driving happened, per mile driven the rate still increased.

You can put it exactly where you want it, exactly when you want it there.

Also, most “illegal immigrants” arrive in the US legally on tourist visas, around half the yearly total enters via commercial airlines.

They run the internet now so they really know how it works.

The US certainly has a long history of doing terrible shit but the facts are really clear here. Iranian proxy forces are trying to sink civilian ships. There’s not any moral ambiguity about those actions, civilian ships are not legitimate targets. You can’t go around trying to blow up everything in a major shipping lane and then not expect a substantive response. Claiming the US is at fault for reacting to this escalation from the Houthis, or that Iran has any kind of moral superiority when it too has a long history of doing terrible shit (and its proxy forces are actively engaged in terrorist attacks against civilian ships), just does not make sense. It feels like maybe your hatred of the US is clouding your assessment of the situation.

I do. I use search basically every day and when I’m working I don’t want to waste a bunch of time digging through bullshit if I can help it. Google sucks, $10 a month for a better experience that both saves me time and helps get Google more out of my life is worth it to me.

I started using Kagi a few months ago and have been really happy with it. It’s completely replaced Google search for me. I think it’s saved me a lot of time and helped me avoid a bunch of advertising I otherwise would have been exposed to. Not being incentivized by advertising money like Google is really makes a difference I think. With Kagi you are the actual customer and search is the actual product, with Google search you are the product and the customer is whoever paid Google to insert advertising into your search results.

They are supposed to be working on a complete rewrite of the Linux client that’s coming out soon.

I always check rtings before I buy a TV.

That’s kind of a weird definition but it’s also very accurate in a funny way.

It’s new for the consumer market, with past versions of Windows it’s only been available to the biz side.

I’ve never heard of Gates being a eugenics believer, can you point to some credible evidence for this claim?

Rounding up “terrorist sympathizers” domestically while encouraging Israel to go full genocide and rattling all the sabers at Iran. It would be a complete shitshow and probably spiral out of control quickly.

I remember that too and it was obviously a bunch of nonsense back then. It’s just people playing politics and trying to frame the discourse in ways that favor their side. The quotes there are pretty funny, Alter doing some warmongering and Klein calling the kettle black.