The great Bernie blocks of 2016 and 2020 did not destroy my hope for revolution, but they did prove to me that the national DNC will never be the route to that revolution. Mamdani is showing us the way: grassroots local politics, build the base by pushing progressive policies on the local level. I suspect the establishment Dems still have more levers to pull if they want to block Mamdani’s policies once he is in office. If we want revolution, we gotta support him and fight to prevent these blocks. Primary any Rep or senator that tries to prevent him from helping the common person.

Are tax deductions not a form of federal funding? The Feds are forgoing future income to aid in funding an initiative, I don’t see how that is meaningfully different from a subsidy. Obviously this bill is disgusting and transphobic, but I’m not sure what point you are trying to make with this post.

The GBA SP could not arrive soon enough. Idk how the hell we survived so long on those dim ass screens. Playing outside in broad daylight was the only option.

I agree with others here that generally you should just read what you want and fuck em all. But if you are the kind of person who gets anxiety about this sort of thing (hello, it’s me), I gotta say that an e-reader is a great solution to this problem. Also means you can read Infinite Jest without having to lug around all 1000+ pages everywhere you go.

Capped framerates are so frustrating. Wish they would just use vsync, which would lock to 30 but will jump to 60fps any time the hardware can handle the scene. Maybe it’s not that easy to do in some cases, idk.

If u go with this, OP, highly recommend a controller clip like one of these:

Can’t wait to hear him shout “MY FIGHT MONEYYYYYYYY”

I hate 2025

dogshit header - the first sentence should have been the hed:

Sabrina Carpenter has revealed alternative artwork “approved by God” for her new album after the original cover sparked controversy.

I thought the hed was saying that she was using christianity to defend her original artwork.

VGC did machine translate a Japanese interview, I wonder if the interview was more “colorful” in Japanese

yeah i understood what you meant, just was asking for your specifics. Which you also provided! So thank you, I appreciate the added insight

when you say “fresh”, what do you mean, exactly?

The only real argument against lab-grown meat is that it might not reduce emissions that much. But even if lab-grown meat has an equivalent carbon footprint to farm-grown, there is still a critical difference: we don’t have to kill innocent creatures to produce it.

In the 21st century, we can easily maintain a nutritious, balanced diet without consuming anything produced by an animal. For this fact alone, humans should be reorienting our entire food chain away from animal-based products, because most animal products are produced via factory farms that functionally torture animals from birth to slaughter. But eating meat is so embedded in our culture - we like the taste of it, and most people don’t have to face the harsh reality of slaughtering innocent creatures to produce it, so for most people it’s actually HARDER to go vegan than it is to just go with the flow.

I hate these “debates” about lab-grown meat for this reason, because to me the controversy seems made up. There are literally no downsides, it just solves this “momentum” problem overnight. Even if the emissions are equivalent, it’s still a net gain for the planet because we dramatically reduce suffering worldwide.

In case you didn’t click through, the “smears” are alleging that Mamdani will somehow be responsible for another 9/11. These fucking morons (ie, the people that buy these lies) think every Muslim knows every other Muslim and they all have secret meetings to take over the world. Meanwhile, Loomer, Kirk, Miller, Trump, and all their billionaire friends hold actual secret meetings at the Heritage Foundation to devise new ways to decieve, exploit, and kill us for profit, but I guess if a rich person does it to make money, that’s just business. Fucking leeches.

yeah maybe those people need their own work requirements and accountability structure

He’s the hero we need, but not the hero we deserve.

sad, but expected. Not sure many people are shopping at stores like that these days, with online shopping and online everything else. The people that care about buying local for toys are probably going to Smitten Kitten instead. All that said, I remember my first years visiting the city as a young adult raised in outstate MN, and SexWorld was one of those shops that was just so fun to visit and go “wow…city life is so cool i want to live here forever”.

yeah that’s different from what I am describing. That’s the bs work requirement for welfare/TANF - in that case, they don’t care at all about finding a good match for you, they just care that you are doing something to find any job. EDIT: My bad you were talking about unemployment work requirements, which are similar but not exactly the same thing. Still bullshit imo - if they aren’t going to actually try to match you with a job that is a good fit, they might as well just let you search on your own. The unemployment has a time limit, and you can only qualify for it in specific situations. I don’t get why they have to also enforce a work requirement, as if you chose to be laid off from your previous job.

I tried airvpn, but found it confusing in some regards. ProtonVPN is easier to use and it has served me well, despite the recent controversy around it. The only real annoyance is that it randomly selects a new port to forward every time you connect, so you have to manually update that in your client. Quantum is a nifty tool that will read your ProtonVPN logs and automatically complete this step for you, if you use qBittorrent.