Probably all of the BLM protesters

This 100%

This isn’t the end, but the beginning. There’s a lot of fight left, don’t make the mistake of thinking we’re done now.

Joy is rebellion. Kindness is radical. Optimism is counterculture.

I just wanted to pull out this little nugget because, as the kids say:

Bars

Just admit you were wrong and a bit judgy and take the L my dude

All of the numbers are rounded. Maybe this is the first month collecting data so everything is starting from 0?

I have non-ironically gotten responses like this

Thanks for the link. It does seem that there is a correlation between News media that leans toward the minority party getting a bump in eyeballs.

I would fucking love that if it were true but it most certainly is not

https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/fact-sheet/cable-news/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0ndPOs8Q1c

Yes, but that also like never happened. Fox was always dominant.

I dunno man, I feel like they are kind of nailing it

Hey man, I’m sorry this is a rough time for you. But maybe you’re looking at Christmas all wrong.

The origin of Christmas wasn’t anything to do with the birth of Christ, but was a way for humans to get through the literal darkest time of the year. This is the moment when the natural world throws all it had against us and takes away one of the things that we require to be happy (sunlight). Society doesn’t do much, if anything, for summer solstice because most people are in a good mood. But we sure as hell do for winter solstice because, before modern society, shit was about to get rough.

I also have to face a lot of loss during this time as well. My mom died on Dec 19th 2020, and my brother overdosed and died 4 days later. Then a year later my dad died on Dec 30th. This time of year is tough for me too. And I also don’t really deserve my amazing wife and kids either. But they sure as hell don’t deserve a sad sack of a father/husband.

Therapy helps a lot with this. It can be hard to find the words to talk about this with the people you love so it can be easier with a third party. Your family deserves you to be there for them and to be legitimately happy.

I hope you find peace and can put the past behind you.

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Christ almighty what clickbait bullshit… here’s the changelog of the change:

In macOS Sequoia, users will no longer be able to Control-click to override Gatekeeper when opening software that isn’t signed correctly or notarized. They’ll need to visit System Settings > Privacy & Security to review security information for software before allowing it to run.

Plus you can completely disable gatekeeper in the terminal. Y’all can put away your pitchforks now.

It’s the stupidest fucking timeline

BMW EV surpassed Tesla sales in Europe for July.

You sure about that?

So how do you figure there is no competition without China?

That’s not what I was saying. What I am saying is that if left unanswered, those cars would kill all of the current competitors over time and then after that we’d be at the mercy of whatever the Chinese car manufacturers would want to charge and we’d be unable to stop it.

Ugh, that is true but no way should we compromise on that IMO

Literally didn’t say any of that. I was stating how the US could be competitive.

The main problem with BYD cars is that they are heavily subsidizing by the Chinese government.

If you remove those subsidies then those cars aren’t going to be very competitive. But the problem would be that by the time the Chinese government stopped subsidies, there wouldn’t be any competition left.

Our best ways to counteract this would either be through heavy tariffs or by subsidizing our own companies in the west.

MAGA wants to do the tariffs route which is basically a bandaid solution that would prevent the Chinese companies from owning the US market but it wouldn’t do anything outside of that. Plus it doesn’t solve is being competitive, it’s just covering its ears and “lalala”’ing the issue for later generations to deal with it. Which honestly, that tracks for basically their whole platform.

If you do the subsidies route though, we’d have to make sure we’re not just constantly lining Musk’s pockets but Tesla is the company has the biggest head start. And Musk is a PoS but the devil’s credit is that our EV market wouldn’t exist without Tesla.

IMO, we need to diversify our EV makers and help provide the capital to bootstrap it. And while that’s happening we need to not let cheap Chinese cars flood the market to undercut any chance we have. So basically we need a combination of both solutions.

100% but it might change enough

During COVID, I had multiple people shrug off how hard everything was with kids and disregard parents struggles. That’s a cultural thing which is what studies like this are addressing and trying to help build momentum to change.

It’s easier to build that momentum with data instead of just vibes because even though this is self-evident to both of us, we’re not the hearts and minds that require changing.

It’s similar to how young and single people will be expected to work longer hours because “they don’t have to go home” as if that means that they don’t need time off as well.