KillingTimeItself

My partner and I have never been on Twitter, which I think is a good thing in retrospect hahahaha

i was on twitter pre elon, it was still bad, but now the only thing that shows up in my timeline is religious posting, i don’t know if furries even use twitter anymore lmao.

It’s so much worse now, but i had to make an account to see a stupid tweet just to verify that it was real. I love the internet.

We also mostly stay within our immediate friend group, so I definitely am with you there. If we were more extroverted, we would have maybe met more people. But there was a single, very themed furry that we noticed

it tends to be like doesn’t it. I imagine that neurotic people have a sort of “neurosis radar” i have a weirdly eerie ability to pick out the weird people in a room full of people. It’s good fun though, i like talking to weird people, they have a lot more interesting things to say than normies do lol.

And was an incredibly cool person. And demolished my partner at beer pong like four times.

he was just gaming you the entire time lol.

it turns out it’s a lot harder if you don’t care from the get go. Asexual representation goes hard.

Ending the electoral college and changing to popular vote for the presidency is a very important goal and young people should commit to make it your life’s work, because that’s how long it will take to get a constitutional amendment done, and only if a sustained effort is made.

for now, if you want to do something and don’t want to think about the electorates, you can campaign for local voting reform in your state (which will have an effect on the electorates as well) plus then your state has better representation now.

yeah no, that should be the same, unless you wanted the senate to hold a proportional amount of seating to the house for some reason.

The senate and house are two independent bodies, they work together, and at odds simultaneously, the point is that the senate is different.

We could also just make it irrelevant by expanding Congress radically. Adding back all the seats we missed when we froze the numbers in the 1940s.

or we could just do a CGPgrey and rework the math because we have computers now.

stupid is as stupid does.

I’m not sure why this is surprising to you.

We made one single friend lawl

that’s nice, im sure i would also, but i just don’t really enjoy socializing much outside of an immediate group of people that know me.

Everyone was sooooo friendly though.

that’s the furry community when they weren’t busy yelling at people over twitter for something probably pretty stupid lol.

I will go again despite being insanely introverted.

hopefully you have a good time next time, best of luck!

oops

while this is true, they still have a basis to operate under. There are certain things that aren’t official acts. Posting on social media wouldn’t be one. There are things that are, and those have absolute immunity (bad) there are also things that have presumptive immunity (which means you have to rule on whether or not these are admissible evidence) and this has had a direct effect on the jan 6th hearing, removing like 9 pages of communication between government officials, which is about all they could remove from the hundreds of pages that were there already.

listen bro, i didn’t invent the “aire” term. It’s not very specific. Also to be clear, the original post was a shitpost, you shouldn’t think that hard about it lol.

yeah, that’s mostly dependent on US aid going to ukraine though. Ukraine isn’t going to take the easy path out of this one.

if not now as soon as his phone explodes lol

If ukraine is an ally, i understand that to be fairly recent, prior to zelenskyy the president of Ukraine was a russian plant. I believe he was voted in about 2014 or so.

NATO is primarily an alliance between members of the alliance, of which ukraine is not a member. Protecting members outside of NATO is not really inside the purview of NATO as an organization, although protecting border states is politically advantageous.

anyway, i tried looking for some data and didn’t have much luck, but even thinking about it from a strategic position it wouldn’t make sense to loan shark ukraine here. Worst case scenario they collapse after winning due to the loans, and then russia takes over, or they collapse during the war, and we have to deal with getting that money back, because it’s marked as a loan, which wouldn’t really make any sense.

I think the idea is relatively simple, it provides a way for ukraine to borrow money, assuming they win it provides them a way to pay it back or default on it, and that allows ukraine to stay relatively neutral. Just giving free money to ukraine is probably less than ideal.

From the research i did do, i couldn’t find anything talking about how it would be problematic, it was mostly talking about numbers which makes sense, so i guess that checks out, but i would’ve been surprised if nobody had reported on that either.

it’s his complete dox essentially. Unsure if that phone # is his personal or a work, but if its his personal i could see that being pretty annoying, having your personal/work phone being completely overwhelmed by like 20 million people on the internet would be something.

I can see why it’s a concern, but i’ve seen far worse on twitter, so i can’t really care.

i mean, that’s one solution i guess.

it also has his phone #, address, half of his SSN, and email as well as some other PII that probably shouldn’t be out there, but oh well.

stolen document, not publicly released, they hacked whatever had this document, stole it, therefore it’s not a hacked document.

Also PDFs can be cheesed to run code, so that is also a possibility, though i doubt it.

not much, more emojis, more stickers, more file upload, more text characters in your messages, funny reactions, nothing exciting really.

Nitro sucks with how aggressive it’s advertising is, but aside from that, it’s mostly benign.

that’s the general strat, but nothing competes with real world testing fortunately for us, having tested thousands of nukes over the years.

Right? I guess I’m just a cynical old anarcho-commie but American politics has always felt like one step forward and two steps back.

i think it’s probably more like 1.1 steps forward, and 1 steps back, slow continual progress seems to be the ultimate goal of the governmental structure.

They were never moderate, that’s why they were Republicans in the first place. The only reason they’re supporting Dems now is because the Dems have stopped pretending to be left-wing and openly embraced their status as America’s non-wingnut Capitalist party.

well yeah, traditionally they would be moderate/institutional republicans but history is not accurate when applied to the modern day, so right now, a modern republican is going to appreciate kamala more than trump right now.

the left historically has been broadly moderate, a somewhat significant voter populous will swing more progressive, but it’s a lot less “aggressive” than on the republican side. I think the turnout at kamala rallies has been a really good example of this. I think most democrats are “socially progressive” governmentally “liberal” and economically “liberal/progressive” but that’s just what i’ve gleaned. Very few democrats are “socialist” or “communist” and even fewer subscribe to anarchism. Even i a technically anarchist individual, doesn’t even “believe” in anarchism. I think anarchism is a transitional government structure. I think it’s a more of a communal structure more than anything, and that’s where i find value in it.

Dramatic, sure, but I don’t think it’s overly so. The party no longer needs to appeal to the interests of us small folks now that business interests are starting to abandon the Republican project. Working within the system to enact meaningful change was already nigh-impossible, but now that the Democrats have an unassailable electoral position there’s no reason for them not to become complacent and allow themselves to be influenced by lobbyists even more than before.

you might be correct, but that would be a very long term game, 10-20 years. So it’s hard to say right now, but you might very well be correct on that one. I think this is mostly a response to the republican base, and i think we’re going to see a “new left” in the coming election cycles, hinging on more traditional values, but pushing for more progressive things. I think if we see this, the democratic party is going to be highly successful.

If the Democrats had put their weight behind Bernie then 2016 wouldn’t even have been a contest. He was literally the single most popular politician in America at the time and Clinton was close to the opposite, but the DNC decided it was “Her Turn” and arranged the rest of the competition to drop out and endorse Clinton ahead of the Super Tuesday primaries. Between that and the superdelegates there was no way for the best candidate to win.

idk much about the 2016 election and popular opinion so i can’t say much about that, but in 2020 if that were to have happened, i think that probably would’ve happened as well. The party institution has a very large voting influence, whoever is run as the primary, is going to get the majority of part votes, unfortunately.

I think the primary issue with the 2016 election was the common public sentiment of trump, he was the under dog, i guess nobody though people voted for republicans or something lol. Thankfully i think this was the “old left” and i’m hoping we get a “new left” starting with the current harris ticket. I think if we do have a new left, we will be very productive.

They also promoted Trump under the assumption that he’d be an easy opponent for her. XD

skill issue no. 1 pretty much lmao.