That is one nefarious dark pattern.

He saw that Black Mirror episode and found it to be aspirational.

I can’t even imagine raw-dogging the internet like that…

Easy fix: HDMI cable from the laptop to your TV to watch youtube.

Your response to me saying how cucked we are here with regards to employee rights is this?

My business gave extra time off to people who got Covid vaccines because it incentivizes people to do something that’s good for them and for society. For people who were already getting the vaccines it was a bonus day, and it gave the push for people on the fence.

Wow, how magnanimous of them! I’m sure that having a vaccinated work force during a global pandemic that was killing millions to prevent your employees from dropping like flies had nothing to do with it… They just wanted to give you guys that “bonus” day. How sweet of them.

Yes they do, it’s called the IDF and literally every citizen has to serve and receive “conditioning” that dehumanizes Arabs.

Since I know you’re going to balk at that (doesn’t change the fact that it is an accurate comparison)… Then how about Israeli settlers (AKA Jewish people from Brooklyn) in the West Bank invading Palestinian villages with AR-15s and forcing them from their ancestral homes at gunpoint? Murdering men, women, and children for some property they have zero claim to. Is that close enough for you?

No, you’re right, it’s not. Because Hezbollah isn’t an invading force.

I’m tired of people acting like these parties don’t have militant arms directly because of Israel’s actions. Intentional, I might add. They know they’re creating more “terrorists.”

I used to agree, and perhaps that concept made more sense in the 18th century when the urban/rural divide was not nearly as stark and separate.

The same goes with the Senate. I have no problem with it in concept, but unless we can also have a House that is actually proportionally representative, then it doesn’t really make sense.

Windmills?

It seems to me that you aren’t well-versed in adventures—they are giants; and if you’re afraid, get away from here and start praying while I go into fierce and unequal battle with them!

It’s a goddamn tragedy that a plan that stupid actually works on so many people.

That, combined with the need for simple answers to extremely complex problems…

Right, but why pick up the phone at all? Simply answering marks you down on their list as an active number even if you don’t say anything. Even turning down the call is enough to let them know there’s a human on the other end. I’ve heard the best thing to do is let it ring so they think its dead.

At least that’s my assumption. So maybe I’m wrong (though the part about letting it ring out is true, I believe)

Yeah this is why I don’t respond. Immediately marked as spam and number blocked.

Now there was a (very brief lol) period of time where I got a few Trump fundraising texts (my guess is someone put in my number as a joke or out of malice). They stopped coming after I replied with dick pics lol

And everyone knows that only children without parents can make memes.

Probably… But isn’t the “mRNA” used in vaccines a different thing? It certainly isn’t a new discovery.

But right. I almost forgot who we were talking about. Of course none of that will matter.

Oh, I was thinking it may have still been their parents’ garage. But I guess they were a bit older than that (and back then, college dropouts could afford houses with garages).

Right. And you trust the American government to be transparent with this process? You trust every individual involved in programming this system not to fuck it up in some way, intentionally or not?

There’s just way too much that can go wrong, and more possible attack vectors that could possibly be accounted for. We already have state actors actively attempting (often successfully) to interfere with our elections. What makes you think putting it online wouldn’t make that 1000x worse?

When you see the reports/photos/videos of lines, take note of the location of the polling place and what the class and racial makeup of the jurisdiction is. Maybe even take note of the racial makeup of the people in the lines.

Then look at how many polling places per capita they have compared to other areas in the state.

Trying to not have to spell it out…

If only we had some type of… I don’t know what the word for it would be… Well, some sort of system that the people in a society agree to be governed by that could force these businesses to respect this holiday…

Oh well.

Right? I guess I shouldn’t be surprised by how little Americans seem to understand about their own government… But boy is it depressing to see. Especially when its younger people.

It’s really not.