Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Sure, people will spin up their own instance and run it according to their own biases, but I don't see Russia or Israel or whomever running bots specifically to push things one way or another like they do with Twitter, Facebook or Reddit.

Yeah, why the hell is OP using SMS?

Lol yes they are. They're part owners of Twitter, which became a pro-Trump cesspool. That alone is orders of magnitude bigger than this Russian thing.

Do you think it's big enough to bother with?

That policy doesn't seem to apply to people living in Russia, or even travelling to North Korea.

He got rid of everyone else when he took over, he's still dealing with court cases about how he handled that.

There's no war in the West Bank, that's Gaza. And this is part of a pattern, the US didn't give a shit when Rachel Corrie was murdered, or Shireen Abu Akleh (during "peacetime").

Having worked with designers in an ad agency (although not a designer myself), the male designers didn't ever have a good thing to say about the work of any of the female designers. Consequently, none of them stuck around for long (one of them is a creative director in a big agency now, so presumably she wasn't that bad).

Then again, they were assholes in many other respects as well, and the guys in the next companies I worked for were a lot better.

Yeah, he didn't do anything directly in this area last time, he just appointed the judges that would. If he can appoint even more judges, they can probably ban abortion outright for a whole generation. They know this and they'll vote for that.

Yeah, not sure that's an endorsement you want.

Yeah, it's not like Minecraft itself is marketed to the hardcore gamer demographic. It's essentially a kids' movie. I suspect it might still suck at that though.

I mean, it would be nice to see a comparison between a Chinese loan and a loan by the IMF. Maybe the sting still has to come because they haven't been doing it for as long, but there's got to be a good reason those countries go with China instead of the IMF.

To me it seems like IMF loans involve privatising revenue generating assets, lowering taxes on the wealthy and austerity on the masses. The biggest criticism of the Chinese way of financing is that if you default on the loan you used to build a port/highway/railway line, they keep that specific asset. And I guess instead of using local labour they use Chinese workers.

There's definitely things to criticise there, but I know which option I'd pick if I needed a port in my country.

All of them

The prosecutor is a MAGA Republican type, and they hate Baldwin for being a liberal, basically. Unfortunately they're also incompetent and they got caught intentionally withholding evidence in the previous trial.

Yeah, Russia is funding all sorts of critics of the US government, some of them on the left too. Doesn't necessarily mean they agree with Russia on everything. When RT was still allowed to broadcast in the US, people like Chris Hedges had a show on there.

Honestly, I don't see how this indictment squares with the first amendment, especially after citizens united. If money is speech, what's the difference between some American billionaire funding some guys that say things they agree with, and a foreign government/billionaire doing the same? If they're banning Russian funding, why not ban Al Jazeera, Deutsche Welle, South China Morning Post, the BBC, etc?

Holy crap, I always assumed the runner was pushing her whenever I saw this picture. Is this often posted with a wrong caption or something?

Has he been hanging out with JD Vance?

It's crazy how little desktop environments (besides the open source ones) have evolved over the last decades. I believe the next version of OS X will finally add tiling.

If it just takes longer to get the same outcome, is it really harm reduction?

Either way, I'm not telling anyone how to vote, as the calculus depends entirely on where you live. In swing states, sure, your vote or lack thereof could make a difference. In the states where most people actually live (red or blue), you should be allowed to vote third party without getting yelled at by libs.

Ultimately, if the candidates don't want to meet the voters where they are (and for the majority of Dems, they are in favour of an arms embargo against Israel), it's their fault if they lose, not because of individual voters or random guys posting on the internet.

And now job boards are full of ads for 'salesforce developers' that pay ridiculous amounts because nobody really wants to work on salesforce.