I’m honestly confused about what you’re asserting here. For my daughter, they did a blood test on my wife in order to tell us that we’re having a daughter instead of a son. Doesn’t that mean that there IS in fact a genetic test that “reveals biological sex”?

Oh great, meat prices were already at all-time highs.

Definitely saving this for future use, but I don’t think pointing out that the DNC chair supports Mamdani makes this commenter a bootlicker.

What the alternative?

I wonder why Trump thinks it’s so plausible that someone fudged the numbers to make it look like there was less crime 🤔

True… but if Trump had to contend with Democrat majorities in the house and Senate then he would have an incentive not to do illegal shit because he could be removed from office.

Hopefully the results is that everyone is concerned about gerrymandering instead of just Democrats and something can be done about it at the federal level.

No. The strategy can work perfectly fine both ways.

The entire point of gerrymandering is to make the geography irrelevant.

If you have a large, reliably blue city where 80 percent vote Democrat you can split that into districts that go 60 percent Democrat so that Democrats win more seats but by smaller margins…

If you wanted to gerrymander in favor of Republicans, you would fracture the city even more so that you disperse those Democrat voters over more districts.

I was actually thinking it would be sweet to train as an electrician as a backup to my software engineering job, since it’s something that seems interesting to me. However, it doesn’t really seem doable. It would be cool if there was some equivalent to a coding boot camp for trades.

It would be sweet if instead of college there was a four year program where you could be trained in the basics of plumbing, electric, carpentry, automotive, landscaping and do various internships (apprenticeships) then decide when you graduate what you want to do.

It’s bullshit for companies to lay people off and retain H1Bs. The government shouldn’t approve any new H1Bs for development positions until companies stop the layoffs and the amount of developers searching for work goes down significantly.

If we eliminate career politicians with term limits you can expect to see more celebrities, billionaires, CEOs etc running.

If you want normal people to run and you don’t want career politicians, elections need to be publicly funded and your job needs to be guaranteed when your term is done similar to maternity leave and military service. Otherwise who is going to throw their career away and go to Washington besides celebrities and people who are already rich?

They could be from the same state but picking a VP candidate from another part of the country is seen as one way to balance a ticket. They could pick someone from a swing state in the hopes it would help win that state, or try to balance out the ticket on the political spectrum by picking someone further left or right than the presidential candidate. In 2008 the Democrats balanced out the young black candidate with an old conservative white VP candidate, so there are other ways to balance a ticket.

Andromeda was not well received but the Mako equivalent in that game was pretty good.

Trump usually charges a lot of money to use his name on things so maybe this is a way around that.

I really wonder what would happen if the UN and Europe just sent troops in to keep the peace and establish a Palestinian state. Would the US and Israel actually go to war with the rest of the world in order to continue the genocide or would they admit defeat?

It doesn’t make too much difference to me whether he was targeting the NFL or Blackstone, either way he showed up with a gun to hold a corporation accountable because he didn’t think our society would ever do so.

If the ruling class doesn’t like that, they can show the people that corporations and billionaires will be held accountable.

Are they anti-capitalist or anti-government? Maybe some are both, but it seems like many of these types are probably capitalist and don’t want the government to get in the way of corporations screwing people.

Whenever I get on the road I’m reminded that car emissions are not just one minor problem. Should there be more mass transit and remote work ? Yes. Is that ever going to happen in my area? Almost certainly not.

Whether this is about Blackstone or the NFL, someone showed up with a gun to hold corporations accountable because our society doesn’t.

Try getting him one of those filtered fountains that plugs in and shoots the water out the top.