IDK their religion allows straight up substitution magic, they turn wine and crackers into pieces of their dead god. Why can’t thorns and pieces of wood turn into the implements that killed him?

Everything by Becky Chambers is pretty uplifting. She’s probably my favorite author right now.

Busy maybe, but will the be entertained.

I read Moby Dick once and it was not enjoyable in the least. It is boring as fuck. Maybe it’s imitating through prose the long monotonous stretches between whale sightings, but that’s not an engaging read.

Dude has a deer nose and that font is fucked.

more competition making headsets

quite the opposite has happened, there are fewer companies making headsets now. Microsoft is removing their version of open platform, mixed reality from windows entirely…

This, so much, this, I feel like I’m taking crazy pills.

The Democrats are ideologically incapable of dealing with fascism, they will not address the root causes, America will have an authoritarian in office within 8 years.

Quite frankly if America can’t withstand trump’s decrepit, corrupt, senile version of fascism then we’re just going to fall to what ever ghoul the Republicans summon next.

If trump wins and America can’t defeat his senile version of fascism, then it’s already on the death bed waiting for the next republican to take power…

trump is the best authoritarian we’re going to get, he’s easy mode, the republicans will get someone worse, someone who has the ability to think beyond his next shit.

It’s not going to get better only worse…

…I know.

What i’m saying is that Chatgpt is good at captcha shit, likely because it was fed the data from all the captcha we’ve done.

And I know captcha is different from recaptcha, if you want to be pedantic, which you appear to…

you’re at least a decade late for that concern. why do you think chatgpt is so good at solving recaptcha?

And that’s why I specifically highlighted the potential for an American coup which he and the democrats have fundamentally not addressed, It wouldn’t matter if he was the most perfect president ever, without addressing fundamental procedural flaws in how our democracy works there is no point to any of it.

They’ve let this be memory holed, it was just a bunch of individual idiots and the FBI is catching them, nothing else to see, when there are literal traitors in congress and flaws to exploit.

We are a knifes edge from fascism (if pence had gotten into the car or chosen loyalty to trump we would have fallen already) and the administration has failed to center the fundamental fixes it would take to prevent it from happening again.

Where’s the great president?

Biden isn’t the worst, he’s a milquetoast compromiser, minor social programs that don’t change the status quo of rising homelessness, out of control rent and home prices, rising medical costs, rising child care costs, rising food costs, raising car costs, rising just living costs.

America is rapidly fraying at the edges and his team are still talking about how good the economy is.

But forget all that, on January 6th America came literally 1 vice president away from a fascist coup and nothing procedurally has changed to stop it from happening again, instead the republicans have spent 4 years learning from their narrow defeat and making steps to ensure that they win next time.

Great leaders solve fundamental issues with their system, not maintain the failing status quo…

But it’s two turd salads, one has dried grated shit on top and the other is a a soupy liquid mess hardly a salad at all, but that’s what it says on the menu.

I’m not saying it’s a hard choice, I’m saying that either way it’s going to taste like shit…

The MTA lost $690 million due to ALL dodgers, including tolls and railroad fares.

$315 million lost in bus fares

$285 million lost in subway fares

$46 million lost in bridge and tunnel tolls

$44 million lost in railroad fares

source

So yeah, I’m guessing the 104k is the ones they caught, which makes the narrative that the police aren’t unnecessary they are just bad at their jobs…

does it need to be profitable, does police action only matter if it makes money, or is it a cost to service?

this same question can be asked of the MTA itself.

They are spending 150million that is 1442x what they are losing, even if their enforcement is reducing the number of fare jumpers it would take basically everyone jumping the line to make up the difference.

They’d save money just by eating the cost…

I cannot see how this ever economically works out.

Got some more numbers, this meme (surprise) isn’t telling the whole story. I’m still not saying it works out, but it’s not this simple.

Okay so the MTA has a budget of 19billion, of which $6.870 billion comes from fares, in 2022 they lost $285million in subway fares, and the police caught 105,000 people in 2023.

I cannot find where the $104k number is coming from, I assume that’s the total amount owed by those they caught, but if they caught 105k people that’s only a dollar a person so I don’t know if it’s that low or I’m misunderstanding the $104k number.

Again not saying it works out, but I’m not smart enough to do that math…

vote Republican so we can continue to fleece you for all that you’re worth

Oh buddy, I’ve got bad news for you, NYC is democrats all the way down.

Democrats run on being better than republicans, that doesn’t mean they are good…

Right wingers are going to lose their minds over this, but that scares me more than amuses me at the moment.

They will lose their minds over literally anything, they created this whole conspiracy out of thin air and hatred of women.

Someone already got decapitated by their son over MAGA conspiracies this year, so meming about it feels really really reckless to me.

That happened anyway, avoiding making fun of them (by pointing out what they say is nonsense) won’t make their delusions go away.

I get the incumbent effect, but it only goes so far… Much like the “well for all his faults, to any sane person he’s clearly better than his opponent” effect.

I hope the democrats get their shit figured out and have someone they can push, but history shows they are bunglers…

If America can’t withstand the thuggish authoritarian incompetence of what trump promises, then it is only a waiting game to our inevitable fall to fascism.

Burying our heads in the sand an hoping for the best won’t make that inevitable future any less inevitable…

I hope Biden wins, but we’re just swirling the drain, we can make it take longer but we’re falling in that dark hole.

As it should, I’m saying the republicans will not get better, they’ve got a roster of worse already in fact.

That the democrats are so convinced that Biden is the only one from their party who can beat trump, is a terrifying, because I don’t know what charismatic demon the republicans are going to run next, but if Biden is the best they’ve got we’re fucked.

The fact that the American system can’t rid itself of a virus as decrepit and criminal as trump is a warning that whoever replaces him will waltz in without hassle…