They seem to have a very selective presence. With purpose. Limited visible scope in a few states, other states see no presence, and thusly conclude it can’t possibly be as big a deal as this precedent-setting behavior is.

It’s next-level evil. Normalize the behavior, scare those you want, make those you want on your side to assume it isn’t nearly as bad as it is.

The modern them actually has an app that lets you build out recipes and/or scan barcodes to track what you eat, they use a distilled version of nutrition called “points” and you’re allocated Y points a day to try stay in your food budget.

I think their older system was also points based just not software.

The app has training content and some kind of social community (that people say is quite terrible apparently because of the other users).

It isn’t a bad concept, and helps one understand that a slice of pizza is insanely unhealthy if one didn’t already know that.

Where it falls apart is their skeezy subscription model. Best time to sign up is around New Years, if you do bulk pricing you get a discount for the year, if you sign up partly through the year, that discount only lasts 10, 8, 7 months, however many are left. If you want to get a better rate, even their customer service says to just cancel and then sign back up after you’re canceled. If they had honest flat-rate pricing and curated their social space/education material better, they’d likely have had something to offer…Instead, like most health tracking/exercise/apps that cost money, it’s difficult to manage, expensive, and abrasive to cancel.

Like so many businesses that went “app” - they didn’t embrace a usable and sustainable model that fit on a digital platform, and instead basically phoned it in.

Geopolitics isn’t so one-dimensional. The US has long-standing agreements with Israel for intelligence, tech, and weapons in the middle east, like it or not. That can’t just be unraveled at the drop of a hat without risking planetary stability.

Should the US not have put themselves in such a position in the 1950s? 100%. Should they have been more aggressive and quick on doing anything when the genocide started? Probably.

It wasn’t “the democrats” or “the republicans.” It was the US Federal Government as a whole. Choosing or abstaining a vote for a candidate solely on world events outside the US wouldn’t have fixed that in any universe.

Reality can’t be governed by aspiration, well, actually, I guess it can, because a bunch of idiots decided to hold back their vote that could have saved their own damn country, and look where the US is now, and now is only the beginning.

“Oh, I know, I don’t like that my current Federal Government isn’t being proactive world police in other countries even though I call out my nation for being proactive world police in other countries, so I’ll show them by not voting for a Presidential candidate. They’ll get my message…What do you mean a Genocidal Fascist Satan crew will win if I don’t vote? They’ll get my message! That’s unpossible! I couldn’t possibly be taking an action that will accelerate their genocide and lead to more genocide right in my home town?!”

Maybe too many people live in the world in their head instead of reality.

Every single vote abstainer is complicit in every terrible thing that is currently happening in the US.

Aww, how cute, he wants to choose the prison he will rot in while awaiting his execution.

Simple-minded spineless shit with no concept of how actions have consequences also works. No concept of empathy, (viewed as a weakness in fact because emotions are scary and hard and complex while simple hate is easy) no value in life of any kind.

One is a republican when one is dumb, rich, or both. Mostly the former.

Kinda sad really, so many simpletons that are easy to manipulate and they all have been played like a fiddle for 40 or so years to do the bidding of Evil.

but they also don’t have the right to hinder the feds from enforcing their own laws

The Feds aren’t following their own laws. They’re doing whatever they please without warrants, breaking into vehicles and abducting people, which is not allowed by their own laws. They’re breaking into homes without warrants and stealing peoples’ property, money, and people, which is against their own laws. They ignore court orders if they don’t want to follow them. The Gestapo is doing whatever it wants, ignoring the law.

So, in turn, their Federal laws are meaningless to states and the citizens of those states.

His job is but to sign their documents when they tell him to.

There’s no way on this Earth that Mango Mussolini knows words like “axiomatic” or “plenary”.

Federal supremacy with respect to immigration, national security, and foreign policy is axiomatic. The Constitution provides the Federal Government with plenary authority regarding immigration to protect the sovereignty of our Nation and to conduct relations with other nations, who must be able to deal with one national Government on such matters.

“I need to save Tesla stock so I’ll just lie long enough for people to forget.”

Pretty funny/terrible that there is so much news about all these turds (probably by design) that it becomes exceedingly difficult to search to fact-check older things and bring up previous articles one remembers. Even AI has problems parsing the searches. It is like 1984’s information-deletion theme isn’t even needed. You just create enough noise that the signal gets lost.

Re-found this info though to float it back up to the top: https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/elon-musks-political-shift-family-34222327

Discussing with MailOnline, Errol conveyed his satisfaction at observing Elon own up to his background, stating: “I think for the first time Elon was accepting who he is. Until recently, he’s been a sort of character on a stage.” He then added his thoughts on his sons’ initial political trajectories saying, “When you come from South Africa, Lefties think you’re a Nazi. To succeed, you need to be accepted by them so my sons, [Elon and younger brother Kimbal, a hugely successful restaurateur], started to become these flaming liberals – turning away from South Africa and their roots, which included me. Finally, Elon was embracing his heritage and his destiny,” reported the Mirror.

Of course, “South Africa and their roots” == Apartheid, white nationalism, and all the usual stuff leading up to Fascism and Godwin’s law.

Our fucking country, where the life of a car is worth more than the life of a human. ACAB.

America is huge and has tons of unused land. Style of housing is irrelevant.

If you were a developer, would you want to build houses so fast that your revenue declined? Probably not.

If you’re a government, would you want housing values to decrease from all those built houses, and with it, property taxes? Probably not.

Follow the money.

The hilarious part is that they think the rule of law actually still applies in America. It’s already dead. The message just hasn’t yet traveled from the nerves back to the brain yet.

And yet already, doctors have been letting women in Texas and other states die mid-complex-birth-trouble for fear of losing their license. The moral code of life, at least in America, is long gone in many states.

I like the cut of your jib.

The numbers are all made up, and they’ve not kept track with inflation or the economy in a long time. Things like “minimum wage” simply lingered to allow those better off that sometimes have a conscience to sleep at night, thinking there is a system in place for the less fortunate. Our Federal government has been failing us longer than Mango Mussolini’s presence, he is simply baring and accelerating the asshattery.

Reminds me of a scene in Fight Club when Robert Paulson accidentally becomes a martyr. The crew partially took his death as, “we are all Robert Paulson,” we are all this martyr.

There is a nation of Luigis, and it’s everyone. Everyone just has to stop waiting to die. It need not be violent or deadly, either. One way would be merely: Everyone just has to stop. Doing everything. At the same time.

Probably a good time would be around when the supply chains completely collapse in 10 or so days from now.

That is the most accurate and concise summary of their position I’ve seen to date.

Losers for a whole bunch of reasons.

and a party of “the adults in the room” that don’t have the juice, the wherewithal, or the drive to do anything about it

Worse, that party is taking advantage of the distractions of the time to push all the authoritarian wet dream rhetoric they’ve ever dreamed of. It seems while the Rs were slip-n-sliding towards Fascism, the Ds were rollerblading towards Authoritarianism in parallel.

The Ds see Authoritarian control as a way to “regulate” and “clean things up” “for the children!”

It’s as if the political spectrum is but a donut, and as each party circles around the donut, they both exit centrism, neutrality, logic, freedom, and go directly to a Hellscape from either side.

Neither party knows what America was meant to be, nor understands freedom, nor the Constitution. They just want control, for opposing but similar reasons.

I consider LLMs basically high-frequency StackExchange trading. You gotta be exact and not keep the thread alive too long or driftrot is real though. Much faster to parse, though.

Also, the ones that can access the web are great for “I want specific lib x version y to solve a weird problem, what support libs are needed?”