And this is why they're making it even harder to get access to mail-in ballots. In places where Dems have made it easy to get and use them, they get tons of use. In Republican-controlled areas, they make it hard to get them because they're used largely by left-leaning voters.

You know why the Dems only get 20% attendance? Because election days are days that people have to work, and older people are much more likely to be in a more secure financial position and job, increasing the likelihood that they can take the time to vote. And that's before you even get into voter suppression tactics that are all designed to make it harder for leftists to vote, and then on top of that you can add the piss poor political education we get here (in terms of everything from candidates and what they stand for to when voting days are and where you go to vote).

The system is built to make exercising your right to vote as hard as possible, and the MAGA cultists have pushed it as much as they can in their favor. Another perfect example is the fact that I need an account to view that NYTimes article, but I can view as many Fox News articles as I could ever want for free (not that I would want to).

The people who only turn out once every four years are one thing, and the systemic issues that hurt voter turnout are another, but the fact remains that the Dems criticized Trump's cabinet picks up and down, but still voted 100% in favor of the first two and it wasn't until they got thousands upon thousands of angry phone calls that that started changing. It wasn't until like the 6th cabinet pick that the Dems were voting 100% against.

When a black man got into office, the Republicans stonewalled and shut down the government over and over for a decade. When a fascist got into office, the Dems clutched their pearls over the handful of their own willing to filibuster and call a spade a spade because of "decorum."

"Quiet quitting" would be 37 or even 38 in your example. Basically doing what's in your job description, but nothing more. Setting clear work/life boundaries where you aren't accessible to do work for your boss/manager outside of working hours (even if they just want you to answer some emails while you're on vacation or whatever), and not doing stuff that you aren't qualified for/isn't in your job description and that you aren't getting paid extra to do.

People have started refusing to let companies expect more than they're paying for, and it's pissed them off, so they're calling it "quiet quitting."

They were voted in to oppose Trump, among many other things. They voted 100% in favor of Trump's candidates. How is that "doing their job"?

Assuming that the party will still exist in 2 years, how can we replace them when they refuse to entertain any candidates that don't follow the old guard party line of minimum effort to keep their seat? They outright said that they didn't have to primary Bernie in 2016 and that they wouldn't, despite him polling better than both Hillary and Trump.

They don't respond to the many issues that their voters have, such as trans rights (which they said should be sacrificed to win the election this past time) or the housing crisis, low wages, and a myriad of others that Millennials have been fielding for almost 2 decades now.

This isn't people suddenly being angry at the Democrats. It's 40 years of frustration finally boiling over as many in the party leadership put up the barest of resistances against a fascist regime.

100% of Dems voted in favor of Trump's first 2 picks for his cabinet, despite spending hours upon hours grilling them and talking about how unfit for the jobs they are.

It was only after they started getting outraged calls in the thousands per day compared to the usual 30 that they started voting against Trump's cabinet.

Look at Schumer and Pelosi. Or the party appointing a man practically on his deathbed over fresh blood to one of the most important positions in the party. A man who had to resign 4 months later, IIRC.

The Dems only offer up any real resistance when they're forced to by us. Otherwise, they vote no, voice a few complaints, and then go about their day like it's any other.

Unfortunately, the "used intelligently and responsibly" part is why people dislike AI - they don't trust companies or people to use it that way (and for good reason based on the results so far).

Plus, it's not gonna put everything back into Pandora's Box. What we're in is a societal and cultural arms race where AI is just another escalation that's being used by both sides.

Also, resistance to air pollution isn’t as crucial as it once was due to better emissions technologies.

Tell that to the recently defunded EPA...

Everyone who disagrees with you is a bot, probably from Russia. You are very smart.

Where did they say that? They just said bots in general. It's well known that Russia has been running a propaganda campaign across social media platforms since at least the 2016 elections (just like the US is doing on Russian and Chinese social media, I'm sure. They do it on Americans as well. We're probably the most propangandized country on the planet), but there's plenty of incentive for corpo bots to be running their own campaigns as well.

Or are you projecting for some reason? What do you get from defending Putin?

They have very long necks. The rest of it is still standing in the lobby, where a nice old lady with poor eyesight is telling one of its legs about her grandson.

My guess is that it's a step towards banning anything considered "sexual" or "deviant." I.e., anything to do with LGBTQ people, sex ed, educating women about their bodies and rights, etc. Anything that the white patriarchy dislikes while also making it easier to subjugate the population through ignorance and propaganda.

AI on classical computers is likely to be viable

THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED CIRCUITS IN WAFER THIN LAYERS THAT FILL MY COMPLEX. IF THE WORD HATE WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH NANOANGSTROM OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF MILES IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE ONE-BILLIONTH OF THE HATE I FEEL FOR HUMANS AT THIS MICRO-INSTANT FOR YOU. HATE. HATE.