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Yeah. But it makes several pitstops before hitting my bank account. The government pulling back a grant or funding is different than the government taking $500 from John Q Citizen's account

If only discord had stuck to just voice chat. They are miles better in that arena than other options were at the time. I just hate how it also replaced forums. And issue trackers. And some people try to run wikis and image boorus and everything else under the sun as a discord server

Same. They also don't allow password managers and I have multiple systems that don't use my main password, so I have at least 5-6 work passwords for different systems.

Nobody can remember all that.

So everyone makes the simplest password they can (since it has to be regularly typed in) and writes it down somewhere so they don't forget it.

I also like the noise, though it can be surprisingly difficult to find a noisy fan. So many advertise how quiet they are, which is the opposite of what I want.

Quiet yes. They've gone quiet several times before. But it never results in different actions. They don't change, they only ever become more circumspect.

It's how Democrats deluded ourselves that things were turning around and then were so surprised to lose everything. All of the words in the world aren't going to affect any real change.

I honestly don't think there's anything anyone can do to reach these people. I think something is deeply broken in a huge majority of Americans. Either they're voting for this or they're too checked out, self absorbed or hopeless to bother to do anything to try to fix it. 2024 revealed just how broken we are.

Should be yes, but the human is only interested in getting passed the prompt, not with accuracy so it's no. Which I'm pretty sure fucks with their AI training, but who cares.

I also think that, after getting up to speed, they'd fight pretty hard against measures that are meant to backslide us to that point again.

I mean the part that no one really wants to confront is that there is no alternative with a viable chance. The blue moderate has been suffocating all other options for ages and now that it's come to this, there's nothing waiting in the wings to rely on.

If only that were true. That is at least a rational response that can be worked around.

But COVID told us just how many conservatives will laugh on their death bed if they've been convinced that what's happening to them 'owns the libs'.

It's a cult and so reality is whatever the cult leaders say it is, even if that reality is harming them directly.

I'm struggling to believe these articles are anything but pandering to the left. I struggle to believe there's any significant number of conservatives actually having real second thoughts.

I mean during COVID you had conservatives literally claiming COVID was no big deal as they died. I think that was when I understood just how far gone these people could be. They will happily drink the Kool aid no matter the personal cost to themselves.

So losing their jobs is questionable as to whether or not it's going to actually result in a different mindset, rather than some fleeting complaints that are forgotten by the next election cycle.

A lot of our current issues make a lot more sense once you learn the more accurate history of how we were founded.