What does it express?

The AI one looks neat, but it lacks expression.

She’s 31 years old.

Hate ages you.

DocToPdf Disrespect was quietly banned from twitch, and then responded to allegations that he was sexting minors with “age of consent varies between states, what I did wasn’t even illegal and what even is sexting? This is just haters trying to ruin my day”

No, there were contemporaries who were calling out the hypocrisy of owning slaves while talking about freedom. It was perceived as horrible back then too.

He has never given any indication that he did it for moral reasons

Yes, hence why I referred to it as a stopped-clock moment, as in “a stopped clock is right twice a day”.

I am not accusing Donald Trump of having any moral integrity.

it bothers me less when the draft dodgers don’t openly mock service members and POWs.

Nah, John “I hate the [slur for asians], I will hate them as long as I live.” Mccaine was a ghoul who is rotting in hell, everyone should be mocking him.

On one hand, getting shot down stopped him from murdering more Vietnamese people, on the other hand, if Jane Fonda hadn’t shot him down, he’d have probably kept crashing planes.

Draft dodging in a conflict where we were the bad guys is the moral decision though.

I don’t understand why people bring up his stopped clock moments as a gotcha.

it sounds like you’re enjoying the best coffee in your city

Nah, the roasts aren’t very consistent so most of the time it’s kinda mid. Sometimes it’s so good it demands 3 more shots.

I buy 20 lb bags of green for 80-120 once a year or so, roast a batch once a week or so in a modified popcorn maker, and make espresso, pour over, or french press depending on how it turns out.

I probably don’t save any money when you calculate power, and even if I did, it would take a decade to pay for the grinder/espresso machine.

Are there single-issue tiktok voters? Probably not. But democrats doing a thing that we all agreed was dumb under Trump does contribute to the sense that the democrats do not represent them, which decreases voter turnout.

Similar to Biden escalating the trade war against China; there’s probably not “buy a chinese EV” single-issue voters, but making EVs unaffordable to the vast majority of Americans decreases voter turnout among people who didn’t want a trade war with China.

Every time the democrats try to out-flank the republicans from the right, they’re effectively campaigning for the republicans.

Oh yeah, it is location based, when I first started they kept trying to give me local, South Carolinian right-wing “comedy”.

It was the cringiest shit I have ever seen in my life, and as a furry, that is not a low bar.

I mean kind of but not really? Most of my algo isn’t identifyably political, but the bit that is, is all left of liberal.

Watch time is a type of interaction.

It demotivates potential Democratic voters by reminding them that their party did the thing everyone was clowning on Trump for trying to do.

For all his faults, Trump is better at reading the room than the democrats. When there’s an issue he doesn’t know shit about (this is most things), he’ll just say what the people in front of him want to hear, whereas the democrats have no problem saying and doing things that are incredibly unpopular among their base.

I am looking forward to the day the only thing people write about Trump is that he’s still alive in Argentina

The most on brand would be him flying a plane full of gold bullion to Cuba to avoid going to prison.

Like the Liz Cheney endorsement, I feel like Harris’s campaign should ask them not to. There’s not a big contingent of pro-CEO voters, and that contingent is probably going to vote republican anyway, but there’s a lot who sense their interests are diametrically opposed to the CEOs who’ve spent billions lobbying congress.

Tiktok shows you stuff you interact with, you’ve trained the algo to show you right-wing misinformation.

That’s just basic political instincts. Dems implement an unpopular policy? Say you’ll reverse it.

I can’t understand how the democrats thought it was a good idea to ban Tiktok on an election year.

Korea

The Korean War included the greatest retreat in US history, which was only stopped because we were fighting an enemy with barely any industrial capacity to resupply troops, or even supply them with enough radios, and we failed to achieve the objective of a unified Korea (letalone the bloodthirsty moron MacArthur’s objective of invading China and becoming the “ceasar of the east”).

Kosovo, Yugoslavia

We bombed a bunch of civilians, showed the world that our B2 stealth bomber could be shot down by 30 year old, man-portable AA. I’m still unsure what strategic use bombing embassies and apartments was.

Greek civil war, Afghanistan Russian war, Arabian Israel wars

America didn’t didn’t directly fight any of those.

the war of 1812

We lost that one, our objective was to take Spanish America, and we failed that. They also burned the whitehouse.

WWI, WWII, Spanish American war

Those the US did manage to achieve some of it’s objectives, but WWII was 80 years ago.

American civil war, and the American revolution

Those were primarily against other Americans.

If successful means achieving none of your strategic objectives, but wasting trillions killing a whole bunch of civilians, sure.

What is the count of those vs. the number of surrendered Russians being treated well?

There is no credible data.

Which one is more likely to be in the news?

Neither, I live in America, the news only intentionally covers Russian war crimes. I say intentionally, since I remember a CNN segment near the start of the invasion where armed Ukrainian soldiers jumped out of an ambulance in the background.

The opposite would probably be true if I lived in Russia.

Which one is more likely to be spread around by Russian bots?

I assume it’s not Russian bots posting Ukrainian drone footage to the combat footage sub.

Which will be more likely to be suppressed?

Well I haven’t seen any news covering Ukrainian war crimes and I’ve seen plenty of news covering Russian war crimes, and I know it’s not because Ukraine isn’t doing any war crimes.

The reverse would probably be true for someone living in Russia.