Old white men don't have a monopoly on shittiness. Broken people with little to no empathy or self awareness wear all different skin colors, and it is a problem we have collectively neglected for .... like since civilization.

Some folks enjoy competition. I suspect the people who are more likely to be competitive with their hobby enjoyment are that way—otherwise I think they would just slow down and enjoy the activity in its own right.

Do you perhaps struggle with that inclination?

Well I know who I'm never voting for!

I don't know that they will never not vote Republican. There's a reason they vote against their well-being, and it is my experience that it often comes from systemic indoctrination.

Anyway, believing my fellow citizens can't change their minds is a dead end to me. I just have to believe in them.

I'm surprised I don't see that kind of thing more often. Maybe because people don't want to share their approximate localities online.

That sounds awful. I'm glad you weren't actually on a perpetually crashing plane.

Most Republicans I've spoken with just lack media literacy. They were easy to trick, and too trusting of their own biases.

I know they are frustrating, but they are people, and their minds can be changed—if they feel their concerns are understood, and that our solutions will really help them.

There is more & more research showing that using an LLM to write code (or anything, really) for you makes YOU worse at doing that thing in the first place. That's bad when YOU are the one who's supposed to be vetting the output. I thereby do not use LLMs to aid my software dev.

It's hard not to forget we aren't alone in our anger and despair at what's transpiring in our country.

Thank you for the reminder.

Throw enough shit at all wall and pray something will stick.

Except this time they're protecting a worldwide ring of child sex predators, rather than covering up some controversial operation.

Badass.

We are evolving.

Genius.

I don't think that has to be true, but I understand that's often the case due to cost. Can't have a train station going to everyone's house.

I think it would be better even if ONLY rural folks were the ones driving gas/diesel cars. There's so many more urbanites than rural folk.

What do you think?

Yes, I see that perspective, and agree quite a bit. It's just that in our current reality in American Capitalism, we HAVE to use our dollar as a voting tool—and A LOT of us don't. Case in point, Amazon still has a shitload of customers, even if they're INCREDIBLY exploitative.