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  • It's called facing reality and dealing with it, which isn't nearly as much fun as mindlessly bashing oversimplified interpretations of click-bait headlines. Sure, it's nice to play the game online where you pick one issue and ignore all the other issues no matter how important they are, but in the real world you have to do the best you can do. The consequences of vetoing the bill would be huge, while one of the articles posted elsewhere in the comments here[1] talks about the number of children who could be affected and that there are very few circumstances where the provision in the bill would have an impact (e.g. it only disallows treatments that would result in sterilization, which doesn't include puberty blockers, etc.). But you're obviously not interested in seriously considering the details and practicalities of the real world situation, just enjoying railing against Biden, so have fun with that.

    [1] edit to repost that link: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/12/senate-passes-military-bill-with-provision-restricting-trans-healthcare/

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  • Tell us you have no idea how the government works without telling us you have no idea how the government works.

  • Texas Republican proposes public executions of undocumented immigrants

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  • I wonder what would happen to someone who did a video like that except with a dummy of a CEO? I suspect the reaction would be huge amounts of screaming, condemnation, and an arrest for promoting terrorism. But this video? it's juuuust fine. Nothing will happen to her, probably not even having her video taken down.

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  • No, not enough time to send it back and the R's knew exactly what they were doing here.

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  • God when will people stop falling for this crap, this is exactly the culture war repubs are waging. Half of them don't even give a crap about shitting on LGBTQ+, what they care about is shitting on the Dems so R's can stay in power. They put the poison pill in a bill that Biden has no choice but to sign, JUST TO GET HEADLINES LIKE THIS, so that progressives will blame Biden and the democrats instead of the magats. And you fall for it every time. Sure, sometimes you also blame the R's for actually doing the bad things, but you always blame democrats when they aren't able to stop R's from doing the bad things. You all might hate the military but we kind of need one and if we just shut it down we're leaving ourselves vulnerable. What you are doing by blaming Biden for this is like saying yeah what the rapist did was wrong but she didn't fight him off hard enough, she must have wanted it. smh

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  • I just call him "Schmuck".

  • 'Y'all are so f**king unserious': Americans blast Congress for prioritizing bill to make bald eagle the national bird

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  • It was hunting (considered pests) and DDT (pesticide that made the eggshells break too easily) that made eagles almost go extinct.

  • How Americans responded in 1955 when the invention of the polio vaccine was announced

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  • Mitch as the Repub leader could have prevented all of this, by voting and allowing other R senators to vote to convict in either the first impeachment or the second impeachment, which would have prevented Trump from being able to run again (and the trials against him would likely have been carried out by now). McConnell bears a huge amount of responsibility for where we are right now.

  • How Americans responded in 1955 when the invention of the polio vaccine was announced

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  • The most important thing is that Vance wouldn't have the hold over the whole party to be able to make them bow to his every whim like Trump does. Yes, they would still try to get project 2025 implemented, but they'd be less likely to be able to keep enough of their party in line to do it.

  • How Americans responded in 1955 when the invention of the polio vaccine was announced

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  • I used to think one of the biggest reasons there’s so many antivaxx people is that, because they’re so effective, people no longer have the fear of seeing their children in an iron lung, struggling to breathe.

    Yes, I think that's absolutely right. The antivaxxers are people who didn't experience what it was like before vaccines.

    Then Covid respirators happened and antivaxx fucks somehow got worse

    I think part of it is that the effects of Covid were hidden from the public. The hospitals didn't let anyone in to see the rows of beds with people on respirators, so the public didn't see that on the news. They showed the refrigerated trucks but not the bodies in the trucks. So in the "pics or it didn't happen" timeline we're in, people didn't believe it was that bad. Even the aftereffects of long covid are barely recognized or mentioned. The whole thing has been bizarre.

    In olden times, everyone saw the dead bodies openly carried off on carts, or saw piles of them buried in mass graves. Their relatives died right there in front of them, not hidden away in a hospital where they themselves weren't allowed to enter. Before, everyone directly experienced the crisis and suffering it caused. This time, the ugly reality was hidden from most of us other than the direct caregivers.

    Side note: during the Vietnam war, reporters and camera crews were there and it was all shown on TV, the bodies, the wounded, the chaos. But the powers that be learned lessons from the horrified reaction of the public: do not show your failures on TV; keep your population in the dark. And we never saw our war casualties on TV again. Cameras were there, but we were shown nothing but scripted "reality TV", if anything at all.

    They followed the same script with Covid. This is supposed to be the information age but we're more in the dark than ever. Real information is either not provided or is buried in misinformation. Remember the Florida whistleblower who leaked how the State was skewing their covid statistics and was quickly arrested and smeared?

  • How Americans responded in 1955 when the invention of the polio vaccine was announced

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  • (edit: I think I misunderstood your comment so deleting my comment which wouldn't have made sense)

  • Senior Democrat Gerry Connolly beats out AOC in key vote for top party post on Oversight panel

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  • dammit

  • Nancy Pelosi, 84, Fractures Hip Abroad After a ‘Hard Fall’

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  • Look at those shoes she's wearing. As a woman, I wish women would stop capitulating to society's/fashion's demand to wear shoes like this, that are made to cripple your ability to keep a sure footing, let alone run, and absolutely ruin your feet over time. Of course if you don't do it you're (gasp) not "fashionable", but that's only because these are the options you have to choose from unless you buy your own shoe factory or something.

    I could go on a longer rant about it but I'll stop there. But when you wear shoes like that at 84 it's only a matter of time. Going down a marble staircase in them? very bad idea.

  • Technology Connections' thoughts on Mastodon

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  • Kind of a combination maybe? Since Mastodon lets you find new people with similar interests by browsing what's on your local timeline or hashtags of interest, and you can still follow people of interest without any chatting. I don't know much about chat apps but don't you have to already know the people beforehand, or come across them via a mutual acquaintance or invite to a chat room?

    Of course, Mastodon can be and is used for broadcast/consume interactions, but not as much, since most broadcasters want a huge audience with little interaction, which means a big platform, while the ones on Mastodon are probably looking for a bit more interactive experience with a smaller audience.

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    Anyone else prefer a small home over a big one?

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  • Reading comments, it's really something that people think >=1800 sq. ft is small! Probably because they haven't really built houses smaller than that for at least the last 30 years, with very few exceptions. I currently live in a post-WWII 2BR, 840 sq ft house, which to me feels plenty big enough for a single or couple, but back when it was built, <1000 sq ft. was the size most people raised their families in . When I was a kid more like 3BR 1200 sq. ft. houses were the typical size.

    I wish they'd build more smaller houses like this instead of only large >2500 sq.ft. or McMansions. More houses would fit in the same area and they'd be more affordable, to buy, take care of, and pay property tax on. Even before housing soared to total unaffordabilty, all newer houses were huge and out of reach for normal people. It feels like every aspect of our society from housing, transportation, clothing, any kind of shopping, everything! just gets more and more impractical and ridiculous. Who is making these crazy decisions? Not regular people. I know it's stereotypical that when you get older you think things are getting worse, but they are getting worse, dammit!

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  • Technology Connections' thoughts on Mastodon

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  • Mastodon is more for people who like to have interactions or conversations back and forth with other people, while the big platforms are for influencers/broadcasters and consumers/viewers-- any back and forth interactions there are more between commenters than with the influencer/broadcaster. Of course there is some overlap and exceptions to that characterization, but that's how it generally seems to me.

    So IMO it's not a competition, there's plenty of room for both types of SM. Depending on a person's preference they may use just Masto, just big SM, or use both, each for different reasons. The problem is when people expect Mastodon to be just like xitter/bsky/threads and get upset that it isn't. Relax and use whichever platform(s) you like.

  • Pete Hegseth Vows To Stay Sober If Confirmed As Secretary Of Defense

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  • "Pete Hegseth vows to stay sober this time if you just give him one more chance."

  • Trump 'mass deportation' plan could impact 5% of Florida's population

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  • You're making the assumption of one person per apartment and one deportation = 1 vacant apartment which is highly unlikely. Probably a whole family in the apt. so it may not even be vacated at all if one member is deported. Even if the whole family is deported that's only like 1 vacant apartment per at least 4-5 or more deportations. So yes, more housing will become available but not as much as you are estimating. IMO the effects will be felt much more in the labor shortage than in housing surplus.

  • Text of the Email That Pete Hegseth’s Mother Sent Him

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  • This is the letter of reference Hegseth presented to Trump to clinch the job.