Absolutely cannot concentrate on anything for more than 10 seconds right now.

@darius And, personally, I see things like “all men do this” every day and have learned that they’re not talking about me, unless they are, and then I need to have a talk with myself about that.

If you made a generalization about people with goats, I’d probably just be excited to learn that you’d gotten goats.

Anyway. Not the point. But if you do wanna visit some goats, you know you’re invited.

@darius I’m honored and/or sorry for providing the last straw. It genuinely wasn’t intended.

FWIW, the post came from seeing yet another awful thing Trump did (calling for shooting journalists outright) and once again wondering if it, or anything, matters anymore.

@darius Well, it wasn’t directed at you, and honestly, this feels like a hit dog hollering.

I don’t think the Democrats are evil. And I don’t blame Harris for actions of the administration because I know the VP’s only job is to have a heartbeat. If Gaza is the issue, she is still clearly the better choice as she’s not Bibi’s buddy who has told him to “finish the job.”

I will be side by side with you in calling for the US to do everything it can to end the war, as Harris has already called for.

@darius You felt scolded by my post?

This really is the “does anything fucking matter?” election. One candidate is an escaped dementia patient with a Hitler fetish and the other is a moderate Democrat with a nice smile.

Does anything fucking matter? Vote like it does and maybe it will.

I’m telling you, it’s not gonna be close. We are collectively done with that man.

We. Are going. To fucking WIN.
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/iowa-poll/2024/11/02/iowa-poll-kamala-harris-leads-donald-trump-2024-presidential-race/75354033007/

@octothorpe I guess when you’re in charge of the software, setting up a nearly impossible software goal is good workplace security because you’ll be working on it forever.

@octothorpe they have forgotten everything that’s great about being a human with other humans

Here's what the techbros fail to understand: the joy of driving is in the physicality of it. The control. Touch and feedback is key to that feeling of power and independence.

The idealized scenario of handing your decision making ability over to a car AI is exactly the opposite of what most people who drive trucks want.

It's WILD to me that he doesn't know this.

I really love Rivian's hardware design, but their digital design is why I'll never own one. (Also the fact that I could buy two Tacomas for the price of a R1T.)

"Software is eating the world" didn't seem like a threat at the time, but it sure does now.

“Ideally, you would want to interact with your car through voice,” says Rivian’s chief software officer and someone who I'd never want to be in a car with.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/30/rivians-chief-software-officer-says-in-car-buttons-are-an-anomaly/

@octothorpe Our momma goats are SO interested in them.

The neighbor's naughty goat kids keep escaping and finding their way to our fence and I love it.

@jalefkowit Cool. Maybe he could get off Twitter next.

“Embarrassingly enough, I like this country. But everything good about it has been the product of centuries of people who had no reason to hope for better but chose to believe that better things were possible, clawing their way uphill — protesting, marching, voting, and, yes, doing the work of journalism — to build this fragile thing called democracy.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/10/26/washington-post-endorses-kamala-harris-satire/

When in doubt, the candidate that praises Hitler is the fascist. The one who wants to make sure everyone has healthcare is not.

If you can't see the difference in this election, if you really think they're both the same, you're the victim of Russian propaganda, or an idiot, or both.

Either way, keep it to yourself. I block fascists. Because they're too far away to punch.

"Fascist" is a scary word, but it has easily identifiable characteristics. They include things like: obsession with strength and power, nationalism, disdain for human rights, scapegoating of immigrants, sexism, hatred of the media, obsession with borders, and protection of corporate power. Trump meets every criteria. Harris does not.
https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/fasci14chars.html