Most of the US over the age of 50.
This also happens to be the largest voting bloc in the US. There is a lot of vested interest in controlling what this demographic sees.
Not to say that they don’t care about other age groups, hence why they also focus so much on the algorithm. But it’s simpler to manipulate more voters by just saying the right things on the evening news.
Corporations own the media, not scientists.
“Yeah, we’ll get right on that…” - Meta
Or they change nothing, Bolsonaro wins, and then they get a fat stack of cash from yet another fascist government by way of thanks.
In Maine, the cost to fill a standard heating-oil tank as of Wednesday was $1,650
Just to contextualize this, the average house in Maine will use about 100 gallons (about 379L) of heating oil each month in winter. Older homes will use more. At the current average of $6/gal, you’re looking at paying $20 per day for heat, or $140 per week. And that’s assuming prices don’t continue to get worse as oil reserves are drained.
I am in the camp of “try it anyways”. Worst that can happen is what would happen anyways if you didn’t.
I’m a serial pessimist, so it’s more of a reflex at this point to avoid disappointment, but I still believe in fighting the good fight.
Maybe, but the courts are also stacked in favor of Trump. They can go all the way to the Supreme Court with it, but it’ll end in his favor in a 5-4 split decision.
I’m happy just to see how many impeachment tallies Trump can rack up, because I can’t think of anyone else more deserving of being the most impeached president.
But it’s a useless gesture, because you don’t need just a majority to remove the president from office, you need a supermajority. And that’s just not happening unless Trump manages to piss off the majority of Republicans, too.
The cynic in me says it’s 100% optics. No one would care if he was sharing Nazi ideology or imagery in a private group chat or internal team communication, but when you post it on Facebook for the world to see, that’s when it becomes a potential PR disaster.
Surprised he didn’t get a promotion.
Oh well, someone else will pick him up, or he has a promising career as an ICE agent.
Fetterman isn’t up for election again until 2028. The senate is on rotating 6 year terms, and he was elected in 2022.
Boomer voters total maybe 60 million and only 50% of that group voted for Trump.
Not to be too pessimistic, but the ratio isn’t that far off for Gen Z and Millennials either. The under-30 age bracket in particular shifted further right in 2024 than in previous elections.
Not to mention we shouldn’t be valuing property in terms of monetary value, but rather the utility you get for that value.
Property is worth a shit ton right now, and I get that people like counting the high value of their property as an asset. But say you go to sell that property…you still have to live somewhere afterwards. Any new place you’d be buying or renting would be just as overinflated in terms of cost.
If the housing market were to crash again, you can’t sell your house for as much, but also you wouldn’t need to pay as much to move in somewhere else either. A house losing half its value doesn’t delete half the house, it just makes it more accessible to buyers who don’t already have a house to sell.
I thought this too, but they can’t act as spoilers. Democratic Socialists need to beat Centrists in the primaries. Otherwise you throw more elections to the conservatives.
Only 1.5 million in NYC? Does he live in a shack?
But did the Associated Press consider that today is TACO Tuesday?
WhatsApp is probably the harder Meta app to quit.
I’ve had plenty of people say “But that’s different, it’s E2EE”, but it’s a closed-source black box that almost certainly has a backdoor built in already.
That one is also safe to remove, but that one is a bit older and is apparently just for verifying contacts in E2EE messenger apps. Smells like spyware to me but Google provided no more context in the description than that so I’m not inclined to trust it.
Just be aware that it will likely bring itself back without notice, either in system updates or just pushed by the Play Store.
All part of the plan to Make America Healthy Again, right?
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At least Texas flipped blue in its key races. Texas has always been a stronghold state for Republicans, without which they could never win a presidential election. This just shook that foundation.
Hope people turn out again in 2028.