Look at the membership of the “progressive caucus”, it’s not like they have to actually support progressive policies to use the label when they feel it’ll help themselves.

I can understand being burned out if something is overplayed, but I would question your sanity if you find a good performance of Canzonetta sull’aria to be boring.

There has always been bullshit that was popular, but at the same time there were pop artists who made wonderful, interesting music.

I don’t think many people are arguing it is impossible for a computer to produce “music” that sounds good

I suspect that the poster above you doesn’t find AI music to sound good and I don’t either. I feel that such a large number of people gravitating to the bland generic sonic droll is indeed an indictment of society. Especially of not valuing music education enough.

Right? Why not just let the user position it where they want it? This seems like it can only be nefarious.

They didn’t give anything. Complete absence of things. Null. Zero. It’s especially deranged to think they possessed an entire country to give. It’s literally impossible to give what you don’t have, and claiming otherwise is serious mental gymnastics.

BTW I didn’t vote for him and my state has sent its electoral votes to Dems from current day contiguously back longer than any other state. So assuming who I support is another ignorant statement.

10 million “progressives”

Didn’t give anything to trump. You’re either assuming Harris was entitled to something she never received, or do you actually think Dementia Don convinced a lot of voters to cross the spectrum?

It’d be nice to also see some midterm primary challenges to incumbent neolibs.

Irrelevant - the title and graphic says “developers”.

Really? Has Valve abused their position to specifically further entrench their monopoly or other anti-consumer behavior?

There was a time I would have agreed with that comparison but Google has sucked for a while.

Email has been a decentralized federated system from the start, though I’m not aware of any community I’d trust to be a more privacy-respecting host than the available commercial offerings.

Our legal entity is in Sweden, where the law does not allow for any government to force us to spy on our users.

You’ll agree that Proton doing better would require them to move to a different country, right?

Also Mullvad doesn’t offer email accounts, does it? Seems that they couldn’t have a ‘no user data’ policy if they did since the emails would be exactly that.

You don’t have only those two choices. Be brave and support non-fire even if a majority isn’t yet. Be part of the solution and don’t believe the lies that better options aren’t real.

the LNT model isn’t actually used there at all.

But it is in use at plants in the US as it’s built in right from planning before construction even begins, because LNT has thoroughly influenced legal and regulatory requirements.

It’s less-lethal, not nonlethal. Even blanks can be deadly. A gun should only be pointed at something you’re willing to destroy.

Cops are not held to as high of standards as everyone else. This should not come as a great revelation.

If you go through a defensive carry class you’d almost certainly be discouraged from doing that by the instructor for multiple reasons:

First is that all ammo can be lethal, even blanks. So if you’re not willing to kill to protect your own life, that may cause it anyway. On the flip side, a prosecutor will argue that if lethal ammunition wasn’t required, then use of a gun wasn’t necessary and you’ve not only broken firearm discharge laws (in place where most people live), but are also guilty of assault with a weapon with intent to kill or maim.

Firing a gun in self-defense is only warranted if nonlethal means are insufficient. If you try using less-lethal ammo and it doesn’t stop your attacker, you’re killed or seriously injured. If you try using less-lethal ammo and it does stop your attacker, you’re still screwed by the legal system (possibly except under some “stand your ground” laws).

Because you shouldn’t use a gun unless deadly force is warranted.

Firstly, you should say please when you’re asking for something.

The claim was made as if they know exactly the materials the thugs’ gaiters are made of. Unless they are an insider of that group, it’s way too presumptuous.

Common natural or synthetic fabrics aren’t as effective at blocking modern facial recognition as anyone might assume.

Here’s a couple examples of someone putting in a bit of effort to actually test both common and purpose-built products against facial recognition.

By listing a schedule starting at one time, but expecting the actual start to be earlier they’re communicating an inaccurate schedule.

Could you imagine prescribing one dose but expecting another? Billing one amount but expecting a premium on top of that?

But of course if they didn’t have guns everything would be fine.