More data for the algorithm then.
realitista
joined 1 year ago
I vote in a solidly blue state, so for about 20 years before the last election, I voted 3rd party generally as a protest to the platforms of the 2 parties, especially the drug war, mass incarceration, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and climate change.
Over time I think we've made considerable progress on these issues, and though we aren't 100% where I want to be, I have no problem voting Biden in this and last election to show solidarity against Trump.
Even though I really disliked Biden last election I still voted against Trump and after seeing what he accomplished in his first term, which is probably more than any Democrat in my lifetime, I have no qualms about voting for him again. Obviously I don't like his position on Israel, but it's the same of every D in my lifetime, and when the alternative is a fascist USA which will likely lead to the loss of Europe also to fascism, I have to suck it up.
But to answer your question, yes I always consider the candidates. I have even registered R before to vote in their primary because I felt it meant more than voting in the D primary.
People who like Tump, by nature, must be easily hypnotized by word salad because there's no other justification for his existence as a political candidate. I've never heard a coherent chain of sentences come out of the man's mouth.
I'm pretty sure the similar exists in other places too. You could host it in AWS in China or Bahrain and save yourself a bunch of risk.
Why in the world would you do this in the US?
This is one area where I am vehemently in support of IP protection for all the writers and artists' works being used. Unfortunately, unlike when it comes to suing individuals who copy something, the wholesale theft of generations of art and writing by AI companies is just being let slide.
I guess my issues with stuff like the tardigrade, time bug, spore drive, etc. is that it's just taking something from earth and putting it in space and saying it's the "space version". It's so lazy and stupid. At least TOS usually had some interesting reasoning behind why these things were happening or they were different enough from anything on earth that at least they felt novel and innovative.
That's kind of exactly what I don't like about it and part of why I call it a "space marines" series. Gene's vision is of a future where different life forms come together and work under a unified code and for the greater good. It's not about one person rising to power and being the hero.
It feels like they are trying to graft the Star Wars theme onto Star Trek with hand wavey magical "forces" that don't have even the most tenuous link to science, and singular heroes that make anything that's worth happening happen. The original series at least tried to give a nod to the scientific consensus and then try to extrapolate it out.
I dislike Discovery, not true to Gene's vision.
It stopped being sci-fi and started being fantasy when they started with magical tardigrades and "time bugs". The rest plays like a space marines series.
Edit: also the spark and flame throwers on the bridge make it look like GWAR concert.
No wang suck for you then.