The answer to the question your title asks — and the phenomenon has its own term — is Stockholm Syndrome. A significant percentage of Americans, notably Republicans, are suffering from it, including the deluded White Women of the Fascist States of America, who will blindly follow the dictates of their abusers all the…

Exactly what I was going to say. That is the very definition of SHIRKING responsibility, not taking it.

Conservatives are batshit crazy. They don’t need an excuse to blow up at anything they don’t like, understand, agree with, etc. They’ll just *MAKE* excuses. Because they’re batshit crazy. Which is why it makes perfect sense for them to glom onto fellow-batshit-crazy Trump as their lord and savior. Because they’re…

The fact that you think the two are equivalent shows just how deeply flawed your understanding is of the political situation in America. A *FEW* democrats do that. Not the majority. But without the support of those corrupted Democrats, they can’t fix anything, because the ‘majority’ — which includes all Republicans —…

The issue with this kind of tech is that, because it’s so soft and malleable, it’s also easy to scratch. Smart-device screen manufacturers (like Corning and their Gorilla Glass) have been grappling with this problem for years. Harder screens that are more scratch-resistant are also more brittle and prone to…

Their track record isn’t exactly stellar, but they managed a decent adaptation a couple times.

You don’t get to be extremely wealthy without fucking over a lot of people along the way. And ANYONE who would fuck over other people for their own benefit doesn’t give a shit about fucking over more people for the same reason. That’s why the Republican party is a who’s’-who club of America’s most deplorable and…

More to the point, there’s a mountain-sized loophole in this ban — the *SALE* of it. There’s nothing stopping the government from developing and deploying its own. Because spying is only ‘wrong’ when its being done against you...not when you’re doing it to ‘someone else’. I mean, we might as well be blunt about it,…

There are millions of them, and more of them every day. They could [REDACTED] billionaires from sun up until sun down for the rest of their lives and never make a dent. The problem is the system they built, the system they built to make themselves obscenely wealthy at the expense of everyone else, a system that human…

The world’s economy is a direct reflection of the attitudes, ideologies, and practices of those who control its collective wealth. If 99% of the world’s wealth is in the hands of 1% of its population, then CLEARLY the billionaires are responsible — our world is working EXACTLY the way they want it, the way they’ve…

CA isn’t a right-to-work state either, which means Twitter also needed legitimate grounds to fire them. So if Twitter turns around and tries to hire them all back in less than a week, those are wrongful termination suits, too.

It must have been difficult to choose *JUST* 14 examples of idiots with badges being idiots, because there are soooo many from which to choose. And I wish I could say that was sarcasm, but it’s not. Law Enforcement practically self-selects for terrible people with a lust for power and the desire to abuse it.

Conservatives lied?! I’m shocked! Shocked, I tell you! They’ve been so honest and trustworthy!

“In Indiana, part-time workers at McDonald’s earn $20 to $25 per hour, which is in competition with what temporary workers make at our plant,”

Society has ALWAYS had a serious problem with handling pathological liars (for personal gain) like Rogan, Trump, McConnel, DeSantis, Graham, Lake, etc. America tried with slander/libel laws, but the laws involved fall woefully short of actually addressing the problem. To wit: it’s *NOT* hard to identify the harm these…

It’s hypocrisy. He took full advantage diversity programs but magically has no knowledge or understanding of them, which, of course, is a lie. He knows full well what they were and what they did for his life. He’s just blocking that knowledge out because it doesn’t mesh with his deliberately narrowed world view and…

Efficiency is certainly a market space that nvidia has abandoned, and one that AMD seems fine with capturing while still aiming for best performance for the consumer’s dollar, which nvidia also appears to have abandoned.

It’s one of the primary reasons I look for deals to buy entire series (or sets of seasons, as is sometimes necessary) — so I don’t have to deal with this streaming-exclusivity bullshit (oops, sorry, tune back in next month/year/decade when we decide to make it available again!).

Sit that man down for a WH40k movie deal. Something tells me he could make it happen.

Who could have possibly predicted that alcohol, being a mind- and body-impairing chemical, used to excess could be dangerous??