If that were true, the Republicans would have pushed through stimulus only or budget reconciliation when they were in power less than 2 months ago. The issue isn’t democrats putting shit in, it’s republicans not passing it unless they get some of their own stuff in. The democrats aren’t the Nays here, the republicans…

You can only really do one reconciliation in a year and there are various caveats related to it. It should only be a last resort, it’s good to have in the pocket for use down the line if needed. The stimulus also isn’t the only thing democrats ran on. They have an obligation to get other things passed, bundling some…

He said he’d push for that. Which he has and is trying to get pushed through. The government is not that simple. The Democrats do not have a filibuster proof majority to get the stimulus passed, so right now it’s stuck in limbo trying to negotiate with right-wing asshats who as usual do not want to approve anything…

You forget, to most religious communities, being racist is justified, beating your wife is your role as “provider”, alcohol is a holy right, and drugs are just god “testing” you.

These people don’t see themselves as being in glass houses, they are provided an excuse by their religion for their actions and then use that…

Humans like sex. Wanting to have boobs wrapped around your arm is not a negative thing... There is nothing shitty about enjoying sexual things. By your same argument, a woman using a dildo or a guy using a fleshlight are being demeaning to the opposite sex because they are using their genital representations purely as…

As VentureBeat points out in its own coverage of the study, the entire thesis of Kosinski’s research is based around the pseudoscientific idea of what’s called “physiognomy”—being able to suss out a person’s entire personality by the way their facial features line up.

Seems like a social media food like we sometimes see in western countries, but gone to the extreme. Chinese social media culture is even more vain and built on showing of your wealth and class than the already gross western culture is, something limited supply like this with a very weird combo is pure “look at this…

This isn’t the technical reason and isn’t actually an issue. You can very easily implement neck bending into your 3D rig that is programmatically driven by your camera rotation. It just isn’t that useful to do because the amount your neck bends when you look down is quite subtle.

They would be stupid not to bring this to North America... With how big the “Keto” craze is this would sell like hotcakes being able to skip the bun with something other than lettuce.

The takeaway here is that any password combination that’s easy or memorable likely isn’t strong enough to protect your data
This is why we need to stop suggesting upper/lower/number/special combo... It’s just pushing people to use the simplest possible password they can for a given restriction.
For a strong password,…

Your argument reduces down to “well other people are doing it, so I may as well too, even if it’s wrong”. It’s also that same kind of apathetic behavior the people who say “well my vote won’t make a difference, so why bother”. It’s not about this one boycott making some significant change, it’s about the long-term…

You’re completely misinterpreting the situation. I’m not “refusing to accept anything good” from the citizens. I admit it’s a nice product. I’m simply recognizing that the only way we can help them achieve democracy is by refusing to support the CCPs economy and global reach. If you have a better way to influence the…

Actually it does, and it’s literally the only way to affect the CCP short of war, which we absolutely should not want to happen. Right now, the CCP keeps the citizens complacent enough to put up with the totalitarian behavior. But if the economy starts tanking, that is the only way you shake their faith in their…

Again this argument from another person, why are people bringing up the distant past? I never mentioned China’s past, we are talking about the current Chinese government.
The majority of the US did not elect Trump. And they have the power to vote him out every few years, unlike China. If they continue to elect him,…

I don’t get this argument. The past is the past, a country should not be defined by its distant past, but its present. China is currently ruled by a dictatorship that denies its citizens free access to information, is putting poor countries into debt traps to take them over and is committing numerous human rights…

Yes, the current US government which people are free to criticize wherever they went, whether on the internet or on the streets without fear of repercussions. A government that can be voted out every 4 years, unlike in China. The majority of the US did not elect the current government, jerrymandering did. If the…

It’s the only thing we can do. Of course just having one of their companies (Huawei) be pushed out isn’t going to make them change course alone. That’s what I’m saying, we have to push back in all aspects, not just one or two companies. The more we push back and don’t feed their power, the more pressure they will feel…

It’s not about the developers being “evil”. I never implied that, you’re putting words in my mouth. It’s not specifically about the company but the fact we are supporting the success of the CCPs global reach plans. It’s just that sadly the citizens are the pawns in that goal. Literally the only way we push back…

Yeah, it’s one of the easiest things in the world to just not play a specific video game. There are hundreds of new games each year, dozens of high quality ones. For most other stuff from China it’s a factor of having to wait until more manufacturing moves to other countries.

No, it really isn’t. These are explicitly banned terms. They even went out of their way to censor a couple VTuber’s names who had mentioned Taiwan as a country during a stream talking about their YT viewership stats...