Leaving the who as bird flu looms on the horizon…

Damn thanks for this answer. Yeah I really really want to go with Xiaomi, but that was my worry, that it’d be difficult to get working in the US. I’ve been researching people who have been able to use it in the us, but being that I sort of just need a phone at this point since this one is pretty much dead, I don’t really have the time to figure all that out.

Unfortunately I think I am in the end going to stay with Apple. One of my main issues with the 15 was that I found the screen very difficult to look at, even with low brightness. After poking around online it seems there are other people who have this issue, and it seems to have something to do with an OLED screen vs the lcd screen I have now. Apple does still have phones with an lcd screen (the se) so I think I’m just going to do with that.

However oneplus is also recommended for people with issues with OLED so I think right now I’m just going to stay in the Apple ecosystem, and then just try to be proactive about keeping my tech updated next time so I’m not trying to replace my phone when it’s pretty much broken, and probably go with oneplus. I’d prefer a Chinese phone anyway. Staying with Apple rn is just easier for my situation though.

Another two years of anti-Trump leftism followed by two years of browbeating the real leftists into voting for the “most left-wing political program in US history” followed by 4 years of propping up an unpopular conservative dem followed by 4 years of Don Jr.

Yeah this is what I mean, like that to me is not the first thing I think of when I hear “arson.” Feel like the throwing around of the word arson for things like this makes people less inclined to look into things to fall back on blaming these things on some unspecified other and buying into right-wing climate change denial conspiracies

One good thing I’ve learned over the past few years is to never listen to news reporting on a “study”

See I think this is what I mean. Like in the past the word “arson” has meant, to me, for example someone burning down another person’s house intentionally and maliciously. And I think a lot of people have the same understanding. And so I think a lot people hear the word arson linked to wildfire, and they picture people going out to the woods with the malicious intention to start large forest fires. And so it’s easier to accept the right-wing conspiracy of soros-funded arsonists intentionally starting fires to then blame on climate change.

The way you frame it makes it seem more like it’s farmers who, while the burning is illegal, are engaging in a generations old practice with no intention to start a huge forest fire. At least in Spain’s case. Which I think is a completely different situation than what most people (or at least us Americans) picture when they hear arson.

It’s absolutely a muddying of the waters. But I’d like to be exacting in my criticism of those people. Since I can see a situation in which climate change creates the conditions (drier, hotter, drought, more wind etc) that cause human-started fires to grow larger and out of control. When folks start to talk about “arson” in relation to wildfires, is there any truth to it and I just have too narrow a definition of arson, or is it purely just a muddying of the waters?

Where is that site tagline about “I will never be friends with a small business owner”

Ugh yes don’t remind me. I need to get diagnosed or not diagnosed with colitis. Pretty sure I don’t have it, but should find out anyway. My doctor wants to do a cat scan, but I might just ask if we can do a colonoscopy and get it over with. Waiting for the spring in any case, due to Covid and other reasons

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Cause deep down they understand them. White settlers identifying with other white settlers. Even though they might legitimately disagree with them, fundamentally they don’t see them as a threat to their existence and view the disagreement as purely academic. They understand and are sympathetic to how these people arrived at their views. And really they’re only one hardship away from becoming completely reactionary themselves, as we saw with Covid.

Idk, that’s always been my take.

Linda McMahon for dept of education

The United States is a joke but Jesus Christ we’re really outdoing ourselves this time around. I guess we figure if this is the end of the us we gotta go out with a bang

Musk doing his best to fight against brightness creep in headlights. I for one salute him

Speedrunning collapse

I think The Band are one of my favorite bands of all time so definitely them. Big Pink, self-titled and of course their live concert The Last Waltz are the staples for them.

But I’m not listening to anything too obscure. Neil Young, Bob Dylan. A lot of people have a strong opinion on Dylan but imo Highway 61 is a perfect album, and one of Huey Newton’s favorite albums in fact.

The Byrds, Van Morrison. The Grateful Dead do some folky stuff, especially on Workingman’s Dead and American Beauty. Also if you want obscure check out their pre-Dead jug revival band Mother McCree’s Uptown Jug Champions.

Buffy Ste Marie is one of my favorite musicians of all time. Sweet America is good by her. There was some controversy with her earlier in the year calling into question her claim to Native American ancestry. It was mostly reactionary bullshit iirc. She also has an album called Illuminations which has been praised retroactively for being a very forward looking electronic album. There’s also Judy Collins and Joni Mitchell, and more traditional folk revival stuff, like Dave Van Ronk and Odetta.

Could be ignorance but could also be that he knows the base doesn’t really know anything and is just gonna buy the lie like they always do. I mean he’s got them all believing that the Abraham accords were some great attempt at peace in the region rather than further attempts to alienate the Palestinian people.

Pretty sure this still is a thing

Dad rock. Used to listen to solely classic rock in middle school since that was the only real music, then I grew out of that attitude and started enjoying other types of music. Now I’m returning to some of those old classics and I have a new appreciation for them with a greater understanding of the musical landscape.

Though by dad rock I mostly mean 60s folk rock. Guess that’s not the stereotypical dad rock, which is usually more hard rock oriented

Bruh all my life all we’ve done is backslide