Stranger in A Strange Land was called “the hippy bible” for a reason…

It was written in the 1960s tho, so even the “woke” parts can be pretty problematic. That just means society progresses tho. If 60 year old media doesn’t have anything problematic in it, it means society has stalled instead of peogressed

Republicans care about the opinions of drug addict single mothers now?

When his mother erased Donald Bowman from his and her lives, the adoption process also erased the name James Donald Bowman from the public record. The only birth certificate for Vance on file at Ohio’s vital statistics office reads James David Hamel, according to information provided by the state, cited by the Associated Press.

He would spend more than two decades as James David “J.D.” Hamel, and served in Iraq as a US Marine – Corporal James D Hamel. But the situation gnawed at him, particularly after his mother and adoptive father divorced.

“I shared a name with no one I really cared about (which bothered me already), and with Bob gone, explaining why my name was J.D. Hamel would require a few additional awkward moments,” he wrote in Hillbilly Elegy.

"Yeah, my legal father’s last name is Hamel. You haven’t met him because I don’t see him. No, I don’t know why I don’t see him. Of all the things that I hated about my childhood, nothing compared to the revolving door of father figures.”

He decided to change his name again, to Vance — the last name of his beloved “Mamaw.” Vance’s mother suffered with substance abuse and addiction, and was allegedly abusive to her children, leading to him being taken in and brought up by James and Bonnie Vance.

Vance paid tribute to his grandmother, a union Democrat, during his acceptance speech after being elected to the US Senate in 2022.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/jd-vance-name-b2622281.html

Lil JD is still just looking for a Daddy that won’t run off in a couple years, I really won’t be surprised if he tries to change his name to trump for 2028

We need a strong enough win in November to oust Jeffries.

Leadership elections were like 2 weeks before DNC elections…

If people had voted against Schumer/Jefferies, and a neoliberal won chair, they would withhold funding from entire states as punishment.

The current chair drained the Victory Fund, and stopped stealing from state parties, which is why people became confident to openly shit talk Schumer/Jefferies.

They don’t have a chance at retaining leadership in the next Congress.

Not “the party”, just lame duck Jefferies:

Despite growing dissatisfaction among Democratic voters with the U.S.’s ongoing military support for Israel, the House Democratic leadership has picked two foreign policy hawks — Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Florida) and Wesley Bell (D-Missouri) — to join the House Foreign Affairs Committee (HFAC), while also promoting an even worse hawk, Jared Moskowitz (D-Florida), to become a ranking member of the Middle East and North Africa subcommittee.

Him and Schumer want to depress Dem turnout so they can try to replace DNC chair before presidential primary because the neoliberal faction can’t win a fair primary, and that’s what we’re set to get

I think you might to reply to comment above mine:

It’ll be based on how much money you have. So individuals will always be in the wrong, companies can legally steal from artists, and megacorps can legally use whatever they like. But smaller corps can’t steal from megacorps,

It obviously already is, and I assumed that they meant it will continue to progress down that path.

But you seemed to have missed all that…

Before the paywall cuts it off, it does clarify the gain is just caloric restriction.

Cell division just slows down, and cell division is longevity. After so many division shit starts falling apart. So slow down how often cells divide, and you put off the effects of aging.

This has been common scientific knowledge for decades, and it would be weird if we didn’t see it here.

The mice taking semaglutide during the study self-reduced their calorie intake by 24%. So, to check whether this was the cause of the observed effects, the authors put an extra, untreated group of mice on a diet that matched the calorie-intake level of the GLP-1-treated mice. The two groups showed similar longevity outcomes. However, the GLP-1-treated mice performed better than did those in the diet group in several experiments, including one testing spatial memory, in which animals had to remember the location of the exit to a maze. “That was really a surprise to us,” Chen says.

This result suggests that semaglutide has further benefits that are not explained by calorie reduction, she explains. But the driver of those benefits is still unclear.

Seems kind of obvious…

That caloric restriction makes your brain focus on getting calories.

Semi-glutides make your brain stop caring, so it naturally doesn’t get distracted from caloric restriction. So no cognitive effects

That’s not how legal precedence works, and trying to force that dissonance on society always results in societal collapse

Fascism, like the One Ring, is power manifest. You want it to achieve your goals, but once you have it, it’s almost impossible to relinquish that power.

People give up power all the time…

The current DNC chair inherited over a billion dollar war chest from the neoliberals to do anything with he wanted, zero oversight or rules.

He dumped it back to the state parties it was stolen from instead of using it to bribe state parties into what he wanted.

The way to fight fascism, is to keep power distributed.

We don’t have to consolidate power, that’s always been an option. And next election we have a shot at electing a president that will limit their own power, and the power of every future president.

The US commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, separately told G20 officials ‌at a meeting in North Carolina on Wednesday that their countries should embrace fair use and allow AI companies to train their models on creators’ work while finding ​a way to “protect artists”.

All of the pending cases will probably ​revolve around whether AI systems make ​fair use of copyrighted material by ​using it to create new, transformative content. The first two judges to consider the ​question issued diverging rulings ‌last year.

That legal precedent ends with changing a few words of a book or a few lines of code and being able to claim it’s yours…

Including the code for these chatbots.

There’s no long term plan this works out.

It would be hilarious if it was a real survival scenario with only AI and no outside contact or way to contact help…

And when they go to pick him up it’s like Vince Gilligan in American Dad:

https://static1.cbrimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/American-Dad-Vince-Gilligan-Skeleton-Coffin.jpg

But you know it’s going to be bullshit and he’ll have a full support crew and all types of safety, because it’s him and not contestants fighting for his crumbs

Yeah, the current standard is just so bad, there can still be a lot of improvement while maintaining the general shape were used to.

The lines curve to the nearest pole.

So you can get a general direction of north/south.

But a “more local” map of even just a hemisphere can still be what we’re familiar with. The issue is how to get 100% of the surface of a sphere onto one flat page.

That problem disappears when zooming in. So using this projection for anything besides the whole planet doesn’t make much sense.

I mean, I’m not saying it’s easy to understand that there’s this for a global map and others for zoomed in maps, especially for an adult. But kids would pick it up quickly and understanding would build abstract thinking skills.

Buddy…

Most of a globe is an empty blue mass…

An accurate map, is also going to have a bunch of ocean on it.

It looks weird to you, because that was your first time seeing it. You’d get used to it, and our familiarity with a shitty system should never be the reason to keep using it

In a generation people would be posting our current maps and laughing at how ignorant we are and how weird it looked.

Eh…

The amount of people who consider themselves progressives but who still want a DNC picking favorites in primaries is still really fucking high.

The end goal needs to be an unbiased party (and that’s what we have right now) because that’s the only way primary voters get to pick the candidate they want.

We don’t need a DNC that favors progressives, because Dem voters favor progressive policy.

It’s like Usain Bolt showing up for a JR high field day. We don’t need to rig the games, we’re obviously going to win as long as it’s a fair race.

Under no scenario should “the party” be telling voters who to support during any primary.

I could explain it…

But if you click the link there’s a picture right there

No, we’ve got some pretty good ones…

The map is made by equally dividing a spherical surface into 96 triangles, transferring it to a tetrahedron while maintaining area proportions, and unfolding it in the form of a rectangle: it is a polyhedral map projection. The map reduces the distortion of sizes and shapes of all continents and oceans, as inspired by the Dymaxion map. The projection does not have some of the major distortions of the Mercator projection, like the expansion of countries in far northern latitudes, and allows for Antarctica to be displayed accurately and in whole.[3]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AuthaGraph_projection

If you try to make one part exact, the errors add up.

If you account for the differences at a small scale, then no area is exact, but everything is pretty much correct.

The ~420 voting members that went with Martin instead of a neoliberal?

Yeah, nothing you said was untrue.

They have pills that will numb the fuck out of you to end psychotic behavior, pills with very strong side effects sometimes potentially permanent. They are extreme medications for extreme symptoms.

While true psychiatric medicine treats symptoms and not diseases, there’s a shit ton of human variation and some people have little to no side effects from some medications.

That’s the whole reason doctors are so quick to change prescriptions. It’s just throwing stuff at the wall to see what sticks. But that doesn’t mean they won’t find something that works.

Pretty much no one is getting cured witht these daily pills.

Yeah, it’s just management, but that’s better than it being unmanaged.

I mean, don’t vote for them…

But not voting for anyone else with a D by their name because of these asshats, is just going to let these asshats take over the party.

Most Americans don’t get to vote in any election that has any of them on a ballot.