Maybe I am just am ignorant American, but Joe is Johnson at all comparable to Trump in terms of overthrowing democracy? I don’t recall anyone storming Parliament or Boris claiming any elections were rigged.

Made the switch from Podcast Addict recently and I’m pretty happy. It’s much more stable (especially with casting) and I like the queue system, but I do wish I had a bit more flexibility in applying download/update rules to whole categories instead of only one show at a time.

I think both Darmok and The Inner Light from TNG would be solid candidates. Both are more about the story and dialogue than the setting, and while both have more sets than OP’s examples, there’s also plenty of room to consolidate and move scenes around. Almost all of the stuff on the planet in both episodes, for example, could be a single set with just a few pieces of furniture (or rocks) moving around to give the allusion of location changes.

They are also very good episodes that have a message beyond just the setting and plot, which make for a good play, as well.

Do you have a solution to enacting progressive policy that doesn’t require electing a bunch of Democrats to create, introduce and vote on said legislation?

The 20216 election was incredibly close. It doesn’t take much to influence the final result with narrow margins, especially when considering our archaic voting system which significantly over-represents less populated areas (i.e. changing a few hundred votes in one district can be more influential than another district with 10x as many voters if all of those voters are more politically consistent).

The counter to this is the belief / rumor that studios have been hoarding unproduced scripts for years to prepare for exactly this scenario. One of the big complaints of the WGA is getting rid of “mini rooms” where a few writers put together scripts for an entire season, but those writers are not retained throughout the rest of production.

It would be very easy to use this system to intentionally create scripts that only a few people know about and don’t need to be paid in the future if that project eventually moves forward.

I am not sure how to interpret “no more influencers” as anything but the primary upside.

Mostly that’s a joke, but to be clear I do acknowledge that the same model that supports ‘influencers’ which I don’t watch, also support creators that I do watch. On the other hand, most of the creators I care about already don’t rely on ads, but accept donations via Patreon or equivalent, so maybe it wouldn’t change anything after all!

So weird to suggest leaving NATO as the solution to other participants allegedly not contributing their fair share. I guess this is one of those “take the ball and go home” compromises I’ve heard about?

When the “something worse” is literal fascism, there are no other choices. Stopping fascism is more important than any progressive agenda item because those agenda items will never happen with fascists in power.

there are no particular rules that can prevent fascism

100% truth. Democracy cannot defend itself against actors that don’t agree with the common principle of following the law, and fascists by their very nature don’t acknowledge any law buy physical might.

I think I see where you are coming from, but there does need to be a line where we can just acknowledge reality.

What’s the reason behind thinking half of them are acting in bad faith? Is that because you disagree with them?

This is especially galling when talking about the Supreme Court specifically. McConnell refused to do his legal duty and allow a vote on the current President’s nomination to replace Ginsburg. He and his party said this was because it was unfair to seat a new Justice during an election year.

Several years later, the exact same people rushed through a nomination and confirmation of a new Justice just weeks before the 2020 election. The two situations are as close to identical as can be practical with two real-world examples.

Please explain how this should be interpreted in a way that can be described as “operating in good faith”.

They are way passed being able to do anything.

Reddit staff have no idea how their platform works or how their users actually interact with the site. It’s completely embarrassing and unprofessional to the point of straight up incompetence.

Might be?

Most restaurants in America as they exist now should not exist. We’re essentially all subsidizing low quality, frozen food.

Higher education is not liberal leaving a priori. It’s just that acknowledging reality and facts, and even just some parts of scientific consensus, is completely incompatible with agreeing with anything the GOP does or says.

I think that’s a gross mischaracterization. Are you a developer or have any experience with open source projects?

Borrowing, modifying and extending other people’s code is fundamental to modern software development and completely commonplace. He just moved too fast and forgot to provide proper credit, which this post clearly explains.

Not in a campaign right now, but my next character is going to be a bard named Billiam Shadmer that only doe spoken word renditions of classic rock ballads. That is all I have so far.

Social media companies generally benefit from high traffic for advertiser appeal, but combating bots is crucial for maintaining user trust and engagement. Implementing CAPTCHAs for every upvote may not be feasible, but addressing bot activity is generally in the long-term interest of social media companies.

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Not sure if you bought that, but if I was applying for an account on Beehaw using a LLM assistant, I bet the odds of passing a human review is better than 50%.

That is the claim from Reddit, but it doesn’t hold up to scrutiny because LLMs are not using the API to get content from sites like Reddit. They are scraping data from the entire Internet, much like Google does.

Even if it was using the API, however, it’s still a bullshit excuse because Reddit would be fully within their rights to enforce existing rate limits or other TOS violations.

Nobody would have been complaining if Reddit revealed that apps like Apollo or OpenAI were abusing the rules that were already in place and everyone agreed to. For that matter, nobody would even be complaining if the pricing and timeline for the changes was anything close to reasonable!

Agreed. I was never on Digg, but was on reddit for several years before the Great Diaspora. I remember the epic web comics telling the story of how the Digg invasion happened. What some people forget to include in the retelling of those days is that there was not just one, isolated incident that led to Digg’s downfall.

Like all mass migrations in human history, there were multiple waves. The last was the biggest, but only because the previous waves had already gone out and created something new for the masses to move on to.

I think this will be similar. We’ll see people move back to Reddit in a couple of days, but in July the mobile apps shut down and another wave will likely be generated.