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  • Almost a direct quote from Siddhartha Gautama except he was making fun of the people who thought the whole ritual was shaving your head and wearing a robe.

    Funny how someone will always be around to claim it’s as easy as just doing it. While likely not even achieving it themselves. Humans really never change.




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    Who needs news sites when you have Grinded-Up News™!

    You can have a website that scrapes all that noise everywhere else mushes it up into a flavorless paste of no side at all for the best liberals can get. And it provide no funds or support back to the sources!

    Mmm Capitalism. Fuck everyone else that isn’t me!




  • Yeah doubtful. I think it finds something you will engage in and push on it over and over again until people get normalized to it.

    I think it’s more like cold reading from a psychic. It’s gonna use generic generalized data about the big identifiers for you like age and gender and as you respond try to change its answer to what it needs to based on what you gave it.

    That’s not new or magical in any way. And it can be really wrong about the broad stuff if you don’t fit in with generic identifying groups related to you.

    It really just feels like a sales pitch for the middle class to buy more stuff.











  • 2 days before election Harris announced legalized marijuana and 1 day before that she mentuoned she would be ok looking into Gaza more.

    Her “first time homebuyers” aid was actually only for first generational homebuyers mainly immigrants and who had rented from a corporate owned apartment complex for 2 years.

    Her business aid plan was for people who already had a business operating in specific cities and areas for “black men and others” to get loans. emphasis on “others” being her’s not mine.

    It was a campaign of protecting status quo first, not people. While telling them they didn’t realize how good they had it.

    Weak is an understatement.


  • I think you are right. I am mixing up the 12th with 2024 however it was not until Bernie dropped out that everyone started calling Biden the winner.

    By March media was still calling Biden the nominee and you can find articles claiming Biden as the nominee by March 17th just with a quick Google search. Washington Post called it by March 15th in an article I can’t read from a paywall.

    After Biden won South Carolina (a single state) it was already being called as his win and by March 3rd most other candidates dropped and fell in line with Biden creating chaos in super Tuesday polling as voters were told their votes had been pointless.

    I agree with you that if you look Biden didn’t actually get the delegates needed to be the Nominee until June and that Bernie Sanders didn’t drop until the 8th of April and his campaign was struggling at that point.

    But that divide between what actually happened and how it’s recorded is part of my point.

    A large amount of effort was made to push people into a specific option and while it “worked” it does not mean it didn’t come with a cost of voter engagement.