It’s showy, the male MAGAs no doubt feel vindicated. When they realize their lives aren’t easier, it will be far enough away on the time line something else will be blamed for it. Chuck will still be a jerk who can’t get promoted due to his sparkling personality but he will no longer be able to blame DEI.

The main point, for Heritage, is groundwork for women at home having babies. Look at the long game. Pregnancy and leave for it will end up grounds for dismissal, in addition to continued lower pay and lack of promotion. Good luck bringing suit for any of it during this admin, which will establish precedent going forward.

Loyal service to retire, poof, gone. What the hell are these guys supposed to do at 50?

Pretty much Bezos’ philosophy, more or less. Literal sweat shop in those places to fund his yachts and penis rockets.

Or he could tax billionaires a little. This is a choice between veterans and billionaires. The billionaires will still be billionaires either way.

I think she was there to dismantle Roe. High odds you can count on Heritage loyalty.

Working class should be a bit more at ease about this. Voting to maintain the status quo of paying people who have already performed work under contract is a very good thing.

Women and reproduction are toast with this one, but workers might be ok. Or I’m scrabbling around in the dark looking for any spark of light.

This decision should have been unanimous. Paying people for work completed should simply be a given. Or why bother?

When people in our judicial system think money should NOT be paid to workers for work completed that doesn’t bode well for working class, going forward.

Right? Makes you feel old, doesn’t it?

Elon can’t handle it so he ducked out. In addition, Tesla probably texted him and said don’t.

Musk probably watched Stewart’s conservative show interview appearances over on YouTube, dating back to his first stint on the daily show. They couldn’t trip Stewart. He rolled over all of them. The interviews stopped, again, surprising no one.

Well, yeah, that’s born Trump and Elon.

Not dumb for him. Tariffs will line his pockets. This is why economists call it a tax on the American people. Very McKinley era, the time that created the iconic visual of street urchins, and the Baron class.

Trump profits, Elon laughs and jumps around, and we work even harder (producing money for them) to survive with a roof over our heads.

We The People get pounded while MAGA and their billionaires get paid even more.

New Republic just feeds the echo chamber. They’re interpreting mood and motive based on pausing, for starters.

Remember, this rag feeds echo chambers their headlines.

Anyone else have a bad feeling about Zelensky coming here?

Audiobook narrators don’t “read”. They act. They vocally act the entire book. The ones who don’t generally get returned, unread, to either your audiobook platform choice or the library.

Voice actors in games also don’t just read. They act. They vocally act their entire role.

Jennifer Hale vs AI, who would win? Would any human other than Kate Mulgrew as Flemeth have made the character as compelling?

Fearing the angry mob and a known/timed location intersecting with one highly desperate, pushed to the limit individual, probably.

High odds town halls won’t be a thing going forward. What’s also high odds is this is only the beginning of pushing the masses to the edge of the unknown (what they’re capable of). I greatly dislike this timeline.

So let’s hear it. Hand an AI Leviathan Wakes, the first book of The Expanse, and see how it does. My money is on it being garbage, but let’s hear it.

Jefferson Mays is tough to beat as a human.

Worse, hand an AI a Terry Pratchett book, see how that goes.

He said “very briefly” which implies its back, but without clarification we’ll never know. In all actuality though, we’ll probably never know about a lot of things in the next 4 and beyond.

I think that’s Botox.

The bottom line on this is they could make it all up and we wouldn’t know the difference. There’s no real way to fact check this info.

Sure but it’s more this idea that everyone voting (or not) has the same knowledge base. Reading/listening, digesting, etc takes a lot of time and energy and many people have neither once they’re done with their jobs and kids for the day.

I’m old and people are what I do, so there’s little extra effort on my part.

To be like: how could they vote MAGA, knowing this, is not much different than saying: what do you mean you hired a guy to replace that window, you could’ve saved $500 doing it yourself, to someone who has never in their life installed a window.

You may know how to replace an existing window but that doesn’t mean I do. Assuming shared knowledge is usually a bad play.

Your knowledge base isn’t their knowledge base.

They’re experiencing the same effect we do here on Lemmy or over on Reddit. Silo-ing. Echo chambering.

I’ve tried sharing links with my people. The response is often “I’m not reading that fake shit.”

Your knowledge base isn’t their knowledge base. Breaking those walls is a key component of the fix for this.

ETA: No big gotcha in this cast it’s just basic info. The guy who runs it isn’t formerly trained, just keen on cognitive science. He started out mid 2010s with casts that could do well in a cog sci class, like the next incarnation of Tom Gillovich’s How We Know What Isn’t So. Great stuff. Then he lost himself in philosophical psych for a bit. Now he does pointed research topics with interviews.

Anyway, this may be what you’re looking for:

https://youarenotsosmart.com/2025/02/20/yanss-307-why-resistance-to-true-news-that-you-would-rather-not-believe-can-be-stronger-than-susceptibility-to-fake-news-that-you-wish-was-true/