Imagine restraining your replies to a complex question into a binary like a complete fucking dipshit lmao

Yikes.

This doesn’t speak well for the stability of Jordan or the region at large…

That would be true for the 2000 election as well, but Democrats didn’t fight the SC decision and so we got two expensive wars in the subsequent 8 years that some democrats even supported, demonstrating their fascist sympathies.

Lemmy is full of people who want to actually discuss ways to have a better world, unlike you it seems lmao.

You’re trying to argue the status quo to people who saw what the status quo was since Reagan, but you still don’t get it.

I’m so glad my consistent votes for democrats over my life have definitely not lead me to the precipice of fascism… oh wait.

In the interest of truth this is good, but it does not change my view on law enforcement or their incapabilities.

This NPR article really talked around that detail. It was boring af and ended abruptly.

Lmaoooo my friend is also from academia so our situations may be 1:1

Like normal people with more quirks. I will say that experience has lead me to believe that sometimes those quirks require a bit more patience/tolerance in extended company.

I’m friends with an autistic guy who’s very good at what he does and we share some interests, but he tries too hard to talk about what he wants to talk about and unfortunately it’s pushing others away.

I feel like this vague statement applies to every religion, as you wouldn’t be following said religion if you didn’t believe it to be “the answer” to life.

As the other guy said though the state of Israel came about from Zionism, which is a fundamentalist sect of Judaism but doesn’t represent all Jews.

I was surprised to see Robert Evans as a rolling stone writer. I love his podcasts. Article was a great read.

I mean posts

I think you mean high art

You’re right in that his only winning strategy is that he’s not Trump which is a bleak perspective on our political landscape. I’m not inspired to vote for someone, I’m chored with voting against someone else which is mega lame.

Big media outlets are profit driven and I think them trying to fill that time with connections to Biden hurt all of us in a big picture sense, because the president can make things worse but the executive branch is not where real change comes from. It comes from the legislative branch. Outlets tying these races to the president are driving populist candidates into the zeitgeist, which is horrible.

Agreed. The DNCs only saving Grace is that they aren’t Trump which is only a winning strategy now after they royally fucked up with Hillary, the candidate that had a 20+ year smear campaign against her (on top of the other problems). I don’t have confidence that they learned from any of this, which could push another fascist candidate into power who may be more competent. Here’s hoping Americans start learning to read through the bullshit lmao.

I ask people to read up on the history of the labor movement (Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, Battle for Blair mountain, mining unions etc) as that’s what started changing my American propagandized perspective.

I speak as someone disillusioned with the Dem party post 2016. Biden’s administration has done good things in the face of baseless obstructionism, but IMO he should be the conservative against more progressive candidates. He really is American conservatism with liberalism sprinkles.

My indignation at this article and media outlets are the tying of these local and state races to Biden the individual and the presidential branch. As you pointed out, the real change comes from the legislative branch and local offices. I have a feeling many of those local races where Dems nominally won have no love for Biden but, like us all, will have to support him because he’s not biohazardous trash like all Rs at this point.

He doesn’t inspire me to go vote. I’ll do it out of obligation to myself and other citizens, but he makes it a chore.

I feel like this is part of the problem. A bad President like Trump can make things far worse, but most of the time what they say and what they can do are very different things.

IIRC Biden talked about federally legalizing marijuana, but has not done so yet which does not help his case.

All these shitty news organizations keep relating these dem wins to Biden’s popularity as president. He’s milquetoast trash running against biohazardous dumpster fires. The only confidence he inspires is that he’s not a Republican which is bleak.

We all desperately want younger and progressive candidates.

peer reviewed properly

Is the important bit here. The timeline from that Wikipedia article shows it was published in 2005 and work disproving it’s claim came around in 2006.

If a scientists work is retracted it really kills any more funding they receive. They use examples like the DRBG one as what not to be.

I know someone in this field and sent him this article. He said the “NIST isn’t being transparent” claim isn’t true

https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=927303 https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/ir/2020/NIST.IR.8309.pdf https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=934458

He also responded with “of course the NSA would try and mess with it, but if it’s peer reviewed properly I don’t see how they would be successful”

This is more nuanced response to the “Life in unfair” retort that the people who often use that phrase do not mean lol.

E.g. the people suing the Biden administration for student loan forgiveness

Doing what’s good for you and others is often very different from doing what’s good monetarily.