Thank you! Her parents were college professors who seemed to support liberal ideals and she lived comfortably and is well educated. She did not need to marry this man. She is not some abused woman. He openly describes how growing up in a conservative evangelical house shaped him as person. He did not spring his beliefs on her.
Thank you for the link! Will edit my comment to reflect it’s not new. It seems there’s some question as to its journalistic merit with the wiki stating “The New York Times has described the site as “a blog that chronicles the gossipy media world””, but it seems it’s been around for a bit at least.
I’ve never heard of the site Mediaite before. I didn’t click the link, but plenty of AI slop sites are popping up and headlines like this are a good way to spot them.
EDIT: apparently the sites been around for a bit, and this seems to be a one off headline issue. The credited writer appears to have several articles without issues apparent at first glance. Another article says “White House attorney” but it’s an attorney that’s acting as a liaison. Maybe just a nitpick. Some sensationalist headlines. Same as I’ve seen elsewhere so nothing too egregious.
Is “prone to collecting myths” a turn of phrase? I’ve never heard it before, but it goes hard imho. Makes me wanna build a ttrpg encounter around it.
She clerked for Brett kavanaugh. You don’t have to be a judge of people to know where people are politically and make decisions based on that. She knows what she’s doing and we don’t need any more fascism apologists. She is married to and supports a Christian Nationalist who’s supporting fascism. He was raised “conservative evangelical”, so I don’t think this is a recent change in his beliefs. They both suck.
I don’t think marrying someone like Vance is akin to a bad choice. Hard to believe Usha doesn’t know exactly what she’s doing. She had two university professors as parents and went to Yale. She’s not stupid.
Meant more Cunninghams law/XY problem than TCP, but thank you for the laugh.
I don’t have an answer for you, but per internet protocol will still respond.
Have you tried on of the apps that wakes you up depending on where you are in your sleep cycle? It really has been a game changer.
Other than that, I just used snooze like the other comments mentioned, but if you know you’re gonna turn off the alarm instead of snoozing, I get wanting multiple alarms.
Yea, I agree 100%. My comment was definitely ambiguous, but I’m not expecting my old phone to get updated with AI tools (though it actually was), more just that I don’t want an AI specific gadget and I don’t think anyone but an enthusiast would. Definitely see these as the new VR, as you mentioned. It seems the article was lamenting product development as though it in itself is an end goal. UX and efficiency should be the end goal. Not just making things for the sake of saying you made something. I obviously support people expressing themselves and experimenting, but the framing in the article is so strange and reads like they’re lamenting the fact that capitalism has reached its latter stages more than anything else.
Heck, no need to go back 50 years. If Biden did it there’d be backlash. Trump was right about being able to shoot someone and not losing supporters.
I’m not one to disagree with blaming capitalism lol. I was watching something recently about how millennials grew up with techno optimism, and I feel like we’re seeing the results of that. Millennials wanting tech to solve everything and grew up being into gadgets as a concept rather than a product, and the new generation so subsumed by tech that it really ceases to be tech. Like the way indoor plumbing or even electricity isn’t really seen as tech anymore, even though it really revolutionized our lifestyles. I think there’s some warranted backlash to tech (cottagecore/trad living) and the way it has atomized everyone, and I’m not sure people are as excited about it anymore. Price is definitely an issue, but I really think that tech is failing to fulfill us, and people are seeing that on some level (all this is also somewhat attributable to capitalism).
“41 Joshua subdued them from Kadesh Barnea to Gaza and from the whole region of Goshen to Gibeon. 42 All these kings and their lands Joshua conquered in one campaign, because the Lord, the God of Israel, fought for Israel.”
-Joshua 10:41-42
It was called conquering the first time when people said they were doing it for God. No need to shy away from it now. Maybe they’re not all that familiar with the Hebrew Bible, huh? Maybe they’re just using this as an excuse to genocide the people of Palestine?
This looks like an SNL sketch. People keep expressing sympathy for the onion writers, but really, how does one even parody this? Just shot for shot, word for word something a satirist would come up with.
My thoughts exactly. Tell Ukraine an attack is planned on X and evacuate to Y only to have Russia attack Y. I’m sure Ukraine isn’t stupid, and they are on top of it, but this is just a way to point out that “actually we are cooperating with Ukraine” while basically all of our information is compromised, if not at least heavily questionable in origin. So, his supporters get to say Trump is actually assisting Ukraine when people point out that he’s a Russian asset. It’s so transparent.
If I was Ukraine right now, I would want external verification for any intel from US agencies.
Would recommend Foxit over onlyoffice for pdfs since onlyoffice has Russian ties. If you wanna go full FOSS, you probably care about data sovereignty. Libreoffice is pretty good for other office application needs.
Everything he’s doing is deliberate in order to weaken the US. He’s beholden to foreign powers who want to see the US fall, and he’s making it happen. Otherwise he wouldn’t be pulling out of Ukraine and closing USAID and destroying NATO/WHO. Republicans might make a lot of noise about those things, but we benefit from the soft power and the defense spending. If our allies start building up their own internal military, we’re going to see a bust in our military industrial complex, and generally that’s a republican darling. I’m not pro military industrial complex or anything, but there would be better ways to dismantle it than pissing off some of our longest standing allies. Additionally, deaths and pandemics are bad, but also bad for the economy. Even Republicans know that. There’s no reason to let measles and avian disease run rampant, even from a purely financial position. I have no idea why else he’d be doing these things unless he was purposefully speed running the fall of a nation.
This article feels like peak consumerism. Lamenting the lack of a new thing, just for lack of it. AI is being integrated into already owned and available technology, and we have seen things like the AI pin, but people have just not had a need. Maybe this comment will age like milk, like people who said the internet was a fad, but people aren’t looking for more things, they’re looking for more functionality out of things they already have. That should be perceived as a positive.
Let’s keep racist/cultural attacks out of this. Unless you have evidence that someone tried to get her into an arranged marriage, it’s pretty harmful to look at someone with Indian heritage and have arranged marriages pop into your mind. I’ve not heard any reference to that and it makes it seem like that was her only alternative. My understanding is that she was not pushed to marry him because she had no options. She made the decision to of her own free will and that’s important.