Outrage is only useful if it leads to accountability and consequences for bad action.
Boebert and MTG have a very good sense of what their base likes and dislikes. They may frequently cross lines of decency, but they don't cross any of their base's lines. As such, outrage just gives them free publicity and makes them more popular with their people and nudges the perception of norms towards them. These people need to be starved of attention. Don't feed trolls!
I'll share my two favorite sources for hurricane info.
Tropical Tidbits for excellent parsing of meteorological data and models without much editorializing and essentially no fear mongering. Excellent videos and website tools for nerding out about the weather side of things.
And NOAA's National Hurricane Center for up to date guidance on rain, flooding, and wind probabilities and warnings. This coupled with a local emergency services communications is what most people should be using to track what impacts they should expect for upcoming storms.
Billionaires still don't get that their fear and outrage is a ringing endorsement for someone like Mamdani. Every dollar they spend implies many more dollars available to be collected by the city. Their best strategy would have been utter indifference. I guess now we know who has a terrible poker face.
To your point, a number of large companies have scrubbed any direct support contact info from their pages and force you to go through their chatbots to attempt to get connected to someone who can actually do something. The destruction of traditional communications to force people through customer disservice machines is already happening.
When subscription revenue fails to provide a good roi, this is the inevitable fate for most llm's. They'll pretend to help you find what "you would have chosen," but your shopping activities will be treated as a commodity to be sold to the highest bidder.
It's always amusing to me when encountering someone who has no concept of how little other people think about the things they focus on day in day out.
Since the first optical mice, pretty much the only features that have changed how I use a mouse are solid wireless connectivity with good battery life and side buttons. Both of those are completely dependent on hardware changes. Reliable software is important, but if I have to think about your software at all to use your peripheral, your approach to software is wrong.
Elysium had it backwards. The billionaires don't want to live in space leaving the workers to live in poverty on the surface. The billionaires want the workers to run space factories while they turn the earth into a big hunting reserve.
Yeah. Who buys a pumpkin for it's literal value as a food item? There's canned pumpkin for that. Anything to do with buying a whole pumpkin is all about maintaining an experience and tradition. In that view, pumpkin carving a storebought pumpkin is the base experience, and going to the pumpkin patch is the extended experience. People can choose the level that matches their enthusiasm for fall festivities. Neither purchases are practical, but both can be worthwhile.
I don't see this as much different as the buying a CD vs concert ticket mockery. Concert tickets are always economically an impractical purchase vs buying a copy. People don't go to concerts to get a good deal, and there's just as much crap to deal with as the muddy parking lot and unsocialized animals of a pumpkin patch. People go to concerts for a specific experience that brings them joy and forms memories. Mocking that desire is silly.
Making this presentation sound pointless is a mistake. Trump told a room of generals and admirals that war on cities will be a big thing for them and that they can use cities to practice.
That is insane and treasonous yet we have a bunch of articles focusing solely on Hegseth's obsession with seeing fit males all around him.
Let them eat Argentinian beef