This is going to fuck up the healthcare industry (along with many others) and it's going to hit alot of Americans hard. There's millions of immigrant home health aides across the country that help care for mentally disabled and elderly Americans. Start taking away those aides and suddenly you've got Americans struggling to find anybody to watch their family members, causing them to have to choose between work and caring for a relative. It's going to be a shitshow if they actually follow through with this.
The only silver lining I can see is that it might actually open Americans' eyes to how much they actually need immigrants after everything goes to shit, but I'm sure the ignorant will just go on to blame some other group for the resulting fallout.
I'm assuming it's because they really only have a single neighboring country, the US. Despite the Fallout games, I doubt that the US invasion/annexation of Canada is even seen as a remote possibility, or something that they could really ever meaningfully oppose were the US to even try it. There's just no need to maintain a ridiculously large military when you're neighbors with the country that has the largest military spending on Earth anyways, may as well just spend your money on your people.
They got like 1–2% more votes than Harris got and only got ~1 million votes over 2020. Had Harris gotten the same number of votes as Biden she would’ve won. It’s not that the country went more Conservative, it’s that Democrat voters are unreliable and failed to come out. There’s hardly a “mandate” to speak of, these people are still weird as shit, nothing changed.
They’re an easy minority to scapegoat. In the US they make up between 0.5% and 1.6% of the population. A sizable portion of straight people associate being transgender as something sick and weird and a sexual deviancy, so it’s easy to target them and to try to associate them with actual objectively bad things (ie pedophilia). They’re just people trying to find their place in the world and live their lives, same as most of us.
I sure as shit hope so, given that Gaetz resigned his position in the House, but somehow I suspect he'll still be voted in and that he wasn't going to resign unless he knew beforehand he had the votes for confirmation.
I don't recall feeling overly impressed with content on Mastodon, it's just social media, but with a small userbase, I'm guessing more tech-saavy. I think what ultimately "wins" in the social media space is wherever "everybody" ends up going. Right now, Bluesky seems to have the momentum going for it as people are flocking to it in droves, but it's hard to tell how sustainable it is long-term as the hype settles down. Right now everybody is excited and seems like they're trying to make it a positive, creative, liberal space, but eventually trolls will start invading the space and it'll be like every other social media site unless it's somehow structured in a way as to avoid that.
Those are precisely why I like BlueSky. I don't know if this was normal for twitter or what, but I learned you can search for a hashtag of your kinks (exp. #bigboobs) and you can see porn from people that have posted pics or posts about it. You can also hide other tags from ever showing up in the results, which lets you finetune what you're looking for. I know the search works relatively the same as twitter with respect to hashtags, but was porn on twitter this whole time?
I don't have any strong feelings about Teams. It just is what it is. It's a chat app for work, like it's just there to spy on me and keep me in contact with co-workers. It's whatever. Of all the things I think about in the day, Teams is not one of them.
This is going to fuck up the healthcare industry (along with many others) and it's going to hit alot of Americans hard. There's millions of immigrant home health aides across the country that help care for mentally disabled and elderly Americans. Start taking away those aides and suddenly you've got Americans struggling to find anybody to watch their family members, causing them to have to choose between work and caring for a relative. It's going to be a shitshow if they actually follow through with this.
The only silver lining I can see is that it might actually open Americans' eyes to how much they actually need immigrants after everything goes to shit, but I'm sure the ignorant will just go on to blame some other group for the resulting fallout.