Because she was a useful idiot for moneyed interests with nothing better to do than hit fundraiser meetings, so the PhD educated social worker with fifty clients never had a chance. Like, what you’re saying is true, but what they’re saying about barriers being too high is also very much true.

I will just say that life extention has made vampires of old men [who are wealthy and powerful enough to acquire the necessary medical care]

Being old doesn’t make you a bastard, it’s just that non-bastards don’t tend to survive to old age in our society

They get the campaign funds because they kiss the right asses of the rich and corporate classes, and that is not serving the citizens.

That just sounds like a campaign finance problem to me. Term limits are inherently anti-democratic imo so I’d really rather avoid those, but campaign finance reform sounds wonderful.

and banning them from working as a lobbyist or whatever.

This also sounds like a great idea

Human beings are social reasoning machines. We like to feel like we’ve identified the causes and effects of things in the world around us and we want to share beliefs about these things with the people we are with. It is natural and inevitable that we would create technologies to enhance our abilities to socialize and exchange reasons. They only become a problem when they’re hijacked by a narrow slice of society that tries to create and amplify harmful social hierarchies (e.g. racism, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, etc.) to entrench the harmful economic hierarchy they benefit from.

Basically, this image but with “media” instead of “computers”

I’m pretty sure the WJET/WFXP tag on the front of the article means it’s a reprint of an article originally written by the Fox TV affiliate for Erie, Pennsylvania, so yeah this is like a content mill husk that most for-profit local news in America has turned into being regurgitated by a source somehow even more soulless and predatory

Anyway, mirror link - https://web.archive.org/web/20240705144933/https://www.yourerie.com/technology/japan-sets-world-record-for-the-fastest-internet-speed-ever/

Yeah, especially on how they got into this position by electing a dipshit neolib who pushed pro-business and anti-migrant policies while refusing to push back against the far right until it became a problem for him personally

So if he’s not needed and just being a drag on the ticket why doesn’t he resign?

Well, we’ve already had a president assassinate US citizens, so let’s rev up those predators and go looking for whatever billionaire’s yacht Coney Barret, Kavanuahh, and Roberts are chilling on

“Talking a lot of shit for someone within Official Act distance” - Joe Biden (in my dreams)