Recent content by GoodEnoughForMe

Man just an unambiguously evil political party. Plus a maximalist interpretation of Comstock involving the obscenity clause could easily be used to argue that it bans all interstate crossings involving R rated movies, M rated video games, etc., which when a million of those a minute happen via...

Sure he was/is an escalation, that I don’t disagree, but the escalation had started previously. The Tea Party was in 2008. The Bush administration avoided EPA regulations on greenhouse gasses by not opening an email from them about the rule for over 7 months, which is so dumb it almost seems...

He also; Removed rural development from USDA mission, pushed for massive cuts to rural broadband grants, mental health services, and Single Family Housing Direct Loans subsidies, proposed axing the Appalachian Regional Commission, and proposed a 97% cut to the Rural Business Cooperative Service...

I get it, but nobody in real life gives a crap about Twitter, and it’s conservatives in congress who are promoting another House leadership change and have a Freedom Caucus hell bent on disruption. Democrats - and the majority of their voters - are institutionalist, for better or worse right...

Nah this existed waaaay before Trump. North Carolina and Wisconsin as states were flawed democracies at best by 2016 due to state GOP shenanigans. Shelby v Holder was 2013, and the day after the ruling Texas went wild with new voting restrictions. Etc etc

I am pro ending the fillibuster, but that very obviously could mean at some point a 2 year GOP legislative bloodbath. I think that will result in huge losses - one of my favorite bits of research is that when you tell Republican voters the GOP policy platform, they say that’s not possible to be...

I want to address the point of ‘getting stuff done.’ The Democrats get a lot done, relatively speaking (I’ll come back to the relatively in a bit). We saw two massive spending bills passed under their watch in Biden’s early days, more student loan forgiveness in the last 4 years than the...

If I had gotten a monthly stipend to go to college instead of 5 figure debt I probably would have been happier too.

According to the World Happiness Report, the UK is the 20th most happy, which goes to show how fickle questions of mental wellbeing and surveys in general are.

We must liberate the islanders off the coast of France from the tyranny of their royal family

I guess the question then, as that article hints at the end, is the motivation gap. Republicans are much more excited about voting for Trump than Dems are about voting for Biden. In aggregate the fear driving Dem voters may shrink some of that gap, but we’re talking about really small gaps in...

This - at least right now - is fundamentally untrue. Trump’s general approval has been very much rising over time as he has been out of office, not unlike previous presidents. Americans in poll after poll display higher favorability towards Trump, and when broken down by subject, trust him more...

Saw Dune Part 2, really good visual and audio storytelling, Villenueve’s best camera work in his career to date. Appreciated it stayed pretty weird and made sure to say the stuff on power and violence and imperialism and messianic figures that the book did. Also watched Blue Black Permanent...

The most recent projections I saw by the uhhhh NYT guy? WaPo? I’m not sure. Anyways, they have Trump as a slight favorite against Biden, the Republicans as a moderate favorite for the senate, and the Dems as a slight favorite for the house. It’s all terrible all the time here and everyone sucks.

Emulators have a very good track record in courts, and Nintendo has tried stuff like this before. Notably, their lawsuit is also effectively calling for an end to right-to-repair, which is having A Moment right now, so this is a really, really aggressive suit. It truly basically says all...