Serious question - given the changes in the US government recently, what are the odds a president JD Vance tries to continue the push toward authoritarianism?

Fantastic. Remote controlled school shootings.

The children yearn for the mines.

I Am Legend. Just the whole thing.

27? 30. 37? 2.

On tinder, I can’t fucking stand seeing pictures of people’s kids. Like, if I’m swiping, and I come across a woman with pictures of her kids? Hell no. Automatic left swipe.

I know that that picture has probably been logged on a dozen servers, it’s been scrapped for AI training, and someone is already falsifying videos with her kid’s face before she gets a first date. And I get she might not know that. But I kinda can’t help feeling like a responsible person would think about these things and try to learn about them.

Also, I’m pissed that it’s happening at all, and people who have no idea it’s happening get caught in the crossfire. Their kids will grow up in a world where generative AI can perfectly replicate them online, where intelligence agencies have cross referenced data on their every movement and formative event from their childhood. And their parents unwittingly made that easier instead of trying to protect them.

That drives me up the wall.

Nope

Or alternately-

1. He cancels/delays the election due to a national emergency. He could potentially delay until the following Jan 20, arguing all the while that he’s “cancelled” the election. Shifting, contradictory public statements muddy the waters.
2. Some blue states move ahead with elections anyway, arguing that the delay is unconstitutional.
3. The supreme court rules that delay is constitutional with a dissenting democrat minority.
4. Red states claim blue state elections are invalid and an attempted coup (because after January 6th, they love applying that word to things).
5. Blue states select a president, Trump denies the results (we have a precedent for this now) and refuses to cede power to the president elect.
6. As the January 20th deadline rolls around, Trump jails the new president as a traitor, following up on the claims from his base that the election was a coup.
7. January deadline passes, Trump arguing simultaneously that the election was a Democrat takeover AND that the Democrats cheated because red states didn’t hold elections.
8. With no (free) political opponents, Trump releases an executive order stating that the office of the presidency must be filled at all times, and remains in office.
9. Multiple court cases are filed and allowed to creep through the courts before being dismissed for various reasons.
10. People begin to adapt, normalize the situation, and eventually become distracted by a new scandal.

They’re doing their best, man.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repo!_The_Genetic_Opera

An illustrated example of the sun’s rays reflecting from a surface, entering the human eye, and altering the sexual identity of the viewer.

PowerBribe™

Tastes like blue raspberry ice and ego death.

Jesus, I miss sweater weather too.

This is literally what I do every day. I intermittent fast, so I don’t eat until dinner. I work through lunch, take breaks whenever I need to get up and stretch my legs, and leave at ~4:15.

She absolutely would

Yeah well, add that to the list of reasons why I haven’t tried. I like my social circle. My parents and siblings would probably be behind me if I did, but their judgement is suspect, since they all supported Trump.

We’ve known first-past-the-post voting is terrible for a long time, every mathematical model I’ve seen of voting outcomes highlights this. When I told my parents about ranked choice voting, they had literally never heard of it, because alternatives to FPTP are not mentioned in popular culture.

No one in power has any incentive to change things.

I didn’t forget it, I excluded it so I could day dream lol