Yes they’re used, but they’re not THE ONLY method of control as it was in this disaster of a sub.

It is a clear signal, it says very clearly and in no uncertain terms they don’t want to talk to you.

Your need for “closure” or whatever doesn’t matter.

If you think that trump is capable of that then you admit the American system is so flawed that a diaper wearing dementia ridden criminal is all it will take to bring it down. That Pax Americana is on the death bed and electing Biden is just kicking the can down the road.

Without the looming existential threat of the climate apocalypse and the inevitability of children born today fighting in the water wars, Biden might be fine, but we need action now and anything else isn’t just lesser of two evils, it’s complete failure in our lifetimes…

”Both options are cliffs!”

But they are though.

The cliff drivers aren’t getting off the bus, even if we vote them down this time, if we don’t change the system that allows them equal opportunity to drive us off a cliff they will eventually force it off the cliff.

Biden has long supported the system that allows it, prides himself on being able to find a middle ground with them, and though he talks about not going over the cliff has no long term plan for dealing with those that do, because again he believes in the system that allows them to want to drive off the cliff.

I believe I’ve stretched this metaphor about as far as it will go, but I’m going to try stretching it further.

There are actually two cliffs, fascism and climate change, even if we pull the bus away from one cliff we’ve still got the other in front of us and basically no one is even pretending to deal with that.

And to leave the broken bus scenario, I’m just going to say if you believe that a trump win will destroy American democracy, that we can’t defeat his corrupt, senile version of fascism then the next republican demagogue will have no problems.

Dude has a deer nose and that font is fucked.

more competition making headsets

quite the opposite has happened, there are fewer companies making headsets now. Microsoft is removing their version of open platform, mixed reality from windows entirely…

If trump wins and America can’t defeat his senile version of fascism, then it’s already on the death bed waiting for the next republican to take power…

trump is the best authoritarian we’re going to get, he’s easy mode, the republicans will get someone worse, someone who has the ability to think beyond his next shit.

It’s not going to get better only worse…

…I know.

What i’m saying is that Chatgpt is good at captcha shit, likely because it was fed the data from all the captcha we’ve done.

And I know captcha is different from recaptcha, if you want to be pedantic, which you appear to…

you’re at least a decade late for that concern. why do you think chatgpt is so good at solving recaptcha?

And that’s why I specifically highlighted the potential for an American coup which he and the democrats have fundamentally not addressed, It wouldn’t matter if he was the most perfect president ever, without addressing fundamental procedural flaws in how our democracy works there is no point to any of it.

They’ve let this be memory holed, it was just a bunch of individual idiots and the FBI is catching them, nothing else to see, when there are literal traitors in congress and flaws to exploit.

We are a knifes edge from fascism (if pence had gotten into the car or chosen loyalty to trump we would have fallen already) and the administration has failed to center the fundamental fixes it would take to prevent it from happening again.

Where’s the great president?

Biden isn’t the worst, he’s a milquetoast compromiser, minor social programs that don’t change the status quo of rising homelessness, out of control rent and home prices, rising medical costs, rising child care costs, rising food costs, raising car costs, rising just living costs.

America is rapidly fraying at the edges and his team are still talking about how good the economy is.

But forget all that, on January 6th America came literally 1 vice president away from a fascist coup and nothing procedurally has changed to stop it from happening again, instead the republicans have spent 4 years learning from their narrow defeat and making steps to ensure that they win next time.

Great leaders solve fundamental issues with their system, not maintain the failing status quo…

But it’s two turd salads, one has dried grated shit on top and the other is a a soupy liquid mess hardly a salad at all, but that’s what it says on the menu.

I’m not saying it’s a hard choice, I’m saying that either way it’s going to taste like shit…

The MTA lost $690 million due to ALL dodgers, including tolls and railroad fares.

$315 million lost in bus fares

$285 million lost in subway fares

$46 million lost in bridge and tunnel tolls

$44 million lost in railroad fares

source

So yeah, I’m guessing the 104k is the ones they caught, which makes the narrative that the police aren’t unnecessary they are just bad at their jobs…

does it need to be profitable, does police action only matter if it makes money, or is it a cost to service?

this same question can be asked of the MTA itself.

They are spending 150million that is 1442x what they are losing, even if their enforcement is reducing the number of fare jumpers it would take basically everyone jumping the line to make up the difference.

They’d save money just by eating the cost…

I cannot see how this ever economically works out.

Got some more numbers, this meme (surprise) isn’t telling the whole story. I’m still not saying it works out, but it’s not this simple.

Okay so the MTA has a budget of 19billion, of which $6.870 billion comes from fares, in 2022 they lost $285million in subway fares, and the police caught 105,000 people in 2023.

I cannot find where the $104k number is coming from, I assume that’s the total amount owed by those they caught, but if they caught 105k people that’s only a dollar a person so I don’t know if it’s that low or I’m misunderstanding the $104k number.

Again not saying it works out, but I’m not smart enough to do that math…

vote Republican so we can continue to fleece you for all that you’re worth

Oh buddy, I’ve got bad news for you, NYC is democrats all the way down.

Democrats run on being better than republicans, that doesn’t mean they are good…

Right wingers are going to lose their minds over this, but that scares me more than amuses me at the moment.

They will lose their minds over literally anything, they created this whole conspiracy out of thin air and hatred of women.

Someone already got decapitated by their son over MAGA conspiracies this year, so meming about it feels really really reckless to me.

That happened anyway, avoiding making fun of them (by pointing out what they say is nonsense) won’t make their delusions go away.

As someone points out above, this just gives them the power to not authenticate real videos that make them look bad…

And that will in no way be the first step on the road to VLC deciding which videos it allows you to play…

Wow. There are literally zero details in this article and everyone has labeled the cop a murderer.

If they stopped randomly murdering innocent people, people would stop assuming it…