Pennsylvania is a big state, with a lot of people who depend on fracking for economic stability

Factually untrue, but I only saw your comment because I hadn’t signed in yet, it seems you’re already on my block list but wanted to provide the answer for others:

https://lemmy.world/comment/12884593

I did the math yesterday, 0.5% of people in PA work in any field related to fossil fuels.

The confusion is it’s an absolute shit ton of state gdp, it’s just very few people are employed in the I dustry and most make bad pay in terrible conditions.

But fossil fuel production can’t exactly pack up a mountain and .over it to a friendlier state like other industries.

Monopoly started out to show that capitalism is based on luck and opportunity, and that the end result is one person owning everything.

The whole process is miserable and even when you win you have to sit thru a prolonged ending where you slowly drain every last resource from you friends and family.

It’s not a bad game, they just overestimated how well Americans can pick up irony.

Originally called “The Landlord’s Game” Parker Brothers changed it to something less obviously terrible in the run up to the great depression.

I don’t know if Far Side is really that deep but:

The only way to win is to not play

Is literally the point the game tries to beat over family’s heads for hours at a time.

It could be a coincidence this came out less than a week after an identical poll found this:

Pennsylvania voters continue to be split over fracking. A poll out this week, which surveyed 700 likely voters in September, shows 58% support a ban on fracking while 42% oppose it.

https://www.wvia.org/news/pennsylvania-news/2024-10-10/pa-voters-split-on-fracking-but-show-widespread-support-for-stronger-regulations

But both are outside each other’s margin of error, it’s a big difference.

Deja Vu is just an error with how we save memories.

It skips working memory, short term memory, and goes straight into long term memory so everything we experience feels like we’re remembering it, but no matter how hard you try you can’t remember the future.

During certain recreational activities, it can last long enough to realize what’s happening. Normally you just get a brief moment of it till shit gets straightened out.

I know it seems pedantic, but I think it’s rise in use especially with stock prices has a large effect in people’s minds and has helped usher in the stock culture where numbers must always go up and any dip is death.

Like, you know those studies about how language shapes people’s minds and more communal languages lead to people who often think of others and prioritizes the group?

I think y axis graphs not starting at zero is leading to decades of financial analysts obsessed with the most minute changes and drastically over reacting to anything that happens, even if stepping back to a 0 Y graph the change wouldn’t even be noticeable.

Obviously I’m not mad you linked it, it gave me a chance to vent about this stupid graph.

I’m pissed CNBC is doing it, they have people that know better but this graph is more sensationalized so that’s what they ran with.

The thing is this shit has real life consequences and our economy is fundamentally built on people’s opinions. If people get scared of investing in general because of zoomed in graphs and panic sell, it could domino into an actual crash.

Like, you ever have one of those days where you think Nero was smart for just kicking back and watching the show and Cassandra was the crazy one because she never stopped trying to explain what she thought was obvious?

It looks like it because the Y axis doesn’t start at zero.

If it went to zero, then yes that would be a textbook example.

When we had to print stuff out it could be defended, but even then I’d like it to start at zero and show a break to jump up.

If being zoomed out to zero means it erases the change being shown, then that matters. Not zeroing the y axis can make anything look crazy.

I dunno, I’m a stats nerd, I’ll rant about it every time I see it.

Nah, as much as he has it would have cratered the price, especially because everyone around him would dump immediately.

This is just someone trying to beat it, and trump is likely furious.

If he was cashing out, and he’d have pulled everything at once.

I always knew his teleprompter wasn’t just lines to a prewritten speech.

They literally have people that type messages to him in real time, but they can’t put a lot up there so he just gets vague topics and rambles about it, then when a new message pops up he changes immediately to that.

But you understand how Biden breaking US and international law makes people who are disengaged think both parties are the same?

Like, we can tell at them and scold them that it’s better when Dems do it…

Or Kamala can come out and say she’ll follow the law. Considering she has said multiple times she has no issues with how Biden has done things and wouldn’t have done anything different…

That only hurts Dems and makes trump (way worse shit) look acceptable.

So you think trump giving aid to Russia against US law would be ok if it gets him votes?

This is the exact reason turnout is low.

Lots of voters won’t hold their nose to blatant crimes even if the only other option does more crimes…

I’ve had a lot of success explaining the link between fossil fuel use and climate change by taking it very basic and explaining fossil fuels are just stored carbon that was taken out of circulation and now we’re releasing it all at once

watched the crowd during “Rich Men North of Richmond” and then, finally, left the stage to shake hands on his way out during one last song.

That’s a pretty good song, and if anything is just a plea for progressive policy…

But conservatives just heard “north of Richmond” and latched onto it as a pro-confederacy song.

On August 25, Anthony released a video statement on YouTube. On the Republican presidential debate, he said: “It was funny seeing my song at the presidential debate, because I wrote that song about those people, you know. … That song is written about the people on that stage—and a lot more, too. Not just them, but definitely them.”[34] He clarified that he does not support President Joe Biden, either.[35]

Anthony said that his song has been “weaponized” by the right and the left: “I see the right trying to characterise me as one of their own. And I see the left trying to discredit me, I guess in retaliation.”[36] He said the people he wrote about in the song have “done everything they can in the last two weeks to make me look like a fool, to spin my words, to try to stick me in a political bucket.” He also addressed those who interpreted the song as “an attack against the poor”, saying that “all of my songs that reference class defend the poor”. He said of “Rich Men”: “30-some million people understood what I was saying, but it only takes a few to try to derail the train, to try to send out false narratives.”[34]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Men_North_of_Richmond

Edit:

For those who haven’t heard it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOZ5T6bKbNo

And it’s mostly all in one place…

I never realized how valuable that data was

The new MechWarrior should be tight and Dead Island 2 is a lot of fun

Yeah, but that’s the same as someone writing on a bathroom stall at this point.

Nope, as a kid I had to go to other farms to collect manuare then spread it on the fields of my family’s farm

I’m curious if this was some kind of DDOS, or if someone was trying to use it to train AI and was pulling everything to make a local copy

About the only way to ensure you’re not training AI on bots, is to use “old internet” when bots were more obvious

It’s a deep cut, so not many will get it, but this reminds me of Bonaroo South by from “Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell”

He knows that! He wants you to headline Coachella AND the shit farm!

On a post about how important PA is…

And for the record, lots of people heard about her tie breaking vote in support of fracking 2 years ago.

Just because some people only care every 4 years, doesn’t mean that’s everyone else level of involvement

It should.

But it isn’t.

So why don’t we try to get Kamala away from that conservative policy? It gets the votes to beat trump and we end up with a president who’s policy aligns more closely with the Dem voter base.

It’s literally a win/win, why spend time yelling at people to vote (when we know that’s not effective) instead of trying to get Kamala to move to the left and get the votes?

When we know that’s effective

If Biden hadn’t been pulled left in 2020, he wouldn’t have beat trump.