Trump is still running against an extremely divisive candidate -

From my perspective, a year of stability won't undo the inflation that's already happened. I'm not sure how much Biden could realistically do, but "it could have been worse" is still a lame message.

On the issues I personally care about, he's been awful: approving new oil pipelines left and right, avoiding calling for a ceasefire and having the audacity to ask for $14 billion more in "aid", blocking the railroad strike, etc.

I live in a red state where my vote doesn't matter anyways. I am seriously considering writing someone in or leaving the president slot blank. I can't claim any insight on the election, and I still hope he wins instead of Trump obviously, but if he loses, that's on the Dems

I just saw the Beths! Great concert & great band

Chess is too simple for them

I agree with your take -

get in this argument a lot but I don't think anything's replacing phones any time soon. At this point - its basically just a screen, assuming you still need that what more can you do

I think we've hit peak social media tbh

Facebook's been on the decline for ages, tiktok's only getting worse, twitter is a mess

new zealand just swung pretty rightwards too

The Mille stuff is wild

I feel like theres some design overlap between

and the first watch I ever owned

Also wow that automaton is cool. Reminds me of the sorta stuff they used to do in Victorian times, neat that that whole tradition isn't lost

Tbf, I would have expected jewelry worn by medical professionals to be *more* practical than for everyone else, so I kinda get the confusion.

Thats interesting that watchmakers dont wear fancy watches, I would have guessed they did. I guess part of the mystique about buying a 200k watch that you're joining an exclusive club and having the club include the ppl who make things for you isnt as glamorous

Thank you, thats so cool!

Art history with kleinbl00 is like my favorite thing on hubski these days :)

And wow those winders are elaborate. There's something poetic about it being built into a wall clock.

I feel like I'm not yet ready for the DB28. The skeleton ones I get but that one seems to be showing off like, the least exciting parts of the mechanism.

& I wonder what other types of jewelry a clock could be fit into. For like, pretty good reason it seems like it's all armbands and desk art, but a mechanized tiara would be funny at least

Other ones that stood out to me -

this one's cool, is this a trend? compared to the other ones on the link it seems really unique,

hard to get a sense of scale but it looks so tiny! I wonder if you have to wind it from the back.

(speaking of - for ppl who own multiple watches for different outfits, how do you keep them all running? that's gotta be a bit of a chore)

& the De Bethune DB Eight i just find nice to look at

really like how the 30 joins up for both dials

I like the Beauregard from the front but from the side it totally looks like teeth

srsly -

the context is incredibly obvious to everyone. You don't bring up that in theory a disease could be made that did that, without implying that Covid-19 was. It would be entirely irrelevant to mention otherwise.

And ofc it's the Jews again. Can some other ethnicity be the target of whackjob conspiracy theories. The Dutch have had it too good too long

And what if? the wildfires were caused by Jewish Space Lasers

Because every other Democrat thinks that parroting insane conspiracy theories is disqualifying.

And asking honestly, even if Kennedy's other policies were standard Democrat fare, what about him is better than Biden ?? How is this less baggage ??

i still don't really get what everyone's problem with Hillary was. like, she's an establishment hack and not very progressive and not at all exciting, which is exactly the same as Biden

I don't know either. Not really anyone I'm excited about for the presidential race. I feel like if you've gotta be low-energy, Biden hasn't been awful. I'm still mad about all the new oil pipelines, but he's at least made a halfhearted attempt at some good stuff when it doesnt get blocked by congress and the courts. Not sure what else he really can do tbh

Eeeeh, everythings awful bleh

Screw Kennedy Jr

ok c'man

i dont love biden either

but Kennedy?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy_Jr.#Anti-vaccine_advocacy_and_conspiracy_theories_on_public_health

basically his only think is being anti-vaxx with a bit of anti-trans thrown in for spice

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/13/1187272781/rfk-jr-kennedy-conspiracy-theories-social-media-presidential-campaign

And I fail to see what's so wrong about what the DEI instructor said. Did she call it "egregious racism?"

He was basically saying "things aren't so bad here," and she's saying "no, they are, please let me give my talk"

that was the whole exchange, nothingburger is a totally fair description imo. Where is the bullying?

Its a hard pill to swallow for the left because it is very explicitly voter suppression against them. Why target youth specifically? What makes the military so enlightened that they don't need to take the test? (rhetorical- its because the military votes republican)

Vivek seems pretty wild too -

raising the voting age to 25 unless they pass a poll test or work in the military ??

halt any mandate to even measure carbon dioxide ??

no offense but this guy sucks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivek_Ramaswamy#Political_positions

if you want a moderate republican vote for biden lol

well said

i was really hoping this article was going to be about the $$ going to big businesses and immediately pilfered by shareholders,

or to ones run by trump in particular

and was sorely disappointed

To me, the discovery from Bandcamp is in the followers feed and nothing else. I add people I know, or who have already bought an album I love and sometimes they'll have something interesting.

Certainly a lot of noise to signal, I'm sure your torrent system is better. But what I like about it most is that it is definitely not an algorithm.

For the most part, I think you're correct. My main worry is that we'll find out that there's a lot of things that nobody in power really cares about being doing 'right,' especially when being done unreliably is essentially free.

So things that were done with some amount of care and love purely because a human was doing them will be replaced with an AI that's 60% as good and 5% the cost and the world will be more mediocre than it was before