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When did I say anything about being "so singularly focused [...] that they are unable to enact policy"? They choose not to pursue the policy positions you want largely because it's politically expedient.

Part of that includes actually doing their jobs

This right here is where you're not hearing me

What you define as "doing their jobs" and "doing the thing most effective at getting them re-elected" are not the same thing. That's literally the problem. Humans aren't as ethical, self-aware, intelligent, and future-thinking as you seem to want to believe.

Humans are, in fact, incredibly easy to manipulate, as it turns out.

Your idealism is noble but untempered by reality. Solving this particular problem will require something far different from simply abstaining from voting or whatever, and until you and others are ready for that, shitting on Harris and Biden for playing the rhetoric game when the alternative at the moment is a literal extreme fascist is not only a pointless endeavor but actually puts other people in harms way

Tell me you've never worked in US politics without telling me you've never worked in US politics, speedrun edition

I'll try to remember to explain the details to you when I'm not actively deplaning from a week-long work trip, because I'm not down with the "do your own research" attitude. But for real, if you have the opportunity to talk to someone who has actually dealt with state or federal election campaigning I encourage you to discuss the nuance of this with them.

In truth, politicians literally never stop campaigning. Every single decision they make until the moment they decide not to run for office again is colored by the need to get elected again. And even then, they are all thinking about how their actions are going to impact their colleagues and successors

Let's be completely clear about one thing that you both seem to be neglecting in this conversation:

You cannot govern if you lose. And due to how our government is structured and how elections work, an administration gets maybe two years (more like 12-18 months) of actual governing before they have to start focusing on getting (re)elected.

So it's all well and good to ask for radical change and drastic measures to avert climate disaster. But if the consequence of those actions is that democrats up and down every ticket lose the next election, it's all for naught, because it's FAR easier to dismantle hastily enacted radical changes than it is to cement them long term, especially when the people coming into power after you have no scruples about lying, cheating, and profiteering.

Historical evidence suggests that radical honesty regarding complex issues is not a winning political strategy.

One of the main reasons democrats lose so much is because they often prefer to take the moral high ground instead of, you know, winning.

Psychology has been weaponized and your faith in the general public to reward honesty is, sadly, misguided. We know this. It's been proven out over and over again, in many ways..

So we can stick our heads in the sand, or we can play the game and then govern to the best of our ability after winning.

And that is exactly what the reply means by privilege. It is a luxury to be able to think that far ahead.

It turns out, when you're at risk of being dead in a week, a month, or a year, you tend not to care about whether humanity will be around in 20 years.

So having the ability to focus on the long term is a privilege that the vulnerable do not have.

Of course, these things are not mutually exclusive. But when you have two parties that both suck at climate care, but only one of them is trying to incarcerate or kill LGBTQA+ folks, for example, and your focus is on things like "don't vote for anyone or you're supporting fascism and climate destruction" it reeks of privilege and a disregard for the immediate welfare of your neighbors.

EDIT: To put it another way - if the cost of humanity's survival is sacrificing our LGBTQA+ neighbors, perhaps humanity is not worth saving.

Ado has a crazy range of styles in their music too; it's very hit or miss for me. This one needs to have me in the right mood heh.

Some tracks worth checking out that have a different style:

• All Night Radio
• Kura Kura (arranged by the unbelievably talented Yoko Kanno)
• MIRROR
• Value
• Dried Flowers (cover)
• Yoru no Pierrot

And while it's much more similar to the OP track, no Ado song list would be complete without her most famous song and the one that shows off her vocal creativity and flexibility the most:

• Show

The range she has in her voice is truly impressive. Interestingly she has no formal vocal training and learned everything emulating sounds from other musicians and especially vocaloid tracks.

She also writes almost all her own songs and is heavily involved in the mixing and production process

Oh, and she's only 22, but has taken Japan by storm

For anyone questioning this logic, try running your "idle" CPU without a heatsink of any kind.

Last time I saw something like that was in a mini PC case and it was the socket for connecting the fan power switch. Like, there was a simple three-position slide switch on the back of the case to control the case fan speed (off, slow, fast), and there was a cable snaking from the switch to an edge slot connector like this.

You may need to contact Sonnettech directly for more info.

Hahaha I figured something like but couldn't resist the opportunity :D

For those following along: SEAWATER IS NOT SALINE EITHER. Just making sure we're clear on everything

Technically, I guess the doctor is being given credit for the biological work of a pilot, not a nurse. And nobody likes the pilot.