Mirror Slap

His economic policies have been disastrous in Florida. Why do you think he would be good for the country, specifically on the economy? The construction industry, agriculture, medical, insurance, cost of living, inflation, education - Florida has nose dived with the continuation of DeSantis and far right policies in all of these areas. The status hemorrhaging doctors that are simply leaving, educators that are simply leaving, insurance providers are gone, there’s a 9-month wait just to get a company to roof your house, new construction has ground to a standstill, agriculture can’t find anyone to do field work, Disney has canceled hundreds of millions of dollars of investment in the state, etc. etc. I’m just shocked that anyone would want this for the rest of the country. All of the statistics and all of this information has been repeatedly making national headlines for a year.

I work in IT and had to abandon Firefox because of compatibility issues that came up on a regular basis. it appears companies are simply not using it as part of their QA anymore. Also, in general the GUI theming has issues for me with the font and distinguishing highlights with my crappy vision. I tried every theme out there and for some reason apparently people writing themes just don’t care to make it so you can see what is highlighted and what is not. Even The default theme sucks in my opinion. There were a number of other nits that I just kept having issues with - getting prompted on eBay to verify my identity for no reason, repeatedly, which doesn’t happen on chromium and stuff like that.

I wish Apple would adopt the Firefox rendering engine and take Safari cross platform. It would give Firefox a fighting chance at the overall market.

I wish I still had a Facebook account to post this too so the right wingers would see it.

“She fell funny”

It’s really not a rumor at this point, she informed the courts to set aside an entire week just to deal with the indictments. That’s a lot of time just for that.

Always before the political party would be pretending to care. The GOP ISN’T EVEN PRETENDING. They’ve embraced extremist fuse like banning abortion and various other wildly unbelievably unpopular things. There is massive support for gun safety legislation, for tax relief for everyday people rather than corporations, for medical care reform, younger people support science and the GOP is blatantly anti-science in every way possible, just over and over again, there is absolutely nothing at all to attract younger voters or even middle-aged voters. The pendulum will never swing back as it stands today.

We have no example anything like what we’re seeing now. Those turning 18 are 87% blue. Every day boomers die, kids turn 18, and 83,000 votes change to blue - every day. The demographics are staggering. Want to know why the “red wave” was a pink trickle? That’s why. At no point in US history in the last 150 years have we seen anything like this. The GOP will lose the Presidency in 24 - there will be over 5 million new blue voters, and people aren’t turning red as they age anymore. The GOP will lose the House and Senate too. Attrition via death - the red side doesn’t have enough voters left.

Well, fork, I hadn’t looked at this team behind Brave. I use both Firefox and Brave. Bye bye Brave…

I am using Sync, and I paid for a year of it. A year from now, I’ll evaluate and maybe pick something else. Do I care if it costs a tiny bit of $ for a solid app experience that performs better than the rest, because it has dedicated development resources? Nope. Having read the details on what data is collected, do I have privacy concerns? Nope. Do I think folks have gone a little over the top about certain things? Yes. Bad enough having to leave reddit without making it even more complicated.

I attempted to find a point in your statement but I failed. You seem to be trying to draw a parallel of some sort between empires from hundreds of years ago and a modern day nation.

Delusional that they think distributing that book in that country will promote tolerance. “So, tell me more about your ‘Prophet’ that marries 9 year old girls…”.

Of The seven Trump voters in my immediate family and friends list, zero voted for him in 2020. what do you think he has done to change that since then? I have queried them and none of them support him anymore still, quite the opposite, after the insurrection they consider him a traitor, and only one of them is skeptical about the current court cases against him. The rest expect him to go to jail, legitimately.

Facepalm - trying to justify teaching that slavery was in any way good…

Well, what in the world is a “moderate” these days? I don’t know of a middle stance anymore. On one side in the USA we have book-banning, anti-science, christofascist, anti-woman, anti-lgbtq, isolationist, traitors with the average IQ of a potato. On the other side we’ve got the Democrats, who’s policies align with the 1990s GOP.

So, what is a “moderate”? You agree with abortion banning, are anti-vax, and deny climate change? BUT you don’t believe in Jewish space lasers, you don’t support insurrections, and you’re ok with birth control?

You see the issue here? The tag “moderate” doesn’t work anymore. Just as there’s no middle ground between Ukraine and Russia. It’s why nobody here is going to take you seriously. Go use one of the de-federated echo chambers if you want support for whatever crazy bits you believe.

That’s nice to say, but divorced from real-world reality. I think you should tell that to the rest of the GOP who support corporate welfare by failing to raise the minimum wage. Walmart wouldn’t exist if they paid a “fair wage” and every time it comes up to force a fair wage? It gets blocked because it would hurt businesses. So which is it?

DeSantis just shot the citrus industry and construction industry in the head with both barrels. It’s short-sighted and foolish, and they’re already panicking based on their statements. An intelligent, reasoned administration would have identified that it was a bad idea to, you know, kill the citrus industry. It would proposed and passed a comprehensive multi-year plan to phase out immigrant labor and potentially worked with the federal government to create work program visas like they do out west. Did they do that? No. Why? Because they’re idiots.

Meanwhile, crops rot on the vine, food prices will rise, farms will go bankrupt. real estate is nose diving, and Florida continues to fall further into the bottom third of states in every ranking that counts.

By no measure is it a ‘minor jolt’, and that statement reveals your complete ignorance of the magnitude of the situation. We’re talking almost the ENTIRE FLORIDA CITRUS CROP - there’s no one to harvest it. You think they’re going to somehow raise wages and magically workers willing to do that work will appear? /facepalm

A step in the right direction how? Florida crops are rotting on the vine and construction work has ground to a sudden halt. The impact to Florida’s economy is going to be dramatic and devastating.