Paramedic here, this is still half of how it’s done for choking in small children and babies. Five back blows, flip, five chest thrusts.

Look, it makes them happy, it’s free, and it doesn’t cost you anything. It just kinda doesn’t seem like a big deal.

Thanks for this. I wasn’t aware of that. All of my experience around Roe was seeing republicans wanting it dealt with in the legislature/executive.

Gotta love Pelosi, just when the Democrats are in danger of not spilling the spaghetti, she reliably shows up to make a disaster of it. She’s got, like, the anti-McConnel*.

*McConnel is, imo, one of the most talented statesmen of my lifetime. It’s a goddamn shame he’s used his talents for evil. It’s a little bewildering to imagine how different a place the US could be if he’d been on the side of the people. It’s also a powerful statement of what a wreck the GOP has become that Mitch couldn’t control the MAGA/freedom caucus members anymore. I hope the whole thing just implodes on itself and we get something new and less horrible.

This is it. Trump didn’t give a flying shit at all if anything he did was legal, he just went for it, and it worked.

So, I don’t think there’s a good single answer to this question.

Obama isn’t and wasn’t as progressive as he was (and sometimes is, mostly by Republicans) framed. The democrats only had a filibuster-proof majority for a few months, and even then, Joe Lieberman gummed up the works big time on getting the ACA through. Somebody mentioned that they wasted a lot of time trying to get bipartisan support for the ACA, and it’s true. They spent months negotiating against themselves with the republicans, whose answer was always “no”, and by the time they were done, the ACA was a shell of what it could have been. After the ACA, which I must add is basically comprised of all the non-insane (read: mostly pointless) reforms the Republicans were proposing as well as some more rational reforms, the right-wing hype machine started red-lining (as in tachometers, not the racist housing policy, though I guess that could also work since they really didn’t want that black man living in that house) and you’d have thought we had an actual communist overthrow of the government on our hands. The democrats absolutely bungled the PR (the more things change, the more they stay the same, huh) and pissed off everyone outside the party and made everyone inside the party facepalm. After the supermajority disappeared, the republicans started cynically abusing the filibuster and turned the rest of Obama’s presidency into anything from a lame duck to just one (republican caused) crisis after another.

Tl;Dr a lot of the democrats aren’t progressives, and we had a lot more of the old cold war blue dog crowd that Biden is from than we do now, mixed with absolutely bunglefucking both the political strategy and PR around the ACA and not being able to get past the filibuster once the supermajority disappeared.

P.S. it’s worth noting that, at the time, Roe was considered settled law. From what I recall, nobody was too anxious about the SCOTUS citing 400 year old witch hunters and overturning pretty well settled and accepted case law. The republicans were generally seeking to overturn Roe via the federal legislature/executive at the time.

Still going to poison the results and be embarrassing when the LLM starts putting creative commons licensing in its output.

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Oh come on

Unfunny, boomer, asshole, tries to sound cool, smart, and above everyone else, pretty sure OP is actually Elon Musk. Hope you’ve enjoyed your welcome, Elon.

Holy shit, am I talking to Elon? Hey, buddy, I’m sure your dick is very cool, please stop laying people off

ITT: OP has a public skill issue as they claim to be funny

Man, this is just what I’ve been looking for. I was just saying to myself that the iPod nano was really three ten thousandths of a meter too big.

This is based? You must be pretty easy to impress, OP.

Yeah, “anyone can paint” is a big theme that Bob harped on a lot through the series run. He talks about it almost every episode, and that’s kind of the point of “the joy of painting”. It’s not a talent show, it’s to show you that it’s a lot more fun and less difficult than you might think.

Woah, woah, woah. Universal healthcare? Fixing homelessness? Trains? That’s crazy talk. We never agree on anything on Washington. Oh, a bill to just shit all over the Constitution and do whatever we want? Lol, we’ll have it done in time for dinner.

Okay, but won’t someone please think of the investors? If we did anything to try and save the great barrier reef, it might make the line go up a little less fast! :(

I feel like this is one of those things that definitely has to have happened before now; after all, grid-scale solar isn’t something we’ve just started doing in the last two or three years, we’ve been at it for at least 15 that I know of. And hail isn’t exactly a new phenomenon in TX. So I wonder why we’re hearing about it like it’s news. Is this fossil fuel funded bad press? Did they skimp on protection they shouldn’t have?

They pulled this same shit with Play Music. I lost years of music I’d bought with no recourse other than “use our shitty YouTube app, and if you want to listen without internet, then fuck you. (=”

I don’t care who they send or kill, I’m not fucking using YouTube music. I’ll just do without, thanks.

I think it really comes down to how much faith you have in other people. I know it’s popular to hate and mistrust other people, and I think that’s how the dominant market, social, and political forces like it. I think other people have an unfair rap, and most folks are generally decent, intelligent people who genuinely want to do the right thing. We never would have survived as a species if that wasn’t true, imo, much less built cities of any kind. If you don’t have that faith, I can’t give it to you. As for me, I’ve been around, lived a lot of places, did thirteen years in EMS and seen a lot of folks on their worst day, and I’ve been left with the impression that while the worst actors are the loudest, most people deserve more credit than we give them.

Because usually these texts are actually laughably bad. If people can come to them critically, on their own terms, Mein Kampf, the Turner Diaries, and so on end up being laugh track material when racist fuckheads trot them out. Keeping them in the dark means that the only people controlling the narrative and access to these texts are the bad guys; they gain a lot more control over how these texts are talked about, and that’s not a good thing.