Thanks for this.

It seems people use them less over time. My friend that excitedly got one early on said that it was only good for movies, and then only alone, and that it's too heavy.

I do wonder if having a screen so close to your eyes is unhealthy.

photopea.com

The DNC will be to blame. Maybe me a bit, but mostly the DNC. Particularly because Trump is going to win by a wide margin.

If you don’t want Trump, your issue isn’t really with me.

Maybe that’s tautological.

But I don’t want Biden to be president. If I did, I would just vote for him. I feel like I’m setting a very low bar but I don’t think he’ll survive 4 years, and he’s in serious cognitive decline. I don’t think he’s currently fit for office. He has the nuclear codes. The Ukraine situation is going to probably come to a head in the next few years. He can’t even admit his own decline, and his admin is unable to act rationally. Both candidates are extremely unfit. I’m not voting for either. I don’t want to be beholden to one brand of insanity over another. This has gone too far. No thanks. I’ll be quietly prepping. Happy to consider a replacement though!

I won’t for Biden or Trump. I’d very likely vote for a different democrat. I assume there are lots of independents like me.

Yes, I do know something about dementia and he actually looks like he’s in an early stages. Could be vascular. But even if it’s not “dementia” his cognitive decline is bad, very very bad for someone past the average life expectancy running for president. Trump isn’t an excuse for that. CNN didn’t cause everyone to see it and say omg beyond hosting the debate that the Biden campaign wanted.

People don’t want a president with dementia. Not such a crazy notion.

For every voter that doesn’t see trump as “hitler 2” (which is a very large number), the preference leans away from the guy with dementia.

Of course, one can argue that he doesn’t actually have dementia, but if he doesn’t, he plays the part well enough.

Yeah. Ironic that Joe won’t give it up.

Yes. I watched. It was a bloodbath. Biden came out of the gate with a stumbling non-sequitur that ended with him saying he stopped medicare. It didn’t get much better. He’s clearly in mental decline.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-presidential-debate-some-undecided-voters-see-disastrous-biden-night-2024-06-28/

Those can’t be non-partisan analysts.

Hope the DNC gets themselves a new ticket. I’ve been the annoying chicken little with family and friends warning about what happened last night.

Related, I feel like the internet, the median and social part of it, is mostly bad for people. We read and debate garbage all the time. It adapts to us, and attempts to make us incorrect. I’m deleting apps and spending less time on it.

What should hubski's warning be?

When would be the most strategic time for the Dems to replace Biden? Two weeks before the convention?

IMHO “billionaire class” is political bait, and the debate around AI using the same stuff we do to learn is a distraction from the existential matter at hand.

What I see, is a laissez-faire approach that will let it get away from us, and a social engineering approach that will enslave us all.

We’re in trouble.

Not just predicting the next word.