This is my favorite visualization of how obscenely wealthy the mega rich are.

So you’re saying I can get there…

Thanks! That’s a different way of looking at the problem that I hadn’t considered.

I’ve opted to wait a year to change insurance companies so I could resume seeing my old doc instead of starting the process as a new patient under someone else, because honestly I’d be seen at a comparative time.

This is quickly becoming beyond my knowledge pool, but does this assume that all life is intrinsically linked to oxygen?

Earth has been quite obviously life-bearing for at least 2 billion years. We should have been wiped out long ago.

I believe the theory is that as civilizations broadcast a signal indicating life exists strong enough such that it is picked up by other civilizations, the dark forest theory applies. Essentially we haven’t broadcasted a signal loud enough to be picked up

That’s the thing though, you tossed out ideas that should matter to the American people if Democrats proposed them only to be opposed by Republicans, but we see that already has happened, and as far as I can tell, folks don’t care.

So we should do the same again?

This document should cover many of the points, so it’ll be referred to a lot.

• Cheaper health care.
• Cheaper housing.
• Cheaper groceries.
• Cheaper fuel.
• Codify reproductive freedom in law.
• Hold the media accountable to the truth.
• Ban insider trading in Congress. Obama era STOCK act that failed to stop insider training, but details shmetails right?

I can’t believe asking for how we’d pay for proposed policy changes and what they think the long term effects of their proposed policies will be is now controversial.

What a time to be alive.

The thumbnail makes this look like a weird taxidermy floor jack

Because any president doing this immediately comes across as a 5 year old pretending to have a magic wand.

I’m looking at the list of a dozen items you made - you can’t just say “I want this” and not have a detailed plan for how it’s meant to be executed - where the money comes from, what effects it’s expected to have, etc.

When you are proposing legislation that you know won’t be able to be made into law, you’re just virtue signaling since even you believe there’s no real-world impact. People are even frustrated with Bidens attempts as they are - I’ve definitely read frustrated comments here talking about how Bidens approach to relieving student debt is so poorly thought out that nobody will actually benefit.

This is how you end up with poorly thought out legislation.

I’m doing 1000 calculations in my head and they’re all wrong

It definitely was the last chance I saw a lot of folks.

Yeah, I know, that means I wasn’t intentional enough yadda yadda yadda, but high school really was the last time a lot of folks are in an environment where social interactions are so passively encouraged. After high school, you’re no longer pressured to keep in touch with folks that you’ve known for 4, 6, or even 12 years, and a lot of people do naturally fall out of touch.

Is that really what convinced people though?

Don’t imagine the folks with megaphones actually convert many folks.

Let’s be honest, Lemmy is not a good sample of the general population. We’re all atypical in one way or another, it makes sense that niche extremism concentrates here.

Over how much time?

Yeah, I’m not religious anymore, but in college I led a homeless outreach team for Christian students where we’d go downtown every week to provide food and friendship to the unhoused. The single most regularly attending person was sikh. The fact that she joined even though it was a different religion (we’d pray before and after the night) spoke volumes to me, and it made me respect the religion a lot. In fact, the thought that someone like her would technically not go to heaven simply due to believing in a different religion was one of the reasons why I stopped practicing.

I’ve always been taught that “good” Christians convert others by being so kind and generous that others ask “what drives them to be like that?” And that’s the proper way to proselytize. None of this preaching, damnation and hellfire stuff. Be a good and inspirational enough person that others will naturally be drawn to what drives you. It’s a shame that the loudest voices get the most attention.

That being said, when our military supplies are being used to bomb Palestinian kids

Ukraine is on the same coin, so it’s a matter of how you choose to look at it.

When conservative media pushes the same news script to over 200 local news stations across the nation, it is dangerous to our democracy.