Which Dems have you been waiting on to enact progressive policies? The House is controlled by MAGA republicans and the Senate is in a dead lock for the most part. How do you get any progressive policies through there? The Supreme Court is controlled by conservatives that will deny anything moderately progressive.

Real change starts with local and state elections and electing Dems there. If you want that change, then try to help Dems in Texas, Alabama, Tennessee, Florida, etc. Otherwise, just electing a Dem president is not going to suddenly make for progressive policies. It will slow down the MAGA bunch, but it won’t completely stop them until there is real change at the local and state levels.

My feelings exactly. Just being at that dinner with Putin and Flynn is all I needed to see to understand where her allegiances lie.

These jokers like to use the term “freedom” to describe what they are doing, but I would like for someone to tell me how he (and his ilk) have done anything to promote freedom? Freedom for women and their doctors to do what is best for them? NO Freedom for everyone to be able to more easily vote? NO Freedom for people to disagree and have debate about what is best for them? NO Freedom for teachers to teach students to think about and see different views? NO Freedom to date or marry whomever you choose? NO

Is it really only the freedom to carry around guns? Hell, I lived in Florida for 20 years (I left a decade ago) and it was pretty easy to get a concealed carry permit even then, so what exactly is more “free” there than before DeSantis came on the scene? I know he and his rich buddies are free to pretty much do whatever the hell they want, but for the common Floridian?

I’ve been pretty happy with Tidal. MQA gets a lot of criticism, but I have a DAC that decodes it and those re-mastered tracks sound great for the most part. They are moving toward lossless FLACs in addition to MQA. One thing that keeps me with Tidal is their support for play lists with basically unlimited numbers of songs (at least 10,000) - I have a “thumbs up” playlist that I have been curating for many years that is about 4,000 songs and Spotify in particular does not support playlists of that size as far as I know. Tidal also give more money per song to artists that the other companies. I believe Spotify is among the lowest per song, but they have many more users so probably pay out more in total.

This is probably a confirmation that Apple (or to lesser extent Tidal, Amazon and Qobuz) has siphoned away a fair number of Sportify subscribers who care about high quality audio. I’ll probably stick with Tidal although Spotify offers some really good features.

r/HarryPotter missed a chance to only allow pictures of hairy people operating a Potter’s wheel.

This sounds like something the management saw on a Mexican soap opera, what a bizarre way to treat employees. The settlement comes out to around $5k per employee - not enough, they should really feel some pain from doing something like this. I live in the area and have seen these restaurats - thankfully I have never eaten at one that I can remember.

This does nothing to address one of the most expensive aspects of attending college - room and board. With rent and real estate prices climbing dramatically, this is a huge (>50%) part of the expense of college for those who cannot live at home. Students get loans to help cover that and over four years it adds up to many tens of thousands of dollars.