Stein isn’t in the ballot in enough states to win the electoral college. She literally cannot win.

You might as well vote for Barney the dinosaur for all the good it will do.

A vote for a candidate who cannot win is wasted.

The only person older than Trump to ever run in the general election is Biden.

Worse than that. You bought software licenses specific to that Wii, not to an online account. If it died, you lost all your purchases.

And it’s gotten much worse since then. The $185 billion number listed as the highest wealth would be around number 5 now, with Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg, and Arnault all having more than that now I think.

My favorite statistic household net worth (includes cars, houses, retirement, everything).

Median from 2022 was 192,000 Mean from 2022 was 1,063,000

The ultra-rich are such incredible outliers that the mean is more than 5x the median.

The 10 wealthiest people in 2024 control almost 1.7 trillion dollars. That’s more than the GDP of the pooreat 100 countries combined.

Those who hate homosexuals and see them as the “other side” often believe that homosexuals view heterosexuals with the same malice.

Gay people know they’re not the norm, and don’t feel threatened by straight folk unless. They feel threatened by bigots.

I like the bleep-boo sounds of the command prompt scrolling by on computers.

Robert E Lee was the Supreme commanding General of the Confederacy, which seceeded from the United States out of fear that Lincoln and his new, progressive Republican party (times have obviously changed) would outlaw slavery.

The resulting Civil War was by far the deadliest conflict the US has ever been in in terms of US casualties. But the bonus is that since the war over slavery had started anyway, we went ahead and outlawed most slavery while we were at it.

Anyway, a lot of states, especially in the South kept discriminatory laws on the books following the war. As the Civil Rights movements of the 50s and 60s approached, a lot of Southern cities and states started building monuments and dedicating government buildings and parks to Confederate “heroes” and leaders.

They romanticized the Confederacy as a major part of Southern heritage (even though it lasted less than 5 years), and rewrote the history taught in schools to teach that the war wasn’t about slavery, but about the federal government trampling on states rights.

And it worked. Millions of people are brainwashed into thinking that the rebel flag is a racist symbol, but a symbol of individualism and freedom. They tricked generations of Southerners into thinking they aren’t racist.

The sound is higher-quality than the files we’re getting from the streams, so it’s fine.

For me it’s been “I see you bought this specific laser engraver. Would you be interested in buying that exact model?”

No. I already bought it, and it’s not a consumable. If I decided I needed a new laser a week into ownership, it wouldn’t be because I was thrilled with that exact model.

Amen.

Felons can try to make amends. Troy just makes Jager bombs at the office and passes at the 19yo receptionist.

Batman: The Animated Series.

I can’t be racist because that would be hurtful and wrong.

I kept thinking they’d go there, and they still haven’t.

The Jedi sense of balance isn’t balanced at all.

What year were you born?

For me it’s cost and having a place to charge since I rent.

Yes. But at the same time I’m actually okay with ads for products that are legitimately good and are relevant to me, so long as I know they’re an advertisement.

Products need marketing. It’s reality. I’d rather get my marketing in the form of a recommendation or review from a trusted source than a random video shoved down my throat.

A easy example of a good source for me is MKBHD. He gets free stuff and sponsorships, but is selective regarding what he’ll accept sponsorships from, is very clear when a segment is sponsored, and will absolutely say a product is bad or overpriced even if he got it for free.

All of the sequels are weird since the first film is literally about the end of the immortals, but among the billion sequels and TV show, Highlander 2 is definitely the weirdest. I like how the rest of the sequels 100% ignore it.

Like: suddenly they’re aliens and Sean Connery can be resurrected by shouting his name, and he can project a force from his hand, but it’ll make him die again, and Connor is a scientist who made a shield to replace the Ozone in the future but the Ozone layer is actually fine so they have to destroy the shield generator in a Cyberpunk dystopia.

There’s not enough cocaine on the planet to explain that script.

Last I tried that was over 20 years ago, and I was getting bombed with 13,000 spam emails an hour.

Though I’d imagine privately-hosted spam filtering has gotten much better since then.

I think a big problem is many people aren’t wired to appreciate the difference between knowledge and belief. Knowledge and science are the realm of the empirical. Belief is about the unknowable.

Something that can be known cannot be believed, and something that can be believed cannot be known. That separation should be complete, so belief and knowledge never conflict.