Platner is kind of the perfect embodiment of the Left's issue with the state of electoralism in this country.

He's very obviously the lesser evil compared to Collins. And you can even make a strategic voting argument that him winning might actually be a catalyst towards moving the Dems in a direction that materially improves people's live. But not enough to fix any fundamental problems, so of course the fascists will take back power again in a few years and undo all that and march us further down the path to Fourth Reichdom.

...and the price you pay for that is you've gotta vote for the unrepentant war criminal.

Oh, and there's like a 80/20 chance that he's just a disingenuous ghoul, or will simply be assimilated into the Dem blob. I honestly think we're going to look back a few years and wonder why in the hell we cared about this guy at all.

Critical support for Kid Starver's policy to indirectly teach tech literacy and problem-solving skills to a new generation by forcing them to circumnavigate technological padlocks.

The serial killer wave of the 70s and 80s was fallout from an MK-ultra-like scheme that was experimenting on unattached young men. My brain says that this is not true, but my heart says it is exactly what happened.

It's so funny that all the mainstream media outlets have to report this like it's real. Trump must get a kick out of that.

The world has collapsed... Only Britain soldiers on.

I assumed via bulb multiplication, much like an onion

I hey, that's my laptop! The trackpad is kinda trash, but that encourages me to use the trackpoint. Use massgrave if you're going to do the Windows 10 downgrade, so you can get the iot ltsc version. I use Fedora on mine without issues. It's so-so for games, but it's great for everything else.

I do agree with the other post that you overpaid for this. But the laptop itself is good.

I thought the gulf monarchies would have tried to constrain Trump and the Israelis on striking water infrastructure, given their own obvious vulnerabilities on that front. Maybe they just don't have any sway anymore... or they are willing to play a game of chicken with IRGC, betting on them being unwilling escalate into actual mass atrocities against civilians.

My dream is for a Link's Awakening style remake of the Oracle duo.

Me too, but for an odd reason: I want all the music in the Oracle duo to be reimagined. It's the one major area where those games fall flat on their face.

I think it's too early for an 18 month old to begin potty training? But she's been voluntarily sitting on the little potty we got her. I think she sees the other toddlers at daycare using the potty, and is imitating them. I suppose we'll just keep letting her do that before bath time (I would really, really appreciate it if she never pooped in the bath again). Little Beaver treats us so well that I don't want to rush her into anything she's not ready for yet.

Finding a new house is on the agenda, and so we're playing the game of "where are the good school districts". It sucks that all the highest rated schools in the state seems to be in these awful bedroom suburbs. So we've identified a few neighborhoods which we would like living in, and hoping to eventually find a listing with enough bedrooms that any potential child #2 wouldn't have to share a room with Little Beaver. We're trying to be realistic with our timeline and budget, since school is years away yet. But we also want to make the transition early, and then stay in the same house for the entire time our kid(s) grow up. I'm not sure how possible it's going to be to get everything at once...

A cursory reading of history, even just recent, makes it undeniable that revolutionary change is inevitable. Just ask any old person about that: they will all tell you that the world that the world they inhabited in their youth no longer exists. So the change is going to happen: the question is just what it will be.

What gives me a lot of revolutionary optimism is that I think we are actually at a unique place in human history: there are a hell of a lot more people around than ever before, more well educated than ever before. More people than ever before are thinking about how to build a better future.