pachrist

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 16 hours ago

But, if the goal isn't necessarily to win the election, only to absolve yourself of blame if you lose the election, then blaming 3rd party voters is the stance for you.

Could it be a poor political platform, or just not even campaigning in the state? Maybe it's just not being appealing enough to the 40% of the electorate that doesn't vote. Couldn't be.

I feel like all the hate for 3rd parties is the same as the hate for immigrants. It's all redirection and obfuscation.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

He needed 2 or 3 years to explore student loans. Maybe this is more complicated, so it will take infinitely longer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Here's the one I have:

https://www.logitech.com/en-us/products/mice/mx-ergo-wireless-trackball-mouse.html?srsltid=AfmBOoopScvacTrJlvPHKsfdFMEv0RYaScMdJHiOYTbrGTcflJoXUqek

I have another Logitech one that cost about $25.

I really, really like it. They're really durable, easy for a kid to use, and pretty inexpensive.

Only con is if you drop it and the ball pops out, it can roll under the couch.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I use a HTPC. Using a traditional mouse is the worst. For a long time I used a Mac Mini because the Apple Bluetooth trackpad is the only external trackpad I've ever used that's any good.

Then I got a Bluetooth trackball mouse. It's by far my favorite. It's rugged, easy to toss around, and it just lives on a couch arm.

The only steaming device I have is a Chromecast that's exclusively used to turn on and off the TV.

[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 week ago (3 children)

As a pretty left person who lives in Tennessee, please get rid of it. Anytime I have this conversation with folks on the right, I always point out that there are more Republican voters in California than Texas. That usually gets them to concede.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Perhaps the strongest argument that it is God punishing sinful states. The old switcheroo right there.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago

Can't be a coincidence that these oil rigs are in the Gulf of MEXICO, creating storms to illegally cross our borders.

Or...

Dems are trying to assassinate TRUMP again with this sad, pitiful storm. Never seen one more pitiful. Mar a Lago is great. Really great. Trump will ride out this hurricane. Never fear.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

You can't use box office take to measure a movie's success.

Shawshank Redemption is often regarded as the best movie of all time. It was a box office flop.

Battlefield Earth is often regarded as the worst movie of all all time. It was also a box office flop.

Using those two examples, obviously the only true measure of a movie's long term success is whether or not they overuse Dutch angles.

If Folie a Deux doesn't use a shit load of Dutch angles, maybe it'll turn out OK.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 weeks ago

People talk about it all the time. Ron Paul was a household name. People we're talking about RFK JR a year ago. People were talking about 3rd parties due to Biden's stance on Palestine. People were talking about it after that first debate. All that's fine, but it only makes the two main parties sweat within 30 days of election. That's when all the "throwing your vote away" rhetoric ramps up.

Rather than doing better, working harder, or standing on better policy to turn out the 35% of people who don't vote, it's easier to vilify 1% of the people who do. That's a problem.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, but the US is too big for trains too. It's too big for planes, cars, all of it. It's been nearly 25 years since Herbert Garrison invented the gyroscopic monowheel but just like Nikola Tesla, he's being silenced by all these corporate fatcats and government bailouts.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago

Crazy to know that Cleopatra was born closer to the creation of Halo: Combat Evolved than to the Great Pyramid of Giza.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Most standups are bad because they're not used as a quick collaboration tool, they're used as a demonstration to prove you're working, and then the least productive people talk the most because they're the most desperate to prove they're working.

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