Yeah yours is a more thorough and less flippant description of what I meant.

We used to make fun of all the corporate word salad that the Managment would use at my last “real” job. But it really was weird salad all the way down [up].

Being convincing and confident without actually knowing is how 9/10s of them make it to the C suite.

That’s probably why they don’t worry about confidently incorrect AI.

Only the HBO shows on Max have the static. If you watch the garbage reality shows it isn’t there.

Cheap led tvs were like 1/5 the cost of Analog TVs. The digital switch over really finished them off too.

Really it’s the size/price that did it though. My buddy paid I think $3k for a maybe 40” Trinitron in 99-2000. It probably weighed 200lbs. Looked amazing at the time but it was probably only months before big leds came out. Plasma might have been a thing then but we’re like $10k+

The “shitter’s full” third I hope.

Most of the far left want all money out of politics, know that corporations aren’t people, and that politicians spend way too much time raising money instead of legislating.

The problem is that the moderates are convinced that they need to spend the same amount as the right wing super pacs. Which Trump proved was probably unnecessary in 2016 (though he has the electoral college advantage that the left lacks).

Getting the money out would also get Wallstreet and aipac out too.

I still haven’t forgiven him for the ear biting.

Yeah I suspect all his training has been just so he doesn’t die or go full vegetable after the knockout.

Yeah, even a real fucking primary would probably have helped.

I really hope it won’t have to come to physical conflict, because we won’t win that with a 12% deficit either.

Yes: Pinto beans are called chili beans for a goddamn reason. But also kidney beans in the mix (and black beans at least) are delicious too.

If you go by length instead of ridership it seems extremely plausible. Australia is a big place and building 2 lanes for mostly freight trains is an unnecessary expense.

Sidings/loops/passing tracks, allow trains to pass on a single track, and since things can be more regular scheduled (ideally anyway) with trains, they can work well enough and with much less track building needed.

Around 55 years, when the southern strategy was enacted to solidify racist support for Republicans.

Before that the parties were more mixed and it was the confederates and robber barons doing the damage. Before that it was the slave owners. And before that it was the colonizers. Before that it was probably whichever tribe had the best growing season or pointiest flint arrowheads.

I’m starting to second guess what the point of progress really is. Are we trying to ride humanity out until the heat death of the universe? Or just the next billion years before the sun boils our oceans away? Another 2000 years so today’s assholes can become deities? 52 more years the the US Tricentennial?

It really seems like they could quote sources.

But if they did that it’d be way easier to detect the plagiarism and they’d be liable for tons of copyright infringement.

I have no proof of this, just a hunch/consiracy.

Which is also why most slices end up as wedges if your aren’t paying attention.

He could shoot someone and still be president.

But would a picture of someone else shooting their load all over him do the same?

I stayed with NT/2000 and my gf had ME on a junker Compaq display model her rents picked up at Circuit City maybe.

I think I switched it back up 98SE so she could write papers without it crashing or lagging all the time. She’d play the Money Python Holy Grail game, but it always would crash at one specific point. I gotta ask her what it was and see if I can find a copy to run in a VM.

He also didn’t like that kid who was tracking his plane.

I still think controlling (and ruining) it as a platform was an initial goal.