Absurd to exclude Texas, which would almost certainly go blue if all eligible voters voted. It goes a long way toward explaining why the GOP pushes so hard to limit voting here.

At least they’re actually arresting them ¯_(ツ)_/¯

“Your honor, we clearly did not commit election interference, we committed fraud. Also, we’re not even doing it here anymore, so…we rest our case.”

I swear to Christ that corporate America is only getting worse. The best thing that could happen to just about every major corporation would be aggressive antitrust action resulting in a breakup. All the FAANG companies would be a good start, along with every media company you could name.

I’ve thought for quite some time that software companies in general, and game developers in particular, are a natural for worker-owned co-ops to break from the stereotypical realm of co-op grocery stores and coffee shops. Start up costs can be kept low, and marginal cost of distribution is negligible.

This seems like a great move.

Also, the tenor of commentary is different than it was this time in 2020. A lot more “someone should do something” and a lot less “I’m going to do something.”

Yeah, and Capitol police will probably be much more willing to default to lethal force considering they lost a few people the last go-round.

If you want a group to preemptively round up and detain, let’s talk about youth pastors and church youth group leaders. At least there’s evidence of a trend there.

You mention not having any human contact other than your family, that sounds really stressful especially if they’re on you for not having a job. Are there any opportunities where you are to do volunteer work, like at animal shelters, hospitals, or similar options? That would expose you to other people, could help with depression (helping others often does,) and might even give you some leads on jobs.

This goes back a long way. There are posts on neo-nazi BBS systems from the 80s where they are talking about the strategy of making a racist comment, then playing it off as a joke if there’s pushback, and noting that a given audience may be receptive to more extreme and overt racist messaging in the future.

He was also a big part of…The Story of Everest!

https://youtu.be/e6H_uyNFbb0?si=x136QSR7s9vrgQgI

Not sure why you’re being downvoted. Glaciers formed over millennia. If they melt, they’re gone, even if we drop CO2 to pre-industrial levels. The Antarctic ice sheet is millions of years of snow that fell at the rate of a few inches a year and just didn’t melt. If significant portions of that fall off and melt, it’ll be millions of years more for the water it adds to the oceans to cycle back to the ice sheet again. The changes we have made will not be reversed automatically or in many cases at all.

Because it won’t work? That’s what I got from the article. I’m not sure what else you’re implying.

Not really. If Trump wins and returns the favors Musk has done, Musk benefits enormously. If Harris wins, for Musk things largely remain status quo based on previous democratic administrations. Hundreds of millions in cash don’t mean much to him one way or the other.

The question was “what word or phrase annoys you,” not “do you understand this phrase.”

I know what the phrasing means, it still bugs the shit out of me.

“Not me” doing something.

Just say you’re doing something, and accept that it may be a bit hypocritical or shameful that you’re doing it.

I feel like this deserves a Skinner meme.

“Could it be that people want to be treated equally regardless of who they are attracted to?

No, it must be a communist plot.”

Counterpoint: it could happen to nicer people, and it’s great that for once it didn’t.

The graphic design on this made me think it was a D&D spell or item description at first.

I guess it would be a +2 to intelligence if academic papers were more readily accessible.

Ford famously pardoned Nixon so he couldn’t be prosecuted for his involvement in the Watergate cover up. It’s arguable that prosecution and prison time for Nixon would have set a different precedent than we have in place now.

George HW Bush pardoned a bunch of people who were involved in Iran-Contra, as well as Armand Hammer for illegal campaign contributions to Nixon-“coincidentally” after Hammer donated $110k to the RNC.

Bill Clinton pardoned his HUD secretary of lying to the FBI, pardoned his half brother Roger, his CIA chief, a partner of his in the Whitewater deal, and multiple democratic representatives who had been found guilty of bank fraud.

George W Bush pardoned Scooter Libby, Dick Cheney’s chief of staff.