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themeatbridge,

Except he wasn’t outed as a bigot. He was outed as “not a bigot”.

themeatbridge,

I don’t think you’re wrong about the first part, but I disagree that Americans wouldn’t vote to support Israel. Many Americans support Israel for religious reasons, and many more see the nation as the only ally we have in the Middle East. It’s a dramatic oversimplification of the reality, but nobody ever lost an election underestimating the American voters.

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I think you’re giving the average American voter too much credit. First off, you wouldn’t need 50%, just 50% of voters. More than half of the American voting population does not understand the conflict. Whether it’s disinformation overload or apathy, too many voters simply do no have an opinion on what supporting Israel means. This is a nuanced conflict with a long history and complicated international implications. In the time it would take just to bring everyone up to speed, Israel could empty their arsenal of bombs.

Also, what makes you think the left is anti-war? For that matter, what makes you think there’s a functioning left? We have two parties, and while they are not at all the same, neither of them is pro-Palestine. At best, you have political leaders who are anti-genocide, and very few are willing to call the Israeli response to Hamas a “genocide.”

Now the right may be antisemitic, but they’re also anti-Muslim. Really any target for hate will suffice, but currently it’s the Islamic enemies they hate the most. Support for Israel is a proxy war against Islam, which is why you see strong support on the right. Israel can bomb all the civilians they want, and the military industrial complex gets to sell more weapons and vehicles. The Christian right would much rather see Jews and Muslims killing each other than have to get involved and do it themselves. Christian fundamentalists see support for Israel as good for America, because they can act like they are disappointed while watching two enemy religions try to wipe each other out.

I think if you put it to a popular vote, you’d see the public support Israel two to one. I don’t have polling on that, I’m just guessing and could be way off.

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11 years old. Lost his father, bullied by his principal, abandoned by the school district therapists, falsely arrested by the police and tortured for three days by the state.

If this kid manages to grow up to be a functional adult, it will be miracle.

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If AI destroys us, it will be a result of human stupidity.

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Had a teacher one time draw a grid on her whiteboard with a space for each student, and she asked us to place our disks with our projects on the board with a magnet (so we wouldn’t lose them). The school had recently gotten rid of the old dusty chalkboard, and was really enamored with her new whiteboard and showing off her fridge magnet collection.

Luckily, someone pointed out why that was a bad idea before anyone did it, and she quickly changed her mind.

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I abandoned the site when my app stopped working, and I have no idea why you’d want an account. What’s the going rate? A dollar per point of karma?

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Now there’s a show that needs a revival.

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themeatbridge,

This is a story of you being a dangerous jackass. This is precisely why you don’t text and drive, even when you don’t think there are any other cars in your lane, whatever the fuck that’s supposed to mean.

themeatbridge,

I would love a Hitman-style Bond game with multi-path missions and just a variety of weapons, gadgets, and vehicles. Add some platforming, and some quality writing, and you got yourself a stew, baby.

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Don’t kid yourself, Trump could actually win. He should not be allowed to run, but he won’t concede and he won’t stop as long as it benefits him to stay in the race.

Now imagine the legal clusterfuck if he is kept off the ballot and wins a write-in campaign.

There isn’t a “good” Republican candidate who can challenge him. The ones still in the primary, Christie, DeSantis, the crazy one with zero name recognition, none of them can catch him in the polls. They’re just staying in the race hoping Trump is forced to withdraw.

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The state of Minnesota cannot disqualify him from holding federal office. They can keep his name off the ballot in Minnesota, and prevent him from legally campaigning, but electoral college delegates are actually free to vote for whomever they like. This has never happened before, and there is no real precedent. Mickey Mouse has never won the popular vote for president in any state, and even if he did, he’s not a real person. Trump is, unfortunately, very real, and his supporters attacked the Capitol building to keep him in power. No shame, no propriety, no precedent will stop him. We don’t know what he’ll do if he loses this court case, but it’s probably not going to be graceful.

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That would be great for democracy, because it might break up the GOP and create demand for more equitable voting practices, like ranked choice. Plus, they’d lose by an unchallengeable margin.

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There’s no way the SCOTUS hears the case, regardless. They’ll find a way to punt on it. Only way it happens is if Biden packs the court, which he won’t do.

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Nah, I’m saying that the GOP, in an effort to salvage their own party and relevance, will support ranked choice voting to let voters pick Trump and a second choice. I don’t expect the GOP to actually split permanently, but Trump isn’t going to bow out. So if they want to run a candidate who hasn’t been indicted for nearly 100 different charges, ranked choice would be a boon.

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With this SCOTUS, I have little doubt the end result will be the same whether they rule in Trump’s favor or find a reason to dismiss, like lack of standing or some bullshit. If the lower court rules in his favor, they’ll pass on creating a precedent.

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Of all the streaming platforms I’ll never pay for, YouTube is the one I’ll never pay for the most.

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There’s plenty of competirion for the most evil, but Google has certainly proven not to be trustworthy.

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Normally the meme is four panels. The first panel is him saying “I feel like I’ve forgotten something important.” The second panel, the other guy replies “If you forgot it, how important could it be?”

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  • Features scantily clad women with anatomically absurd proportions
  • Shocked when thirsty perverts make lewd mods
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And his children had White House jobs and clearances.

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It was about that time I noticed the judge was about 8 stories tall and a Crustacean from the Protozoic era.

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Can we take a moment to appreciate how spot-on that casting is, though?

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What a ridiculous article. In-person jobs exist. Plenty of employers are forcing employees to return to the office, and job seekers are abandoning them like mice off a sinking ship. If anyone, Gen Z or otherwise, wanted to work in an office, they could. Remote work from home gives employees greater flexibility and control over their own work/life balance. It is objectively better for the employee, and now that we have it, nobody wants to give it back.

Gen Z is lonely because they have no dislosable income and we’re still reeling from a poorly managed pandemic. If wages go up, and rent comes down, people will be a lot less lonely.

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Lol Gen Z is doing do such thing.

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This is a shit article, but the exciting part is that we found a natural deposit where white hydrogen is being made in the Earth’s crust. Finding that means we can study the mechanism and conditions required and look for more.

Getting away from carbon fuels and creating viable hydrogen-driven industries would be an excellent step in the right direction. We need to build out the infrastructure to be the backbone that replaces oil and gas. Finding natural deposits, even in limited amounts, will bring down the cost of production and nudge the revolution along.

Everything you said is true. This isn’t a solution, and it is vanishingly rare. That doesn’t mean it isn’t an exciting and promising discovery. It’s like landing on Mars and finding liquid water, and you’re complaining that it isn’t enough to go for a swim.

themeatbridge,

I agree with you, the author of this article sucks, and I agree with your plan to expand cleaner energy production, including nuclear. But I would add that energy transmission is itself an infrastructure liability, and creating hydrogen distribution pathways will contribute to the progress.

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Not that you’re wrong, but you could make the same complaints of any fuel source. Crude oil is caustic and dirty, requiring filtration and chemical separation, special not to mention it must be extracted from the earth, all of which requires energy. Natural gas, nuclear fuel, even solar needs to solve for battery storage. There are storage and production costs associated eith energy. The more investment in the infrastructure, the more efficient it will become. That’s why found energy is a boon for the technology in general, even if the benefit is only temporary.

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And the peculiar thing is this, my friends…

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Bluegrass.

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The people who drink Budweiser and Bud Light are the people who buy cheap beer. Whether it’s at a bar or stocking up for a party, it’s like buying chips or pizza, you aren’t thinking too hard about it. Miller or Busch or PBR or Coors or Old Style or Michelob or any other roughly equivalent beer (half of which are also owned by AB) works just as well. Budweiser gave people a reason to think about their beer, and didn’t give anyone a reason to think positively about their beer. If you are looking at the available options, and one of them is associated with bigotry, you’re going to pick anything else.

themeatbridge,

It’s not “kind of like…” it’s exactly the same. Witch trials were state-sponsored Christian extremists murdering innocent people.

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It’s a joke, friend.

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The TOS are the legal equivalent of a locked car door. It’s the bare minimum prevention against a lawsuit, but really doesn’t protect anything. It’s because they are so long and opaque that they are often unenforceable.

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Have you checked to make sure they aren’t small mimics?

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Well it is the spooky season. Might as well tell some scary stories to terrify the boomers.

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It could even be a boat!

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Good point, and the tidal currents do affect the weather to a degree. But a massive moon (or four) could be used to explain seasonal or even daily changes in gravity.

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Reagan. He set the conservative party and the USA on a dark path where Bush and Trump were the inevitable result.

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Agreed, but Reagan popularized the ideas that it is elitist to expect a president to be competent, that complex legislative topics should make sense at the dinner table, and that government is the enemy of freedom. Both Nixon and Reagan were willing to trade in bigotry for political gain, and both were the sort of cynical “me-first” conservatives that taught boomers to mortgage the future. But Reagan had the charisma that Nixon lacked.

themeatbridge,

Well that’s the point, isn’t it? What if they didn’t see the sign about the lemonade being hyper caffeinated? Why would you even look for a sign warning you about the caffeine content in lemonade?

Also, 30 oz is a lot of coffee. That’s one and a half times the largest Starbucks coffee. That’s a shitload of caffeine for a beverage that never has caffeine in it in any other restaurant or store anywhere.

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Starbucks only sells cold drinks in trenta sizes, where the ice and/or milk is going to be a third of the volume. You can’t get a 31 oz hot coffee. You are correct, you could buy two 16 oz coffees and get as much caffeine as Panera puts into their large lemonade, but if you ordered two 16 oz coffees, you know you’re drinking two 16 oz coffees. The whole point of this lawsuit is that someone with a heart condition never expected lemonade to be jazzed to the tits with caffeine, and they died because of it.

Signs are only effective if people read them, and there’s no reason anyone would bother to look for a warning sign on their lemonade. It’s lemonade. Lemons, sugar, water, the simplest and most innocuous of all beverages. It’s exactly what someone with a heart condition should feel comfortable ordering at any restaurant.

You can’t trust orange soda or root beer or even seltzer because some brands are caffeinated, but lemonade is always safe. Except at Panera, where it has the caffeine of two energy drinks, enough to kill someone with a heart condition, because…

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In modern context, probably not, but as a kid, I played that game alone in a dark house all by myself.

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Nobody knows what you’re talking about.

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5.4 million people speak Finnish. 9.3 million people live in New Jersey. You could reference a specific gas station at a rest stop on the Garden State parkway, and more people would understand the reference than people who knew what they meant.

themeatbridge,

What do you mean by “fair game”? The guy is an aide to a council member. Are you saying he shouldn’t have resigned?

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Does anyone else remember bringing home free trials on floppy disks? Like you get the first level of Wolfenstein or Commander Keen and you just play that over and over because you don’t have any money.

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Maybe yours were sitting on a shelf for too long? I couldn’t say, but that hasn’t been my experience.

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