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  • I think they're talking about this round. The Democratic primary meant nothing because Biden isn't running anymore suddenly and they're the one picking the candidate.

    It's still obviously a better choice than Trump by far, but there's no way the DNC didn't know Biden's condition for this long. This was pure politics, manipulation, and undemocratic. There wasn't a choice on who the candidate is, only which pre-selected candidate you don't want to be president.

    Very underhanded of a tactic, but undeniably an effective one, despite everything, I can acknowledge that at least.

    If she at least picks AOC as vice president, I'll actually go through the hassle of voting from abroad again, since I don't live there anymore.

  • Gotta say, a lot of people here talking a lot of shit about someone who actually had the balls to at least try to do something direct considering none of y'all have taken a shot at it yourselves in Minecraft.

    You can't complain about someone failing to do your personal final fantasy when they at least tried to achieve what you haven't.

    I'm certain some of you legitimately can't for personal reasons, but if you can and you're not doing it either, you can't complain that they missed skibbity.

    After all, as Dr. Doofinshmirtz once said, "you miss 100% of the shots you don't take".

    If you're interested in doing more, learn more here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHEgHjJvR94

  • I have similar wants. Just a standard house, maybe some land for a bit of gardening, and a workshop to make things. Donate to certain charities and open source projects etc. Travel a bit.

    But they're one little thing I'd do that would definitely show I'm rich:

    I'd travel to local forest parks around the world, and bury actual treasure. Like a 3 gold bars. In in actual chest too. Maybe every now and then I'd do smaller treasures that are like a fancy sword or platinum ring or just medieval armor. Idk.

    Then I'd go to the local university and set up riddles they'll lead to a part of a hidden map, with the map being hidden both throughout the university and maybe online too, depending.

    But it wouldn't be a straightforward map. It would be a map to a random house built near the park. And somewhere in that house, would be the final map leading to the treasure.

    Why? Because the world could use a little bit of magic adventuring I think. That's something that just doesn't really exist anymore in the modern era, in a way. I feel like finding treasure and going on a treasure hunt is something a lot of people as a kid probably thought would be fun.

    And second, university students can always use some money, so they get first dibs too.

    Likewise when I die any children I have would have to go to a mini mansion and solve the puzzles in order to get my last will that grants the finder my money.

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  • BECAUSE pictures weren't common, it was hard to start a new life. If you were an adult and knew no one in the town you arrived at, no one would trust you, give you a job or rent out a room to you. Cause they'd all assume there was a good reason you ran away from the place where people knew you, and there was no way to verify if you were who you claimed to be.

    Ummm, people moved all the time. There wouldn't be a reason to assume you were running from something. Have you never read a history book? You could even just be moving to a smaller town in the country side for "fresher air" to help your tuberculosis.

    If you had a profession, you needed a letter of recommendation from your former employer or your guild to vouch for you.

    Depends on the job, how much starting money you had, and where you're moving too. You could for example say you're moving to set up a chemist shop, especially in the smaller or more remote towns.

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  • Yeah but back then pictures weren't common and you could just grow a beard, decide your name is now Thames Twice, and move to another town really fast away while still letting your title as chemist, since document verification was really hard to do unless it was for some bigwig (and even then you could sometimes get in). If you really want to sell the act he could learn an exotic foreign language like Swedish and say he studied in Sweden too, but had English parents and that's why he spoke English so fluently. Most of proving why you are cage by showing you could do the skills you claimed you had.

    That's why charlatans could live a life of scamming.

  • The bigger picture is always missing in these posts.

    And that is that everything that's happening has already happened in Russia. It's how Putin got power - through the courts.

    All a Republican president has to do now is make an official act that they are president for life, the supreme court agrees, and that's that.

    The second is that while only the president has immunity (meaning anyone killing people under their official order would still be illegal), the president can also pardon people. So it's a loophole - anyone can kill under their official order, and then the president can just pardon them.

  • You could also just, idk, by Velcro shoes or get lock laces.

    Edit: Got downvoted but that's literally what my mother with arthritis uses. Lock laces and a shoe horn. Lock laces are basically the low tech and reliable version of what these app shoes have.