MrMcGasion @ MrMcGasion @lemmy.world

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Because good people - the people who would make the best leaders, aren't narcissistic enough to believe they should run for president. They're happy helping in whatever way they can, but they generally don't have the audacity to think they have any business trying to run for the most powerful position in government. Partially because they're humble, but also they aren't in it for power, they just want to help people.

There's definitely a conversation to be had that the role of president should be one of humility and neighborliness, but there's a group of voters in America who just want somebody who can throw their dick around on the world stage and intimidate the rest of the world like a pro wrestler. And most politician types try to be both the helpful neighbor and pro wrestler, but end up seeming fake and not very genuine because usually both the macho and the neighborly aspects are an act, and they just want power.

When those of us who actually bothered to vote for Biden in our primaries this year, Kamala was on the Ballot as well. And while I can't speak for everyone, I voted with the understanding that Biden probably wouldn't live to complete a second term, and my vote was as much for Harris as it was for Biden. Harris was democratically elected as Biden's replacement if something happened to him. It's valid to say the circumstances were a bit unexpected, but we still voted with the understanding that she was almost certainly going to have to step up at some point.

Just don't literally eat Elon, unless you want to overdose on ketamine.

It would make his whole "shark vs electrocution" rant a moot point if he can't swim at all, which sounds very on brand for him.

Sex-ed is now just Ezekiel 23:20 "There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses." (NIV)

Technically their beloved KJV is a bit less graphic, "For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses." But that gets funny in a different way since "asses" as a more common use these days.

I'd take Katie Porter as well, I know she isn't as progressive as Warren or AOC, but since she lost her Senate bid to Schiff, she's not doing anything else, and has quite a bit of goodwill even among non-liberals for her whiteboard takedowns of CEOs and pentagon waste.

In some ways it makes sense if one or more candidates are people we know very little about, just to give us all time to get to know them, and to give them time to reveal more about who they really are. But when we already know as much about the candidates as we do this year, 3 months is more than enough.

Katie Porter isn't doing anything now that she lost her Senate bid to Schiff, and has made some fans even in conservative circles for her whiteboard explanations and takedowns of pharma CEOs and pentagon overspending.

I know a bunch of people say Kamala needs a white man for VP, but I'm not sure that tracks logically, sexists aren't going to suddenly be okay with a woman just because she has a man as VP.

Yeah, Ringleader's Evergaol was rough, took me over 30 tries. I was a bit under-leveled when I first found it and after getting my ass handed to me for 10 or so attempts I decided to mark it and return later, went back after leveling up a bit and died another 15 times or so. Came back a 3rd time after defeating Mohg on my 4th attempt and finally cleared the evergaol after about 8 more attempts.

Not sure what I expected them to cost, but $5.70 is somehow less than I expected.

I'd also add to this that a whole bunch of us have at least a few extended family members that we heard spouting similarly insane takes for as long as we can remember. But because they were the patriarchs or were unhinged enough that they'd ruin the family reunion or Thanksgiving for everyone, we all learned it was in our own best interest to never challenge them.

We were conditioned from a early age to ignore it at go on with our lives, and they were conditioned that they could say more and more unhinged things and really never be challenged on it.

I didn't say it was the exact same, but to the victims the difference isn't very meaningful, much like victims of murder and manslaughter are still dead whether we make a distinction or not. It's meaningful for prosecution purposes - at least in the case if manslaughter and murder because it's taking intent into account. It's also a bit easier to accidentally kill someone than it is to accidentally have sex with a minor.

Probably one of those weirdos who knows the specific term for paedophiles who are into teens rather than younger children and tries to use it as if it's a meaningful distinction.

If you want to fight voter apathy in later years, getting young people tuned in and engaged is probably the best way to do it. Sure, there's always the chance they still might not show up now, but showing you are listening to young people still helps solidify your party as worth supporting and can lead to stronger support when they get older and are more likely to find the time to get out and vote. 22 year olds don't stay 22, and the recent trend of people not becoming more right-leaning as they hit middle age might be in part due to Obama and others making young people feel heard 15 years ago. Saying "young people don't vote, don't listen to them" is short-sighted at best.

I had a nicer Acer monitor that I replaced with a similar Samsung model about a year ago. I still kinda miss the Acer. Both were 32" curved LCD and 1440p. The Acer had a much more uniform curve to it, and the Samsung has a bunch of firmware issues that sometimes can only be worked around by unplugging it and power cycling it that way. The only reason I "upgraded" was the Samsung had better support for PS5 and scaling 4K inputs down to the native 1440p without artifacts.

Why would you want another year of their software for free? This is their second screw up (apparently they sent out a bad update that affected some Debian and RHEL machines a couple years ago). I'd be transitioning to a competitor at the first opportunity. It seems they aren't testing releases before pushing them out to customers, which is about as crazy to me as running alpha software on a production system.

I'm sure you have reasons, and this isn't really meant to be directed at you personally, it's just boggling to me that the IT sector as a whole hasn't looked at this situation and collectively said "fuck that."

Yeah, but can we get Sony to re-release Morbius in theaters one more time?

No way that's the real reason, the real reason is taxes. So many California millionaires move to Texas for the low tax, only to realize once they're there that it's a shitty state with a barely-functioning power grid. Unfortunately it never seems to click for most of them that the low taxes is a big part of why they don't have a competent state government.

While I love that analogy, thinking about faucets and Trump in the same sentence just has me thinking about his water pressure rants.

Turns out Gandalf's iconic line is just his strategy when playing Smash or Pass.