NauticalNoodle @ NauticalNoodle @lemmy.ml

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What are you gonna do, let the other guy win?

/s

"Amazon bought Barnes&Noble ages ago;"

I think you're thinking of Borders, Barnes & Noble's long bankrupt competitor. Barnes & Noble got bought by a private buyer from the UK a few years ago when they started circling the drain. I wouldn't recommend the Nook ereading platform, though. I've had three of the products since they first launched, and they are buggy. -Add to that supporting the ereading platform has never been a high priority especially when the company was struggling, also their free ebook selection went from low-quality, low-selection to nonexistant.

Long story short I've been considering a Kobo ereader as my next ereader over another nook product for a while now.

"...Do people seriously buy something every week from Amazon?"

Yes. I have one family member with an amazon affiliated credit card and when it's combined with prime... Anyways, multiple family members use that account to make orders from. This includes ordering cases of softdrinks ever 2-3 weeks.

"Afterglow" - That's a term I've been searching for, for the past 4-1/2 years now. I've been trying to describe the day after a mushroom trip. Thanks.

Phillip Kindred Dick(aka PKD), an influential american scifi Novelist and avid user of psychadelics among other things. His novels are used as the basis of such movies as Blade Runner, Total Recall, Screamers, The Adjustment Bureau, Minority Report, The Mini-series The Man in The High Castle, and most relevant to this conversation -A Scanner Darkly.

The film A Scanner Darkly centers around a Parole Officer who actively becomes addicted to a new drug while living in a surveillance society. The addiction ultimately results in his permanent impairment and incarceration in a work camp where he is made to farm the same drug he was previously addicted to.

I have not read the book. Unfortunately I've found PKD writing style to be challenging to get through, but i've always loved his sense of imagination. A Scanner Darkly is a good animated film starring Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Junior, Woody Harrelson, and Winona Ryder and I strongly recommend it.

RFK just stole that plan from PKD.

Here's to hoping we still have the physical ability to engage with those hobbies and interests.

like so many others...

called it!

I've have had this thought too and the only reason I can think of is that the inkjet printers are sold at such a rediculous loss, that anything that could be sold next to them without the offset price from ink would seem like a bad joke.

Well, I've now thought for that past two adminstrations that nothing meaningful can be done long-term until private money can be removed from politics altogether. To speak pragmatically, as you point out people want "gotta make ends meat" policy that impacts them meaningfully and immediately... and that's gonna take a lot more than some $1000 one-time tax-credit.

Arguably, I've transcended "frustration", though and I'm no longer convinced the Democrat party does anything but act as the controlled opposition party that is meant to crush any sort leftist movement. I sincerely doubt they will ever meaningfully address campaign-finance again in my life. The half-measures that they are known for are no longer adequate, but as long as they hold primaries I will cast my vote even though the establishment has already picked someone else. -A democratic system, indeed.

Here's pragmatic, democratic Idea: Host all primary votes on the same day.

What if it wasn't discrimination based on sexual orientation, but instead it was cronyism? Do we have regulations against that at the federal...

Nevermind.

I wonder if it can even be a live interview or if jon will have to do an offsite recorded interview like all of the ones on his pevious show.

These plans and ideas sound eerily similar to the ones I hear or read every election cycle. What about them would be significantly different this next time around?

Are suggesting that there were no progressives that ran in the last Democrat Primary?

-I ask because I voted for one, but I was only allowed to after the presidential candidate had been selected.

Okay, person who admit's to posting "stupid shit"

"President Macron is correct, according to Kiel figures. But they suggest President Trump also has a point; the US has sent more grants, while the EU sent more loans. However, again, there are different figures out there." -Per your article

First, the source you provided isn't as clear-cut as you seem to think it is, unless you want the U.S. to engage in even more profiteering off of this proxy-war by increasing loans.

Secondly, I'm not opposed to spending less money to continue this war, so sending me articles claiming that the EU debatably spends more then the U.S. to perpetuate this war does nothing but make me feel okay about our decreasing involvement. -You guys seem to be making continued and exaggerated inferences about my position on this matter even though i've clearly stated my motivations for this position in other comments under this same thread.

GTFO, Warmonger.

Hey, I like to think that sometimes I might feel the need to write remarkably similar sentences to the kinds that you, u/bearboiblake might have referenced in this particular editorial expression of human nature and sentiment in America, today.

-You know, badly,

It’s not my fault. I voted for Kodos.

I beleive that's called a Malapropism A favorite malapropism of mine is "We'll burn that bridge when we get to it."