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Outdoor televisions usually aren't very good besides being bright and weather resistant.

No, Sceptre is an independent company. ONN is Walmarts in-house electronics brand.

Is there actually any practical use for having a tuner built in still? I haven't plugged a coax into one of those in like 15 years, it's always to a set-top box first and then hdmi from that to the tv, and the only reason we have cable at all is because of my dad.

Pikachu speak at the very least has some structure to it. "Pika-Pi" is Ash's name, for instance.

Every human can talk because they were taught. Meowth couldn't talk until he taught himself how(to try and impress a girl meowth 😭). Humans don't teach their Pokemon to speak, and most don't have the inclination to teach themselves. So for all we know every Pokemon is capable of human speech if they were taught.

This is arguably a bad thing. The damage her shitty website could do is nothing compared to the damage that her husband can do if they're successful in whitewashing his history. They haven't stopped believing these things, they just don't want the public to know they believe these things.

Skill issue

There's over 30 mexican restaurants in my town of less than 30,000 people.

Tokyo is LITERALLY the biggest city in the entire world. 30ish restaurants is absolutely a needle in a haystack.

I don't think we can even blame this just on boomerism though, the average age for candidates didn't go up a little, it went up a LOT. Obama finished his final term as President just over 6 years ago, and he is only 62 right now. Trump is 77 and Biden is 80 right now, a year out from election day. That's not "boomers voting for boomers". Trump is just barely a boomer at all, and Biden is solidly silent generation.

Lmao what Americans are you talking to?

Can't compare all the 50 states to full blown countries as most of them have low population.

Sure you can. The least populated US state(Wyoming) has about 50,000 more people than the least populated EU country(Malta). Every single state absolutely can be comparable to at the very least small countries. California alone has one of the highest GDPs in the world.

I mean... if you don't have an official term for it, but basically everyone in your field calls it a thagomizer, does that not make thagomizer the official term? If not, what makes a term "official"?

Sure, that's a factor that needs to be considered, but another factor that needs to be considered is the value of the land itself. You can build cheap housing out in the middle of nowhere all you want, but it doesn't matter how cheap it is if there are no jobs to pay for the housing and no services to get stuff like groceries conveniently.

Converting commercial properties to residential is certainly more expensive upfront, but it creates more housing where it actually is needed AND wanted, cities and suburbs.

Nor should we forget that the basis for the Christian god originates in the polytheistic religion of the Canaanites. The Canaanite deity Yahweh, that eventually became known as the Abrahamic creator god, was merely a god of weather and war, rather than the supreme God. That was a different deity, ʼĒl, who eventually became conflated with Yahweh in the process of switching from polytheistic to monotheistic.

So helpful.

Holy clickbait headline, batman.

Non-vague statements that I can actually debate with, thank you.

All money should he removed from politics, including salaries for politicians. It should be a side-gig like it was in the past.

Can you explain what the actual benefits of this would be? The vast majority of our politicians wealth does not come from their salary, it comes from business deals, lobbying(aka legalized bribery) and, well, actual literal bribery in far too many cases. From my point of view, all removing salaries from these positions would do is guarantee that only those that are already independently wealthy could afford to take on these positions, any working class people would be too busy working a normal job just to survive.

Anyone caught accepting bribes should be removed

No arguments here, I agree.

both parties should be imprisoned for corruption

What do you actually mean by both parties? The leadership? Every elected official? Every registered member? I don't have to register with a party to vote in my state, but if I did I would be a registered Democrat; should I be imprisoned for that? Where do you draw the line at? Certainly, there are individuals in both parties that absolutely need to be in prison, but due process still needs to be followed.

Nuclear energy, for the love of all that is holy.

This is kind of vague, but I'm assuming you are in support of nuclear energy. In which case, great news, I am too! It's a fair point, even if you didn't mention it directly, that in the past democrats were largely anti-nuclear, but that rhetoric is mostly dying away in the newer generation of progressive dems. With the relative lack of new blood in congress it will take awhile to truly effect policy making, but it is coming.

We can’t rely on China for all of our rare earth metals forever. They’re going to cut our asses off one of these days, and we’re going to go belly up when they do.

Agreed. Whether you think Biden is following through with his words or not(I have very mixed feelings about him), I think he put it best on where we should be with China: "Competition, not conflict". We should be building up the US's industries so they no longer need to rely so heavily on China. That costs a lot of money in the short term though, even if the benefits are worth it long term. Republican policy on spending money for any reason is very well known(they hate it), and as far as China goes they seem more interested in causing outright conflict with them rather than building the means to out-compete with them.

All gun laws are infringements. Every single one.

Infringements of what? The 2nd amendment? Here is the entirety of the 2nd amendment:

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

There are TONS of gun laws you can have while still following this to the letter. A magazine size limit law, or a bump stock law, for example. Neither of those would infringe on the 2nd amendment, those are not "arms", even if they are accessories to them, and thus they absolutely can be regulated. To be clear, I don't agree with those particular examples of gun legislation, but they don't infringe on the 2nd in any way.

Do I want felons to have guns? No, but if they cause a problem, just shoot 'em a little.

So only deal with the problem after they've presumably shot someone, if not multiple people. Swell. An entire police department supposedly trained to deal with active shooters couldn't stop an 18 year old shitstain from murdering 21 people(Uvalde), but we're supposed to expect random joe schmoes with a gun(With no training needed, at that! Firearm safety classes being required would be a gun law, no?) to always save the day? Come off it, man. I like guns too, I'm against outright bans for no reason as are many other leftists(look up the Socialist Rifle Association, if you're interested), but I don't think even most republicans would agree with no gun laws at ALL.

We should destroy the entire concept of health insurance. It’s a scam and has been for a very long time

I wholeheartedly agree. A good universal healthcare system would essentially accomplish this, as there would be very little reason to get private insurance anymore. It's not the right wing trying to accomplish this though, if anything they're trying to bolster the private insurance industry for their own greed. Not all democrats are innocent on this point either, but unlike republicans, they're not ALL guilty of it.

We need to get rid of social security and encourage people to fund their own retirement accounts. If they don’t have the self control to do so, then bummer.

I fundamentally don't agree with this, politics aside I think we have a moral duty to look out for those in need, but I won't get into that. How do you realistically expect people to be ABLE to save for their own retirement with how much wages have stagnated versus inflation? Wages are mostly staying the same(Hell, Walmart recently lowered wages) while the cost of everything keeps going up and up. Republicans are the ones continuously fighting against living wages; they are the ones making it for most a herculean task to afford to just survive, let alone save for retirement.

End the Fed. They’ve become a 4th branch of the government without a constitutional amendment.

By "the Fed", do you mean the Federal Reserve? If so, I won't agree or disagree with you on this point, I'd need to research the topic first. If you didn't mean the Federal Reserve, please elaborate on what you meant.

Stop glorifying gender non-conformity in schools. We’re going to convince kids to go down detrimental rabbit holes during their formative years.

What do you consider "glorifying"? I'm not going to put a boy on a pedestal and shower him with praise for wearing a skirt, but I see no reason to mock him for it or think less of him for it, either. It's a piece of clothing, why should anyone care?

What would you consider as an example of a "detrimental rabbit hole" that this could lead kids to? Why do you think that(whatever "that" is to you) is detrimental?

Stop bailing out corporations. Let them fail, and let the people screwed over by such a failure do whatever they want to those in charge.

I agree with you. Republicans, however, do not. They love nothing more than giving corporations and their rich investors every break under the sun, while raising taxes on the working class.

Politicians shouldn’t be allowed to exempt themselves from the laws they pass. In fact, they should have to eat their own dog food for a year before anyone else is exposed to it.

Agreed. I'd go as far to say that elected officials should be held to a higher standard, and face a harsher punishment for breaking a law than a normal citizen would.

We need major data privacy regulations at the federal level.

Agreed. Frankly, both sides have been absolutely abysmal on this matter for the most part.

Any state or federal agency found to be in continued violation of the bill of rights should be shut down completely and permanently.

That's just plain silly, no offense. There are so many different governmental agencies and pretty much all of them do multiple different important tasks. To completely shut them down over one illegal aspect is just wasting time and money. It is much, much quicker and cheaper to reform an agency and stop the illegal practices than it is to shut it down and then, what, start up a brand new agency to cover the other, non-illegal tasks the former agency did that still will likely need to be done?

Yes, which is why I was making a rebuttal to the guy saying we should be going the extra mile trying to convince them to vote dem, rather than just stay home. It's wasted effort better spent trying to convince another one of them to stay home, or an actual fence sitter to vote dem.

LMAO I got fucking rick rolled on the napster section

I'm literally trying to have a productive conversation with you, dude. Nothing you've presented so far paints you as a conservative, so I want to know what your actual reasons for being one are. From there we could actually discuss things and maybe we could influence each others perspectives on matters, but we can't do that if you get defensive the minute you're asked questions.