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Animals don't have an electoral college, to be fair.

Haley’s husband is an Army Colonel currently deployed to Djibout. Trump knows this.

Trump thinks Haley is Pelosi. I'm not sure he knows what fucking year it is anymore.

Of course, none of that takes away from the very real and key fact that the is an asshole...

At this point I wish they would, frankly. Especially since the US is clearly going to do nothing to hold Trump, Putin and all of their stooges accountable for anything.

They're gonna make us microdose edibles every morning. To make matters worse there'll be a taco truck on every corner.

I might 'encourage' someone to kick Trump square in the toad-from-mario-shaped microdicklette.

Yes.

Well I didn't really want to go there but I don't kink shame.

I understand what you mean, and people should get a chance to vote in the primaries for the person who they think is best, but Biden is the incumbent, and he's out there winning primaries with like 85% of the vote. Hell, he even won the write-in campaign in Iowa. ( That's to say nothing of him winning against more than a dozen other, younger candidates in 2020. ) Marianne Williamson is the only other candidate to regularly crack 1%, and she's not exactly "president material" if you ask me.

It's going to Biden vs Trump. Two old ass white dudes who aren't exactly sharp (though Trump is most certainly dumber, weirder and not to mention a fucking criminal fascist). For me, that makes it the easiest choice of my year.

As was foretold in... THE PROPHECY!

Anyway, I’ve found that if I drink 32 ounces of water before bed every night, I have a reason to get out of bed every day…

Needing to pee is often a great motivator to get out of bed, unless you're really depressed.

Whatever you want to do in life, start right away.

• If you want to start a business, start developing it and putting the pieces into place as soon as you can.
• If you want to be a artist/musician/writer/etc, take yourself seriously and start gigging or creating right away.
• If you want to reach the top of the academic pyramid, study more than what you're assigned and start developing your ideas.
• If you want to be involved in politics, then start getting involved in politics.
• etc...

I'm not saying this because it'll be too late if you don't, or anything like that. It's never really too late to change course or start doing what you want.

But don't wait until you're finished school. Don't wait until you feel "ready". Dispel is the idea that you're still a kid or that you're just going through the motions until your life really begins. Life is now. So, plant the seeds of your future as soon as you possibly can.

I'd also say to develop a healthy attitude towards soft drugs like alcohol and weed.

Hard drugs can fuck your life up faster, but addiction to soft drugs can also do a lot of damage. Have fun, but keep perspective. You're probably gonna be around people do stupid shit from time to time, but resist the temptation to be the person doing the stupidest shit.

What does any of that have to do with LGBT rights? Seems like an ad hominem at best.

Is this the part where y'all jump the shark and pretend like Palestine is a mecca of progressivism and civil rights?

If we are going to start outlawing things that could, in some very vague and abstract way, be considered "harmful", then we would have to start banning many more things than just low-level drugs.

Cannabis is a natural plant that has existed throughout the entirety of human history. Medicine to some, religion to others, recreation and inspiration for the rest. Likewise, cannabinoids are a natural chemical compound that can be found naturally in your body and the body of most living things on Earth. Cannabis makes us feel good because it just so happens to contain the same kinds of cannabinoids that our body produces, which also make us feel good.

Cannabis might be addictive in the same way that anything pleasurable is addictive. But you don't see people dying of cannabis overdoses, nor do you see people winding up on the streets with crippling cannabis addictions that overwhelm their entire life.

It's a safe, natural, and mild high, and there has never been any good reason for it to be illegal.

edit: Oh, he's just a troll. Whatever.

Hardware wise, you'll be hard pressed to find any even half-way popular computer that can't run some form of Linux. So I'd say just get something that's within your budget. Those x86 APU-based mini pcs that you can find for $200 are becoming pretty popular for projects these days. Something like a Raspberry Pi or Orange Pi or whatever might also be fine depending on what you want to do with it, just keep your power expectations in check. If you want to spend more money on something with graphics hardware, I'd recommend going for AMD over NVidia, just because the drivers are built into the kernel and essentially no-hassle.

When it comes to software, especially if you're on x86, just arbitrarily pick one of the reasonably popular distros like Ubuntu, Fedora, PopOS, or any of the other ones you've probably heard of. One of the first things to learn about "Linux" is that there's a whole ecosystem of software projects behind it, and there is a lot of overlap between the software that each distro runs. Yes, there are some meaningful differences between, for example, Ubuntu and Fedora, but I think they are much less meaningful to a noobie (who is just learning the basics of Linux) or an expert (who probably knows enough to bend and customize just about any distro into whatever they want).

Small caveat #1: If you prefer to have a desktop that more closely resembles Windows (like the one of the Steam Deck's desktop mode) you might want to pick a distro spin that uses the KDE Plasma desktop. On the other hand, if you want to play around with something that's a bit different than what you're used to, it might be worth checking out a distro spin that uses the Gnome desktop. I can recommend them both for different reasons, so you might want to check out some videos of them to see what you're more into before picking. (Other desktops are available, these are just the two big ones! So there truly are a ton of options to explore here if you want to.)

Small caveat #2: At this point in time are you more interested in stability or customization? If you want a truly rock-solid Linux system that's hard to ever break, you might want to consider one of the new "atomic" distributions like Fedora Silverblue/Kinoite (or others), though you might find some of their limitations annoying. On the other side of the spectrum, if deep customization and flexibility is what you're looking for, then you might want to venture into the deep end with things like NixOS or ArchLinux, just keep in mind that they can be very technical and overwhelming for noobs. Personally I have been using Fedora Silverblue for a couple years now and I love the stability of it, and I can work around it's limitations with distrobox.

Another thing to consider is just using what you already have. For example, playing around with Linux in a virtual machine, setting up a Linux-based server on one of the popular VPS services, or just plugging your Steam Deck into a dock with a keyboard and monitor attached and playing with something like distrobox (which you can probably find a guide on how to set that up for your deck).

Personally I can agree that Pokemon games have themselves been coasting on mediocrity for a long time now, but that doesn't mean that Palworld isn't also totally devoid of originality, creativity and artistic integrity. Both can be true, and I'd argue that both are true. There are a lot of ways that Pokemon could and should be better, but clearly they aren't so bad that they didn't inspire the Palworld dev team to rip and "remix" their art assets...

Having said that, you'll probably never convince me that you or anyone else would have given Palworld the time of day had it not been "the game where you shoot pokemon with guns". The bootleg pokemon art style is the entire reason for the game's runaway success; it's the killer feature. And as someone who values games as a creative medium and not just a product, that shit just rubs me the wrong way. If that makes me a hater too then so be it.

Let's be totally fucking honest, this game has only sold so many copies because it's a meme.

It's a game where you shoot bootleg pokemon with guns. That's it. If it didn't have art that could at best be generously described as "remixed" pokemon assets, few people would have cared about it, and even fewer people would have actually bought it. From the very first time I heard of this game a few weeks before its release, I've only ever heard it described as a game where you "play as an anime girl and shoot pokemon with guns". It's a great game for YouTubers, TikTokers and Streamers to "react" to and "get hype" about (the thumbnails almost make themselves), it's an easy topic for every game podcast to talk about, and that's about it.

Whether the developers intended for this to be the case or not doesn't change the fact that the game is a cheap knockoff of various other games mashed together, and it's very heavily riding on the coattails of a pokemon aesthetic. If the monsters didn't look almost exactly like pokemon that everybody knows and loves, nobody would give a damn about this game.

Personally I feel that the runaway success of Palworld shows just how shallow the video game world has become, both from developers and from players. There are so many good games out there that fail to find an audience, while a meme like Palworld sells millions of copies despite being utterly artless and devoid of creativity or individuality. I'm not sure if it's the influence-economy or what, but I miss the times when the subculture could collectively look at some creatively bankrupt bootleg-ass shit like Palworld and simply laugh it off instead of rewarding people for making low-effort legally-dubious bubblegum trash.

Or maybe I'm just jaded...

Everything, in one sitting. You might as well go out with a fucking bang, am i right?

Why it’s important to keep looking I guess

You're learning the wrong lesson here...

The right lesson is to stop looking at only the most recent poll as if it's a good indicator of anything. There is a reason why professional election prediction models using a weighted combination of every poll, on top of things like historical election data, while factoring in things like uncertainty and time from now until the election.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recencybias

It could very well be that Trump is ahead and wins in every swing state, but you can't reasonably forecast that by looking at any single poll, even if it happens to be the most recent one.

People should understand that Trump is almost certain to be the Republican candidate and he has a very real chance of winning. People should also understand that Biden is almost certain to be the Democratic candidate and he also has a very real chance of winning.