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The best people. With the best words.

Who has ever said Star Trek isn't horny?

Why do people need that so desperately? Is it really so much of a burden to wait a few minutes for the platforms those journalists work for to vet and publish the news on their own platforms? Is your personal and immediate input and reaction so important? It's important to be fast rather than correct!

If these "trustworthy journalists" are posting information so quickly and spur of the moment that they aren't checking things and ensuring their accuracy, they're not as "trustworthy" as you think anyway.

I already have plenty of pictures of Shrek.

It didn't used to be this way... I still remember when John McCain shut down a woman spouting lies about Obama, and defended him as a good man. This obstructionism and negativity originated in Congress. It's easy to point fingers at presidential negativity, because Trump is leading the charge now, but it was Newt Gingrich, Mitch McConnell and Co that opened the door for him.

Words can mean more than one thing, and people assume you're intelligent enough to be able to put them in context and figure out which one you mean. If I say "The general gave an order", you assume I don't mean at Burger King. If you want hard definitions with one meaning only, perhaps I can recommend this?

One of these two will have power in November. That is reality. The democrats are the lesser of two evils. People living in reality don't have the luxury of choosing non-existent options, and have to pick from what is possible.

That's not what I said, and don't put words in my mouth.

It's not what he says he'll do, it's what he says he is. He is a petty dictator who can't stomach dissent or disagreement who will happily use anyone to further his own ends, and will happily take whatever interpretation of reality puts him on top, even if it means intentionally misreading and misinterpreting things.

But I don't have to tell you that. You seem to be quite well-versed in that technique yourself.

Democrats didn't paint that image. Trump did.

When someone tells you who they are, believe them.

Red Star OS!

I don't say this specifically about Harris, but in general, that's wrong. The moment someone actually starts campaigning and running their polling falls. That's because it's easy to offer support to someone before they're under harsh scrutiny, and you can bet Trump's team has a ton of crap to fling at her the moment she's the candidate. Most of it will be nonsense of course, but so is most of the crap he's flung at everyone else.

Don't get me wrong - I think she's by far the best choice. But expecting it to be a simple and easy transition to a Trump loss is unrealistic. This is going to be an uphill fight regardless.

Which Darryl?

I was raised Catholic, but as time went on and I left it, I think one of the misconceptions people who are still deeply religious have is that atheists or non-religious people are continually thinking about NOT having religion as much as religious people think about their religion, but the fact of the matter is, sometimes MONTHS go by where I don't have a single thought about religion, the afterlife, God... When you grow up in an organized religion you tend to feel the lack of religion is some kind of continual rejection of it, and it's hard to imagine people for whom it just isn't a presence in ANY sense. When you realize the presence of religion is neither necessary or sufficient for any part of life, you can start to see how life satisfaction or lack thereof has nothing to do with belief. There are horribly depressed devout worshipers and annoyingly peppy and positive atheists. It's an entirely different axis.

More of that hard work on Tesla that the shareholders bought! 56 billion well spent.

A quantum of stoat.

Look, I agree with you. And almost everyone agrees ranked choice is the best solution.

But like nuclear fusion, we can't make decisions based on what we WISH we had. We have to make decisions based on what we HAVE. When ranked choice advocates start pushing harder in campaigning for reform in off years instead of lamenting what we don't have every time an election comes up, maybe we can make some progress. Alaska and Hawaii managed it.

Sure, you're right. You have a good one.

That would be the FIRST step in the process, not the second. You get a parachute first, THEN jump out of the plane. Not the other way around.

My God... the dishwashing...