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I think I read once that was due to outdated standards related to low resolution television sets. If too much text was on screen at once you couldn't make it out on a standard definition TV. They kept doing it that way for a while after HD became ubiquitous just because that's how they always did it.

I share your frustration though

They rage in favor of the machine Rage Against the Machine rages against

In Montana, I believe, write-ins for president are always invalid

Whoops I thought that was Veronica. I guess it has been too long since I played

Right? Also, isn't she gay? I love Veronica too, but I don't think she'd want to have my babies

They did have Rush Limbaugh crowing about smoking bans, but the lung cancer that eventually killed him makes it harder to take his advice

One of our two parties wins more when more people vote.

Therefore, the other party must oppose voting by the largest groups, such as young people and people who live in cities.

The less popular party also has disproportionate control of government policy.

Which is to say, they oppose democracy itself. It is only a question of degree

For YouTube content I really like the Tubular app on Android. It has Sponsorblock built-in, which you mentioned, but it also has an option to skip silence.

I find it particularly nice for gaming content, or any point where the YouTuber is reading text aloud.

I must have skipped hundreds of hours of pointless silence by this point

I saw a comic about this once (xkcd, probably?) and going by the scene in the movie, where Legolas has human sized eyes, they deduced that Middle Earth must have an exotic atmosphere

Lmao one of my friends had just gotten a DVD player in his room around when that movie came out. His mom walked in the room when he was watching it, right at that scene, late on a school night. He scrambled to turn off the TV, but that made her think it was porn... Barbie doll/action figure porn.

She just slowly backed out of the room and wouldn't let him explain

Does it not make tons of noise?

We have an ice machine in the freezer and often it is the loudest thing in the entire house. I also have a mini fridge in the office and the compressor on it runs every few minutes. It would be awful to try to sleep in there

The title for the sequel could be some kind of pun on how the film is faster and/or more furious than what would be reasonable under normal circumstances

When I got LASIK I wasn't allowed to wear contacts for a few weeks before the surgery. I bought the cheapest pair of glasses from Zenni. I had new glasses for $17 + $10 shipping.

If I had to do it again I would have my IPD measured by a proper optometrist first. I just guessed at it and got ones a little too small, so they had a kind of fisheye effect.

Still, for <$30 it was a great bargain

That disc has super cow powers

I did something like that once. I noticed my sister's wireless keyboard was still paired to her laptop, so every once in a while I'd hit the CAPS LOCK key.

I was suppressing laughter for about an hour until her temper boiled over and I had to come clean, as she was about to smash the laptop to bits!

Haha that reminds me of the time I helped my upstairs neighbors move. They were super annoying, always shouting over each other and leaving trash bags in the hot sun on their balcony, where the stink could waft into my open window.

I was very excited when I saw them packing their furniture, so I offed to help and we managed to finish it all in only one day. They didn't catch on and just thought I was being nice! They even tried to pay me but I refused - being rid of them was payment enough

It's the Swiss Army CHAINSAW!

Is it Dominic Turetto's car from the first Fast and the Furious movie?

Good news! RCV already solves that problem

If Bernie didn't get enough votes to win, the votes for him go to the voters' second choice candidate (Biden – few voters would want Bernie-Trump). If those combined votes are enough for him to win, then Biden wins in that state. In RCV, Trump would only win if people actually preferred him over Biden

That is why they call it "an invasion"