I love that you didn’t feel the confidence in keeping this comment.

I still know what it said though, so I’m going to respond to it anyway.

Yeah, you’re absolutely right. One of the advantages not been in American it is I get to view everything from the outside. All your politicians lately have been absolute trash, but at least biden probably wouldn’t have plunged the world into uncertainty over Russian interference.

Part of the problem is a lack of information. It’s out there if you go digging for it but only if you go digging for it.

You need to introduce some media laws that restrict people from using the word “News” is any case but actual journalism. Also anyone who uses the phrase “alternative facts” should be executed, there are no such things as alternative facts, they’re called “lies”.

I have to imagine that Trump will probably insist that he’s interred in a glass case or something rather like Stalin. We won’t even have to do any embalming either because I imagine the bronzer will probably prevent decomposition.

And then the conservatives wouldn’t shut up about it for about 12 years. I got so sick of hearing them go on about that note.

Oh that’s good that means that when Trump is dead they can move one of them and then they have a spare.

There’s a lot of talk about whether or not there should be some age limit on a president and they’re probably should be, but I think that also needs to be a maturity test. Trump has a level of pettiness normally reserved for teenage girls in badly written YA novels. Imagine being the person that had to make those plaques and then put them up, you’d feel like a prat.

Also for an enormous part of their evolutionary history sharks were prey animals.

So likely immortal snail. Only it’s slower.

I showed this to my dad and he looked at it for ages, and hads the phone back to me and goes, “yeah … Who’s Peter Dinklige”.

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The US has absolutely mad road to traffic laws. Zero concept of lane discipline, you driving whatever lane you feel like. Don’t understand roundabouts even though it’s just a curved road, it’s really not that hard. Still don’t have standardised pedestrian crossings even when other countries had them back in the 1920s. A red traffic light only means stop sometimes, but sometimes you can go if you’re turning right. No one obeys the speed limit, people regularly exceed it, and see no problem with that. And of course no one has separate indicator lights and brake lights because when would you ever slow down and go around a corner, definitely no need to engineer for that eventuality.

I had a GameCube back in the day no one ever moved it around with the handle. Sure you could move the console but you still had all of the wires and of course the controller to move as well so the handle, and of course you would need TV at the destination so wasn’t really helpful.

I never understood who they handle was aimed at.

In theory you could take it over to your friends house but realistically all you did was just set it up where you wanted it and then never move it.

The fact that he will essentially now be forced to do that in order to survive prison really is an indictment of the system. How are people supposed to rehabilitate when not joining a gang is likely to get them killed?

I’m not saying this guy is necessarily rehabilitatable, you have to have a particularly brainless mindset to even do this in the first place but in general it should be possible for people to improve in prison, otherwise what’s the point, we might as well go back to public punishment and executions, since that’s effectively what prison has now become. Minimum security prisons are probably closer to the ideal, but that’s obviously not an option for all inmates.

I assume this is a historic post and not anything that’s happened recently.

Yeah the sentence should really be rewritten as “to capture knowledge already accessible on the internet, and repackage it into an utterly pointless hallucinating RAM guzzling money pit”

What aspect of any of this makes you think she’s a gold digger the article never says virtually anything about her except she wants to divorce.

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Look it’s the science squiggle

Trickle down is based on the mistaken assumption that rich people will spend all their money in the local community. When often they don’t spend their money at all and just save it, and when they do spend it it’s on expensive yachts in Monaco. They’re not contributing to the economy in which they live.

The millionaire class were delighted when they saw this idiotic take and pushed its narrative knowing full well that it would be to their advantage.

I don’t think I’ve ever heard it called a trickle up economics but yeah, it would work because most people have no choice but to spend locally. If I got some money from the government I would buy food in the local supermarket or get my house redecorated by a local tradesman.

Various tests of UBI have shown that it doesn’t really increase laziness beyond the base level it was already at, after all it’s mostly the rich who are lazy anyway, as they’re the only ones who have the resources. All it really happens is people want more time off work because they can subsidise their income with UBI, but that is an expected and desired outcome as it means more people will be employed to cover the difference which gets more people in work and therefore paying taxes.

Do they mean latex gloves like you might use in a hospital or do they mean actual rubber gloves you would use for washing up. Need to makes any sense.

I had to send an email telling people that part of the installation process of a new application is that they need to restart the computer. Restarting the computer involves clicking the power button and clicking shutdown, closing the lid and then immediately opening it again is not restarting it.