At a place I worked many years ago I left because I was moving. I still had remote access to the cameras until they upgraded the system.

We even have trouble with cultural shit within our own species! Smiling like that all the time would warn me away and I’m from a culture that generally likes smiling. In our closest living genetic relative, the chimpanzee, a toothy smile means “I’m ready to tear your arm/balls off.”

I have this terrible feeling that Turkey would veto, even if somehow we could distract Trump with enough McDonald’s and fake tits to try to get it done.

That’s fair. Try alcohol.

If you’re talking about the Superb Owl right now you’re having the wrong conversation.

Dihydrogen monoxide?

This is incorrect. Source: do it all the time for work.

We are still using VGA on current gen installations for the primary display on the most expensive patient monitoring system products in the world. If there’s a second display it gets displayport. 1080p is still the max resolution.

Trump’s “floor” is roughly 30%. These are the cultists, people who would support anything Trump says no matter how insane. These are the people who travelled to DC and ended up attacking the Capital Building on January 6.

We need our own party, but before that can happen we need nationwide elimination of first past the post elections. Or the demise of the Democratic party. I’ll take either but preferably both.

I wonder if the word choice in “pretending to be altruistic” is intentional for autistic. If so then she is very clever.

But how could we ban the content when the owners of the media are fascists? When all three branches of the government are dominated by people who rely on this messaging?

You want people to relax while we’re in the beginning of a fascist takeover of our country?

I live in the state that gave Trump his highest margin of victory, so I have seen what you describe many times.

My friend listened to punk music and played in punk bands. He was very conservative politically. I hadn’t seen him in a while and we decided to go to a show hours away and catch up. We had stopped talking politics to preserve our friendship. We were on our way back from the show, listening to Rancid, and I couldn’t stand it anymore. I was like “hey man, you love this music, but do you not hear the lyrics? How can you say the things you say?” I didn’t know he had changed.

He had been doing survey work for a mining company for years. He explained that after he got out of that job, everything became clear. He wasn’t conservative anymore, in fact he had become progressive.

He explained that when he worked with nothing but hard right conservatives, with Fox News on all day, it seeped into his brain and corrupted him.

This is an intelligent man I’m talking about. He was a victim of propaganda and was smart enough to realize it once he was away from it.

This is always on my mind:

"“We won the evangelicals. We won with young. We won with old. We won with highly educated. We won with poorly educated. I love the poorly educated.”

Trump said this at a speech in Nevada during the primary in 2016, and people cheered.

It’s happened twice to me, I’m now 41. I was able to get it resolved both times but it was not easy and in the first case seriously hurt my credit score for seven years.

When you die your social is reused and assigned to someone else eventually.

This is not true, but often repeated. From SSA

This has happened many times. In the last city I lived in, a man went in to have a leg amputated and they got the wrong one, so he ended up with zero legs.

At one point in the campaign JD Vance suggested that people with children should get more votes than childfree people. I’m certain he, and many others, would be down for that.

Banks and nations. Saudi Arabia was a big contributor. I wonder why a theocratic dictatorship would want influence over a worldwide free speech platform?

That’s so fucking clever, I love it.