so are we still calling 3rd-party voters evil or are we done with that yet? need to know before November thx

“Spoiler effect” is so dumb. like oh, i’m the bad guy for voting for the candidate that you agree is better than the one you voted for??

give me a break. i’m literally not the one to blame for that.

i’d definitely be more high-functioning if i followed this chart, but i also really don’t want to.

i’m hooked on the synopsis alone

as far as i can tell, it’s a freeware mobile app called “Lonely Girl”. but please, anyone who knows more, infodump on me. i can’t find any gameplay, and i don’t have an android/iOS device even if i wanted to install it.

Crowder says stupid words specifically designed to provoke a reaction from people.

196ers react to it.

we had a phrase for how to respond to this type of person/provocation, back in the day. something about food and trolls… but it’s long forgotten 😐️

the pills in the photo are too oval shaped though. honestly just looks like Aleve to me

but what drugs?

for real though, i like walking around barefoot but the climate here’s such that i only get to do that 3 months out of the year.

the other nine months i walk around indoors and the little bumpy bits help me feel like i’m walking on actual dirt/rock instead of boring floorboards.

dare i say, this man sounds a bit unmoored

“nothing matters” is the tool i use when it’s the weekend and i’m struggling to enjoy it because i’m busy worrying about my job come Monday. but then i walk anyone else through the logic and they tell me it’s depressing and that i shouldn’t tell anyone else what i just told them. so, cheers to the enlightened few 🥂

People forget that Trump was an “anti-establishment” candidate

do they? every time Trump doesn’t show up to a presidential debate, i’m reminded; every time a state tries to kick him off the primary, i’m reminded. i’m saddened, because the Democrats gave us their most establishment candidate, but i’m reminded, that Trump still has a very rocky relationship with that establishment.

what you say is entirely consistent. it’s a strong belief in democracy as a process with no bounds/constraints, as an ultimate good in and of itself. and it’s sort of my point: in the “civil war” frame, Democrats are super unlikely to instigate violence. your neighbors will vote away all the things you value, out of religious beliefs you disagree with or merely out of spite, but that’s okay, so long as they do so democratically.

i meet enough democrats (little d) who say they wouldn’t comply with a draft, even if enacted democratically. my thoughts are that there’s at least a few things similar to that: decisions where your own interests shouldn’t be subservient to the will of an abstract majority. the surprise with abortion for me is that for my whole life, that was de-facto such an example. it wasn’t treated as a thing that had been decided democratically, just as a thing which was. then some people far away said “abortion should be decided democratically”, and the number of people around me saying “actually no it shouldn’t” was way smaller (i.e. zero) than the number of people who say that about things like the draft. i still don’t know how to square that, but to answer your “what were your expectations towards the Democrats here” question, well, you asking that is the answer to why i think “civil war” talk is so beyond the pale.

Nichijou was ahead of its time. but 15 years is a lot of time in which manga authors have caught up, or absorbed the potent parts of Nichijou into their own works, and on the anime side the budgets on hit series are wayyyy higher now.

Nichijou is underrated, in terms of its impact, and of what it was. but Nichijou is overrated, in terms of how it would stack up against the competition if it had been released today. but that’s coming from an English speaker: i hear the amount of humor which “doesn’t translate” is reallly high for this one.

you’re not going to believe me, but this comment reminded me, so i checked, and by happenstance i am actually wearing my “Helvetica Standard” t-shirt right now.

Democrats too. half the country lost a pretty significant right to their own bodily autonomy that they’d taken foregranted for basically their entire life. and they just… rolled over and took it? that’s about the most concrete domestic loss they’ve taken this century, and more concrete than anything else on the table right now, so i honestly don’t know what would have to happen in order for the left to do anything meaningfully violent.

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we’re experts at claiming to be expertised. how do you know? because of how confidently i just claimed to be an expert.

like 80% of US ISPs block port 25 outbound. you’re not gonna be sending emails without going through some additional commercial entity forwarding that traffic.

sure, find a VPN provider that provisions PTR records correctly, and it’s not too hard to get your mail delivered if you read the docs. it’s also true that that’s notably more restrictive than any other “open” communications protocol i’m accustomed to.