Because my country is populated by worthless inbred trash that fall for something so simple as “Hey! Look over there!”

Jim Crow.

The south still has similar voting restrictions, it’s just the supreme court stopped caring and said ‘sure, whatevs’.

Abortion in the red states, and that was work he did his last term.

Wait till he’s back in office, he’s nothing if not vindictive.

4’33 - John Cage

Isn’t that literally silence?

edit: That’s silence, you asshole! :p

That’s some underrated deep cut shit right there.

Yeah, never leave that job half done.

I can hear that.

Staying sober at home with family can be hard enough, but when traveling, that’s hardcore mode.

99 luftballoons is similar.

The 80s was oddly dark.

Because?

This is the whole russian ethos, you must give them everything they want, because they don’t care.

It’s like the idiot who threatens to eat his own shit, and then does it.

We get that they have less respect for themselves and peace, but we learned a long time ago that giving in to those people doesn’t win peace, only more war, because you’re rewarding their behavior.

It is an absolutely credible threat that we could wipe out the entire Russian armed forces with a fraction of our power, and they know that.

You honestly think they pushed so hard to get Trump in power for no reason? We are the only thing holding them back.

Then let’s threaten to nuke moscow tomorrow if he doesn’t immediately withdraw.

We’ll make it a really intense threat too, take all our missiles to defcon 1, deploy all our forces, have squadrons of f-22s and f-35s surrounding Ukraine and obviously tail all their borei.

“It’s just a threat, bro!”

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/25/europe/putin-nuclear-warns-west-missile-strikes-ukraine-intl-latam/index.html

He’s giving better nukes to NK in exchange for support, and there’s Intel he’s giving some to Iran as well.

He won’t stop until he is stopped, we should have learned that by now.

Try to move out of China.

They literally have 6-7 day work weeks, 10-12 hours a day.

Fucking brutal.

I mean yes, but the real disenfranchisement comes from making sure the lines are hours long for the only polling station in your county (while every suburban school is a polling station in rich neighborhoods).

We had laws against that (not that they were followed), but the Supreme Court struck them down because “they weren’t needed anymore”.

Electoral college is weird AF

https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-10-02-0065

It was just added because it was the only way to launder slave votes for slave states, if you did it 1 vote per person then who got to choose who the slaves voted for?

We need to fix it, but there’s no way in hell they’ll give up their most precious possession, no matter how wrong it is.

Read the first book, wasn’t impressed yet, I think it’s just so different than the expanse.

Also not a lot of room for setting, they’re kind of stuck until the plot shifts. Overall depressing too.

Greek and Roman mythologies are almost the same, and they spread throughout all their conquered lands because they enforced their religion upon them, and any foreign religion was subsumed as ‘oh, that’s just another name for jupiter or something’.

The Greeks and Romans left so many written records and the Greek language is still alive, while Latin is well understood.

Hindu mythology also stayed very firmly alive, but only among people in India, and nobody else cared. Buddhism doesn’t have the same kind of mythology, and it’s different depending on where you go, and even the local politics (actually so is hindu mythology, it’s basically the marvel comics universe but where each village priest makes up a few minor gods for themselves). China and Japan do have their own, pre-buddhist mythology, we see that a lot in anime.

Native American mythology was killed, a few times, by disease, violence, but mostly brutal Christianity.

Finally the Norse gods spent some time in England and Europe, after the Romans and Greeks, so they have some presence where they were considered interesting.

Mostly, English-centric literature and media, and literature students study it EXTENSIVELY for their degree, basically as a deconstruction of the evolution of storytelling and underlying tropes/archetypes. Less of this spread from elsewhere.

Qemu, i386 target, not sure if they use TCG for that, they probably do, basically have a specific machine model that handles fdiv with a lookup table or something, honestly not sure how it went wrong.

Around 2008, basically all the Texans who screwed up US politics saw their gravy train ending and ran north to exploit Alberta’s new oil.

I’m sorry, but it’s like apologizing for locusts.

Had the fold 3, was fine at first, but my eyes aren’t as perfect, and the screen was so thin it was less usable folded.

The pixel fold has a better form factor, but it crappier otherwise.

We survived one term, this one will be worse, but if we stop being idiots and let them distract us with 1000 tiny controversies then we can solve anything.

He had nearly unlimited power last time and we did OK, though McCain helped and that corporate tax cut was brutal.

I think America has become politically lazy, sometimes you have to take a stand for your principles, and we’ve gotten used to expecting the idiots on TV to do that for us.

If he ‘wins’ and we put 10m people on Pennsylvania Avenue, I think we can make it clear that he serves us, not the other way around.

But we won’t do that, we’ll expect everyone else to instead…