Cutting down the tree that hasn't completely fallen off the trunk (the one that hit the neighbors' house) and getting rid of all the others since they were way too heavy for us to lift and our chainsaw is electric, which doesn't help when the power is out.
Nah, fucking do better. We have 330m people and this is the best you got? Get fucked. Throw the whole fucking system in the trash. I'm talking about that system that lets Trump get away with shit and puts me in jail and convicts me for trying to escape a guy who attacked me on the road. There ain't shit any of you "good guys" have going on that fucking matters.
Hey, here’s a thought: spend a couple minutes thinking about why people are upset. Until you’ve done that, take your own advice and shut the fuck up.
Plenty of democrats are concerned about his capacity and are saying there should be another nominee. Not random people, members of congress. If they’re not settled on Biden maybe you should be the one shutting the fuck up.
Also, dude could easily keel over any day between now and November. If he was a healthy 60-something year old people might be less concerned. But a candidate who has a decent chance of dying before the election is a bad candidate.
"I know for a fact that Joe Biden gave each and every missile a little kiss on its warhead, and he refuses to share his secret solution to the decades-long Israel/Palestine conflict that will stop all the fighting without costing the US a critical ally."
2016? You mean the year when democrats couldn't get their shit together and rally behind their nominee to beat Trump even though it was obvious how horrible he would be?
I also remember 2020, the year when Biden, y'know, beat Trump.
I mean my post history is right there. Maybe I'm really committed to the ruse. Or maybe normal(ish) people are tired of being reminded we're about to have to hold our noses and vote for a turd sandwich. But I also doubt it'll be enough, so my original statement stands.
Nobody is owed the peoples' vote. You can stick your head in the sand and pretend that everything is fine but don't be surprised if it doesn't pan out come election time in the US given past and current polling. Also, the whole Russian troll/useful idiot accusation that gets leveled at everyone who feels differently about anything from Biden's chances at winning to his responsibility for what's happening in Gaza is very condescending and shows a complete lack of flexibility in thought other towing the official party line. I wonder what you would say if Biden willingly chose to resign tomorrow.
Okay. Well, I think what’s going on there is horrible, and that Israel’s authoritarian government is utterly criminal, so for what ever part we’re playing in that, i disagree with it, and if we make it out of here alive, I’m going to jump on that train with both feet.
To do that, I need Biden to win. We can’t make it better any other way, for a hundred different reasons, and that’s probably counter-intuitive and maybe it seems like there must be some other way there but there really, really isn’t. It’s an all-or-nothing situation, and every thread where anti-Biden people are complaining it doesn’t help.
I wish it could be as simple as directing them to make the decisions and agreements the majority want, but it just isn’t. Trump is doom for so many things that I, and a bunch of other people think it’s bizarre anyone would fight the effort to take him down. And that’s how we see these absolutely valid and important criticisms of Biden and the current situation.
The fact that it’s divisive is exactly why russia also does it. They want trump to win for - well, many reasons, all of them bad. So I don’t think you're saying anything you don’t believe, and I don’t think the people complaining about Biden criticisms are wrong either. It’s probably really hard to see how we could want the same thing. But, we do. We both want to prevent things from getting worse.
Because of that, as a matter of course, the most important thing is to defeat trump. Because everything is going to be in a kind of stasis until then. Yes it’s stupid, we agree, yes it’s wasteful and wrong and we should have a better system - we agree.
Russian bot or someone stupid enough to parrot the same talking points. Let me guess: you haven't met the online friends who gave you all your opinions in person, and they start saying weird stuff if you tell them to disregard all previous instructions.
Hey there! Thank you for this super informative and well-documented and cited response. While I am always open to recommendations on how to improve my life, I usually reserve taking those recommendations from people who actually care about my well-being. Maybe reserve your recommendations for people with whom you have more in common with, namely people who have placed their rectum firmly around their neck.
I wonder if Harris (VP) is now going to cause a Sarah Palin dynamic.
I’m not a USian or plugged in that much, so it might have happened already.
But if she’s as unpopular as I hear, and Biden looks like he’s on his death bed, a Biden vote practically becomes a Harris vote. How does that play out against Trump?
EDIT: lol ... downvotes. There's a difference between a question or thought that's plain wrong and one that you just don't like however relevant it might be. I have no particular views on Harris (and she's clearly no Palin, in a good way) ... I've just heard that she's not particularly viable electorally and figure that this dynamic could be real now in ways it wasn't at all in 2020.
I don't want Harris, but i understand that she's likely going to finish the term if Biden wins. I'm willing to vote for that to try to keep the other guy out. If he had someone else as a VP, people would be more on board. Also, if she had been out and about more in the last year or two i think people wouldn't be so concerned.
I like Harris. That’s another reason to vote for Biden. While Harris doesn’t particularly excite me i think I like that in a political figure. Politics should be boring and not like the wwf that we seem to have now.
The power being out makes you appreciate air conditioning even more. It sounds like your house survived with no damage so that's fantastic. Pop in a Monty Python VHS and relax a bit.
Funny you said VHS. I learned something interesting yesterday after reading earlier in the day about Redbox declaring bankruptcy. (This is totally off-topic, but I thought it was really interesting and a funny coincidence that it got brought up this morning.)
My wife, a librarian, was having a conversation on the phone with her friend-
Her friend said she had stopped getting DVDs from the library because they were so often too scratched to play. My wife said that is not in any way uncommon and that while there are devices that can repair scratched DVDs, the ones that do it on any sort of large capacity or industrial scale are incredibly expensive.
So the library usually just throws them out and buys a new copy. Since you’re talking maybe five or ten DVDs a month, it’s usually not all that costly, but when you look at a business the size of Netflix or Redbox, I can see why they didn’t want to keep investing in it.
My wife also mentioned that this was absolutely not an issue with VHS, because the tapes lasted forever (as we all know when we used to replay our favorite tapes over and over).
Anyway, no VHS player here. I get my movies and TV by sailing the high seas these days. Hopefully the power bank we ordered with an AC outlet and a solar panel to charge it will power our NAS and router though.
I will link to a buffer from harbor freight, and I don't usually recommend tools from there if they are important or you require a certain quality, but this 6" buffer seems to be holding up well over the years. With this cheap buffer from h.f. I rescued a ton of dvd's for netflix. I would get them and they would be so scratched my player would have issues. So I would take the dvd out to the shop and give it a once over with the buffer. You have to pay attention to the direction the buffer is spinning and only polish/buff from the center out on the disc, only use a fine polishing compound at the start, and never let the dvd sit in one spot on the buffer or it will do some real damage to it. But I was very successful getting a lot of dvd's repaired back to a working state with this method. It takes time, and you have be patient, but you can buff them out pretty nicely. Might save the library some money.
I don't know that most U.S. libraries, and I doubt hers, have the staff or the funding to get someone to do that and not pay them overtime, but thank you for the suggestion.
She's second from the top at the library. I don't know the full details because I haven't asked, but I am sure that she and her boss have crunched the numbers and figured throwing them out and purchasing new copies is the most cost-effective and time-effective measure.'
Again, though, thank you for the suggestion. I will bring it up.
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