Yeah, but then they’re so fractured that the right takes back power within a generation.

The rule of internet polls is that the funniest answer is always over-represented.

Ah, so you see a mirror and you don’t like it.

I never said it didn’t happen, I said you had to take steps to make it not happen.

Why are you like this? With the incessant need to be right and everyone else wrong?

Ah, so not even speaking from experience, then.

It doesn’t happen to me, but I took a proactive approach to prevent it from happening. I don’t remember what that action was, since I did it years and years ago… but I know it’s possible. You just have to literally more than nothing to prevent these things.

Or you could switch to linux… but that takes an even more proactive approach.

So not really the flights themselves, just the regulation overseeing the flights.

How dare

Unalive is a s##tty replacement for the word shit.

All that disenfranchisement and it only dropped 6%?

Active disenfranchisement is definitely a factor, and something that needs to be addressed… but it’s hardly the biggest factor in why people aren’t voting.

The majority of Americans who bothered to show up want this. A plurality decided they didn’t care either way and decided they’d rather just stay home.

That gives me anxiety, it’s too elaborate.

Well if the people responsible for adjudicating such crimes are too chickenshit, there’s not really any reason for them not to wear their shame on their lapels.

Especially when it seems to galvanize their base, rather than repel it.

You test it, yes, but you have to be willing to be wrong. Just looking for everything that proves you’re right is not scientific.

Is that an oddly historically accurate sequel to Age of Conan: Age of Lincoln?

Lots of things cause harm while also doing good things. It’s a balance.

The problem is when that balance skews more one way than another.

I believe the temperatures within the chart are “feels like” temperatures rather than absolute temperatures. The X axis shows absolute values (what would likely show on the thermostat).

At OPs original temperature (91°F) the danger zone would be around 60-70% and higher. At OPs last updated temperature (94°F), the danger zone would be 55% or higher.

But why? Just calling things dumb, or stupid, or idiotic without any explanation is just a grade school way of saying “I don’t like a thing”. Without seeking a way to understand, and thus overcome it, it’s always just going to be “I’m smart and they’re dumb”, which is often the argument of those you’d criticize of “inherent stupidity”.

I would say the opposite. At least for the basis of this train of thought. That maliciousness makes one single-minded in their ideals and goals, which inevitably devolves into “Get mine, fuck them”. Which is inherently destructive, both for the person in question and those around them.

People keep trying to attribute maliciousness to stupidity as well. Mostly because it’s easier to dismiss stupidity than argue against it.

He’s shortsighted, narcissistic, and petty. But he doesn’t do things just to prove how much of a big idiot he is. Dismissing everything he does as “idiocy” just gives him more leash to piss on everyone from.