Good. Contribute to the society that allows you to be successful or gtfo. There’s bound to be growing pains associated with that but I don’t think that would be worse than what is happening now.

He completed his transformation and became one with the desert in the form of a new type of semi-sentient cactus.

One could argue that situation would occur if we were smart enough to repeatedly elect those kinds people

You sneaky son of a bitch

They are implying that when faced with the choice of paying €30 for a couple of pints or smoking free weed that many will choose the latter which will impact alcohol sales in bars to a significant degree.

I don’t think that’s their fault. They specifically addressed a two party system in multiple writings (they didn’t like it) in addition to explicitly stating that they expected future generations to update the constitution as necessary to protect the republic from those who would seek to undermine or replace it. We didn’t heed their warnings and now here we are.

To be clear, I don’t think the framers were infallible or able to see all possibile challenges that our nation would face. However, they seem to have been pretty damn good at learning from history and that’s something modern Americans are absolutely abysmal at. For all their faults they have a lot to teach us in that respect.

But I saw it on TV

That definitely sucks but what is the legal argument being made here? Is he saying that hotels can’t allow bugs (or whatever the fuck scorpions are) indoors at any time? I don’t see how this is anything other than an unfortunate accident.

I have no idea where that data comes from and that’s exactly the point I’m making. It doesn’t match my personal experience at all.

I build the infrastructure that these data centers need to connect to the internet. Our projected power consumption is at least tripling from last year which was itself double the year before, and that’s only the power draw for the fiber optic infrastructure connecting these data centers together. They’re also building a ridiculous amount of computing power in those data centers which is another massive increase in power consumption.

There are some kind-of green efforts in progress to mitigate a bit of the environmental impacts of that increase in demand but most of what I have seen personally is just more draw from the local utility company. I have serious doubts about any data that indicates that tripling power consumption is not a major environmental problem.

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That’s exactly what it sounded like you were saying to me

No name racists on the internet vs former (and potential future) POTUS… Yeah you’re right, it’s tough to tell who is more responsible for spreading this particular bit of misinformation.

All progress is good progress and all that but… if this is the strongest rebuke the world can muster then we’re completely fucked

OK, maybe not anything

If I’ve learned anything from the Trump years it’s that it does not matter what is obvious, it only matters what the courts will act on. Once those votes are tallied and the final results are submitted the outcome isn’t changing, especially if the manipulation benefits conservatives. And let’s be real, that’s the only scenario in which this has a realistic chance of happening.

The electoral college is ass but getting rid of it would actually make the specific problem you’re describing worse. If the election were decided by popular vote then the margins change but so do the attack vectors. Now instead of being forced to successfully change votes in multiple locations in multiple swing states you can potentially alter the outcome by changing the tallies in one highly populated county. Doing something like that once is a lot easier than doing it 8 times simultaneously.

I still think getting rid of the EC is a good idea but we should make sure we fully understand what that means.

Alternatively, “there’s too much color in this neighborhood”. Those racist pricks. It’s about time we exposed birds for their bigotry.

In my experience weed can be a gateway drug when you have to buy it from a drug dealer. As an analogy, lots of people end up buying something other than what they went into Target to buy.

It’s very much like that. Few have the strength to wield it and they are often derided as psychopaths by their peers and those in power