I once got an email in another language but happened to recognize it since my grandmother used it regularly. So I ran it through one of those translator services, and it was pretty mundane 'how are you and your kid's type stuff.

Ended up writing back via translator text, turned out they already spoke English though. Seems her brother has the same name and email as me but with a different provider and she just mixed up the domain.

I occasionally get random spam that I think was meant for him since it's all localized.

It's a bit like the logic of why Trump may be better than De'Satan, he's a reckless destructive arse, but at least he's stupid too.

Problem is though now they have a pile of people behind that 2025 doc to make up for their own lack of knowledge...

I love the idea of electric vehicles and all, but the amount of stored battery power to run something like this being used to spray a bunch of water sounds scary. Hoping the waterproofing in the battery compartment is some next level work.

This one never had lunch at a public school in the 80s/90s...

Also a common thing at mine, oranges cut to a size where you could put them in your mouth to wear like a boxing mouth guard. Called them orange smiles...

Huh, small rabbit hole there, wasn't aware there was a special baby blood type. So basically someone who has the luck to have dodged what sounds like a super common virus all their life gets to have special uses for their donations.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/cmv/symptoms-causes/syc-20355358

I don't know about the 'so shallow', that walks pretty boldly into incel speak generalizations. The part about the imbalance of likes rings true though. At one point an app I ventured onto had thought it was a good idea to make a visible marker on a profile of how many people liked them.

So as I'm going along it happened to try and match me with someone I know. So I messaged her for a laugh about it, and she said she had just joined a couple weeks back, boredom or some such. In the couple months I was there got something like a dozen requests, all from women in India or Phillipines, my guess they were hired by the company to help keep guys on since it was a fairly small place.

She on the other hand had a couple hundred already. Now admittedly she's plenty attractive, so that helps of course, but the number difference is crazy. At that point there needs to be some fast-call rejections to just have some reasonable number to look at in depth.

The guy has been promising hellfire, retribution , and chaos from the start.

Shocked Pikachu

No, this was supposed to be the outcome that saves Palestine, they must have things mixed up somewhere...

Learn a lesson from progressives, it's been almost 20 years since we've been happy about a presidential election. That's never made us stop voting, it's never stopped us from working on the next election, and it sure as shit hasn't stopped any of us from complaining.

At this point I hardly know what title to apply to who any longer, but for a large part those claiming the title of progressives where the loudest bunch clamoring to vote third party or stay home.

I consider myself lower-midfle class, not poor, certainly not rich. I vote to support school levies and public good works. I say tax the hell out of the ultra rich. Take a major chunk of our military budget and put it to Medicare and free college. All the same kinds of things these progressives ask for.

Yet when I say Kamela is the best realistic choice out there in this election it gets people all worked up saying I'm not better than some red hat looking to do evil in the world.

Why? This country is simply not going to turn into something resembling a Scandinavian semi-socialist country in one fell swoop.

It's not unheard of to make some pretty impressive structures of wood, I'm thinking of some of those big pagodas in Asia that have been around for who knows how long. That said thought does have a lot of significant challenges with fire being right up there. I can't fathom how they would deal with things like lightning. Lightning rods exist but is that enough to not explode wood the same way a struck tree does?

Well these guys from Super Mario Galaxy would probably look pretty round from the side I guess.

Is steel considered bad now? I would think the larger concerns from buildings would be all the plastic and fiberglass type components rather than the steel or concrete structures themselves.

Shh, we don't talk about that...

Here's another part of the equation, the owner gets enough of a share of the business profit where they can buy a new house, expand to multiple locations, buy new cars, etc.

The extra couple bucks an hour per employee is a tiny drop in the cost pool per business operational hour compared to that. They could perfectly well keep prices the same without paying sub-minimum wages by taking a smaller cut themselves.

The one real lever the Democrats have fed really is the filibuster in the Senate, and they damn well better learn to use it with the ease the Republicans have over the past couple decades.

The AGs can make a show at the state levels, but with the SCOTUS stacked as it is trying to sue for anything is theatrical at best.

Obama inherited the result of Clinton's poor financial decisions on the housing market passed to resolve the issues from Reaganomics.

Obama inherited a landscape where 8 years of Bush had deregulated the banks to the point where they were giving mortgage loans underwater from the start to anyone with a pulse which lead to the 2008 collapse.

So really this one person on the web who took a pic and said that someone told them this was totally true?

The historical bit is just looking at things in a longer term context. It's a challenge for people, particularly at a younger age, to consider things in a view that goes beyond a single lifetime. In the past roughly 100 years we have gone from 'man will never fly' to being able to have this conversation on servers across the globe. Women getting a vote. Schools and entire societies being segregated by race. From as recent as my youth when being gay was a punchline to the LGBT community largely being not only accepted but actively supported.

There are losses here and again of course, but in a grand scheme view society has made notable progress. Maybe just a bit of frustration over the recent weeks with the 'nothing ever changes' mantra that seems so popular.

Cheney, for as much of a tool as he may be, at least hasn't shown himself to be fully engulfed in the maga cult and recognizes that allowing Trump into power is a legitimate threat to the entire system. It's less of an endorsement of Harris and more a rejection of Trump.

Edit: To touch on the 'eventually' aspect. I don't want it to sound like an excusing of the slow pace of change in our modern world, but put into context that the USA is, by global comparison, a young nation. Look at the time spans that nations in Asia or Europe have existed by comparison and the length of time it took to change their ways, often through drastic social upheaval. In comparison the gains in social equalities here have come at a rapid pace in the past century. For a place founded in violence and oppression where it was originally codified law that only white landowning males where of consequences we've made some notable improvements in the span of a few generations. As it stands today we're in a space where there are people legitimately clamoring for a second civil war due to the inability to find consensus on any number of issues. So many things that are common sense to the rest of the world are considered alien here, deemed 'un-american'. As we move along the road people come around to these 'radical' ideals, but it often takes a generation for them to become the norm.

Must live on a busy street, most of those would be multi year totals around here.