{ sigh } It's only step 1 of Biden being out. He needs to take step 2 of resigning. Logically it follows. Now that he knows there is a definite end to his presidency that makes it more likely he will resign. That'll never happen. He was barely convinced to drop out, meaning he at long last agreed t...

The reason I asked is because I have a relative who was very anti-Bush but who voted for Ralph Nader in the 2000 election. And I always think, How did that work out for you . If every voter could be swayed to think along the lines of Jack, Vinny- er, Yankees60, and you, then we would see real chang...

A protest vote to any of the non-major-two is far better than not voting, IMHO. … By ‘better’, do you mean more moral on an individual level or do you also mean leading to a better (I guess long-term) outcome for the country? I mean that it expresses dissatisfaction with the main two options more f...

A protest vote to any of the non-major-two is far better than not voting, IMHO.

Vinny, how do you know anything about the Michigan secretary of state?

PredictIt.org currently gives Tulsi Gabbard a 7% chance of being Trump's VP pick. So maybe you'll get a chance to vote for her again.

It is cool, but the markup is something like 100%...

Yeah, I kind of wrote that off as no big deal until it happened to me. Turns out it's kind of a pain.

. Have no idea what the terrible musical video has to do with this. 😂 Thank you for not letting me down. Vinny shall always remain Vinny! 😂 (Sigh) it just doesn’t have the same punch now that autoplay has been deprecated. I am incapable of listening to terrible music so if there was some message in...

JM Bullion is located in Irving, TX so I wasn't about to fly down there. That's actually not a bad option if you can make it work. That's less than 15 minutes away from the second-busiest, and very centrally-located, airport in the country. If you're really dealing in quantity the trip could easily...

And, i mean this in a sincere way, not flippantly: if I lose my taste and smell, I’m going to eat raw garlic just to see if it burns. Tried it just now. Zero flavor or smell, but it still burns. Had allergies last month even though my allergies generally start in September. It went away after a few...

I think I could guarantee you that an extreme high percentage of people who consider themselves "gay" wish that they had born with the same inclinations as you and me. Perhaps that was true at one point. But look: https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/25/us/gen-z-adults-lgbtq-identity-reaj/index.ht...

:D There’s a Congressional baseball game on C-Span now. I’ve seen Army-Navy football before, but I’d forgotten about this. (Of course, as soon as they mentioned Steve Scalise, I thought, oh, right . I just re-skimmed this really informative article about the events of that day: https://www.buzzfeed...

I would amend boglerdude's definition to refer to inequality of outcome, which it seems is primarily what they're focused on.

Okay dualstow, who's that guy?

I don't even know how to shut off my Music Player so I just restart my phone when I'm done using it. A lot of actions are done with swiping these days and I sometimes don’t get it on the first try. I’m on an phone running Android 14 aka ‘Upside Down Cake’. If I swipe from the bottom of the screen, ...

I’m trying and failing to come up with a joke about sacrificial RAM… Genesis 22:13-14: And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him was a ram, caught in a thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son. So Abraha...

So they can charge a lot for RAM and storage. This is much worse now than it used to be: both the storage and RAM are now non-upgradable on Macs. So you must initially buy all the storage and RAM you think you'll ever need on that laptop, which you can only buy from Apple and are tremendously expen...

I have a lot of stories to tell but just one here. When I saw Joan Jett live in 1994 ... after the show there was a problem with some people in the crowd. The police went way over the line in their actions. So much so that one of the concert security was trying to pull one of the police off a kid. ...

Smith1776 wrote: ↑Mon May 13, 2024 12:58 pm Can anyone help me get past this paywall?

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Unless you're doing fully end-to-end encryption with your email (which is unlikely), your email admin can read your mail. You would need to have the encryption key in your possession and never leave your possession, which means you need to configure your client in a very particular way, and then peo...

Toast is having quite a day (Earnings) Putting Toast in a search brings way too many irrelevant results. So need more context or information here. I could give you a direct link, but it’s better if you spread your wings and fly. How about typing it (“toast”) into wikipedia. That will bring you to a...

I'm not sure this belongs in Politics but I wasn't sure where else to put it. There was an interesting comment on this page: https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/05/01/1513253/global-debt-hasnt-been-this-bad-since-the-napoleonic-wars-says-wef-president in response to an article about global debt being...

And then an IP address belonging to Alibaba started hammering us. Weird. Had to block that one.

It appears to be "ClaudeBot". ??