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I really didn't see a Trump presidency coming -- he's a joke, IMHO, but I guess enough people got it to get him elected. I too thought that Sanders was a better bet, though I was concerned about the hay the right would make with his being a self-styled socialist. He's also Jewish. Given the reactio...

Just to be clear, you are saying that these allegations were fabricated by the news agencies? When an organization is ideologically and mentally uniform, it is very easy to justify "lying for Jesus" due to lack of opposing viewpoints in positions of authority. It's still lying even if the...

If you want a one-term Trump presidency, hope for a boring, violence free 4 years where there's no distraction from Trump shooting his mouth off and the Democrats manage to pull their heads out of their asses by 2020. If you want a solid red government and Trump to get re-elected, pray for terrorist...

I'd like to know about these ways the world would be strange if the Pilot Wave theory was correct.

I'm not sure secessionism is actually illegal. It's illegal to secede without the approval of Congress and the legislatures of all concerned states . I think it's actually reasonable to believe that if Cascadia (California, Oregon, Washington) had votes to secede in their respective legislatures an...

"Please ignore the crimes I have definitely committed, my opponent will probably commit the same ones in the future." is not a compelling argument that inspires trust in your judgement, Simon. That's how you lose an election to a pile of human slime with bad hair.

Borgholio wrote:Oh and he is also considering living in the white house only part of the time. Some are already saying he didn't expect to win and only wants to be a part-time president.

Dubya style, 6 months of vacation per year?

How old are you, out of curiosity? Because the losing side of EVERY modern election has "howled like banshees." Certainly the Republicans did the past 2 election cycles, and the Democrats did for both Bush electoral victories. True. It probably just feels louder because I'm on the losing ...

How old are you, out of curiosity? Because the losing side of EVERY modern election has "howled like banshees." Certainly the Republicans did the past 2 election cycles, and the Democrats did for both Bush electoral victories. True. It probably just feels louder because I'm on the losing ...

I'm pretty sure that has been the way of humans throughout all of history. It's just more dramatic now when most places have economies that are not significantly or mostly immobile (aka locally produced and consumed agriculture).

Fuck the Electoral College. Their is a small bit of perverse comfort, however, in knowing that Trump emphatically does not represent the choice of the American people. And the higher that number goes, the stronger the argument for reforming, or abolishing, the Electoral College. To me, at least, it...

Fuck the Electoral College. Their is a small bit of perverse comfort, however, in knowing that Trump emphatically does not represent the choice of the American people. And the higher that number goes, the stronger the argument for reforming, or abolishing, the Electoral College. To me, at least, it...

After feeling really good in general about this expansion, hitting a ton of roadblocks labeled "Requires Mythic Dungeon" has taken the wind out of my sails. Feels a bit like the expansion is already over.

To steal one of Simon_jester's analogies, money is like blood, it keeps you alive while its flowing through you and you die when it stops (hits zero or other issues). Money entered coal towns in exchange for coal, and exited through all the various means a consumer economy provides. With no more (or...

Immigration and terrorism are just dog whistles. Areas like rural Michigan have fuck all immigrants (and terrorism for that matter). Furthermore, immigrants appear to commit less crime than the general population . My theory has long been that most crime is committed by dysfunctional bozos who can'...

Throw your ideas at greatagain.gov , if nothing else it can't hurt.

I'd forgotten about consoles, I don't think I've spent any significant time on one since Halo first came out on my friend's Xbox. I was thinking less about FPS (and outside twitch shooters I don't really care, I play games at single digit FPS regularly) and more about the art itself. Unless you give...

I feel like the gaming industry is in an odd place right now. Visually we seem to have surpassed the human eye's ability to notice improvement (remember when graphic cards would use the number of colors they could display as a selling point?) which means games have to rely on style, which for a fran...

I wonder if the Defiant being slow was one of those things that got fixed as the bugs were worked out. It's been forever, but wasn't it in danger of blowing itself up if it ran it's engines at full power when it was first introduced? Almost like a reverse version of the bus from Speed.

From what I remember in TOS Warp Factor cubed was your speed in c and there was no silly Warp 10 = infinte nonsense, so Warp 52 was a perfectly valid Warp Factor. In TNG Gene Roddenberry didn't like steadily increasing warp numbers and changed it. From Warp 1 to 9 your Warp Factor to the power of 1...

In a different thread someone posted a few picture of historic US bills, it got me wondering why we restrict ourselves to a single person. With 4 coins and 4 bills in circulation (the others being rare enough to be discounted, I haven't seen a 1$ coin in over a year) that's 8 faces, and even repres...

In a different thread someone posted a few picture of historic US bills, it got me wondering why we restrict ourselves to a single person. With 4 coins and 4 bills in circulation (the others being rare enough to be discounted, I haven't seen a 1$ coin in over a year) that's 8 faces, and even represe...

From what I remember in TOS Warp Factor cubed was your speed in c and there was no silly Warp 10 = infinte nonsense, so Warp 52 was a perfectly valid Warp Factor. In TNG Gene Roddenberry didn't like steadily increasing warp numbers and changed it. From Warp 1 to 9 your Warp Factor to the power of 10...

While it seems unlikely the facebook guy will come over here, I would be interested in discussing the psychology or beliefs that give rise to gold standard/crypto-currency diehards. What I've gather from my very casual and random encounters, they seem to think that gold has some sort of intrinsic, o...

There's more of Palmyra left than I had thought. Previous reports had left me with the impression it had been completely reduced to a gravel pit.