Is her middle name “fucking”? I thought it was “asset”.

The popular vote has some weight. Not enough to award Presidency, but it can be used in arguments for eliminating the electoral college, implement RCV, and other improvements. Narrowing the popular vote gap makes it harder to make these arguments.

Weight loss.

Both pretty names! I’m particularly fond of “Genevieve.”

I suspect there are several names no longer common in the US that are more common in other countries. I think “Genevieve” is still fairly common in France, and it’s making a comeback in the states! You’re doing your part!

I agree with you, but kinda don’t?

The important thing is to engender a culture of engagement, and a big factor of that is getting people to the polls. Yes, I think voting for Trump is a vote to end Democracy in the US, but I think we should separate the messages. There are two distinct ones:

1. It is important that you vote.
2. It is important that you vote for Kamala.

Point 1 is the more enduring one; point 2, this election, ensures we continue to have point 1. But I don’t believe we need to stop reinforcing the first point, especially because if 100% of the US voted, Kamala would win handily. That’s why Republicans are so keen on voter suppression. People, in general, will be more receptive to message 1.

Taste?

I loved it; it’s in my “classics” list. But I loathe Game of Thrones - both the novels and the TV series, and those were wildly popular with a lot of people.

It’s just personal taste; I’m not sure there’s an explanation.

Your use case is obviously different, but I’ve gone years between system upgrades. I mostly do OSS coding, or work stuff; not gaming. The only case I can imagine needing to upgrade my little Ryzen with 16 cores - a laptop CPU - is if it becomes absolutely imperative that I run AI models on my desktop. Or if Rust really does become pervasive; compiling Rust programs is almost as bad as compiling Haskell, and will take over my computer for minutes at a time.

When I got this like micro, the first thing I did was upgrade it to 64GB of RAM, because that’s the one thing I think you can never have too much of; especially with the modern web and all the shit that brings with it; Electron apps, and so on, absolutely chew up memory. The one good thing about the Rust trend is better memory use, so the crappy compile times are somewhat forgiveable.

“Boner” would be a fantastic name for a TV series about a grumpy orthopedist with a drug problem who’s always right. “It’s always osteoporosis” could be the tag line.

I never stopped calling it Twitter. X is a window manager, a letter of the alphabet, or the most algebraic variable name. It’s not a name for a company.

This is also the thing I think proves that these people are stupid, although I really try to not assume these things.

Kamala is so much not a communist, she’d be considered economically right-wing in most of the EU.

God, this is so painfully true. Microsoft really set the precedent for the industry, often straying over the line into illegality; if Bush hadn’t given directions that resulted in the ruling being overturned, they’d be several smaller companies now, and without their near-monopoly.

Fucking Bush.

Shakes.

Seconded. OP, if you can write Markdown, Hugo will turn it into a website.

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury.

Alexander Fraser Tytler

I don’t know that he’s absolutely right, but he’s certainly situationally right.

To maximize the number of people who show up at your funeral.

Yeah, the “political suicide” bit is immediately questionable. The fact that this race is even close has destroyed any remaining shreds of faith in my fellow Americans.

Trump could go up in stage and rant about black people, using the hard-R; he could repeat the sexist comments he’s already famous for; he could probably even criticize Christians - none of it would move the needle. People voting for him aren’t doing so because they think he’s a great person; they’re doing it because they hate liberals.

There are grammar Nazis, and fashion Nazis; PC Nazis, and good ol’ fashioned fascist Nazis; but my favorite Nazis are logic Nazis!

Go ahead… you can whisper it to me

“… as opposed to 70% of non-trans people.”

Statistics without context are meaningless, even if it is biggotted propaganda.

That’s probably the only content of value there, anymore.