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dhork,

I find it hard to talk badly of anyone who had just died, whether or not they were related to Mitch McConnell. That was a horrible way to go.

But, if it turns out the Tesla design was at fault, then we may be watching one of the few families who have enough resources to challenge Elon Musk get medieval on his ass. Which would be fun to watch, even if did take a tragedy to start all off.

dhork,

I disagree, it’s important to note that Conservatives love their families, too. They are not inhuman.

And their love of their family can, for some, feed into their racism. Their families are successful and they may attribute that to genetics. People with inferior genetics can’t really help themselves, can they? They need a ruling class to make the important decisions for them.

You’re right though, if they sue it won’t be to prevent this from happening to anyone else. It will be for revenge and punishment. Profit is a side motive here. They might pour an excessive amount into any lawsuit just for revenge.

dhork,

Trump has the first half of “dictator” covered …

dhork,

I get down voted here for saying that sometimes Joe Biden’s mouth gets out in front of his brain. But it’s so, so true.

dhork,

Wouldn’t be the first time Trump has paid good money for a chubb

Rep. Ronny Jackson was demoted by Navy following investigation into his time as White House physician (www.cbsnews.com)

“The substantiated allegations in the DoDIG investigation of Rear Adm (lower half) Ronny Jackson are not in keeping with the standards the Navy requires of its leaders and, as such, the Secretary of the Navy took administrative action in July 2022,” a Navy spokesperson told CBS News.

dhork, (edited )

What I find remarkable is that Ronny Jackson was the WH doctor for part of the Obama administration, too, and Obama was the one who recommended him for the promotion to Admiral in the first place. (That bit was in the WaPo article this is based on)

dhork,

It’s not like he reads the damn things anyway. They should just give him a picture book with “TRUMP” in big letters on every page to color in.

dhork,

The State of my Onion is chopped and sauteed with a bit of butter

dhork,

He looks like the Keebler elf

dhork,

Well yeah, none of it will get done, and he will blame the guy behind him, and the other guy who is holding his strings.

dhork,

If nothing else, he’s proven he still has some endurance left. This is a long speech.

dhork,

This is why it’s essential for those debates to happen. Yes, both men are declining mentally, but Biden can at least make a coherent argument, even if he mixes up names sometimes.

There is no excuse for either candidate to avoid debates anymore. we need to hear them talk, without prepared speeches. I will take Biden’s odds on that over Trump’s any day.

If Biden wins this thing, I think history will find that the reason he beat Trump twice was that he was not at all intimidated by him. He takes Trump seriously, but also has the courage to call him out for the liar he is, convincingly, without dismissing his supporters as a bunch of losers. That takes a bit of confidence that only age can bring. Maybe Bernie could have done it, but I don’t think any other candidate could. Clinton absolutely failed at that.

dhork,

I agree with all of that. His issues go beyond his stutter, though. His mouth has always been a step or two ahead of his brain, and he got himself into trouble in the past saying stupid shit. He has run for President for years and years, and couldn’t win until Trump made it OK to say stupid stuff.

dhork,

And, in a roundabout way, you can thank the Electoral College. Because if the popular vote was all that counted, he might decide that the 100k votes in Michigan were worth staying uncommitted so he could pick up the pro-Israel lobby elsewhere, like on Long Island and in NYC. But Biden is all but guaranteed to win NY, while Michigan is a toss-up.

dhork,

The idea of the Electoral College makes more sense when you consider it to be the weighted average of 50 elections. It keeps elections confined to a state-by-state event. Imagine the shit show if we had a full popular vote, and a candidate won by 5 votes, so the entire country got recounted?

But having the Electoral College be actual people is silly. And it’s weighted all wrong, because the House hasn’t expanded in 100+ years. Maybe if the House were twice it’s size, things might be more representative.

There is an actual algorithm to determine House apportionment based on the population in the 50 states. One of these days, I want to take the time to figure out if Trump would still have won if the House were twice the size in 2016, or whether that would have skewed the weightings just enough for Clinton to have won.

dhork,

Also take a look at the recent Special Counsel investigations. Democratic AGs gave wide berths to the investigations into Clinton and Biden, and those reports exonerated the people involved, but had nasty editorial asides that did permanent damage to both campaigns.

Meanwhile, the investigation into Trump found serious issues, but Barr massaged the thing so that Trump could say it “totally exonerated” him.

If playing by the rules gives you a stark disadvantage, but breaking the rules brings no punishment, then the only reason to follow rules is your internal moral code. Republicans seem to conveniently ignore their self-professed morals whenever they need to gain an advantage.

dhork,

They’re still a thing, kind of. TV Antennas are still inherently wired this way, and need the part in the picture (a balun) to convert the signal from the “balanced” 300 ohm twin antenna wire to “unbalanced” 75 Ohm coax cable.

Most TVs used to have the twin screw connections to hook directly to a roof antenna. But at some point (I’m guessing the 90s), more people got their TV directly from cable providers, delivered over Coax, so it made more sense for manufacturers to provide a direct coax input for the antenna.

So now, if you do have a roof antenna it probably has the balun integrated right into it, so you can take the coax (hopefully through some lightning protection) directly inside.

dhork,

Republicans understand that demographics are against them, and their only chance is to whip their base into a froth while simultaneously making it harder for Others to vote.

dhork,

The article says that Biden “looked stunned and froze”, but there is video embedded in the article and it’s clear that Biden was stunned in the sense of “Holy shit, what was that?”, and not in terms of having some sort of episode. But now we’re gonna get all the idiots reminding us that they think Biden is too old for all this.

dhork,

Personally, I would prefer the N64 to the SNES. I think I could still spend months just playing Goldeneye and that Star Wars game.

dhork,

Math is hard

dhork, (edited )

What did potatos ever do to make you unfriend them?

dhork,

I’d probably get killed by a giant ant.

dhork,

Babbage’s

All us old people can now get together and reminisce about long dead retailers…

dhork,

Nethack

dhork,

No Pitfall? What’s the point, then?

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