Apparently the gop doesn’t need a policy to win. Harris lost to someone who just promised vague amounts of success without literally a single concrete plan in place. Maybe the dems just need to treat the voters like they’re the dumbest fucking people on the planet and promise everything will turn to rainbows and unicorn shit with nothing to back it up.

Legalize weed, provide universal health care, give a job with a million dollar salary to every single citizen, create high speed rail across the entire country, fix the ecosystem, stop every war on earth, approve an annual day where you can legally slap your boss, etc etc. Then if asked for specifics just say they have concepts of a plan.

Why should dems bother doing anything concrete? Seems like the country is dumb enough to vote for anyone who tells people what they want to hear.

I thought futurama fought it by pushing the earth into a more distant orbit by means of robot ass blasting

What about the kids who wouldn’t die under kamala but now will? You say less genocide is the same, but even if it’s 10% less, I bet those 10% of kids would want kamala.

He at least needs to throw in some stuff to send Dumpie on a wild goose chase, like referencing aliens in basement BS-13 or alluding to a vault filled with rare cheeto flavors

An hour?? That’s crazy-- seems like their fault the room wasn’t secure, but they had to harass you for that long before letting you go?

In a sort of actual parallel to this, Richard Adams claimed there was no political allegory in Watership Down, and just a story he told to his daughters.

One of the best cases for death of the author I’ve ever seen (with Bradbury’s comments about Fahrenheit 451 being a close second).

Should be able to search through pretty much everything here, with key words as filters.

https://lemmyverse.net/communities

On a semi-related note, a friend of a friend got to know a Japanese woman through a mutual friend group, and apparently after finding out that he had some decent culinary skills she texted him “I want to taste your cook”.

Billionaires always want more, and Elon will never have a true friend or experience real love. His current stage of trying to get something real is to make stupid jokes and put on a cool guy persona. Go watch the interview where he told his advertisers to fuck off. He immediately scans the crowd to see how his “too cool for you” declaration landed.

He’s just a sad sack piece of shit but unfortunately because we still haven’t made being a billionaire illegal we all have to put up with his influence over certain aspects of the world.

But contrary to the prediction of SCT, such polarization did not abate among subjects highest in Numeracy; instead, it increased. This outcome supported ICT, which predicted that more Numerate subjects would use their quantitative-reasoning capacity selectively to conform their interpretation of the data to the result most consistent with their political outlooks.

I dunno if equating numeracy with intelligence is a fair read, but an interesting study nonetheless.

Unfortunately it doesn’t matter. With that kind of wealth he could (and largely has) fuck up literally everything he touches and he’ll never not have billions. The most effect he’ll experience is not being the richest on the planet.

Entirely possible. In low res it just looks a bit… naked

What uh… what’s going on over here?

Plus the system is rigged to count rural (and thus usually more conservative) votes more, so sane people have to turn out in greater numbers to keep sociopaths out of the white house

My last run I did with a shaman and put everything I could into lightning damage. It needed a 2 handed weapon so I basically just wandered up to bosses and thumped on them until they died in showers of sparks, while the AoE from the lightning arcs killed everything else around me. Plus I had a summon or two to redirect some enemy attention.

I gave up on endless anime after I binged 200 episodes of Naruto 20 years ago. I maintain that it’s virtually impossible to sustain an interesting storyline over hundreds of chapters, and it either just becomes very silly or they end up basically recycling plot points.

Whether there’s an s after the apostrophe depends on style guide. Most do recommend using the s, though.

Plus if standard time becomes normal year round sunrise in places like NYC would be 4:30 (with first light at 3 AM). Bonkers early

Whaa?

https://youtu.be/mBLf-fp-mH4

Me too bud, me too