And yeah, you could build your own cheaper.

Notably, though, this is the case with any pre-built PC; the Steam Box isn’t an exception. We don’t know the final price or specs yet but presumably it’s no worse value than buying something from e.g. Dell. Probably better value purely based on it coming with Linux and without the bloatware.

In an unfortunate coincidence, the tables were sorted by the children’s parents’ annual income, so it was the poor kids whose data was lost. That’s why rich kids get more presents.

Spoiling your ballot is still a choice that makes a statement and sends a message without giving a vote to anyone, for what it’s worth.

The American People could stop this phenomenon if they stopped voting for people who vote for the increases, and yet here we are.

“the left” just means “anyone who disagrees with my views” and they use it like a slur.

Imagine a world where “money = speech” reconciled with the notion that when it comes to elections, everyone should have an equal voice, and the result is that a fixed amount of money was made available to candidates, split evenly among every citizen, and we were able to choose who our portion went to. No outside funding period.

The word ‘intelligence’ doing a lot of heavy lifting in that headline.

Pro tip: When pouring, hold your socks over the toilet. The water will spill through the socks, right back into the toilet - and you don’t have to pay anything!

I didn’t expect we’d be the baddies in WW3 but it feels like that’s where we’re heading.

You’d have moths flocking to you at night, though, which might be awkward.

I mean, if he said it completely seriously, and the article was published saying he had, then he later came out and said “It was just a joke guys! Jeez, so uptight!”, I’d agree with you, but it was apparently clear from the outset that it was a joke and the headline is likely intentionally written to sensationalize it. The only problem I see here is that someone at rawstory thought this was newsworthy.

I always make it a point to upvote content on smaller communities I subscribe to; I like to think it helps whoever posted the content to know that despite the very low engagement, people are in fact seeing it and appreciating it.

Bumfights, but it’s rich people fighting instead of homeless people. Also it’s a cage match, they aren’t volunteering, and it’s to the death.

when you actually look for food there are plenty of great places.

This is the key. In my experience, the larger, more obvious places are mediocre, but the small holes in the wall you could easily walk past and never realize they’re there have some fucking amazing food more often than not.

He looks perfectly gentlemanly. Bet those chest feathers are nice and soft to lay against, too.

Sorry, buddy - can’t get him for perjury, or anything else - those were official acts as president, and don’t you know those are immune to scrutiny?

If this was a human encouraging him to suicide this wouldn’t be newsworthy…

Like hell it wouldn’t, do you live under a rock?

Thanks, I hate it.

My favorite experience with this was driving on a two-lane highway with a good bit of traffic in both lanes, going maybe 5 under the speed limit (and driving right behind another car in front, so it’s not like we could have gone faster). Car comes up behind, weaving from lane to lane slowly advancing, and ends up behind us. Rides our ass for a good 45-60 seconds, doing that thing where they start to move into the other lane, realizes (when they have a better view) that that lane isn’t going any faster and there isn’t an opening to pass, then pulls back in behind us, and repeats that for a while.

Finally they saw an opening and pull into the other lane, zips past us, and pulls in in front of the car in front of us. Blue lights come on instantly. We had apparently been driving behind an unmarked police car and didn’t know it. We got to look real smug when we passed the asshole driver after they pulled over.

Couple years ago, lightning struck a tree on our neighbor’s property across the street. We didn’t see the strike, but we heard it; the tree basically exploded. Some of the branches fell onto the power lines and started an electrical fire, so it was a whole big thing. Bunch of people standing out on their driveways watching the police and fire department trying to deal with it.