If Trump not admitting defeat were true they wouldn’t be calling him TACO.

Please let’s stop letting the Republicans frame every piece of language and every conversation with how they define things. You’re letting them dictate reality when you do that and change your language to placate them. By bending to their definitions you’re essentially proving to others that their definitions are somehow correct, and allowing them to continue to frame the narrative. You’re giving them power over the conversation. Please can we stop doing that and letting their abuse of language control how we speak? It’s deeply clear from the context of the rest of my comment that it is not a Republican framing. They don’t believe in words or use them responsibly so trying to route around their chicanery doesn’t actually do anything except let them frame the argument.

Further, it’s a fucking comment on the internet. I’m not a journalist, I am allowed to have bad grammar. Fucking grammar police over here. If that’s really all you have to contribute to the conversation: how about you just don’t instead?

It wasn’t worth it at all. The ACA was the legislation that defined the entire Democrat platform this millennium. Even when it was watered down from what we had hoped (Fuck you, Joe Leiberman), it still was far better than nothing. Personally, the ACA keeps me alive. It massively expanded access to health insurance, especially for the poorest who now could get healthcare without as much worry about it impacting their finances. Letting these subsidies die is essentially letting the ACA die, it’s just one more step to repealing it entirely to be replaced with nothing at all, because we know the reason the Republicans won’t show us what their healthcare plans are because they don’t exist or are so fucking evil that they don’t want to share them until they’ve already rammed them through.

The DNC has fucking ruined the party by focusing far more on their own personal power within the system rather than helping people. Pro-tip, kneeling in kente cloths was never going to stop black Americans from being mindlessly murdered by a largely white supremacist police force. Doing nothing about the police, and in fact giving them more funding is part and parcel to why we see so many police departments not just not protecting their citizens from ICE, but actively helping ICE terrorize their communities. Thanks, Biden, handing those cops a shitload more money really worked out, huh?

I am Error.

Well I mean it stands to reason you’re most likely arguing with paid actors using Persona Management software to have hundreds of such conversations in unison, so it’s a moot point because they’re being paid to prevent minds from being changed on subject X.

Honestly I feel like AI progression was just a cover for what was originally updated Persona Management where the human has to do even less to keep the consensus cracking and topic dilution ongoing.

Tarsem Singh’s The Fall which is practically a love letter to classic cinema practical special effects. It obviously includes a small amount of modern CGI effects, but he pushed really hard for most of the “special effects” to be of the traditional practical variety.

The story is a little cheesy, but the visuals are no less stunning than they were when it was released. If only it had been filmed in the era of 4K it would be even more stunning.

*crying in IPv4 subnet calculations

Which is even sadder because Ethereum has always been a trash coin.

Absolutely, which was my point. That the tooth thing wasn’t “only two years ago” it’s actually been in the research and development process for probably over 15 years at this point, with a long way to go.

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/physiology/articles/10.3389/fphys.2014.00036/full

It’s been in the works for over ten years. Here is a paper on research into it from 2014.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3000521/

Here’s another one from 2010.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1882761608000070#cesec60

And another from 2008.

Potentially even one or two tech companies that have been around for decades depending on how large it gets before that burst.

Please be Microsoft, please be Microsoft, please be Microsoft.

Who are these twelve fuckheads who are gonna fuck this all up? I want fucking names CNN! Of course they leave out the important information about which Senators need to get hammered with calls from their constituents to not give up!

Just do what Republicans in other states do… never make new maps and then just use these maps anyway because oops too late.

Limeade is better than lemonade by a country mile.

With the caveat that both store bought limeade and lemonade are absolute trash compared to fresh squeezed.

Fresh squeezed limeade is just divine.

“This is democracy manifest!”

Oh so the Business Plot all over again, huh?

Violent crime has been consistently been dropping for decades. In certain areas petty crime has risen.

Times are getting tough, I expect petty crime like shoplifting food to increase.

Compassion for the vulnerable and weak.

I quit smoking cigarettes when the indoor smoking ban took effect 20 years ago in Washington state. I could no longer spend all night at a diner drinking coffee, smoking, and reading so it seemed like a good time to quit.

My budget has been a lot tighter due to having cancer, and so I more recently gave up vaping marijuana. I had been smoking marijuana since my teens and had switched to vaping it about 10 years ago for the sake of my lungs. The biggest difference in breathing quality was definitely the switch from smoking to vaping, I haven’t noticed as much of a big difference since I quit vaping.

Either I don’t have strong addictive tendencies or I don’t know because I quit both cigarettes and marijuana cold turkey pretty easily. I struggled with sleep for a while after quitting marijuana, but that eventually passed after about a month and a half. I struggle with sleep anyway, and always have, so it wasn’t that huge of a change.

There’s going to be an enforcement step, right?

The judge will vigorously wag their finger at the Trump administration and admonish them with a politely written letter.

Maybe they’ll even threaten to count to three or hold their breath.