What they mean to say is, “Surprisingly, this didn’t annoy people nearly as much as we had assumed. Score!”

“Fifty thousand years ago there were these three guys spread out across the plain and they each heard something rustling in the grass. The first one thought it was a tiger, and he ran like hell, and it was a tiger but the guy got away. The second one thought the rustling was a tiger and he ran like hell, but it was only the wind and his friends all laughed at him for being such a chickenshit. But the third guy thought it was only the wind, so he shrugged it off and the tiger had him for dinner. And the same thing happened a million times across ten thousand generations - and after a while everyone was seeing tigers in the grass even when there weren`t any tigers, because even chickenshits have more kids than corpses do. And from those humble beginnings we learn to see faces in the clouds and portents in the stars, to see agency in randomness, because natural selection favours the paranoid. Even here in the 21st century we can make people more honest just by scribbling a pair of eyes on the wall with a Sharpie. Even now we are wired to believe that unseen things are watching us.”

― Peter Watts, Echopraxia

Me too. I’ve got several “purses”. Can’t stand much in my pockets.

Those books any good? I need something new.

You think this all started as a propaganda plot?! It was a rumor that went viral and was latched onto for propaganda.

“How does that make you feel about… Trump?”

God help me, I fought all the way through that 8,000 page monstrosity. I never want to read homoerotic fiction as long as I live, got quite enough of sweaty, muscly men and aliens rubbing all over each other.

https://deathworlders.com/books/deathworlders/chapter-00-kevin-jenkins-experience/

Where do you live where this could be problematic?!

Sometimes we men don’t ask for help simply because we want to see if we can do it ourselves. It’s a test.

I often have work at my camp that makes me think it would be smarter or safer to wait until I can get help. Then I think, nah, you can figure this out. That often leads to novel solutions.

Crying in front of a woman has got me dumped a few times, like next-day dumped.

Bingo! People keep saying Clinton was ahead as well. Unless there’s a nasty October Surprise for Harris, she’s looking good.

I got your explanation right here and I honestly believe every American should read this:

https://www.cracked.com/blog/6-reasons-trumps-rise-that-no-one-talks-about

That was in 2016. So what about all the shit that’s come out since then? Fake news or he’s being unfairly targeted, that simple.

I was honestly concerned my daughter might be a sociopath. Then I realized she was just 3.

I can speak to the 2A. My wife is a legal immigrant, not a citizen, so I checked around a good deal before getting her a pistol for Christmas.

She is 100% in the clear to own, carry and defend herself. (This is Florida, YMMV on carry laws.)

It is my intention to own this stock for a long period of time.

That SCREAMS out that he’s selling ASAP. Look closely at the wording, he’s been coached, “Remember Mr. Trump, we want people to understand that you will be holding this stock.” He reflexively thought about selling, this is what came out his mouth.

And while we’re at it, when talking about their own company, who says this?! Can you imagine even Musk saying something this dumb?!

Had a reddit post deleted for using retard as a verb, as in, “Have you tried retarding the action, maybe it’s too fast?”

I saw that! Had never watched either candidate speak, I was voting for them no matter what, but I was stunned by the both of them.

Spot on. I’ve read 10,000 comments regarding Trump that miss the most basic aspect of the man: Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Everything he says or does flows from this.

I don’t mean narcissist in the way most people sling the word around, I mean the actual mental illness. People slap that title on anyone selfish, lying or bullying. No, words have meaning.

No he doesn’t have any sort of internal reflection. My mother suffered NPD, I can tell you all about it. She didn’t have the mental space to consider, “Am I wrong?”. Such thoughts were literally impossible, her brain could not work that way. In the 50-years I knew that woman I never heard her admit fault or apologize. Not once. That’s pretty stunning if you think on it a few. And Trump makes mom look positively of sound mind!

Nothing the man says or does surprises me, yet people continue to be appalled. We keep trying view his thought processes through the lens of our own. Nah. That dog don’t hunt.

Got a new TV a month ago. Fucked up and connected it to wireless, no idea what I was thinking. The only way to kill the connection (from the TV side) was a factory reset.

Windows is like that now. Once you enter an internet connection, you’re screwed. No way out but a full reinstall.