To get the kids to bed and start up a video game. That’s all. That’s all it takes for me now a days.

Wait. Did he just add the fried chicken to the reference? Loomers was just curry, wasn’t it? Wtf JD

I wish more people knew what Run… did, but the Ctrl + v should be a little more obvious. We need to teach more computer literacy if you don’t immediately know that means you’re copying text to something.

Especially on a shady site, mind you. But then again, this could be on a phishing email, so that’s not always the case I guess. (I got one from “STARBUCKS” that Gmail didn’t catch, their spam filter has been shit lately, blocking my work emails but letting through a lot of sus stuff).

That makes more sense. You know I don’t think Jackie circa early 2000 was all that pro China. I think it ends up being one of those old age changes people. Or… concussions.

Oh yeah, he was. Only as certain annoying voices but yeah.

It’d have surprised me if she went for Trump. Funny enough, I think her prison time is kind of similar to what Trump would be looking at should he lose this November. It’s but much but at least it’s something.

Hmmm… I’m not sure the references either. Granted my frame of reference are things like Adventure Time or Steven Universe and from what I can tell those show runners are amazing.

I mean, Jackie Chan adventures was badass. Who cares if it’s coppaganda, if anything it’s mostly just unfortunate Chan kinda fell from grace.

Now that I think of it, I think that Mike Tyson show might have also been riffing off it.

You’re who horny jail is built for, yikes lol

I mean, 1 is more of a pledge as I understand so it wouldn’t be guaranteed that they donate the full amount planned. I just suspect that they ultimately would, though, given it’s their cause. But I agree that it is more of a gimmick to secure more funding.

Then again, so are walk-a-thons and other fund raising events. If you believe in a cause, it shouldn’t matter. I once waited tables for a rich person’s wine tasting fund raiser, and that was a gimmick too. Had raffles and entertainment, etc. Good cause for some kind of illness research, although I only volunteered my time because I had a crush on a girl. That was stupid, of course, but I was 18 so, yeah.

Guys talking out of his ass; the donation match is indeed rich people who agree ahead of time and ultimately plan on donating the whole amount anyway, or at least a chunk. Iirc, they sign away X amount of dollars and the campaign leverages that for the 4x or 8x and so forth. Usually it’s a few hundred or even thousands of pledge donors, though

I think of it sort of like those walk-a-thon donations by the mile. You pledge knowing you’ll probably be out a few miles but know it could be more or less… And usually when it’s less, you donate a bit more later anyway.

That said, be mindful of scams. I saw one offering 20x pledge but the link looked phony.

I feel like the most viable path to a third party at this point:

1. Ranked choice somehow becomes national law (and while we’re at it, other election reform) — yes, already very unlikely here, although it’d help Dems with reelection so under them it’s possible if they get rid of the filibuster. Gop would never.
2. Splinters make a better third party, I’m thinking the "RINO"s or MAGA folk. Maybe the progressive wing of Democrars. The current third parties are pretty bad as they are given they don’t seem to target places they could actually win.
3. Said faction gets more traction and the model gets tested for a few elections until it’s more normal. New paries emerge, etc.

It ain’t happening mostly cause of 1, either because the political capital would be too expensive or because it’s not ultimately in their interest. The only way 1 can happen is if it becomes a major issue and they’ve got much more lower hanging fruit, even in election rules (I’d be happy just having electrical college changed to popular vote).

Oh man… hey now I still voted for her! But boy was she out of touch with the youth vote compared to Obama. I’ve got much higher hopes for Harris, though!

I mean, some of them are like that. I’ve voted every time since, and I maybe my proudest, silliest vote was for Obama in the primary. I was, what, 20, and just really not that into Hillary mostly because she scapegoated video games. Obama ended up being a very good choice, but that reason was definitely immature young adult brain. (Vibe probably mattered, too, now that I think of it).

Honestly, dissing video games was not the best reason to get me to vote against her but like, you know how rare it is for as young person to vote in a primary? Small things like that can matter.

I’ll presume that’s a joke, as that’s mostly brainwashed innocent folks. I’d be down for something more like Kill Bill where an ex-mo goes and gets revenge on several elders for doing them dirty.

My first vote might have been because of free coffee at Starbucks for I Voted stickers. In other words, it can always be dumber ;p

I would have but I’m getting conflicting numbers and supposedly the overnights aren’t as accurate. You’ve got the numbers from Neilson which were 67 million, that’s the latest guess.

https://www.nielsen.com/news-center/2024/over-67-million-viewers-tune-in-for-abc-news-harris-trump-debate/

And that usually excludes streaming, but I think it’s US (maybe Canada). Higher than the first debate, but oddly lower than 2020 (maybe cause of lockdown?). I think it’s missing a very sizable chunk from international and streaming, though. If I had to guess, it’s likely double. Hell, even Taylor Swift caught it streaming.

In other news, at least 34% of people live in an alternate reality.

Debates are terrible places for substance; you’ve got 2 minutes to talk and you still need to address your opponent and they can derail or misconstrue what you just said without a proper rebuttal. The point is to argue your side of things, which I think she did fine and was very strategic in avoiding things that would have put her at a disadvantage.

It’s like a Lemmy comment. You can have a good idea, write a paragraph or two, and you’ll still have people call you out because you can’t fully explain a topic in this format.

The moment I saw that handshake I was like “oh. Power move”. I think he even said “have fun” lol