What a lot of liberals often forget is that our constitution is just a piece of paper. What makes it powerful is the honesty of people in power to execute it to the best of their abilities.

We may disagree with how we accomplish our goals, but so long as we agree that the constitutional is worth protecting, we can dialogue.

The Republicans have shit on the constitution, and have threatened to institute a government based on dogma, where everything is made up and justice is only for the chosen few.

Some have said, “Well, at least I can change it from the inside.”

My response has been, “Well, why haven’t you?”

The sad thing is that the GOP has become overrun by a small minority who have a dispositional amount of influence. We need good spirited debate in this country. But the GOP is more concerned with power than they are with governing.

I’ve been saying for almost 20 years that there will be a civil war in my lifetime. I fear that we’re getting closer and closer.

Many of these politicians are hoping that it will be someone else’s problem.

For them, the poisons are:

A) Backlash now and get possibly killed

B) Meh. Let someone else deal with it after I retire

Keep in mind that in 2020, many of the Republican Secretaries of State were threatened for not giving the election to Trump. They did the right thing and got death threats over it.

When people stand their ground, we have to remember that they are the last line of defense against democracy. I don’t say that lightly. Many Republicans saw the resistance and either replaced these people or wrote laws to make overturning an election easier.

If the Republicans see that they have lost, it won’t be another January 6th. It will be a bloodless coup because they’ve already done the work to bring themselves into power.

And that’s why this election is not only important but potentially dangerous. I don’t know many liberals who are willing to put their lives on the line to stand up to fascism. Myself included. I’d like to believe I would. But I don’t know if I could if it came down to it.

Fwiw, pornhubs take on these laws is accurate. The only sites that I can’t get to are pornhub proper, xhamster, and a few others. I can still get on straight up studio websites like naughtyamerica and reality kings, etc.

The yarr sites for porn are still very much available, all without a VPN.

Ngl, I absolutely love rigid. Most have lifetime guarantees, even on batteries.

Never had to exercise them fortunately.

Pretty sure that’s desert terrain.

I don’t think this is a statistical issue.

When you boil down the rhetoric, what it comes down to is cognitive dissonance.

Anti-vaxers, and conservatives generally, have a negative physical reaction when they encounter a fact that goes contrary to their already established beliefs. Now to be fair, liberals do this too but not to the same extent.

There is a nugget of truth in their rhetoric which is that the government shouldn’t be trusted. On that basis, an entire lie and, quite frankly a political party, has established itself as “the government wants to track you with the vaccine!” while completely ignoring their cell phones.

Many of these people don’t want to know the truth because when presented with it, the truth will force them to either accept it or go back to what they know and, more importantly, feel.

This isn’t a battle over math.

It’s a battle over emotion and that’s why it’s so hard to win.

I figured the “I” was referring to the author. Like “I Hiked Mt. Everest: An introduction on how to be a pretentious knob”

Wouldn’t that be “I Did Do IT”?

A better title would be “I’m Not a Waiter: An Introduction to Servers and Networking”

Ah…the days when perl was the shit and python was still a glimmer in the eye of some frustrated programmer.

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because I’m objectively a terrible programmer.

This comment made me chuckle at 6am. I was expecting some sort of profound reason to store them at text.

I’ve gotten used to storing dates as numbers and then just using some sort of library to convert them back to human readable text.

Dates are much easier to work with when they are numbers.

I haven’t been following the whole Hunter Biden thing.

What’s their reason for having a closed door session?

I’m not as sure.

I have a feeling that impeachment isn’t the endgame for Republicans.

Don’t get me wrong: Republicans are duplicitous AF but they are trying to push a narrative that Trump and Biden are tHe SaMe! because they both got impeached.

I suspect that Republicans are trying to get Biden disqualified under the 14th amendment just like many states are doing with Trump. Sure, it doesn’t hold a lick of water but that doesn’t matter to the Republican base or the moderates. If they can keep clambering that Biden was impeached and that he shouldn’t be on the ballot, it will be enough to distract people from trying to steal the election in other ways.

I feel like the whole furniture industry is just a crap shoot. Even the very expensive Laziboy I bought is just MFP with cardboard in the center console.

They literally don’t make them like they used to.

There seems to be a specific type of person who seeks office. And it’s often the type of person who shouldn’t be trusted with that responsibility in the first place. There are exceptions of course but the majority of people who run for office shouldn’t run a lemonade stand let alone represent a portion of the population.

They are the party of anti-Democrat. Literally will kill their own bill when Democrats start endorsing it.

That’s the problem with the GOP right now. They literally have no other platform except anti-Democrat.

The biggest giveaway was when key alt right congress people said it was antifa and when people suggested that it be investigated, they still said no.

I mean, it was antifa or it was Trump supporters. Pick a lane.

The problem is that because the hardware is there, a determined person with physical access can change the settings to join a network you don’t control.

Ideally, you can open the TV and remove the wifi modules but I suspect that might be beyond the skills of most TV owners.

Tbh, I stopped owning a TV since college. I watch everything on my computer or phone now.

Didn’t they implement some sort of money for karma feature recently? Like you can make reddit dollaridoos or whatever they are called from your posts which can then translate into US dollars?

I was going to ask for a source but…facts are facts.