No you’re right, even if it’s just chaos and infighting for the next four years we’re all going to suffer

I feel like if we’re to get out of this unscathed it’ll be because of this kind of infighting. AntiMAGA people in gov’t should find as many ways to stir the pot as they can.

EDIT: y’all - definitely agree that we’re not getting out of this unscathed, you can quit pointing out my poor choice of words

I feel like people are using those terms pretty well interchangeably lately anyway

I just hope the Democrats understand this too. Their best moves are probably going to almost always be either stirring the pot to try to turn the GOP on themselves, or throwing wrenches in the governmental machinery whenever possible to keep them from doing anything meaningful.

Anyone who makes that argument has no idea how bad things can get and how fast.

I’d help you except for my back

The troubleshooting you list here second is my primary use for a Google search and it is completely garbage. Just like you say, it’s a bunch of trash SEO sites that don’t really address the problem so most of the time I add reddit to the search to get legit answers. Because reddit has a garbage search engine, of course.

Though I have to admit I have given up on that and just use DDG to search for Reddit results. It used to be that I’d start on DDG and if it didn’t have what I need I’d go to Google, but Google search has gotten so bad that I almost never bother anymore.

They’ll keep doing it until we start taking the problem of monopolies seriously

And make all fines % based because as they say, flat fines are only punishments for the poor

It is insane, but again, we have to be realistic about how things work. The system is literally slanted to emphasize two parties. If we had something like ranked choice voting then at least we could start to support third options. But the way it works now, unfortunately, a vote for a third party is as good as a vote for the candidate you hate the most.

Because that’s not how it works.

It’s too late for Dems to field an alternative that doesn’t just play spoiler and get Trump elected. And barring some massive turn of events, the spell Trump has on the GOP isn’t going to break. Americans need to game it out long term and think strategically about who will be more likely to lead to the kind of change you’d like to see. Even if you think Biden won’t do any of the things you want to see happen, at least there will be room to talk about it under him. A second Trump presidency will again smother outside opinions under a cloud of chaos and cruelty and incompetence. If you like the abiity to protest - remember how it was dealt with under Trump. Which means for anyone with a shred of humanity - plug your nose if you have to and vote Biden.

The 2000 election was such a massive turning point for the US. So many branching consequences, but imagine if we had had an environmentalist in the White House instead of Mr. Buy and Drill Our Way Out of This? At the time of 9/11 I believe it was Tom Daschle of SD on record calling for a Green Manhattan Project which obviously fell on deaf ears quite quickly as the bombs started raining down on Baghdad. Sure there’d still be cries for vengeance, but I also think if POTUS had been saying at the time ‘we win this war by getting ourselves off foreign energy’ it just might have been persuasive enough to embark on some major developments.

The free market / capitalist part of the GOP is dead and gone. They don’t care about labor, the budget, spending, anything - they just care about getting power and keeping power. They also don’t really intend to do anything they claim to care about, it’s all just about fluffing up the base.

They should honestly stop screwing around and break up this obvious monopoly. That’s the reason they get away with all of the stuff they get away with. Should have been clear at the merger it was an anticompetitive move and never should have been allowed to get to where it is in the first place.

So many missed opportunities. The fact that it took them as long as it did to finally connect the lightrail at the airport says all you need to know about the seriousness of the train project in CO.

Japan is mostly private too, isn’t it?

Sorely needed blue dashes too! I just wish there were a few more heading up into the mountains from Denver too.

To me this is the most important reason for building your own PC. If you don’t care or don’t want to research each part then sure, get a prebuilt. Otherwise, it’s really nice to know what’s in it and do your research on each piece so you know it’s quality and will be supported.

That kind of thing will all be doable and everywhere when/if AR is as widespread as smart phones are.

Yes but word is that they had plenty of intelligence about a major operation. So it wasn’t a lack of intelligence as much as arrogance in the leadership, at best. At worst, well you’d have to get into some dark conspiracy theory.