I agree with pretty much everything you said, and I also do not primarily blame Harris. If you look at my post and comment history, you’ll see that I was backing her since the second Biden dropped.

She did make missteps wrt Gaza, but I think in retrospect it was probably too late for her by then anyways, given how long Biden stayed in, and how much damage he did.

The uncommitted movement was during state primaries, it wasn’t supposed to be during the general as well. I think that it was coopted (or at least boosted) later on by right-wingers and Zionists to expressely hurt Dems, rather than just oppose their stance on Gaza.

At an individual level, I don’t blame anyone who is Arab and could not bring themselves to vote for the party who was, even during the election, supplying weapons to kill their fellow countrymen and neighbors. I have a friend who is Palestinian, and he told me that he saw a clip in the background of a report on the “war” on CNN of a building being bombed, and it was an apartment building where one of his friends used to live. Just casually being demo’d on TV.

Now, Arabs voting for Trump is another matter entirely, and there is and never was any excuse for that.

That just means they’ll rig them, not eliminate them. Basically all dictators still run elections, because their supporters “need” that veneer of legitimacy.

If the Green Party underperformed compared to past elections, absolutely. If you’re asking whether I think the Green Party getting 0% is solely a function of their policies, then obviously no, because that would require ignoring the entire way our 2-party, FPTP system works.

I’m not a fan of the Green Party precisely because I do think they have bad candidate strategies, and often look down their noses at voters just like establishment Dems like Pelosi do, when people tell them they’re losing for more reasons than just the FPTP system and Super PACs.

I’m all for people doing analysis of elections, and if you’ve seen some that indicate that GP actually functioned as a spoiler party this election, I’d be very interested to see it. I am, however, very wary of people throwing around “spoiler” as an accusation, because that’s the exact thing that establishment politicians say to excuse their ignoring 3rd party platforms rather than adapting their own platforms to capture those voters.

If enough voters want something to tank your chances at winning, and you just ignore it, that is on you, not the voters.

and you weren’t

You do actually have to convince people of that, though (especially when you’ve been supplying bombs to the ethnic cleansers), and if you don’t bother to show up then you won’t get to be part of the debate.

This whole election was a near-perfect example of a “theirs to lose” team flubbing it.

The fact that Pelosi said after the election that their strategy wasn’t the problem, is proof they can’t win in this field anymore because they don’t understand the stakes.

This instance doesn’t have downvotes, and a lot of people upvote the article to boost visibility, not necessarily because they agree with whatever or whoever the article is about.

ShallowReveal

Nah, they aren’t even right about organizing; in fact, they’re literally making contradictory claims.

Were Leftists too lazy to be capable of organized political protest (“lol, organize”), or were they

“march[ing] on every major american city, and [taking] control of university commons across the country”

Because that sounds like organizing to me?

They will just present anyone who isn’t pro-Israel as ineffectual, when the reality is that the DNC not being responsive to their base at any point along the route (and don’t cite Biden dropping out as that: Biden dropped out because DNC insiders were screaming, not because of the actual electorate) cost them the election.

But they probably think that all the polls showing that the majority of Americans (even Republicans) wanted a ceasefire (which is what the protesters were demanding) were wrong, and the average American is actually secretly pro-Israel’s war on Gaza.

Which is unrelated to their point, which is that visible popularity of a piece of software (e.g. having many downloads in an app store) has a large impact on likelihood of people to trust it.

You feigning ignorance at this just discredits your own position. Their question was essentially rhetorical, and you chose to answer it incorrectly rather than concede their correct point:

If you encountered 2 identical pieces of software, you would trust the one that is more popular, thus proving that popularity is a meaningful benefit to a piece of software.

Given that what these people are being criticized for are not intrinsic traits, those people have the option to change their behavior in order to not be ostracized. I am certainty not under any obligation to give anyone my business.

“What if all the bad people lost their jobs?”

Well, that certainly might encourage them to rethink whether being bad is working out for them.

And yes, I’d say that route sounds to me like it will reduce harm in several ways.

Read it again…

If they mean, “it will be bloodless if people just let us make America a Christo-fascist white ethnostate”, then I pray the Left doesn’t “allow it to be”.

I think that as long as there is a Lease Option written into the contract that legally forces the owner to sell (or if it’s a lease-purchase), and as long as there is some guarantee on the down payment amount if the seller breaks the contract, I’m mostly fine with Rent-to-Own. But R2O contracts are something you probably want a lawyer to double-check, because there are ways you can get screwed as the buyer (like if you lose your job prior to sale, and it’s a Lease Purchase, they might charge you a LOT of money to break the contract).

I really like it’s progression of resource tiers, and it’s exploration mechanic that lets you delve into ruins to find artifacts that give you bonuses to town morale.

It also has a nice pseudo-complex farming system, where you can manage the soil composition to favor different crops (or just choose to plant the crops that that area’s default soil lends itself to).

It also has randomized maps, which I like to reload until I find one with an interesting layout.

There is combat, but you can granularly control it, or disable it altogether (there are raiders, and wildlife like bears and wolves).

It feels very laid back, which is my jam.

This is a move in the dead wrong direction.

We don’t need more 350 square-foot landlord-owned prefab boxes, we need affordable homes.

The shift to a renter-only market (except of course for the wealthy) just locks people further into poverty and paycheck to paycheck subsistence, because there’s no accrual of home equity, there’s no generational wealth transfer of that equity, there’s no point at which you stop paying rent, and can easily survive on a fixed income…

There are more vacant homes than unhoused people. We’re not lacking in homes, we’re lacking in the political will to solve the real housing crisis, which is overpriced homes.

I bounced off of it, and went back to Farthest Frontier.

I was not a huge fan of the way the villagers are accrued and assigned; it felt like they were trying to emulate Banished, but didn’t execute well on it.

I did love the way you draw housing plots, and the ability to add extensions onto houses that have different bonuses (e.g. a chicken coop that gives eggs).

I think if the city-builder+RTS hybrid aspect is very appealing to you, it’s one of the few out there. If you want a more traditional city builder, check out Farthest Frontier.

This defeatist, placatory attitude will ensure that we never make any progress.

No one has ever been VP for FOUR TERMS, but that’s the bar you set for her, because you assume that’s what it would take? Leaving aside that it’s an impossible ask anyways, being VP for 4 terms isn’t going to satisfy the old fat white guys anyways.

Are misogynists gonna demand more of her? Yeah, of course. But don’t go setting the bar higher on their behalf, before they even say anything!

the Earth

FTFY

Uh, as someone who does malware analysis, sandbox detection is not easy, and is certainly not something that a non-malware-developer/analyst knows how to do. This isn’t 2005 where sandboxes are listing their names in the registry/ system config files.

As a huge Sanders fan, he’s too old as well now. AOC for sure, but sadly in this shithole country that’s a pipe dream.

we have determined that the string itself is not a machinegun, whether or not there are loops tied on the ends. However, when the string is added to a semiautomatic firearm as you proposed in order to increase the cycling rate of that rifle, the result is a firearm that fires automatically and consequently would be classified as a machinegun.

So no, gun owners with shoes are not felons, unless they combine those 2 things to make a machinegun. Obviously.