Not a lie, it’s how I remember it working (and complained about at the time) but it’s entirely possible they changed things since I deleted.
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Not a lie, it’s how I remember it working (and complained about at the time) but it’s entirely possible they changed things since I deleted.
I almost never wear hats unless it’s very cold out and I need a winter hat. So, it would have been a wooly knit hat to keep my head warm.
*This does not include when my spouse and I are shopping at a clothing place and we try on goofy hats off the rack for the lulz.
I most disagree with identifying Anonymous as a group. It was meant to be a label under which anyone could do anything, granted power through what it was specifically not, and the attempts by people both within and without to make it a group destroyed the value of the Anonymous label.
After an abusive relationship had ended and I was rebuilding my life, I spent significant effort going through my stuff and getting rid of things my abusive ex had given me. They may not actually have been cursed, but I certainly felt a lot better when they were gone.
Musk still forces his own tweets, his advertisers, and whatever else he chooses into your feed, even your “following” page. You can’t block it.
*EDIT: maybe not anymore? See replies.
Who do you feel you’re “showing” anything with a protest vote?
Protesting in the street works by showing the people in view that you’re there in protest of a thing. However the viewer feels about you, the issue, or the concept of protesting, the fact that you’re there doing it in that moment is public and undeniable. Protest votes, on the other hand, are a blip of mostly-invisible data that just get silently decoupled from the process and filed away once their irrelevance to the result is established. The election system, fucked and in need of reform as it is, has that built-in mechanism for quietly doing nothing in real life with your protest vote, and the system is certainly not going to be subverted or reformed at all by your having done it.
If that protest vote is the only means by which you’re hoping to accomplish anything on Election Day, I’m still not sure I understand why one would bother.
I’m asking you how, specifically, a protest vote and a strategic vote are any different in terms of perpetuating the shitty system currently in place.
This thread, specifically this comment, is telling you you should vote for alternative parties at state and local levels. The idea is to build up that third party’s actual presence in government from the ground up, which is a far superior strategy to splitting a critical presidential race and feeling like you’ve accomplished anything good.
How does a strategic practical vote within the current system perpetuate it any more or less than a throwaway protest vote?
You know that’s not how elections work, but if you’re genuinely interested here are some lists of third-party candidates in the US:
You can find comparable lists on the sites of many more non-frivolous political third parties in which you may be interested, which can probably be found from their Wikipedia entries.
The fault lies with the system, not with me.
The fuckery inherent in the current system being not your fault does not absolve you from voting responsibly in context of the current system. If you are going to throw in a protest vote you are asserting your portion of responsibility for the practical end result of that vote.
Thank you for correcting and clarifying!
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It’s a bit clickbaity to say Intel “lost” the PlayStation business when they didn’t have it to begin with.
Sony has been using AMD CPUs for a couple generations of PlayStation now. Moving over to Intel would have screwed up backward-compatibility, adding a ton of work and striking a huge blow to efficiency if anything were going to be backward-compatible down the line and also thrown that monkey wrench into the works of any developers publishing for both generations during the switchover. The article touches on this a little bit.
Intel would have needed to present some magically miraculously sweet deal for Sony to even consider switching, and especially when Intel is doing generally crappy I can’t see that being an easy thing for them to figure out.
I accidentally switched to Neopets, now I have to take care of a stupid cartoon bird thing.
Don’t look up my running belt!
I got the remaster of We Love Katamari when it came out summer of last year. While I wouldn’t exactly say I’m “stuck” (I quickly and enthusiastically completed the main game and 100%ed all the achievements) there’s a bonus level in which you are asked to gather one million roses and I’ve only got around 40,000 so far. While you can continue building this up over time, I’ve no idea how many years of blowing the occasional hour on it this goal will take.
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My engagement was the happiest time of my life, right up until the wedding. Ever since then, my marriage is the happiest time of my life.