Oh I’m not against voting. Knock yourself out. But don’t act surprised when the supreme court nullifies those votes and hands them to the GOP regardless of the outcome.

By all means vote. But be prepared to back it up afterwards, because only a fool thinks Trump isn’t going to call in every stacked corrupted favour he has to nullify it.

Dogs have the ability to read body language. So a gentle behaviour like kissing or cuddling would definitely be perceived differently than an abrupt gesture like poking them.

where they seem eager to engage with content they don’t even like or that pisses them off. It’s like joining a bicycle forum only to find out everyone mostly just spends their time there shitting on tricycles.

Rage Farming or “scientifically”, The Commodification of Trauma

I don’t get it either. But I still fall for it myself without even realizing it. It’s truly bizarre that we all have that tendancy to some degree; I can’t fathom why such a behaviour would have evolved to be necessary.

I lost my girl at 8. Didn’t quite get there. :-(

One reason is that I doubt whether animals really understand this

You would be objectively wrong on that. It’s been shown that affection to animals fires off the same parts of the brain in them as it does in humans, and delivers the same chemicals.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6826447/

Just because animals can’t communicate like you or me (though I firmly believe pets have a language that you can understand if you own one long enough), it doesn’t mean they don’t have the same feelings of bonding and closeness. Biologically we’re all very similar, so the Oxytocin that we get from being loved is identical to the oxytocin that THEY get when being loved.

The Americans who still refuse to realize that this was ENTIRELY THE FUCKING POINT are beyond infuriating.

Anyone who still believes they’re “voting there way out of this” are delusional.

Within less than an hour, Rule 34 will come into effect and someone will make a porn-film about them.

I was a tech-manager at Staples when those launched and it was an absolute shit-storm right from the start with returns and complaints.

The only thing crazier from that time was an HP WebOS tablet (I can’t remember the name) that launched with pretty big fanfare with HP trying to take a marketing page out of Apples playbook, only to have it fail so completely that they announced a week later that support was being dropped and any remaining stock was offered to anyone who wanted at 99 bucks.

Wild days indeed.

Jide Remix Ultratablet.

Kinda glitchy from the start. Got one minor software update before the company decided to focus first only on their mini-desktops and soon after, B2B; dropping the consumer support entirely.

Which wouldn’t have been so bad is the released the proprietary blobs for others to use to keep up support. The hardware was nice, and the concept was one of the first to try an “Android version of a Surface”. But to my knowledge, no ROMs have ever been made for it.

Entitled to what exactly? Her chin shape?

Whether he admitted it or not, unless she’s gone through the process of actually trademarking her chin shape (which I doubt) it’s not going to be nearly a unique enough feature to waste the courts time with.

The only question the courts have to ask is if there is a reasonable chance that a “viewer” could recognize that as her chin when watching the movie and did it do anything to her reputation as a result. The answer of course is no. No one would have EVER known it as her if Cameron hadn’t mentioned it in passing.

I’m guessing she’s either:

a) hoping Cameron and his lawyers go for a quick settlement because they figure it would be cheaper than going to court. Or…

b) Stirring up shit to get her name in the media to bolster a career that has so far been largely B-level supporting roles and guest-spots.

To be fair to Kegbreath, the “I can’t see it so it must not exist” comes from overhearing his wife talking about his penis to her girlfriends.

Thanks. Now I have epilepsy…

It’s amazing to me how many Trump supporters aren’t just pieces of shit in a couple of ways, but that are pieces of shit in ALL the ways possible.

I mean, it’s possible to be a piece of shit by being a Trump supporter. And you can be THAT type of piece of shit WITHOUT also being a kiddie-diddler, or a human trafficer, or a fraudster, or a racist, or any handful of OTHER types of pieces of shit.

But nope…these folks just want to collect pieces of shit labels like they’re fucking pokemon.

Dawkins has never been them most intelligent among us, and it pains me that he is always held up as the “Prototypical Atheist”.

Like seriously, I’m an atheist, but don’t lump me in with that martian.

His ego didn’t fit through the door.

Every time you think this timeline can’t get any more nonsensical and inane, it throws a “Steven Seagal is a gun runner for Russia” curve ball at you.

True about the pay.

In general I just feel like our representatives are too far removed from the people they’re supposed to serve.

Here in Canada, we’ve had a couple of floor-crossers from the Conservatives to the Liberals, and social media is up in arms about how that shouldn’t be allowed. “We voted Conservative, not Liberal”. Whenever someone points out (and rightly so) that in the parliamentary system you’re voting for an individual, not a party, they freak out and say that’s not how it works.

They fundamentally have no idea how a representative democracy is supposed to work.

A part of that comes from an American culture bleeding up into Canada a bit, with people thinking they vote directly for the Prime Minister the same was Americans directly vote for their president. But a bigger part of it is that those representatives spend more time in Ottawa than in their own ridings. And if a representative loses their seat in an election, they can just pick a different riding where they don’t even live and run again. It’s ridiculous.

Basically democratic socialism but with a few rules:

1. No billionaires. After 500 million, it’s taxed at 100%
2. No Corporations. Private business ownership only. No Shareholders or Hedge Funds. Basically no wall street.
3. Lobbying on behalf of an industry is banned.
4. No party “whips” that exist to make a representative vote the party line even if they’re personally disagree with the party on that particular issue. Representatives need to truly represent their constituents, not their party. In fact, fuck the entire concept of “party politics”. Ditch it.
5. By law, a representative has to have actually lived in their riding for 5 years or more.
6. Representatives are required to spend at least 80% of their time in their constituency, in their office. It’s a 9-5 job. No more of this showing up to vote bullshit and then fucking off to Mexico. You serve your constituents, and your job is to be in your office to listen to them tell you what they want 5 days a week, 8 hours a day. Otherwise, what do they pay you for?
7. With the exception of meeting twice a year in person, most bills in congress/parliament are able to be done completely virtually. The representative studies the issue, consults with his constituents and votes accordingly. They do so without any input from their so-called peers. The only input they are allowed is from their constituents and legitimate experts in whatever field they are looking into.
8. Representatives have a strict two term limit and an age limit.
9. At any point, your constituents (and ONLY your constituents) can trigger a recall election due to no-confidence.
10. You’re a “servant of the people”; not the other way around. You get a working man’s salary; enough to live and a small dispensation for travel expenses, office staff, etc… But using your position to enrich your own personal wealth is grounds for an immediate arrest.

Someone: “Hey, how old are you?”

Me: “I’m ‘Tia Carrere was a thing’ years old”

Someone: “Shiiiiiiit”