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Party | 2012 | 2016 | 2020 | 2024
Republican | 60.9M | 63.0M | 74.2M | 74.1M
Democrat | 65.9M | 65.9M | 81.2M | 70.3M
Libertarian | 1.3M | 4.5M | 1.9M | 0.6M
Green | 0.5M | 1.5M | 0.4M | 0.7M

Resistance is futile

When you find yourself disappointed with the world, that’s a good moment to stop and ask yourself “what am I not seeing?”

You can call it brainwashing or whatever you like.

To me, the fact that Trump’s indictments came as a result of enormous attention by his political rivals, during an election, gives me less respect for the implications in terms of his character.

Like, the timing is a little suspect on these legal indictments.

We should always do a recount.

Because it smells like home

He looks exactly like he sounds.

The US is just as fucked as everything and everyone else, which is 100%

You are two separate people, so you can do two separate things.

Yay freedom.

To whom could it be offensive?

Does your head make an internal click sound when you swallow?

Generally speaking it’s not possible to strictly deduce code from its output.

But you can establish a pretty good guess by converting log messages into regexes then using those regexes in github code search.

Because population is increasing faster than new housing is being built. There is a supply problem and demand is in elastic. The supply problem is the result of government’s continual suppression of new construction, via permitting red tape and overeager density zoning.

No it can’t!

I just didn’t know how to deal with someone like that.

You tell them the truth. That means if you think their stories sound crazy you say “I think your stories sound crazy”.

I know that steps outside of the typical path of politeness, but telling the truth is the only way to help someone in that state.

She wasn’t asking because she didn’t know. She was asking because she knew they sounded crazy, and she wanted to give you an opening to discuss that.

Trust me. When a person is having paranoid delusions only the truth can help them. Saying “No that doesn’t sound crazy to me”, if it does, only makes it worse. That’s because people can detect when others are lying to them. If that person is so far out there that everyone puts on a mask around them, it will reinforce the idea that people are shifty assholes. If nobody ever tells them the truth then they can’t calibrate their sense of what’s real and what’s not.

It may seem rude, but if you truly want to help them, you need to be truthful with them. That includes saying things that might not be polite, such as “I think that sounds crazy”. They will not interpret that as rude. They will interpret that as honest, and it will be an enormous relief to them to have found an honest person.

As someone without much people skills, I take this opportunity to say fuck your glass ceiling idea for people like me. Thank god for the free market, where if someone consents to work for me, they can.

I happens with age and insufficient collagen intake. I’m old, but since I’ve been taking collagen my balls have felt much younger and hung tight the way they did when I was a young man.

In its own coverage of the news in the Style section, The Post reported, “The decision has roiled many on the editorial staff, which operates independently from The Post’s news staff, a long-standing tradition of American journalism designed to separate opinion writing from day-to-day news coverage.”

If the intention is to separate news reporting from opinion writing, maybe the opinion pieces shouldn’t be published in the same document as the day-to-day news coverage.

Maybe they shouldn’t try to establish that “The Washington Post endorses X candidate”, but should refer to it as “The Washington Post’s editorial board endorsed X candidate”.

That would be, as per their self declared mission, the truth of the matter.

Use a whiteboard eraser to clean the dashboard offgas gunk off the inside of your windshield.