I don’t see how it makes any sense to blame the voters for Biden’s ego. Dude’s convinced he’s the only one who can win, apparently, else he’d step down and we’d have a brokered convention. How is that any of our faults?

Lmao. Who’s we? I certainly didn’t do anything of the sort.

I honestly don’t know who you think needs to hear this. Nobody wanted Biden in the first place. Everyone knows he’s too old. The people downvoting you probably did it because Biden and Trump are our only options in this election. Yeah, no shit he’s too old. What the fuck are we supposed to do about it now? Once he decided to run again, that was it. It would have been nice if there had been another primary, but nobody wants to challenge a sitting president in a primary, and historically it hasn’t gone well.

Ayy, I was up north in '03, but I ran some Sadr City patrols in '04. Vivid memories of watching Cheaper by the Dozen in full kit while we listened to the mortars walking in. And a complex ambush on the way back to BIAP. I was on a 240 in the second truck. There was some musical car horn that seemed to signal it—not La Cucaracha, but something like that; I think one of these days I’ll hear it again somewhere and have a legit ptsd flashback—and a fruit stand or something on the right exploded, and a car behind me somewhere as well, I believe. Then some dudes came out on a balcony behind and to the left and started licking rpgs at us. Good times. Csm got some shrapnel in his ass, which didn’t improve his temper, but at least we got a lot of jokes out of it.

Now there’s a tort that needs reforms!

I used to live in GA, and there was a one-way street that google maps was constantly telling me to turn the wrong direction onto. It really bugs me that I switched to Waze because it was better than google maps, then google just bought them. Long past time to bring antitrust suits against big tech. At least we have an FTC chair at the moment who’s trying to make some progress.

Just wanted to echo what Maggoty said: please don’t hesitate to push for the care and resources that you’re entitled to. I spent years doing that after I got out—thinking that others deserved it more, and I shouldn’t be taking a slot that ought to go to them. I think lots of vets get into that mindset. Everyone has buddies that had worse luck than them. But the people you served with would want you to get the care and benefits that are your due. You deserve it.

I’m pretty sure it’s a big truck, that you can just dump things on.

Maybe not directly, but if those who are running for office are held to a higher standard of truth, it’s going to reduce the sphere of influence of Farage and others like him, who deal almost exclusively in falsehoods. He won’t be able to get these people to come on his podcast, or whatever platform he has, and agree with his lies if they’re afraid of being held liable for it. He’d be pushed out of the mainstream political sphere.

Thanks for the Moving Out tip! I’m always looking for couch co-op stuff to play with my daughter, and this looks right up our alley.

Hah, like the Chinese version of Fight Club, where they throw some text up on screen at the end to explain that the authorities handled everything.

It’s frankly laughable that you pretend your firehose of anti-Biden posting is somehow not pro-Trump, despite the reality of our binary system. The only logical conclusions are that you’re an idiot—which you don’t appear to be, based on what I’ve seen—or that you’re a cryptofash.

I’m confused. Are you planning to burn your rich neighbor as well, or just the leaves? SCOTUS is probably not on board with the former, but you’d get plenty of support on lemmy.

Would you care to expand on this? My impression is that he did what he did out of ethical concerns, and has paid a high price for it.

I picked up “Yakuza 0” on sale not too long ago, and I’m enjoying it so much that I picked up the rest of the remastered series while it was on sale. Based on how long I’m spending mucking around in the first one, It may take me the rest of my life to get through them all. I don’t know how “Like a Dragon” compares to the earlier games, but I really enjoy the narrative, combat, sub-stories, and mini-games in “0”.

As an aside, I really enjoy a well-done pool mini-game. I probably spent more time playing pool in the various space stations in “Rebel Galaxy Outlaw” than doing anything else. Likewise, Kiryu spends a lot of time in the pool hall, as well as hanging around the batting cages, and fine-tuning his pocket racers.

Bilbo (Bilbo!) Bilbo Tabbins,

He loves to click and scroll!

Bilbo (Bilbo!) Bilbo Tabbins,

Greatest little hobbit of them all!

You know, I see you around a lot, and I’ve never observed you acting like a certified asshole. What a phony! But seriously (folks), I think DS9 is pretty widely acknowledged as peak Star Trek, at least among the cognoscenti

I should check out the X-files; don’t think I’ve seen it for at least a decade. I remember Peter Boyle’s episode, and the one with the entomologist Mulder’s smitten with—not much else.

Thanks! Guess it’s time for a rewatch.

What episode is this from? Doesn’t ring any bells, and I didn’t have any luck cross-referencing with Farscape actors, either.

Sorry to take so long to respond! It’s a novel set in a plausible near-future in which existing power structures have been fragmented by the effects of climate change. It follows a handful of disparate characters in the western US, and talks a lot about the water politics of the Colorado river. It’s very well-written (claims random internet guy, but hey—you asked!). Can also recommend The Windup Girl by the same author. Same eco-dystopian timeline, set in Thailand. Delves more into issues surrounding AI and genetic engineering.