All you have to do to defeat that is to fucking vote. Bernie lost the Presidential primaries in 2016 ans 2020 because more people voted for Clinton and Biden.

Yeah, there was talk about them rigging the 2016 primary for Clinton with the superdelegates if Bernie was ahead, but it never reached that point because Clinton secured the nomination before the convention.

I teach at a university and I had a ton of students praising Bernie who couldn’t be assed to change their registration to a local address or drive home for a day to vote for him. And then they refused to vote in the general because they were protesting that the person they couldn’t be bothered to vote for didn’t win the nomination.

With Mandami, people voted in the primary, selected a progressive, and then he won in the general election.

Vote in the primaries. That’s the whole trick.

I’m a dude. I was in the Bahamas on a trip and there was a girl in our group who was a drop-dead gorgeous black woman. The Bahamian men were going ape over her. She and I were walking along the beach, and men kept coming up, asking if I was her boyfriend, and when I said no they’d start proposing marriage and shit.

She informed me my job the rest of the day was to say “Yes” if a random dude asked if we were dating/married/etc.

And it means that in the end we’ll all have to face Harambe.

My favorite weird one is Johnson Outdoors. If you do outdoor adventuring, they’re probably part of your life.

Want to go scuba diving? They own ScubaPro, Sealife, Uwatec, and Subgear, and manufacture stuff for other brands like Cressi and Halcyon.

Fishing? They own Minn Kota, Hummingbird, Ocean Kayak, and Old Town Canoes, and Cannon.

Camping? They own Eureka (major tent manufacturer) and JetBoil.

I teach underwater photography for a local university through a dive shop and used to manage the camping, fishing, and marine departments at a major outdoors chain. One of their reps said I might have been the only person in the country who sold all their products.

They know you hate the brands that advertise everywhere. The thing is: ads aren’t only for the brand that’s being advertised. They’re for the entire product category.

The advertised brand and 17 others are all subsidiaries of the same company.

Sick of Milwaukee drill ads, so you stick it to them and buy the cheaper Ryobi or Rigid? They’re all the same company.

Eyewear? Luxoticca is a monopoly that owns almost every optometrist’s office and just about every company making eyewear, so all the competing brands when you’re buying glasses are an illusion. RayBan, Oakley, and all the others are all the same company wearing different nametags. Budget brands, premium brands - everything.

People who are soo poor they’ve resorted to eating clay to feel full may not be in a position to know the healthiest way to temporarily the body into thinking it’s not hungry.

I don’t have a source, but when I was younger there were a few black kids in my school from super poor families, and their parents would put sugar and spices in clay for them for breakfast. It had some flavor and filled them up, even if there wasn’t much nutritional value.

Then they finally added breakfast (instead of just lunch) to the free meal program for poor families when I was in late elementary, and they’d just eat at school.

A lot of kids only reliably get meals from school. In college, I got involved in a program with the food bank where we’d go to schools during their last period on Fridays and place backpacks full of food in the lockers of children from the poorest families. The blue bags we used were cheap and obvious, and we’d frequently find the previous week’s bag still full. The kids were too embarrassed to get on the bus with the bags that identified them as poor.

So we had a fundraiser to buy 3 cheap but normal identical backpacks for each kid in the program. One for their everyday use, and 2 for the weekend food (we’d drop off a new one and take the previous week’s bag for refilling). That way they’d swap their regular bookbag in their locker for the food bag and nothing looked unusual on the bus ride home.

I hadn’t thought about that in a while. I need to make a donation to the food bank.

Also - give the food bank money, not food. They can buy food cheaper than you can, and they know what they actually need.

Friend thought water on a grease fire was only bad because some flaming grease would get washed away, so threw a bucket of water at a grease fire from a fish fry over a big concrete patio. He thought it may spread, but that it would be something he could then stamp out pretty easily.

And that’s how he learned the ignition point of oil is way higher than the boiling point of water and that steam explosions are exciting.

Fortunately, he mostly missed with the water, so singed eyebrows (and probably stained pants), were all the damage.

Enough partial solutions will sum up to a whole. If we treat them all as insignificant, then none will be enacted and no progress will be made.

Doesn’t that pretty much describe DC? At one point, they ha Juaquin Phoenix Joker, DCEU, and the Robert Pattinson Batman all kinda overlapping.

They’re both excellent at being different kinds of evil.

Winn is prideful and ambitious above all else. She sides with good and evil both at different times in service to her own goals. She deludes herself into believing anything that pursuit of personal power is also what serves Bajor.

Winn commits evil in service to her ambitions.

Dukat has the same vices, but with added elements of narcissism and wrath. He briefly tries being good, and almost reaches it when he finds genuine love for and from his daughter, but when his actions lead to her death he lashes out at the universe and becomes entirely consumed by wrath and megalomania.

Dukat’s ambition in the end is to commit evil.

Fuel efficiency rules are idiotic now. The automakers used to classify everything as a truck to get around fuel efficiency regulations. The PT Cruiser being classified as a truck was the last straw, so the regs were changed beginning in 2012 to base fuel economy off of vehicle footprint to keep automakers from reclassifying vehicles. But that change had the consequence of effectively outlawing small trucks. Suddenly a sedan has less-strict economy standards than a compact van or truck.

Notice how the small truck segment disappeared in 2012, and when the Ranger came back in like 2018-ish, there were models of it larger than older F150s? It’s because the manufacturers learned they could just make the trucks bigger to get around standards.

It’s also why around 2021/2022 all the compact cargo vans (NV200, Transit Connect, ProMaste4 City) were discontinued. The regulations essentially outlawed small vans designed to haul heavy loads.

Any way you slice it gold would be less-valuable.

Asteroid mining is good for resource gathering, not accumulation of wealth. And even then it’s much more useful for resource gathering for use in space than on Earth. If you can launch once, then mine, process, and use the resources without having to do more launches and landings it’s much more efficient. Then you’d start manufacturing in space to further reduce the amount of required launches.

He’s not actually one of the 3.

That’s actually the name of a horrible film that’s shot like a mix of a TV pilot for a 3 Musketeers series, but with a bunch of 90s-style Hong Kong fight choreography.

Self-love?

Cable was a shitty service. It was expensive, you had to subscribe to a bunch of shit you didn’t want for just a few programs you did, and was full of ads. People dropped cable for streaming because it was cheaper, centralized, and didn’t have ads.

Now that cable is essentially dead, streaming is bringing back the high prices and the ads, and now you have to sign up for a bunch of shit you don’t want for the few programs you do.

In that case, for a random person I’d still recommend Bambu unless you’re boycotting on ethical grounds.

Their printers run just fine without a network. Just export the g-code to a microSD card, put the card in the printer, and select the model from the card. It also allows you to use whatever slicer you want that way.

It’s really only cloud printing that’s locked behind Bambu Studio.