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- Comment on If trump appointments someone that doesn't last as long as Anthony Scaramucci do we measure that in fractional moochies or do we abandon the mooch system because it failed us? 2 days ago:
I’m looking forward to a few negative moochies as his picks get dumped even before the confirmation hearings.
- Comment on If a leftist ran for president, would liberals support him? 4 days ago:
Left of global center? No. Left of USA center? Probably.
news.gallup.com/…/political-ideology-steady-conse…
More Americans identify as conservative than liberal. It’s not something we have to like, and certain policies may be quite different individually, but in order to win nationally, Democrats have to defeat voters’ own self-identification. Obviously it happens, so this isn’t some insurmountable challenge, but the deck is stacked.
- Comment on There should be a term for people who never really returned from the pandemic's social isolation 4 days ago:
I call them “my people.”
- Comment on USA President term limits 1 week ago:
- if he ran as VP for another person, which is constitutionally allowed, he could be elected as VP
This is an interesting, but untested, legal theory. When Al Gore ran in 2000, there were murmurings of whether he should try to get Bill Clinton on the ticket as VP. Ultimately, there was some consensus that this part of 12th Amendment wasn’t superseded by any others: “But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.”
It’s a bit of an open question whether that means only those parts of the eligibility requirements in place at the time (35 years old, natural born citizen, etc), or whether new requirements are also included, such as already serving two full terms as President. Clinton/Gore didn’t want to push those boundaries, but Trump certainly could try.
- Comment on USA President term limits 1 week ago:
en.wikipedia.org/…/Twenty-second_Amendment_to_the…
Section 1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this Article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this Article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.
“No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice,” doesn’t say consecutively. It would take a HUUUUGE leap of logic to insert that word where it doesn’t exist. I’m sure someone will make the argument, but by the letter and the intent of the law, Trump is done after this term.
“and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.” If Trump has a heart attack and dies before January 20, 2027, Vance would take over and serve 2+ years as President, meaning he could only be elected once for one four-year term.
The rest of Section 1 just means anyone who was in office at the time is grandfathered into the old rules (no limits).
- Comment on Microsoft: Windows Server 2025 now generally available alongside System Center 2025 2 weeks ago:
Or some sports games. Madden 2025 is almost entirely obsolete by January 2025.
- Comment on Why is Boimler so pale even though he grew up on a vineyard? 5 weeks ago:
SPF-1701
- Comment on Tencent, Guillemot Family Said to Consider Buyout of Ubisoft 1 month ago:
Tencent and Guillemot combined are considering a buyout of other shareholders. Most of that is Guillemot, with Tencent increasing their share very slightly from 9.2% to 10%.
- Comment on If Trump loses the election and flees to another country to avoid his sentencing in his (multiple) lawsuits, does the Secret Service have to go with him? 1 month ago:
If we’re gaming the whole scenario out, I imagine it would go something like this.
None of his current convictions are expected to come with a custodial sentence, but say he loses the election, and the more serious trials are heating up. At that point, he knows he’s toast. 2028 is too late to run a fourth time; he’s got no more hail marys, so he dismisses his detail completely, retreats to Florida, and sneaks away to Saudi Arabia in the middle of the night.
He’s got a private jet, so getting out of the country shouldn’t be a huge problem. But I think you’re right that he has to set all this in motion before a guilty verdict is delivered. At that point, getting away from the secret service would be much more difficult.
- Comment on If Trump loses the election and flees to another country to avoid his sentencing in his (multiple) lawsuits, does the Secret Service have to go with him? 1 month ago:
Security is a privilege, not a mandate. Nixon dropped his in 1985.
Becoming a fugitive from justice would count as voluntarily giving up lots of privileges, the very least of which would be a publicly funded security detail.
- Comment on Phonebooks 1 month ago:
You want to feel really old?
- Comment on What is your favorite retro console? 1 month ago:
I keep wanting to think I’m an RPG kind of gamer, but in reality, all my favorites were from the SNES.
- Comment on Nintendo filed a lawsuit against Pocketpair, Inc. 2 months ago:
Nintendo patents video game inventory system.
Not the onion.
(Not a patent lawyer, and I’m sure it’s more complicated than that, but come on)
- Comment on You can name a dildo company Tupperware with infringing trademark 2 months ago:
You can try. Trademark is generally industry specific.
But you can bet every Tupperware lawyer would be opposing your mark. You better have lots of money to spend years in court. Even when you’re in the right, you can still lose.
- Comment on Krillin 2 months ago:
Rice is great if you’re really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something.
- Comment on Do all there former Republican leaders endorsing Harris do her any good? 2 months ago:
The idea is that it gives moderate republicans a path to voting for her.
Without the endorsements, they would feel like they’re betraying their principles and their party to vote D. With them, they can make a choice: Lots of rank and file voters will stick with Trump, but if a few party leaders, recently respected within the party, can vote for Harris, maybe that isn’t such a betrayal after all.
Will it change the vote by 5-10%? Basically zero chance of that. But if it swings a few thousand voters in some strategic areas, it can make a difference. It’s not a strategy aimed at very many people, but those votes on the margins matter.
- Comment on We need a Sponserblock addon for Movies, Tv series and Porn. 2 months ago:
Old, but still mostly relevant:
- Comment on Dukat/Damar 2024 2 months ago:
idk, the Combs/Combs ticket is promising to give Combs a cabinet position and Combs at chief justice. Seems pretty strong.
- Comment on How come it seems that there are little to no serial killers who are women in the modern age? Are they not caught or is it just the men that make the news? 2 months ago:
Not a scientist by any means, but this article (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3767421/) says men have a 3:1 difference in the rate of Antisocial Personality Disorder.
Another: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3920596/
There is compelling evidence from behavioral genetic research that heritable influences are of importance in the development of antisocial behavior; approximately 50% of the total variance in antisocial behavior is explained by genetic influences. Yet, there is also evidence of a large environmental effect, both shared and non-shared environmental influences have been found to explain the remaining half of the variance.
Obviously I don’t mean to suggest that everyone with ASPD is a serial killer, it presents in a number of ways, but it’s hard to imagine a serial killer without some sort of disregard for the value of life. This is probably one of many factors that tilt the scale toward violence being much more associated with men.
- Comment on Final Fantasy 1-6 Pixel Remaster games 20% off through this weekend 3 months ago:
Square 🤝 Nintendo
Charging 2-3x too much for games you already bought. - Comment on Did... did Adin Ross give Trump the CyberTruck him and his idiot friends shot up? 3 months ago:
Not that I expect a room temperature IQ between the lot of these characters, but somebody, somewhere along the line may have told them this is likely an illegal campaign donation, and the whole story is a pure bullshit publicly stunt. There’s approximately a zero percent chance Trump and his team accepted the “gift” for any longer than it takes to get a few pictures. He’s already forgotten about them, just like every other weirdo that lines up to kiss his ass.
- Comment on Why is there a lukewarm but no lukecool? 3 months ago:
Depends what you were expecting. Cold coffee and warm soda are the same temperature.
- Comment on Fess Up or Call Out 4 months ago:
I was at a friend’s house playing Utopia: The Creation of a Nation on SNES.
He warned me not to save my game, but I blanked and did anyway. Apparently there was only one save slot, so I overwrote all his previous work. There’s not really anything to fess up to here, since he was sitting right there giving me the most what the fuck look a teenager can give. But for the record, I’m still sorry 30 years later, Rick.
He followed up a few days later, having continued my game, and the aliens absolutely fucked up my (our) colony almost immediately the save point. I didn’t even give him a good mid-starting point to begin from.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
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They auto-promote anyone with a blue check, which are disproportionately elon stans, which are increasingly nazis.
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The Russian troll farms are active on Xitter.
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The algorithm likes engagement. The actual nazis, the trolls, and the useful idiots are only feeding each other since that’s a huge portion of accounts left on that site.
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- Comment on How many views does a Netflix show need to have to be considered a success? 4 months ago:
They recently started releasing viewing data for all shows in six months intervals.
…netflix.com/…/what-we-watched-a-netflix-engageme…
That sounds like the report for the first half of 2023, but also has a link to the second half.
Their exact criteria will probably change depending on a number of factors, but one could look up figures for a cancelled show to get some idea of what isn’t good enough.
- Comment on Help! Help! I'm being assimilated! 4 months ago:
A Tribble as the Rabbit of Caerbannog.
- Comment on Help! Help! I'm being assimilated! 4 months ago:
Janeway: What makes you think she is a Borg?
Seven: Well, she turned me into a drone!
Janeway: A drone?
Seven: I got better.
- Comment on The entire Dragon Age series is only $10 on steam until June 27th. 4 months ago:
The first is on GOG as well, for only a few cents more.
- Comment on hooooly shit! has anyone else played journey? 5 months ago:
I saw so much praise for this game, which got me to buy. Then I genuinely felt like I played a different game than everybody else.
Not that I thought it was bad or anything, I just walked across the landscape for 2h15m and then haven’t thought about it since.
- Comment on Embracer rolls out new AI policy to 'massively enhance game development' | Game Developer 5 months ago:
But why pay all those programmers when all they had to do from the beginning was a simple
#include “ai.h”
