I bought a T14 Gen 2 on eBay for about $250. It can play some older games like Morrowind, but I mostly use it for book writing, D&D games, video downloading/ripping/burning, browsing, and such.

I put Linux Mint on mine and it runs like a dream.

I think the general population of humans struggle to recognize, understand, and address large scale threats.

There’s the scientific community that’ll try to explain these issues to the general public in simplistic term. But they’re often overruled by dumb idiots in charge who store snowballs in their freezer as proof that climate change isn’t real.

There’s a belief that humanity needs to be brought to the edge of extinction to realize how bad things really are and to get their shit together. I don’t believe humanity would be willing to save itself from extinction as it’s just not profitable to do so.

To conservatives, any porn viewing is a “porn addiction.” That’s their line.

Porn addiction is not on that line, not even close.

The perception of time can feel different from person to person and emotional state to emotional state.

…BlueSky does not have any federalization technologies built into it, meaning it’s just another centralized platform, and thus vulnerable to the same things that make modern social media so horrible.

Ask your average social media user what any of that means and you’ll get blank stares.

Can confirm with the old thinkpads. They’re not great for gaming, but the keyboard, track pack, and eraser head are solid for writing and other office-like work.

A LOT of food sold in the US are imported.

Every time a friend asks to “borrow” a lighter…

That’s what’s likely to happen IMO. Deporting tens of millions of people is a logistical and financial nightmare. Not to mention what to do if other countries refuse to take in all these people.

Camps would be likely. Death camps would be a cheaper alternative.

As a Satanist, it’s my religious freedom to be LGBTQ+. My religion celebrates and honors us.

Such discrimination laws would violate religious freedom constitutional rights.

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This entire comment is just pure delusional? You’re claiming Dems never want to fix anything?

No. Please work on your reading comprehension skills.

The democrat answer is always to blame & shame the voters, leftists & progressives for their losses.

But what democrats won’t ever do is represent the interests of the people, they can’t. Democrats take bribes from rich donors who have interests that conflict with the voters.

Voters want universal healthcare, rich donors do not. Voters want free college, rich donors do not. Voters want the genocide in Gaza to end, rich donors do not. There’s many more examples, but democrats have to walk a tight rope.

If the democrats cater to the voters, they lose the rich donors. If they cater to the rich donors, they lose the voters. So democrats have been pandering to their rich donors while pushing optics as if they support the voters. But it’s always a lie.

When democrats take power, they implement miniscule change that expires or is easily reversed to appease the voters while still doing the bidding of the donors. But as the voter’s need for change grows, the less that democrats want to win.

Winning means being in charge, which means pressure to implement change. Rich donors don’t want that change, so democrats deliberately lose.

Democrats would rather be a minority party that soaks up donations rather than be the majority party and have to actually govern and fix things.

Personally, I like the iPhone charging port better as there’s less that can go wrong with it, but USB-C is pretty good too.

I like that I don’t have to orient the cable plug-ins just right. I can flip it over and still plug it in just fine. That’s why I don’t like mini USB, micro USB, or USB-A

Bernie is a leftist politician. The Democrat party is not a liberal leftist party, they’re a conservative corporatist party.

Democrats are NOT leftists, they’re center right at best. They ultimately serve corporate interests and NOT the will of the people.

You will never get universal healthcare, police reform, free college, less military spending, and other leftist ideals from the Democrat party because they’re not leftists. Doing these things runs counter to the interests of their corporate masters.

We have a fascist party and a conservative party, but we don’t actually have a liberal party. We haven’t had one since before Clinton.

The “All Lives Matter” retort wad nothing more than an attempt to dilute the issue of police brutality and wrongful killing of black people. That was it, nothing more.

Right wingers invent retorts to everything, even if it goes into extremism and silliness. Eating horse paste instead of getting a vaccine, drinking their own urine instead of getting medical care, destroying their own personal property as a protest against numerous companies for imaginary slights, nonsensical boycotts, and on and on.

The founder of the Proud Boys terrorist organization once shoved a butt plug up his own ass on video just to “own the libs.”

Democrats are not leftists, they’re center right. I’m so sick of people thinking Democrats are going to fix this, protect that, and make things better. Democrats serve their corporate masters, and they’ll make vague promises that they know they won’t keep.

Portsmouth, Virginia here. The early in-person voting line was around the block and took over 2 hours to get through.

Granted it’s not as long as others, but it is a good sign when early voting lines are so long.

If you want a good job, become a social media influencer. It pays more than most other jobs, and you can be the worst type of person and still make it big.