Spotted the savvy European investor.

California has gone blue every 4 years since 1992.

If your 54 EC votes leave, this country is absolutely doomed. Please take us with you.

But to get from Maine to Spain you must fly in a plane.

It’s where some maple syrup comes from. The capital is Montpelier.

That’s the full extent of my Vermont knowledge.

But my manifest destiny!

Not for nothing but the left did impeach him. Twice. It’s not like they aren’t trying to hold him accountable.

Lol the point of the second amendment wasn’t to fight tyrannical governments. It was to control the slaves and prevent/quell uprisings and runaways. Says it right there in the text. “Security of a free State”.

The biggest advocates for the second amendment, namely Madison, were big time slavers and worked for the plantations interests.

People seriously buy the whole spiel that the wealthy elite put a “in case of tyranny, break glass” button at the top of the list? I got a bridge to sell y’all.

Who would want the government to be run like a business? Businesses exist for profit. Where’s the profit gonna come from? The companies and wealthy elite that invested in the campaign? Fat chance.

You want the government to be run like a steady NFP. Not a corporate for-profit business.

Everything goes up. That’s inflation. It’s part of a healthy economy.

You don’t want prices to go down. Prices going down is deflation. Money stagnates as businesses and individuals sit on cash because any investment is bound to lose, and stagnating money is devastating to an economy.

Ooh will it be Nancy Pelosi?

There’s no high ranking Democrat for them to use for a scapegoat anymore. It’s gonna be like the Senate minority leader or Gavin Newsom.

Music is really a terrible example here because the CD is both the content and the physical proof of ownership.

But, in the modern era, CDs can easily be archived and stored in bulk…so unless the novelty of physical media is a turn-on for you, turn-on for you, turn-on for you, turn-on for you, there’s not much sense in carrying it around, physically, in the real unprotected world.

Much better to just rip it and carry around hundreds of albums on the phone, and keep the originals in the 300-CD changer carousel, or on a shelf, or in a musty box in the basement. Or just use a streaming sub service.

Only problem is that the echo chamber gets louder.

Looking forward to the HTC Torah

It’s more arrogant to say “If the world suddenly adopted my view, climate change is basically solved, the risk of zoonotic diseases (COVID, bird flu, swine flu etc) basically stops, the risk of treatment resistant antibiotics hugely drops, conscious feeling creatures aren’t tortured and killed for pleasure.”

If I wanted to fight vegans right now, I’d be downstairs talking to my wife. I’m happy being ovo-lacto again. My girls are well cared for (I built them a mansion of a coop out of mostly reclaimed wood), and they repay me daily, and I’m enjoying creamy cheeses and ice cream that doesn’t taste like frostbitten ass (or paying $9/pint for a decent alternative)

Nor are you. And unlike God (and you, apparently), I’m existing in reality.

Sure. If.

But it’s not going to happen. Ever. The world is doomed and it’s a massive systemic issue. Me eating fake cheese isn’t going to fix it. A million people eating fake cheese won’t help it. It will exacerbate it.

The problem is capitalism and the scale of industrial farming. It’s not going to change by people being voluntarily vegan.

They were asking for it. Did you see what they were wearing?

No, I asked myself why am I spending more money to the same conglomerates to receive a shittier product.

It’s “easy” to be a modern vegan…if you give half your food budget to Monsanto and Kellogs.

Being an ethical vegan is damn near impossible in the modern grocery market. Especially if you have a life outside being a vegan.

So I can pay top dollar for some shit cheese that barely melts, made by some giant food corp…for what? To feel better about protecting the environment? Why? So that more hicks in Texas can roll coal to their nearest buccees to buy a liter of diet coke in a Styrofoam cup?

Fuck it. The world’s going down in a hand basket anyway. If nobody else is gonna change them I’m not gonna disadvantage myself financially before the coming collapse by eating inferior ice cream.

Shit like this is why I went back to eating eggs and dairy.

Also my (still vegan) wife took in a bunch of chickens.

So…like…did they just scan her ass with lidar and import it into the game? Because that, alone, doesn’t seem like a tremendous asset. Ass libraries must be a dime a dozen. That’s a tradition as old as the copying machine.

Or did they recycle mocap suit data? That seems much more valuable than a blender rendered rump.