knightly the Sneptaur

Voting is the least important part of the political process. America is not a democracy, voting merely serves to legitimize the state with an illusion of choice.

They’re all dressed as politicians.

XP was acceptable and 7 was decent, but just seeing the previews of 8 was the last straw for me.

It’s a reference to an anecdote that Harris apparently uses frequently.

That’s all I know, never cared enough to learn a politicians’ lore.

Ah, “Explaining”. There’s your problem.

Lets have a checklist with supporting documentation, please~

Jeeze, look at all the salty Bidenists giving you pissy downvotes now that their favorite big wet boy is planning for retirement.

I’ve been telling people that the Dems would have to drop the incumbent to win 2024 since 2016 when the DNC rigged their own primary, but no matter how I try to explain it I immediately get accused of being a Republican. I feel like Cassandra, cursed to utter true prophecies but never be believed.

No matter how reasonably I phrase the argument, I haven’t been able to point out that the Dems would have better chances if Biden dropped out without getting accused of supporting Trump all the way up to the day after Biden dropped out.

Yes

Nobody’s talking about this one, but if NASA is able to confirm even the slightest degree of lab-scale spatial warping we’d be in for a huge sea change in potential futures.

I’ve rather enjoyed 20 Minutes Till Dawn

Again

I’m a weird sort of person. 😺

I did too! Turns out there’s a lot of weirdness and jargon that gets built into the system after 44 years of continuous operation, and of course the CC companies wanted to be able to bill separately for issuing new cards and printing replacements. XD

That’s technically not a card issuance, which in CC terms only happens when the bank associates an account on their end with a new card profile from the CC company. No actual card needs to be issued either, a token in a digital wallet works the same way.

Deactivating a lost card and activating a replacement (temporary or otherwise) are just maintenance activities on an existing card profile. They get recorded to the original profile both for record-keeping and so that the bank doesn’t get billed extra for issuing a new one.

Lockpicking

Using Linux

Media piracy

Feeding the homeless

Wheatpasting / graffiti

Political theory

Shoplifting from corporate chains

First Aid

Legal observation

Black bloc tactics

Guerilla gardening

Spotting plainclothes cops / informants

Dialectical Materialism

Credit card companies don’t issue credit cards, they’re middlemen for the banks and take a cut from every transaction processed.

Oh, definitely not. This format is explicitly for pissing off nationalists.

Simply dismiss the validity of the governing body they worship by reference to the historical contingency of its creation, then sit back and watch as they work themselves into a froth trying to justify their imagined superiority without reference to their mythic founders.

I think you mean sports without a physical activity aspect

No, I do not.

Mens egos are so fragile that women were banned from minor league baseball when Jackie Mitchell struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gherig in 1931.

Figure skating was segregated in 1903 for the same reason, Madge Syers took the silver medal from a man.

The history of womens’ sports is rife with examples like this, most sports started out as co-ed and only stayed that way until women started winning.

Vernacular doesn’t need to belong to a person or even a group of people.

Then why do they call it “African American Vernacular English”?

If your problem is with the people who say it and not the word itself, that’s a different issue and one that I’m not really interested in debating.

Who says I can’t have two problems?

Ultra-endurance sports such as marathons (women show a statistical advantage over men above the 150-mile mark), Figure Skating (Madge Syers beat two men for the silver medal in 1902, women were then banned from competing until the sport was gender-segregated in 1906), Baseball (Jackie Mitchell struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gherig in 1931 and was kicked out of the league a month later), Shooting sports (Zhang Shang took the gold in shotgun skeet in 1992, women were’t allowed to compete again until the sport was gender-segregated in 2000, and women average higher scores in the rifle category to this day), etc etc.