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Anecdotal, I live in NC and know 3 registered Republicans so far who have cast their votes for Harris, I am “Unaffiliated” and voted for Harris. All of us ended up voting straight Dem on the whole ballot because there is so much crazy on our ballots this year.

The Republicans I know are never Trumpers and just don’t want to give up on the fantasy of what they think the party is supposed to be.

I’m Unaffiliated because in NC you can choose which primary you want to vote when you show up. And sometimes I feel like I can do more good voting in the Republican primary, but other years have voted in the Dem primary.

My point, I’m hoping so hard there are a lot of Rino’s and Unaffiliated early voting Harris, Stein, Jackson.

Can’t the girls and their families sue, or get a restraining order or something?

This is something that is an easily proven lie that is causing harm.

I feel like your comment is the real reason. Why wouldn’t we believe the maga people even they say they want to arrest and execute? The left may not literally exist if certain people follow through on their rhetoric.

Plus the massacre that started everything was so horrific, it made a clear good guy - bad guy effect in the immediate aftermath. Same as Russia looking like the bad guys invading Ukraine, especially with Zelensky being a charismatic good guy.

Those of us watching from a far, seeing it only on our screens, try to categorize what we see. And decide who we align with.

The problem is that Israel is complicated on a good day, most of us don’t have anywhere close to basic understanding of what’s going on politically there. Then add in the weird religious stuff. (For instance, my dad thinks Israel is ordained by God and therefore the government there is not corrupt, but also thinks Jewish people should convert to Christianity?)

So people feel like they can’t criticize Israel (because God) and also can’t comprehend that bad things are being done by the “good guys” to innocent people. And the innocent people are also of yet another religion that they’ve been taught to fear- so…

And politicians and journalists are also stuck because if they are too critical of Israel, it fuels antisemitism, at least here in the US.

I don’t have a solution, other than for someone smarter than me to figure out how to explain it in simple terms, that can be fed in short segments to the population along with the on the ground reporting. But that would still have to compete with the dissonance in messaging coming from churches.

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Today I read your comment twice before I realized my brain had autocorrected all badminton to badmitton

Yeah, my step-son is planning to adopt if he and his fiancee want kids. Climate isn’t the only reason, but even before he ever met her, he told me he’d rather adopt than bring more people into the world.

Another reply acting like this is a dumb thing to remind people. Maybe I’m dumb too.

But we used to have a fan that blew air across the bed. Husband loved it, I hated the feeling of air moving across me and would be buried under blankets to avoid it.

After a medical procedure he was sleeping in a recliner for a few weeks while he healed.

I adjusted the fan and ceiling fan so they move air around the whole room, just not directly across the bed. I can sleep without barriers for air tickles, we get the white noise benefit, and the room feela cooler. It works for him too this way when he’s in there and keeps him cool enough (I’ve asked)

Before that I had just assumed you had to be directly in front of a fan to get the benefits, especially when it’s too hot outside for the AC to work effectively.

Thank you, that sounds like my kinda vibe!

Death Note? I just watched the first episode last night (I’m late to anime)

If not, what is it, and should I watch?

My first thought too, I smell Russian troll farm manure with this one!

Biscuit is the perfect name for this handsome guy!

As he should.

One thing I’ve learned is that “committed to donate” does not equal “has actually transferred and paid the actual money”

So it’s just a headline to try and drum up other donations until the receipts are made.

JP’s tweet heavily implied he would react violently or argue with someone to their face if they say “cis” to him. The response implies JP would, in fact, do neither. JP would instead scurry off with maybe a mean glance and then whine for an hour from the safety of his podcast.

The response to JP is making fun of false bravado, toxicity, and whatever the word is for people that take everything as a personal insult - even a simple fact that JP is a cis man.

Granted, some people can deliver obvious facts in a tone that can draw blood. And some facts do cut into insecurities really deep.

But JP, based on his rhetoric should not be hurt or insulted by being cis. He is instead angry about people existing that are trans and threatening violence over a word.

So no, I don’t think this is mocking men having or showing real feelings. It’s mocking the talk-tough toxicity that gets pushed to cover genuine emotions.

Omg, it’s an inside-joke at our company now.

Anytime something happens on a server that’s been running great for years, like a hard drive going bad or the time one literally caught on fire…

98% of the time it is selinux that is the reason it is doing weird things after the main fix because selinux changed a setting on the reboot.

“Have you checked selinux?” is the go to question whenever anything breaks now, even if it’s not a computer.

100x one 100 thousand times

What kind of chair is this, if you don’t mind?

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(I may be bingeing a certain show)