oh lol definitely not, it was a response to “trump is unaguably worse on healthcare than anyone else on the ballot”. Meaning the Libertarian healthcare platform is abysmal and I believe they were on mostly all the national ballots so he had at least some competition for being the “worse”.

edit: a word

Well, I could split hairs and point at the libertarian party but I assume we’re only talking about harris/trump lol. Honestly Trump’s position on healthcare was probably better for his demographics than Harris’s stance for her democratic constituents. She didn’t appease anyone’s concern besides “Trump is worse” but couldn’t actually say how he would be worse since he didn’t have a plan. You couldn’t have gone back 4 months ago and talked about healthcare without someone distracting the conversation with fascism. It was a complete political flop that people are still blaming Trump voters for.

Oh this is a sassy one. Just for context, when did the Israel/Gaza conflict begin? I’m so OOTL.

It’s really an ingenious plan from the upper echelons. How do you absorb the rest of the money people have in retirement savings or possible inheritance? Make medical so fucking expensive that you spend every last dime on it so no one else can get it. Their children go further into debt trying to help out, nothing is passed down as even properties become collateral.

I would bet money that they will make medical debt a “nondischargeable debt” with bankruptcy before we get any type of real healthcare for all.

If you were hoping to vote on healthcare reform, neither candidate supported a real change. Biden campaigned in 2020 on wanting to lower medicare to 60… mostly everyone supported healthcare for all from 2016-20’, and they all stepped back from that quickly.

This is all sounding a little delusional and honestly blind. Several factors have been pointed out to you, you’re aware of some of it and supposedly followed along. The very statement of “they have a favorite and message in their favor” is a direct conflict to having a “fair primary”.

I’m having problems rationalizing what you’re trying to get to. You admit “the DNC stacked the deck” but you don’t think that effected his outcome? You ran on the campaigns but have completely forgotten about the Nevada scandals involving unions and the caucus or what happened in SC when the DNC pressured high profile representatives to back Biden instead of Bernie (of which historically Biden has been horrible for minority communities). These are just off the top of my head, articles and references if you need them and I’ll make sure to find you some more to help with the analysis.

Seems like you’re splitting hairs trying to form some type of narrative. Democratic primaries have nothing to do with the two-party system? You’d have to completely wretch out decades of political knowledge from my head to even consider that nothing is connected. If there’s a real, viable point you’re trying to make besides “nuh uh”, would love to be exposed to it.

I’m not sure what you’re trying to say, insert “they’re the same thing” image. Politicians become CEO’s, vice versa. Partners are investors, etc etc. Nancy Pelosi’s husband (Paul Francis Pelosi is an American businessman who owns and operates Financial Leasing Services, Inc., a San Francisco–based real estate and venture capital investment and consulting firm), Hilary Clinton’s time at walmart…

Mrs. Clinton used her position to champion personal causes, like the need for more women in management and a comprehensive environmental program, despite being Wal-Mart’s only female director, the youngest and arguably the least experienced in business. On other topics, like Wal-Mart’s vehement anti-unionism, for example, she was largely silent, they said. (link)

this was in 1990 when her husband was governor.

It’s crazy how lazy these companies are trying to be about VR. Imagine nintendo or Sega launching a console without any studios or titles. Everyone is so fucking busy with trying to hit the next “tech boom” that they feel it’s everyone else’s problem to come up with actual use cases that people will stick with (wearing a clunky headset for extra monitors isn’t a long-term solution).

I’m tired of watching these multi-billion dollar VR companies showing ping-pong demo’s, real actual fucking ping-pong is 100x fucking more fun and it’s never brought up. Would love to watch an actual demo with two people playing vr and two people playing real table tennis side by side for an actual comparison. (for anyone saying how much easier it is to play in VR, you just spent $3500 for ONE headset)

It’s kinda interesting when you think about it. If the US politics had actually been pro worker/union for the past 60 years, we would’ve had protections and increased production/economical stability in the country by just giving it’s own citizens power. Instead they’ve given china the power of production and influence while creating a hostile environment for competition and success state side.

I dance between some people being so ignorant they have no clue what they’re doing and some are just hired CEO politicians selling the country off as much as they can squeeze before it goes under and they scurry away with their nest eggs.

It’s the corporate doubling-down that you have to worry and look out for. As you say it’s a revenue source for them. In fact, they spent over 100k (as stated by them in their own shows) for “Marketing” to get this screwdriver out there, for something that’s a revenue source for them.

It has to be such a lucrative deal for them that they are pulling resources from other revenue to prop this up. Prepare for the slow enshittification of his tools. They order them from a manufacturer, parts will become cheaper, bulks will slowly have less quality control, and they’ll “move on” to later versions that pocket them more cash. They really don’t have to worry about their reputation as a “Tool manufacturer”, they’ll just pass the blame off onto another party while sweeping things under the rug and continuing on whistling like nothing happened.

I might need a !remind me on here in 10 years.

Honestly, I just dislike the product more for it being a middle-of-the-road type of product then what I thought it was going to be when they were hinting at it plus the company and shit going on behind the scenes. I was a big linus guy back in the day, used to even put the WAN show on in the background during work. Guess this is what the Tesla people feel. Probably more jaded thinking about what the people behind the scenes are going through, while the money fucking rolls in for the top.

Definitely could describe me as a frequent screwdriver user. Currently restoring 2 John Oster vintage drill drivers, tradesmen, electronic repair tinkerer (unfortunately for everyone else in my life as well, it’s always overwhelming), just basically always have a screwdriver in my hand every day.

I think if I were to reevaluate my statement, I would put it as:

“It’s a shitty-looking-plastic Screwdriver, for 70$”

You can claim the inner mechanisms and their elevated teeth count “makes it a vastly superior product”, but as someone who owns several ratcheting screwdrivers, I wouldn’t recommend this out of the blue for someone. If someone has “particular gripes, all of which are solved with this product”, then it might be a good match for you.

If you want to support them, the 70$ isn’t a bad price ticket for what you get. It’s like a donation with a really cool grab bag that you actually want. If you’re telling someone who doesn’t have a ratcheting screwdriver to first pay 70$ on this? You’re just shilling for the company.

I can’t believe I have to say this near the year 2025 of our lord and saviour president musk, but don’t buy your fucking tools from a tech tip influencer. These are a MegaPro patent from an actual tool company. They are lower in price, rubber grips, and actually look better. If you don’t care about the look, spend an extra 10$ and get the Snapon with a LIFETIME WARRANTY. It’s the same one Linus used before he created this gimmick, he didn’t replace it because it had “sentimental value” apparently.

I could go on and on, but obviously anyone that’s actually looked into it would know that this isn’t such a grand prize as those who want to push LTT merch make it out to be.

edit: meant to say shitty looking plastic, not shitty plastic.

idk, I find the coupon thing to be super easy. Just takes one search and maybe two clicks if you have ad blockers on. Mostly the only time is if I’m ordering something like pizza for a get together where no special applies. There’s a local chain in my state that had a coupon code for half off my order that wasn’t listed on their site (they might’ve given it to me if I called but who knows). Been using that for the past year and it allows me to convince everyone to go there instead of a national chain. I’ve also been lucky with some manufacturers coupons for products I’m ordering straight from them, it’s more rare though so it’s hit or miss sometimes.

It’s getting worse, I can’t remember who but I was watching a video just the other day and their ad segment was the fucking ltt ratchet driver. You know, the one they supposedly made because they were tired of the market and the low quality rip-offs all the companies were just trying to make profit off of (it’s a shitty plastic screwdriver for 70$, link to pic and it’s being sold at fucking walmart now). They sold it as such a heart string story in the beginning, it’s just another mini-wannabe corporation.

I don’t particularly feel bad at this point for their continued reputation downfall and the people responsible. Everyone has their own personal story of their favorite company which has turned to complete shit (Blizzard is one of mine). They didn’t come out strong but doubled down corporate style when everything started. That’s fine, but anyone staying and putting up with the stressful workplace knows what they’ve gotten themselves into.

Ok, but I’ll admit I’m confused on the praise or whatever is going on. Appointing judges is the duty of the President, so he did his job? Well he doesn’t actually appoint, it’s the senate who confirms, so, yay Senate?

To Cohen, the law professor from Drexel, the news is more nuanced than either Democrats or Republicans would like it to be. “Multiple things can be true at the same time,” he told me Sunday. “It’s fantastic they confirmed so many judges to counterbalance the Trump cadre of judges. But also, there should be zero vacancies remaining.”

(context)

there are still 36 judicial vacancies he can fill in the federal courts, all but 2 in the district courts. (A couple of Biden’s nominees did not wind up being confirmed after he reportedly did not formally submit their nominations to the Senate in time.)

so if we’re averaging it out like he didn’t turn in 38 assignments, he got a 86% (B grade). Happy he did the thing, just not sure on the fanfare of it all.

… So the Iraq war was now to help the little guy and so the US could be anti-Imperialists? wtf is going on in here.

335 million is the population, 71 million voted for trump. You can extrapolate with 150 million voters and 90 million that didn’t , there are only 240 million of the US population that are eligible to vote (so near 100 million didn’t even have a chance to voice their opinion).

I’ve looked at the numbers before but can’t remember the specifics but it’s at least in the ball park if my memory serves me right.

edit: grammar

You’re cute

This is my favorite conspiracy theory to ponder over while waiting for the facts. Unknown methods could be blood magic, time travel (or viewing), Sentient AI/Alien overlords, or some kind of dragon ball yearly wish the powerful hid a long time ago.