I’m aware of the phrase’s meaning. It’s not being used this way from what I can tell.

Seems to me that conservative policy is the status quo. Almost by definition, ‘conserving’ the way things are, or what they believe it is. As a general trend, the us has leaned much more conservative. This is the status quo.

Changing, progressive policy is literally antithetical to the status quo. A woman in office is not the current state. So why do people say that the dem candidate is the status quo if that makes no sense?

I keep hearing this ‘status quo’ excuse but no one ever explains what the fuck that’s supposed to even mean.

Hunger, fatigue, general negative state of mind maybe.

This particular guy was a contract worker who came in for an early lunch, so I assume they’d been working for some hours before they came in.

Generally the blue collar worker dudes and the after church crowd were the meanest with the least tolerance for mistakes.

I worked fast food for 3 years. Literally had a guy throw a burger at me because it was missing cheese.

Definitely missed that lol. No idea why everyone is so mad about my comment though.

Who reads comic titles?

Richie Rich debuted in 1950. $10 would be equivalent to $130 today. Those are some expensive overalls.

Also $900 million would be like $11 billion. Pretty sure you can buy off politicians for way less.

What do you mean? Quick Google shows that T-Mobile allowed wireless calling back in 2007.

Backup ammo in case you need to tactical reload before shooting the concerned bystanders.

You can create channels for people to join with Steam?

What’s a good alternative that allows easy instant message, voice and video calls, and makes it easy to group my friends by game?

Just reverse image search. Good god people need their hands held for everything.

(/s BTW)

Somehow this was funnier to me before figuring out the punchline. I thought it was just some weird absurdist style.

Actually disappointing it’s just another boring political joke

The thing is that there are different target groups here that seem to disconnect. The gamers and tech dudes who want/have all the latest hardware and want to play every game maxed out aren’t the people affected, yet somehow they’re the ones who chime in for these discussions.

My low end thinkpad from 2013 doesn’t need windows on it for any reason, so why bother being offended that it now can’t have a supported version?

Isn’t Edge also chromium?

It would seem so. Maybe I should have specified that I like the show myself too.

It’s meant for man-children. Man-childens show.

You don’t have me convinced and I genuinely don’t understand how this could be the popular opinion. You absolutely can’t convince me that with a well designed system it would be easy to cheat when compared to a piece of paper.

Why the hell would software need to be more complex than a few text lines that store the results of your selections? An amateur coder could create a simple multiple choice selection system in an afternoon.

Why does anything other than a local network need to be involved? It can literally function similarly to paper ballots and have a central recipient machine that collects the results that is then handed over to a ballot authority. Please keep going on for hours about the flaws instead of simplifying the problem.

A machine that is sitting in a voting hall is as easily tampered with as a paper ballot, and it’s not going to be done by the average person. Anyone who could manipulate these machines could figure out how to mess with a paper ballot.

You can’t ‘run out’ of a digital vote. You can’t ‘miscount’ a digital vote. If both methods have issues, why choose the one that is OBVIOUSLY easier to manipulate? Oops! Someone misplaced the piece of paper you put in. The year is 2024 and all of the possible issues you’ve just brought up can be solved but it seems that it would be way too easy to actually have accurate vote counts and one less voter suppression tactic in the pocket of shady governments, so they won’t.

Why is it possible to run out of something that could (should) be handled entirely digitally?

Sorry, for the pedants out there, ‘why don’t all stadiums have parking garage systems instead of flat parking lots?’