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aramova

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  • Cognitive dissonance

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  • My view is picking which is the least dangerous and negatively impacting to the greater good makes a rational argument.

    Standing on the sidelines doesn't really do anything except make you feel as though you have a voice.

    I've just taken the approach of supporting who's the least insane to keep life livable and making the cases for alternative candidates between.

    Most American alternative options are just so fucking quiet between elections that when one comes around they fall into the "wtf is that?" bucket.

    Only one that's had a snowballs chance in hell that I remember was Ross Perot in the 90s.

  • If suffering is good because it gives life meaning, wouldn't it follow that hurting people is good?

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  • So there are two flavors of Republicans..

    1. Is the selfish narcissistic egomaniac who will destroy his own country to fulfill his own desires.
    2. Are the people you described, pain is good. Hurting people makes them stronger or dead, either way it's a good outcome.

  • Canadians steer clear of US as travel from north falls for seventh month

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  • Yeah except they'll just blame Hillary's emails and Obama's birth certificate or some batshit fuckwadery why they beg for another Trump Stimulus check.

  • In Norway, laser weapons are being used to remove sea lice from farmed salmon. The Stingray Laser System uses cameras to scan the fish, identify lice, and then deliver a laser pulse to kill them.

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  • That's not how specific wavelength safety goggles work. You can get both near UV blue light 440nm 5 watt goggles, and infrared depending on the laser.

    Problem is they tend to shift the color of light for everything so much that they aren't pleasant to wear for a long time.

    My worry would be getting hit on the skin, a 5 watt 440nm laser hurts, and it's a deep burning pain that doesn't go away.

  • South Carolina Congressman: High prices are ‘for the good of the country’

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  • The problem is they're being shifted to enrich the Nazis.

  • Flipper Zero 'DarkWeb' Firmware Bypasses Rolling Code Security on Major Vehicle Brands

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  • Until I see proof of concept in action I'm going to be suspicious that this is as bad as the sensational headlines claim.

    Hysterica gets clicks, gets news coverage then turns into nothing more times than not.

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  • Bubba in ICE from Louisiana gonna be like "Y'all I was just followin' orders"

  • Democrats can’t gerrymander themselves out of their gerrymandering problem

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  • we can't stop them at the SCOTUS

    Wrong

    Do tell.

    we can't stop them at the Federal level

    Wrong

    Again, do tell. Just saying "Wrong" is taking the Trump 'Fale news' approach. Back up your argument.

    cause gerrymandering is just the wrong thing to do.

    Wrong, cause gerrymandering won't work because we don't have enough states to gerrymander. I respect the intentions behind it but it is a bad strategy.

    Again, what's the strategy?

    I've said for years now that getting people to vote at the local levels is what'll change things, the Texas level of gerrymandering breaks even that...

    Remember folks, every vote counts. We did this to ourselves.

    I've said it before elsewhere but it needs to be heard...

    It's just wild to me continually seeing posts not understanding how this all works, and how it would play out. It's like the people who thought China paid the tariffs...

    The house is almost tied. That's who passes bills, handles impeachments, some of the most powerful committees are, and who impeaches Presidents...

    218 Republicans, 213 Democrats.

    Let's see, take New York for example.

    26 representatives total, 19 Democrat and 7 Republican.

    5 of those were within 2 points last time their seat was up.

    People who think that New York is blue, their vote doesn't matter, skips the votes for the House and Senate and end up losing a Blue house seat but later complain that nothing changes are literally the fucking problem.

    Every. Fucking. State. Is. Like. This.

    Apathetic morons who don't realize that the president is only held accountable by the other branch of government then wave their hands around when they did jack shit to help put people in place to, are the fucking problem.

    District 3 of California was lost by 24,000 votes. District 22 was lost by 3,000.

    Those two seats in the house, along with the close ones in New York, Jersey, Michigan, Illinois, Washington, hell every state... Are what makes the House of Representatives or breaks it.

    So, if you think that your vote for president doesn't matter, so you skip voting and let these other seats slip, yes, you're a fucking moron who can't grasp basic concepts of government that are taught in 4th grade.

    And don't get me started on the State House/Senates, how they define voting laws and voting zones and engage in gerrymandering.

    Every fucking vote counts.

    And until the country realizes it, and starts acting on it, we'll keep getting the shit we deserve.

    House needs a simple majority, and two thirds of the Senate.

    Democrats would need ~18 seats.

    First, that won't happen in 2026.

    Even the best cases make it hard to win enough by 2028. Which is why impeachment is just not something we can hold out for.

    Gerrymandering is part of why this is a problem, which is done at the local level, and again why every vote counts.

    How could it play out? Assuming some absurdly weird upside down world just opposite of what we're living in, this is the only path just looking at the numbers...

    Again, Democrats would need to gain 18 net seats. Seats Potentially in Play (Republican Incumbents): This requires looking at seats up in upcoming cycles.

    • Class 1 Seats (Up in 2026):
      • Highly Competitive Targets: These would be the first priority. States where Democrats have won statewide recently or that lean only slightly Republican. Examples based on recent political history might include:
        • North Carolina (Budd-R)
        • Alaska (Sullivan-R) - Unique dynamics with ranked-choice voting.
      • Stretch Targets: States that are more Republican but could potentially flip under exceptionally favorable conditions (like the hypothetical turnout).
        • Iowa (Ernst-R)
        • Montana (Daines-R) - Depends heavily on candidate matchups.
        • Kentucky (McConnell-R's seat - potential retirement changes dynamics)
        • Kansas (Marshall-R)
        • South Carolina (Graham-R)
      • Very Difficult Targets: Solidly Republican states requiring overwhelming Democratic turnout and significant shifts among other voters.
        • Texas (Cornyn-R)
        • Mississippi (Wicker-R)
        • Alabama (Tuberville-R)
        • West Virginia (Capito-R)
        • Oklahoma (Mullin-R - Special election winner)
        • Wyoming (Lummis-R)
        • Idaho (Risch-R)
        • Arkansas (Cotton-R)
        • Nebraska (Ricketts-R)
        • South Dakota (Rounds-R)
        • Louisiana (Cassidy-R) - Jungle primary system.
    • Class 2 Seats (Up in 2028): (Looking further ahead)
      • Highly Competitive Targets:
        • Maine (Collins-R) - Often competitive, depends on matchup.
        • Georgia (Perdue/Ossoff dynamic showed competitiveness, depends who holds it after '26 potentially) - Assuming GOP holds a seat here.
      • Stretch Targets:
        • Michigan (Peters-D currently, but listing potential GOP flips back if one happened hypothetically before 2028) - Generally leans D, but could be contested.
        • New Hampshire (Shaheen-D currently) - Generally leans D, but listing potential GOP flips back.
      • Very Difficult Targets: (Many solidly Republican states)
        • Tennessee (Hagerty-R)
        • Alaska (Murkowski-R historically, depends on dynamics)
        • North Carolina (Tillis-R)
        • Iowa (Grassley-R seat potentially)
        • Texas (Cruz-R)
        • Kentucky (Paul-R)
        • And many others similar to the 2026 list (SC, AL, MS, WY, ID, NE, SD, KS, WV, OK).

    It's going to take an absolutely historic level of pain to both drive enough people to vote MAGA out to make this change though.

    The amount that's being excused, sanewashed, and just drowned out with other absurdities...

    We're on all on this shit ride until some new wildcard comes into play.

    No impeachment, no Supreme Court, no guardrail is going to change that.

    Something new and unaccounted for is the only feasible catalyst.

  • Democrats can’t gerrymander themselves out of their gerrymandering problem

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  • Aw well fuck, I guess you're right.

    Ok boys, we can't stop them at the SCOTUS, we can't stop them at the Federal level, might as well pack it in, cause gerrymandering is just the wrong thing to do.

    We'll let Schumer write another sternly written letter, maybe it'll work this time.

    /s

  • Brutal arrest of Black student in Florida shows benefits of recording police from new vantage point

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  • And their camera's processing and memory cards are all mounted on the windshield for some stupid reason.

    Having a small discreet 4 or 6 channel camera that writes to an SSD hidden inside the car and has a 4g radio attachment, or even connects to a hotspot would be massive.

  • Microsoft CFO calls for 'intensity' in an internal memo, after blowout earnings

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  • Mmhmm compare that with the sales numbers, then compare against any company in history which has had a similar sales pattern for a publicly traded company.

  • Denmark zoo asks public to donate unwanted small pets or horses to feed captive predators

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  • Eric?

  • Microsoft CFO calls for 'intensity' in an internal memo, after blowout earnings

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  • Yeah, except for Tesla, how the fuck man.

  • Anti-Trump MeidasTouch dethrones mighty Joe Rogan as top podcast in US

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  • He's just a modern Art Bell with protein powder and a lot less entertainment value.

  • Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down, but Valve says payment processors 'specifically cited' a Mastercard rule about damaging the brand

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  • Only problem with a public utility like that now would be Trump and his Insane Cunt Posey would weaponize it for the religious right.

  • ICE is recruiting agents with incentives, massive ad campaigns. Sheriffs aren't happy.

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  • US authorities investigating ex-Trump prosecutor Jack Smith

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  • Name checks out.

  • GOG and game publishers launch FreedomToBuy.games to raise awareness on censorship in gaming – GOG Pressroom

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  • Oh man, somewhere in Rural Australia a born again Karen is having a heart attack and screaming about all the kids this is sending to hell.