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Yet another refugee who washed up on the shore after the great Reddit disaster of 2023

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  • Boomers

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  • That's a good theory. It's long been held that the more population dense area of the country skew liberal because diverse people jammed together learn to understand and get along with each other. You could make an argument that growing up on an internet with unfettered voices expressing themselves would be similar.

    But the underlying racism that seems to fuel modern conservatism seems to be growing in all areas. I'm in California, which is about as blue as it gets, but like 40 percent of people voted for Trump.

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  • I've been saying here for ages that the perception of boomers being overwhelmingly right wing and younger generations being overwhelmingly left wing is far, far from accurate. You can look at the demographic data from the prior two elections and see that, yes, there were more conservative boomers than liberal, but it's not a big margin, and for younger generations it was flipped. Now it appears the younger folks are more conservative than liberal.

    As a very liberal boomer, it's been frustrating to get so many truly hateful responses, even recently, based on nothing other than the year I was born. I kept feeling like that level of intolerance didn't bode well, and now I'm thinking that concern was validated.

  • How do you actually read?

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  • I read quite a bit, though it's notched down a bit since my wife and adult son got me back into playing WoW in the evenings (we used to be away into it, then stepped away for some years). Like others have said, my book reading is 100% for pleasure, and I don't feel bad if I don't read, except that I feel reading is healthier downtime than WoW or TV.

    A key for me is having some consistent times that I read. Most important for me is that I read in bed for about half an hour before going to sleep, and I find that that routine helps me go to sleep (I have trouble shutting my brain off). I take the dogs for a jog/walk on weekend mornings, and also consistently read for a while after I get back.

    I read almost exclusively science fiction with a dash of fantasy. I'm an older guy, nearing retirement, and the only factor there is that our kids are grown and I can afford a gardener, so I have more free time than when I was younger.

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    If Trump (somehow) wins tonight, what will you do?

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  • It's not something anyone can just do. America's borders are more open than a lot of countries'. You have to apply, and it can be a multi-year process even if you do get accepted. It can cost money too.

  • This Is a Test - Can the country pass?

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  • I guess you and I just disagree. Yes, for me there's for sure a "not Trump" aspect to Kamala, but she seems like the most progressive candidate we've had for some time.

  • This Is a Test - Can the country pass?

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  • No one is saying it's "the wrong time," like the people who say we can't talk about gun control after a shooting. What they're saying is that a third party candidate is fundamentally a waste of a vote, or worse, in a two-party system. It doesn't move the needle in the direction you want, it takes a vote away from the major party candidate who is closer to your ideals.

  • 'Am I allowed to hit her now?' Trump stuns with Michelle Obama remark

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  • Would be nice to think so, but apparently they're Trumpers.

  • Tucker Carlson claims he was mauled by a demon while asleep, leaving claw marks

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  • I feel like, if demons were real, they'd be perfectly happy with Tucker.

  • I've changed!

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  • I like the answer by some philosopher that we have a sense of object permanence. If your neighbor replaced different parts of his house over several years until they all were replaced, you'd likely say it was the same house because at every point in time, it was there. But if one day he knocked the whole things down and rebuilt it exactly the same as it had been, you'd say it was a different house because there was that moment when it wasn't there.

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  • Yep!

  • Airplane seatbelts

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  • So it doesn't matter on Southwest?

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  • Yeah, and this is a much more frequent thing than crashes. I've been on planes multiple times when there was sudden turbulence and people without seatbelts lifted out of their seats. I don't think any of my personal experiences resulted in someone hitting their head, but that happens. There was just video of one earlier this year.

  • I Don’t Know Why Women Keep Laughing at Me When I’m Out Driving my Tesla Cybertruck

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  • I've said it other places, but you don't get a sense of just how bad they are until you see one in person. I don't know if it's that they're a bit bigger than I thought, or that I'm used to seeing fake images of all sorts of things, but even though I'd seen pictures I was surprised at how bad they are in person. They're cartoonishly awful.

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  • I still think we're taking past each other. I'm not saying he won't become president or whatever. There are other people who have done that without personally being great strategists or especially bright. I think Cheney was a lot smarter than the president he served under. Vance might be smarter than Trump, but I don't think that's saying much.

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  • Cheney wanted to start a war in the middle east for personal enrichment, and he made that happen. That's a huge deal, especially given he was just VP. Yes, terrible for the country, but really quite an accomplishment. I have seen no evidence that Vance has skills beyond just saying what he thinks people want to hear (regardless of accuracy).

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  • Maybe I didn't communicate well. I agree they're both openly corrupt opportunists. The difference is that Cheney is also a good strategist.

    If Cheney wasn't evil and corrupt, he could have made a really positive impact on the country. Vance doesn't have any useful qualities that I can see, unless you value shamelessness.

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  • No, Cheney was a top-notch strategist. Evil, but smart. Vance is just an opportunist with no morals.

  • Comedian Tony Hinchcliffe Performs Wildly Racist Set At Trump Rally In New York City

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  • Pretty sure the drop in pregnancies under 19 was 50% of the overall drop, not 100%. That's still huge, but it's not the whole story.