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I imagine just trying to cut government spending, since the Argentinian government has been printing money like no tomorrow. Their economy is in shambles and inflation is up like 400% or something.

This guy is an absolute nut job but after the establishment left and establishment right failed to fix anything, you can kind of see why he won by 11%.

They point to women's impressive performance in extreme distance events, like 100+ mile ultra marathons.

But that runs head long into the question of "How far do you have to actually chase an animal for it to collapse from exhaustion?" I'm having a hard time finding hard numbers but I don't think gazelle have the endurance to run 10+ miles before collapsing. So women may be biologically equipped for ultra-long distances, but I don't see how this correlates to endurance hunting as that advantage doesn't play out hunting game.

That's not to say the basis for the theory on male hunters/female gatherers is not without flaw, but the arguments being made against it don't seem to really be citing evidence that backs up women being significant, let alone dominant, in that role either.

No, it's not a terrible argument. Anyone can have a pitch or idea. That does not mean it's automatically a viable product/service or a viable business.

It's a valid question, how do we define "founder"? To play devil's advocate, I'm curious if the people who think Musk didn't co-found Tesla also agree Aaron Schwartz didn't co-found Reddit. He joined later, after reddit was already incorporated by Hoffman and Ohanian.

In business, "founder" is already an honorary title. It has no inherent power. Co-founders often ensure they get C-suite positions as a company grows, have stock/shares, or other legal powers, but none of those are guaranteed just by being a "founder". So practically, there's no difference between calling Musk a "co-founder" versus "honorary co-founder." Let's just focus on calling him a piece of shit for the very definitive and obvious things we can point to.

Three of nine justices wanted to.

Who's the "other guy"?

Literally who are you advocating for? Who do you think will apparently fix the state of American democracy in 2024?

Oh shit, have not heard about this book and need one for my upcoming vacation. Gonna look into this!

Well, kind of.

They showed the interior of the earth with other megafauna, but how exactly Godzilla or Kong are getting their caloric intake satisfied on a regular basis is somewhat of a question regardless.

Godzilla especially... feeds on radiation? But not just like, consuming uranium ore. He can take a full thermonuclear blast to the face and seemingly heals bodily injury. Maybe makes him feel really full too?

It's handwaved at best, which is fine. Trying to figure out how Kaiju work is like trying to explain The Force with physics. It's just magic, don't worry about it.

I mean, possibly, but yeah "heresy" isn't really a big deal in the modern sense. Like, Protestants are heretics. Nobody really cares at this point.

This guy hasn't been defrocked, just removed from the bishop's seat. He's still a priest. If he goes and starts a different (non-Catholic) church, he'd be dismissed, probably excommunicated, but that's pretty rare I think. And regardless of what he thinks of his boss, his whole life is basically being a Catholic priest. I doubt he'll leave.

I can't tell if this is some weird euphemism, or they literally just had to cross a river and maybe got way too deep into tactics.

"Real world Russian capabilities are shown to be lacking, so the Red Menace are now Red Wizards."

Morale improved drastically, DnD will no longer continue.

Wait, fuck...

Of course Biden didn't, but I genuinely think Trump will be way worse. Anyone who thinks Trump, in control of our military as President, wouldn't be making even worse choices, clearly wasn't paying attention last round.

And it's not just Israel/Palestine. It's Ukraine/Russia and China/Taiwan. Biden isn't changing the status quo, but he's not actively making the situation worse. Trump adores the military and sees himself as a strongman (admittedly not when licking Putin's boot), and is going to immediately want to flex the military. He'll pull Ukraine support entirely. He'll antagonize Iran or maybe actively bomb Hamas targets in Palestine. He'll antagonize China or maybe recognize Taiwan's independence. That would be a disaster.

I want change. I want a better system. I desperately want us to take our hands off the lever. But that change needs to be better and lasting change. It needs to be done such that when enough Democrats take their hands off the lever, the lever does get pulled hard in Republican's favor. I will actively pull the lever in the "kill people" direction because if we let go at all it will be yanked in the "kill everyone" direction, and when it comes to ideals versus practicality, I go with what actually results in less harm.

I get the ideal, but the practicality of American politics and the electoral college is just shitty. I'm genuinely curious what you think would happen in 2024 if people don't vote Biden? I'm assuming you're advocating for the Green Party, whoever their candidate ends up being. Trump doesn't need huge margins to win. Biden had over 6 million more votes but the margins in many key swing states were less than 25,000 votes. Anyone farther left of Biden isn't pulling votes from Trump, they're pulling votes from Biden, and when the margin is that small, it makes all the difference. A Green candidate taking even 3% of a given state is enough to give it to Trump.

I believe enough change from the inside is possible that it can invalidate the lever. There are progressives within the Dems, that could get us to a point where there's no electoral college, or a voting system that isn't first-past-the-post. States are independently joining the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. Once such systems are in place, then it doesn't matter how hard the Republicans pull the lever, we have a bunch of working levers. But we'll never get to that point in the first place if the Republicans get to pull the lever all the way. The party that actively wants to destroy our democracy is not gonna give us a second chance at any lever if we let them pull this one further.