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Alright this is like the third time I've seen a Whizzbanger in as many days. Who taught y'all about this? This is supposed to be cursed knowledge.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed, from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

-Thomas Jefferson

Humanity has an oligarch problem.... We aren't the first, and I'd be surprised to hear we were the last.

"Cruisin" is no longer a thing. Teens used to spend hours on nice nights driving up and down a certain stretch of road in nearly every city somewhere.

Not only is this no longer a thing it's actually explicitly illegal in some places. Passing the same location 4 times within a short period or "driving without a destination" can get you a ticket if the cops are paying attention.

And yet it illustrates his point so poignantly!

that goofy dude that likes to play dumb around electricity

You're probably talking about Electroboom, but also check out StyroPyro. Especially now, guy needs the views, he's going through some serious medical issues. Probably my favorite YouTube channel that exists.

That's real rich from the guy that didn't even read his own source he posted in this conversation. Try harder.

He was the only option on my primary lmao

Fuck sake, why do you have to be right?

My immediate response was "well anyone who is paying attention absolutely would vote for one of them given the alternatives of Trump and Biden" but that's exactly the point, most people aren't paying enough attention. I can't even argue with that. And the people whose vote we have to court the most are the fence sitters who definitely especially aren't paying proper attention. Fuck.

I don't even have more to add to that, now I'm just depressed. Because you're right, I WOULD vote for Biden anyway even if I hate it, I said so myself, so I'm not even the target audience here. And Joe Moderate is going to ratchet us three clicks further right just in order to attempt preventing even worse.

On some level I definitely already knew all this but I have to say this is throwing it all into some pretty stark light.

Only sort of, it still exists but it's a lot more compact now. And not super common as far as I know, like the other poster said here air cooling has come a long way. I've got a water cooled GTX 1080 Ti in my rig right now, but it's basically just a couple rubber tubes coming off the GPU leading to a little square radiator that I have a fan bolted to. It all sits inside the case (or, well, it's intended to... My case isn't quite large enough for everything I've got in it so I've got the radiator and fan a little bit jury-rigged to the front of my case right now. No biggie.)

Literally every one of those names is one I would vote for if put on the ballot. The bar is that low. It is dangerously low, they could run anyone and people would show up to vote, red flags or not. We're mostly interested in taking a loan to pay the piper at this point, a future catastrophe can be dealt with after we deal with the current catastrophe.

That's an awful large wall of text to tell everyone you haven't listened to anything that's gone on in many years. If you think Trump is about to somehow magically resolve this genocide that he's been actively egging on from the sidelines, please learn to read.

I do know the truth about the US political establishment, I fucking live here, you goon. And the truth is that until the civil war starts, we are reduced to voting for the lesser evil. Anything else is causing more active harm to ourselves and our fellow humans for no gain.

So yes, I will vote for Biden, because I'm not being presented a better option. Once the blood starts spilling on American soil that may end up a different story. But for right now? This both sides bullshit is actively killing people and making the entire world worse, both here and overseas.

I remember when Trump was in office, I remember what he said and did and what he's promised will happen next time. I'm not about to let that happen again. If my options are 40% evil or 99% evil I'm picking the 40% every time, no question, from a purely utilitarian viewpoint.