This just makes me sad you've never had a nice juicy pear.
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I have literally never seen a depiction of Vietnam that was positive or shy of direct condemnation of how terrible it all was.
Seriously, even Forrest Gump’s innocent portrayal of it still managed to underline in bold that it was all pointless, needless, and cruel beyond reason.
Not sure what about any of that doesn't line up with "sad". None of those adjectives border on happy or nonchalant.
I think you're confusing Rambo First Blood, which is about how fucked up he was after coming back from Vietnam, with the Rambo sequels, which are about how cool it is to blow stuff up.
It's taboo because they're uncomfortable justifying their positions, at least to others, because if they expand on those positions they have to apply labels they don't like to themselves, and that sucks.
The root word of politics is just "city". Politics is just matters being discussed in the city/population. Everything intrapersonal is politics. Ignoring it, making it a dirty word, is sticking their head in the sand because evaluating things is hard, and if they let the logic of their positions play out it ends up in a bad place. But that can't be true because they're a good person. So "politics" must be the problem.
The trick is "Politics" has become a dirty word.
Thing makes you uncomfortable? Don't want to think about it? "Politics".
As a coping strategy it is a thing to behold. It lets you just coast along and anything that doesn't instantly strike you as agreeable or might threaten previous information, "Politics", and you can just ignore it. Until something impacts you directly, and then you're being singled out and can be outraged, or at least disgruntled. But that's just your personal issue, there's no systemic problems, that would be... the bad word.
"Those" people want to be treated like people and be able to marry and have rights? "My party's candidate" is having bad stuff said about him? The local aquifer has been running a yearly deficit? Students are yelling about something?
"Politics".
I realize this is just my brain struggling desperately to pattern match and make sense of something that doesn't, like seeing faces in white noise on a TV. But "they" could be the people saying things about Project 2025, not the fascist propaganda itself.
It does and it doesn't.
Any microwave with the door rigged open is a super effective Wi-Fi jammer. Everything coalesced on 2.4GHz instead of licensing their own radio spectrum making absolute mountains of overlap. It's harder jam nearly everything else. ( Not much harder, software radios are super cheap, but you at least need more electronics knowledge than a screwdriver and tape. )
At least according to this it's ~8% of the state's electrical capacity all by it's lonesome which doesn't seem too bad. By the stats on it's own wiki it's pretty active.
My grandparents had an 8 track collection. That doesn't make me a 60s kid.
It's a sentiment at least as old as the first things that we now call computers.
On two occasions I have been asked, "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" … I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
—Charles Babbage
Not even counting the debate the man has straight up asked for people that have died during press conferences and mixed up Putin and Zelenskyy. I don't think it's out of line to question how much of policy and press releases he's cognizant of, much less staffing decisions. Even if they are updating him about polling data he may not be processing it. I have a 94 yr old grandpa with a live in nurse and a 80 year old aunt in hospice (different sides of the family) and the disorientation is disturbingly familiar.
It seems insane to bet that he will have 4 more high pressure years to give. Or betting on him making it long enough for a VP to take over. RBG should be a warning, not a template.
Wireless keyboards go to sleep and can disconnect. Modern ones are sometimes smart/quick enough to send the first keypress but older ones less so. Also if the computer's off spamming caps lock won't turn on the light and let you know to hit the power button.