It’s also the things that he’s saying.

I think there’s plenty of passion. Just look at the No Kings protests! The problem is that there aren’t any goals beyond “stop the Republicans”.

nothing to offer voters other than “At least we aren’t Trump.”

I have Democratic friends who think that this should be good enough and are pretty passionate about that. I try to tell them that it doesn’t animate most voters, but they don’t hear me. From talking to them, I get the impression that they view their party as some force of nature that just decrees who the candidate will be, and they have no power over it. I can see why they feel that way, but I don’t understand why they think that’s acceptable. Or I guess that they don’t think it’s acceptable, but they don’t think there’s anything that they can do about it. It’s learned helplessness.

How is this law going to be implemented?

Wait, so you read this

The prohibition extends to services supporting prediction markets, like virtual private networks, that could allow consumers to disguise their location and get around the ban.

and thought that it meant

Minnesota is banning VPNs, too.

Like, that would be a headline on its own. But it isn’t.

It depends on the hobby. The last woman I dated was somebody I met through a board-gaming group. She asked me out. If it had been a Warhammer group, though, I probably would’ve remained single.

A friend of mine once told me “Just make your life awesome. Eventually some woman will notice there’s this single guy with an awesome life, and then you won’t be single anymore.” I’m still working on that.

Is it because presumably people aren’t there to socialize? Are people there to be in their own head working out and pushing themselves?

Yes and yes.

What’s wrong with “get a hobby”? I mean, you shouldn’t get a hobby with the express purpose of hitting on people, but getting a hobby is a way to make friends, and making friends is the only way I’ve ever gotten dates. The odds that you’re going to hit on a stranger and they’re going to go out with you are abysmal. It’s like searching for a job. You can send out dozens of resumes, but they’re all going to get turned down, and when you finally do get a job, it’s through a friend or a recruiter you know.

Tapping the breaks on that one.

You don’t wanna do that. The whole thing could shatter!

It’s really easy to pump up Islamophobia, too. All you have to do is ask them why they never attack Islam, and imply it’s because they’re afraid. When Gaza was in the news, I would see a spike in anti-Muslim posts in the atheism subreddits. It’s embarrassing how long it took me to realize that the anti-Muslim stuff wasn’t there to attack ISIS or al-Qaeda. It was there to justify what was happening in Gaza.

There was even an atheist group I was a part of that had several speakers come to tell us about how horrible Muslims were, how they abused women, etc. Oh, and then we had a Jewish lady come and talk to us about how open-minded and rational Judaism is.

And if you did change their mind, they probably aren’t going to tell you. Or maybe you planted a seed in their mind that helps to change it years and years down the road. You don’t know! That’s the crazy thing. But people just get frustrated and give up because they had an unreasonable expectation about the argument in the first place.

No, the annoying thing is that they all talk about religion as if all religion is evangelical Christianity. They think that it makes them look impartial or something, but it just makes them look ignorant.

I’m not necessarily trying to convince them, though. I might be trying to convince somebody else who might come along and read the debate we’re having. My opinion has been swayed on numerous issues by arguments I read on reddit and other websites which I took no part in. In fact, it’s easier to sway third parties, because they don’t have to worry about their ego the way an interlocutor does.

Don’t forget about green onions.

Presentation is huge, at least for me. The thing that pulled me over to the Linux side was people posting screenshots of their tricked-out desktops with cooling-looking terminals. It made learning the terminal look fun, not intimidating.

He sure was blinking for a long time

I blink every night, for about 8 hours.

lmaoooo

"FAKE NEWS! I was only resting my eyes"

You didn’t read past the first sentence or two, so you don’t even know what you’re responding to.

They don’t have kompromat on our politicians. At least, I don’t see any evidence for that. What I do see evidence of is bribery. Look at all of the $$$ AIPAC gives to congress-people, and then look at how they behave towards Israel. Israel is just like any other special interest, buying our politicians.

Of course, there are some in congress who truly believe in Zionism, like Joe Biden. It’s like how we have shitty gun laws. Part of it is due to how much money the NRA spends lobbying politicians, but part of it is because some of the people in congress truly believe that it’s better when anybody can get ahold of an AR-15. Nobody thinks that the NRA is blackmailing politicians, though. I think the reason why people are willing to believe this about Israel is because it plays into antisemitic conspiracy theories.