I'm talking real actionable proof that causes anything to happen. The fabled redpill. What I mean is that there will be no grand unveiling on the scale expected here, there will be no arrests (and no prior arrests will suddenly be made public). Life is just going to kind of muddle along, and then Trump will win.
And yet weirdly, I'm still right.
No proof of a steal will ever be shown, and Trump will win in 2024.
There are disappointed people around, so...
Well Trump apparently does, so...
Um... The historical record points out multiple societies that predate ten thousand years ago. But you don't get from "socially adept monkey that can sweat" to "architecture" quickly. Civilization needs a lot of items and processes to be invented first - and they pretty much all come from a survival need. Specifically, from a response to a survival need that outgrows that need.
For example - cultivation. Humans were cultivating plants around them well before agriculture spread out from just being a thing that happens at loamy river deltas. The advanced math and reasoning skills needed to turn hides into functional garments could be turned to grander things like (eventually) urban planning, when all that energy wasn't being spent on just Not Being Naked. The power of flame to transform objects was first harnessed to transform edible resources into food, drastically increasing the caloric and nutritional value (which took our already overpowered Stamina stat and just made it game-breaking). It was only after that this same process would be turned to hides, and eventually those weird rocks you sometimes find, giving us metal.
First we made innovations that met our needs. Then, generations would be spent honing those innovations and most importantly, passing them down and securing them as Knowledge. Don't overlook the power of the Oral Tradition. It takes a long time for this process to happen, because pre-civilization, we are still just animals. The best animal, completely broken and overpowered, but we're still playing the game right alongside the big boys. Innovations take longer when all that innovative power has to go towards survival, and even your best innovations give you an edge (instead of guaranteeing success and dominance over the non-human world).
Also, a lot of these innovations only come through death, which slows the process down. A lot of people had to shit themselves to death before it was widespread knowledge which berries were poison. A lot of people lost their hands or their babies to wolves on the rocky road to domesticating the dog. But eventually you stack enough survival innovations on each other, and you'll have enough free time not spent surviving, that you can start managing resources. And from there you get civilizations.
Hunter-gathering in no way implies a lack of problem-solving, of trying to make things better and more efficient. In fact, it's quite the opposite - we only got to societies because our hunter-gatherer ancestors kept sharpening the knife of human ingenuity against the whetstone Nature and all the dangers she provides. And really, we couldn't have done any of it without sweat or flame.
At least he's on Instagram and not looking at porn on Twitter like Ted Cruz, the pervert.
That's what you get when you rely on machines, I guess
Still think it would be better to replace them all with hand counts.
Well, I mean... that's because Florida is rife with voting machines, whereas Arizona requires mail-in ballots to have their signatures verified, which slows down the process considerably. Seems like a worth it trade to have a signature-verified hand count, though. You'd think people here would be all about that.
I truly don't understand this perseveration on timeliness when that seems like something we can work on after we've squared away security and access.
Hey, to be fair, for thousands of not millions of living Americans, it wasn't always. During the pandemic I made a living caretaking for a Japanese nonagenarian from Hawaii, and it taught me that any history within an extent person's lifetime is really current events. She remembers the campaign for Statehood and how for the first few cycles the factories would shut down on Election Day so the people could go vote "for one of our own people instead of the Governor from the mainland". When she was born, Hawaii was only recently no longer under Hawaiian sovereignty.
The really wild thing is TV - she was a teenager when TV debuted, and in her twenties before it was widespread. So she had a fully developed brain and understanding of the world before TV entered it. And then it was always TV... Until it suddenly wasn't. It was cheaper for us to have just internet and stream stuff, and it was flat out impossible to get her to understand that TV is no longer something that you turn on and it just goes. Now TV is something where you have to keep making decisions about what you want to watch. It has basically completely transformed into a different type of user experience. One closer to a salad bar than a feeding trough. So for her, she basically saw the entire lifespan of Television, before it was subsumed by the Internet.
A reminder to us that all castles are sand castles, and time is the endless sea.
BIDEN WANTS YOUR GUNS TRUMP WANTS YOUR TURKEYS
General preparedness is always a good back-up activity, especially if you're the nervous energy type.
You answered your own question - it's torrents. Torrents can come in convenient bulk packages, and you can bulk download in the background with basically no input from you (unlike the hurry up and wait of physical media ripping).
The speed of ripping the disc is not based on your cards or processor, but on the speed of your optical drive itself. If you want to increase ripping speeds, you'd need a better disc drive - another reason why these people mainly deal in torrents. Maybe a few of them were diligently digitizing throughout the 2010s, but most of them are coming in late and just scooping up the premade torrents.
Of course, all this assumes that HDMI itself will never become obsolete or be replaced. It is important to remember that all castles are sand castles.
This right here is why I look sideways at anyone saying "Hey, don't build this up too much, if it's not a big deal just relax and enjoy the ride it's all underwater space chess". He is literally hyping this up.
The bait excuse only works if it's followed by the switch; if the other side doesn't bite, it was a wasted bait. The only explanations for RT'ing "You'll love how this movie ends" now is he is planning to start the end of the movie and he thinks we will enjoy it; or that Truth is just as fucky with picture cropping in feed view as Twitter is and he didn't see the caption and thought he was just reTruthing a pretty picture of his face. It's basically impossible at this point that he is unaware of the Q of it all, so... I just don't see any other explanation. Besides swift and sudden dementia, or I guess an aide using the official account?? I'll gladly admit to grasping at straws here
Oof, you can't really announce an end of "occupying territory" when you're America. It's kind of our entire thing, Article 6 of our own Constitution be damned. 3, 9, and 11 seem most likely. 11+9-3=?
Oh, and 10 will obviously happen but that messed up my very funny numbers joke
If you define the goods as "TrumpTV", then yeah
Bait that was never chomped on
The only problem with this theory is that responses from the other side generally come afterwards, so... They'll be able to know how much and which ammunition to use. I also agree that it will be a nothing burger, but I disagree on the tactics and aims.
Maybe that happened because Obama was born in Hawaii. People do get born there from time to time, can confirm.
Weird how increased feminism and openly queer displays coincides with a steady increase in population, then
This is plausible. But I'm all in on TrumpTV
The writers thought the same thing!
Sorry, it won't happen. Things are too squishy right now.
I did know! It just sparked a recent thing I'd been musing on. It was an impactful experience and I saw the opportunity to share a little.
The sand castles bit is definitely not an original line but I can't tell you where I first ran across it. I think I was kind of mashing up two old chestnuts in my mind. Some find the sea scary, in its expanse and depth and mystery. I find it comforting. But I can find Time scary, depending on the day. Imagining time as an ocean makes it a little easier to find Time comforting.