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I registered Dem this year so I can play in the open primaries (everything is open except for prez). It's fun to play.

I think was a registered Dem for like three weeks until I realized that they sucked as much as the local GOP. I would go to a record store and talk shit about Babs than do a rigged primary. That's just me.

My Dem vote in Cali won't affect anything, but at least I'll be counted and the idea of Not being counted strikes me as shitty.

If it's concern about nCoV: eh.

If it's just weirdness about encountering an unexpected language in a certain context: not really. Stuff like that does stand out, and regardless of what people's instinctive actions are it's what's done consciously that determines character.

Depends why you're taking pause

@YMO, Hind*i* ?

Living in a brown world, I always get taken aback by seeing white people, and even more so, black people. That can even include looking in the mirror.

Weirdest thing was first trip to London after several years, first thought was "This place is full of foreigners." Second thought was.... Oh, people the same as me!

So apparently Pete Buttigieg is in the lead slightly over Bernie.

I’m sorry but you can’t tell me the pic of Pete they have over on CNN doesn’t look like Alfred E. Neuman:
https://politics-static.cnn.io/2020/static-assets/images/headshots/buttigieg-medium.png

At this point, I might feel safer with Alfred E. Neuman as the leading candidate. Too bad his main "propaganda" publication no longer exists.

Popular Mechanics did the math. Forget about the app, everything about the caucus is stupid.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/math/a30810883/iowa-caucuses-math-errors/

No.

I did. Maybe twenty years ago. No good for me.

But, walking past coffee shops... Oh! That smell! I wish I could still drink it

https://www.ndemiccreations.com/en/news/172-statement-on-the-current-coronavirus-outbreak haha

@songmic it runs a variety of free/open-source Pi-specific OSs that focus on digital audio and include software that support a number or music services/protocols. It becomes the “renderer” of the music file (feeding your DAC). Files can come from various locations (e.g. USB stick, networked DLNA server, Roon server, Tidal/Qobuz directly, Spotify Connect, Airplay etc). Different OSs support different options.

They indeed are special and a must have for digital music playback.

I was up until 2:30a listening to mine. WTH. So, of course the toddler wakes up at 6a lol. So I'm groggy af but can't wait to listen when it again tonight.

That was awhile back. You certainly avoid Reddit...as we all probably should, lol.

Reddit is great for hobbies where I need an info hub to catch all the news and content (games), but pretty appalling for stuff that are interesting with deeper discussions (audio) or niche projects (mech keyboards).

I'm okay with Reddit for certain things. Like anything with a bunch of different people, be prepared for anything.

https://media3.giphy.com/media/5Ca1d7AdrvuRq/giphy.mp4

its apparently delicious!

@Stuff Jones LOL that open letter was terrible. The author could save us a lot of time by just wanking while looking in the mirror instead.

@m17xr2b I'm not following what you're saying in your 12:16 post.

@Boops - I don't get it.

@Stuff Jones I mean that it was masturbatory. The length of the text and the style of the writing (paternalistic, mannered, over-intallectualized) suggested to me that the author was more interested in indulging himself than in persuading anyone of anything.

High schools have stopped teaching civics the way they used to. A lot of folks don’t know the basics of how our government works. (or doesn’t sometimes). Wish I had the answer to all of this.

Teach the smarter children Greek and Latin. A few, at least, will be called out to by the philosophical virtues and by the character of a Socrates. I might yet be spared having to instruct the *entire* seminar of graduate students in long-established and fairly straightforward distinctions (fairness vs justice, acceptance vs tolerance, &c.).

Think my aunt and uncle did too. Both dislike both parties... but I guess they dislike a certain someone even more.

It was a fun introduction to the characters; I'm looking forward to a more linear 2nd season

@netforce Ghosn looks like a Bond villian so I agree a movie should be made.

OMG, it's like You Only Live Twice. Throw in rocketship that eats other rocketships.

Argo II

https://i.imgur.com/vdBLjfH.jpg

Boomer cut Anakins legs off and walked away.

Now Anakin has medical bills and cannot afford a ticket home or even his home. Sand is so coarse...

Heard a recent podcast about Amazon last month I would recommend: https://www.revealnews.org/episodes/amazon-behind-the-smiles/

They talked about the shitty practices does that ends up hurting/killing their warehouse employees and how local governments bend over for Amazon.

The more counterfeits that shows up on Amazon. The unsafe stuff people are ordering not knowing its fake. The standards Amazon is setting for the rest of businesses sucks.

And for Amazon paying nothing in income tax is absolute bullshit: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/03/why-amazon-paid-no-federal-income-tax.html

Apple avoided paying $40 billion in taxes for years by keeping money offshore, Netflix paid no taxes last year and on and on!

Yoda is always a hit. Quirky, fast wits and amusing while deadly with a light saber against enemies. He and Han Solo could be great drinking buddies.

I wondered why my kids didn't have watching this movie in their to-do list. Not a single SW item in their Santa letters either, and like 21.455% interest in the SW Disney rides. We are full on watching One Piece though. Luffy is awesome.

Last Jedi fukt the trilogy, not JJ. This is what putting out a bunch of Rian Johnson fires looks like. Disney, try and plan ahead.

Heads are gonna roll at Lucasfilm

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VeuGm359ei0

Just need de-aged CGI Sting. I'm secretly hoping that's what it will be.

Sting now would make a good Emperor Shaddam IV, just saying.

I hope the film is a success so we can see an adaptation of Dune Messiah, which I am increasingly convinced is the best book in the whole series.