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[–] [email protected] 10 points 16 hours ago

The same thing as if he were sick or otherwise “incapacitated.” Being locked up by kidnappers incapacitates you. The VP would step up. However impractical terms the VP would absolutely downplay this, always trying to give the impression that the president will be rescued any minute now and everything will go back to normal.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe think about not saying shit that you’d be afraid would leak.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Have you ever heard of “broken window syndrome?” It’s the idea that once there are a couple of broken windows on buildings in an area, quickly more will start getting broken. But if every window is intact, you will only get the occasional vandal being bold enough to break the first one.

It’s not scientific and may not even have any truth in it, but there is something to be said for the idea that if people see others doing something, they are more likely to go ahead and do it themselves.

To the point: if you see thousands of butts everywhere, smokers do too and probably consider it normal by now, and don’t care.

This only explains how things go from bad to worse. So who drops the first butt? Well: it’s the most selfish, lazy, inconsiderate guy around. There always is one.

Funny how all this adds up to the fact that we will inevitably herd behind the worst person around. Maybe that’s why we suck so bad as a species.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

On their wifi? No thanks.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Do you actually want to stand there while someone is called over to unlock these? I get nothing out of that service experience. Would far rather press a button in an app. It’s just dumb that things are behind glass in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Your entire premise of making it the same as QAnon or not the same as QAnon is full of murky definitions and ultimately pointless. If you have a critique of this video’s contents, then by all means make it with substance. QAnon is a rich topic and you can no doubt point to many similarities and I can point to many differences. Ultimately: so what?

It sounds like you are here to say “leftists are full of shit just as much as anyone” and were 99% of the way to congratulating yourself on successfully proving this from the moment the post was made.

I really only have one question about all that. Are you 14?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

QAnon was entirely based on a supposed mole in the government releasing inside information.

The reaction to tech shown here is completely based on their own statements and behavior, which is all in the open, and the belief that business interests will prioritize their own profits (which is not difficult to believe).

Hardly tin foil time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

My office building has the foot handles. It really does make the most sense.

Funny how we stop worrying about germs the second we’re out if the bathroom though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Keeping anyone from killing your kids is definitely step 1 in parenting, but be careful it doesn’t become step 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7… step 992,000.

If you think through every life choice through the lens of whether it increases or decreases the odds of your children being murdered, you’re going to raise them wrong.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

I fly two flags in my home: the NCR flag with the two headed bear, and the flag of the United Federation of Planets. These are the only two political organizations I have any patriotism toward. They are both entirely fictional but “true” to me on a heart level.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Trump won’t let a little poultry disease be a bother. Hell he basically ignored an entire pandemic.

 
 
 

I enjoy the various endgame activities and tweaking my build to try new things. But it doesn’t seem right that I am only level 80 and haven’t gotten a piece of gear I care about in a long time. Grinding out those last Paragon points hardly seems worth it.

 

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