Sometimes water is wet, no matter who says it. I'm not your dad, I'm not telling you how to live your life - if you want to vote fo Stein as a protest vote I think that's perfectly reasonable, even despite all of this. Just don't be stupid enough to drink their Kool-aid. Remember, if a president tries to do anything meaningfully against the status quo in any useful way, the CIA takes them on a convertible trip through Dallas.

The ten crack commandments

Even if you 100% agreed with her, the US Green Party is entirely useless. You can't win the presidency without a party, and you can't build a party by making hail Mary runs at the presidency. You have to start by squeaking out some wins in large municipalities or maybe the House, probably a blue bastion with a lazy and incompetent Dem machine. Get a Green AOC out there in the spotlight who can pull donors. Then move laterally, eating into Dem support wherever you can, and, hell, even take Republican money to undercut the Democratic party's power base. Greens don't do this - they throw all of their funding into the presidential race that they can never win. And it ought to make you think twice about supporting a party that never seems to care about winning.

As it stands, Greens functionally only exist to be a spoiler for Democrats in the presidential race. I'm not saying that them spoiling the Dems is the issue - it's that putting any faith in them to attempt their stated goals is a waste of energy.

Ironically you can see this exact strategy at work on sites like YouTube or Tiktok where people use phrases like "unalive" to get around algorithmic censorship from private entities

Honestly surprised that the dev company known for milking DLC for decades decided not to release its Sims knockoff

Remember, the answer to nearly all these is "if my vote matters so much, you should be calling these Democrats and telling them to move toward my positions."

I suggest you send him a link, promising that the information on it will thoroughly answer any of his questions, but the link is actually to a picture of a pig pooping on its own balls. Specifically, this one.

If he attempts to address the fact that this in fact is not an argument, but is in actuality a picture of a pig pooping on its own balls, then you should apologize profusely for the confusion, and promise that you'll actually send him the correct link this time, and include another link, but this time the link is to the same picture of the pig pooping on its own balls, rehosted on a different image hosting site. Repeat ad infinitum until he gets the drift. Never let him get the last word, instead insisting on sending him that picture of the pig pooping on its own balls.

It's extremely true. I knew about the labor theory of value ever since I worked a shitty retail job that would take in ~6x more every night than the staff's combined wages for the two week pay period, years before I was ever exposed to Marx.

Dynasty Warriors with Path of Exile's crunchiness

And it should have the soundtrack like DW6 did because that shit ruled

The quarter pounder

"I was simply pretending" lmao ok

There's definitely negative psychological effects to having a skinner box in your hand at all times.

I keep thinking about this because it's so fucking funny. "We've invented a way to reintroduce some of the emotional nuance innate in vocal communication and add further symbolic references to text!" "My god, you're an imbecilic caveman! You're destroying civilization!"

Of all the things to get Ted Kaczynski over, emojis is easily the funniest one

We had one crash the site once even.

Those are awful names for people but fantastic names for bands.

Down here in the states Kevin is normally associated with the Call of Duty demographic stereotype - a young (15-25) dumb pothead who drinks too much Monster and punches holes in drywall when he gets mad.

Testicles, but pronounced like Hercules ("tes-ti-CLEEZ")

Most of the "stuff everyone should buy" is stuff you really don't need as a teenager, like cast-iron cookware or a stand mixer. If you have hobbies you want to pursue, you should find a specific group around that hobby and ask them. A lot of black Friday "deals" aren't really deals, though - some companies will actually produce lower quality product lines specifically for black Friday sales, so if you end up buying something big like a TV or something like that make sure you do a little research.

If you want general financial advice, I wouldn't put it in a retirement account like the other guy said. You have plenty of time for that, and you probably have milestones coming up that you'll want money for - buying a car, graduation celebrations, going to college, getting your own place, whatever. So saving it for that kind of stuff is never a bad idea.

Unmuting wasn't in the original specs