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  • I genuinely feel different writing here. On Reddit I constantly analyzed the 18 different ways some random person would take my comment badly. Now I just write stuff and people don't instantly assume I'm an evil moron.

  • I don't like most of the responses here so I'm offer my own. Love is not found it is built.

    My wife and I got married young. I'm 34 and I'll be celebrating my 9th anniversary in under a week.

    Love is where all those things come together. We have the deepest friendship. We're weird in the same ways and we've basically developed our own brand of humor. I can make my wife laugh literally with a look.

    Love is also a commitment to never, ever bail. It's unlike anything else. With friends, you still try to be good company or you wouldn't tell them the deep thoughts. But my wife and I can share anything. We're so intertwined that there's more understanding than judgment. We can say things we don't like about people, about the world, about ourselves. We can be truly vulnerable.

    We didn't find love, we built it. From 25 to 34 I'm a phenomenally different person, but we're like two planets oscillating around each other. Our orbit influences the other, and vice versa. We never would have been these people if we weren't together. With most friends I feel like they may have some influence... But in marriage it's just undeniable.

    It's a truly unique thing. But I will say I couldn't understand it until I had it. And I still don't. Dating for 4 years wasn't the same as marriage after 1 which wasn't the same as marriage after 5 and that's not the same as it is now after almost 9 years. It's always growing, always deepening, and it's just insanely personal at a very deep level.

  • Kinda sounds like you have your own definition of what constitutes an "April Fools joke" and your are assigning negative connotations to it. I don't think that's an objective fact.

    "April Fools is not [fun for everyone]" is an opinion more than a fact. I don't think anyone disagrees with your underlying premise that mean spirited "jokes" don't belong in the workplace, but rather your assertion that it's a prerequisite for April Fools jokes to be mean spirited.

    Also, if we are going to bring the level of scrutiny to all jokes that you are bringing... I don't think it is even possible to design a "joke" that would pass your test.

  • I would hope so. I think it would be the right thing to do. But I don't think Democrats would see all the "instant landslide wins" that are talked about. I don't think they can accurately predict how that will go. I just don't buy that the average non-voter is definitely voting Democrat.

    But again - we should push for it because I think it's the right thing to do, not because I think it's good strategy.

  • I don't think this is clear cut anymore. Low information voters broke very hard for Trump. Democrats have work to do to win back the average voter, but the adage of "we win when people turn out" broke in this last election.

    Democrats need to get off their ass and offer something better. The fact that Trump won so handily should be a damn wake up call that they are out of touch. Republicans message sucks ass, but it still beat the hell out of Democrats. The party leadership needs an overhaul because they are floundering and trotting out these old adages excuses how piss poor they've done leading the party.

  • "don't care if its fake or not"

    Boy this sounds familiar. It's exactly the same mentality that made people stick with Trump.

    This kind of nonsense erodes the valid criticism. How many times do people say "Look at the idiot Trump supporters, they're all hung up on something that didn't even happen." Or how people make fun of the AI generated shirtless Trump pictures.

    Everyone here is actively participating in that, but you're changing the rules because you don't like this guy. All the things you said about them they are now saying about you. And they are right.

    I'm not pro-Elon, he sucks. But I want to keep the limited attention that people have laser focused on his actual words and actions, not this dumb shit.

  • Worth noting that Steve from Gamers Nexus admitted that he reviewed this video before it went live, meaning that Rossmann and Steve were collaborating, so Rossmann cannot be seen as an objective third party.

    Oh, and they're also starting some sort of project together, I think it'll be a podcast.

    Not that it invalidates the point, but also creates an odd incentive here.

  • Yeah I'm a bit confused. He's said they are trying to provide a pretty base level of education... Just enough to get started, but aren't meant to be crazy deep dives. The labs content is a bit different, but I think it's pretty easy to tell the difference.

  • I'm pretty shocked that you're getting downvoted for saying that a murder might not be the way to invoke change.

    That's pretty nuts to me. Everyone seems like they are trying to justify this... Why are we justifying murder? People can be pretty devoid of empathy. I understand that people want change, and that we need it. I worked in health insurance and know how wasteful it is and how much pain it causes.

    Pseudo-celebrating a murder and trying to back-justify it is about the same as actively hoping/campaigning that it happens. It honestly seems like some people are on here with the mentality that any CEO should be moderately expecting to be murdered, and that it is acceptable to live in a world that operates that way.

  • I mean the polls for Biden were bad and getting worse. Harris was only down a couple points... Biden was down double digits. I hate to say it, but with the 2 point polling error, Biden had 0 path to make it. I don't know a single state that he would have taken off of Trump.

  • Ah yes. Great. We're the election conspiracy theorists now. It's apparently democrats turn to make completely baseless accusations.

    This stuff is exhausting. We want to look for every reason except for the one that matters: Democrats lost America. We need to break the party apart and start over.

    Every other excuse just delays and distracts. Democrats fucked it. We can be all high and righteous as we want, but we lost 2 of 3 to Donald Trump.

    Face the reality. Democrats need to reinvent themselves or they will lose to shit candidates like Trump.

  • Iowa itself is a lost cause. It's 75% Republican here. We're gerrymandered to high hell, so even if Baccam squeaks through, Iowa state legislature won't look very blue. If it's 60/40 Republican I'd be absolutely shocked.

    But contributing one Senator nationally would be pretty neat.