I've had that exact reaction many times at BDSM events. (Technically, that first comma needs to move one word to the left.)

I spell most words just fine, but swipe implies some level of autocorrect, anyway. With physical keyboards of course not.

Swipe is really bad on iPhone. I remember some frustration at times on Android but on iPhone it's infuriating. I use it anyway.

Best I can do is a lemon peel wrapped 'round a gold brick.

She's in a wheelchair but not a really nice wheel chair. I'd say the odds are pretty fucking good.

Could be true, but I'd never take this administration's word for it.

I would love that with internet and WFH. But I'm like half fish anyway. I could easily spend half my life in or on the water.

Second the door ice maker. We got a Samsung, which everyone will tell you is shit but my wife needs her aesthetics and perfectly matching everything. But my requirement in return was we got an ice maker internal to the freezer that we connected to a reverse osmosis filter. It's been great for us so far for 7 years.

Now, my Samsung dishwashers (yes, plural) have been hot garbage. Even paying for top of the line shit they both needed major work or repairman ~ once a year, and obviously a replacement.

votes to deport immigrants

gets deported

"How can you do this?"

Their plan is that we'll earn money doing the jobs robots won't or are too expensive to do. Giving them handjobs at breakfast, or fighting lions with a knife on PPV. Whatever we can do to give them a moment's respite from the gray boredom of incomparable wealth, privilege, and pointlessness.

Billionaires.

Too late. It's Doged. Sorry, Taxes. I mean Texas.

Don't be that shocked. Humans make their minds up based on instinct and emotion and then justify it later. It is common for all of us to use flimsy excuses (when better ones don't present themselves) to rationalize our ideals.

I call out people who support the same things I do for flimsy reasons for that reason. I doubt I'm any more immune to it than anyone else, it's just easier to spot it in others than ourselves. Shit sometimes I spot flaws in my own reasoning only when someone else gives voice to it. That's fucking aggravating.

That being said, it's completely self-serving and upsetting to me because the people affected are more like me than him, and I could easily be next on the chopping block, and people like that dude will give not a single shit.

I don't embark on such journeys, tbh. I'm more of a day by day/ path of least resistance person. But fucking good on people who do that shit. I'm proud of you. Best I can do is make rash decisions and see them through. Some of them work out really well. Some don't.

I prefer watching sunrises in terms of sheer aesthetics, but sunsets are also nice and more conducive to my schedule. If I see a sunrise, it's usually because I'm obligated to get up far earlier than I want to. They are beautiful and a beginning rather than an end — they are just indicative of a long, tiring day.

"Can I phone a fascist?"

Stay in it anyway because you want a 75% pay cut even less. Only put in 40 hours. Enjoy the rest of your life outside of work.

That's my solution, anyway. Though, I actually love tech itself, it's the people and processes I hate, so changing industries isn't actually a solution.

Likely just to crypto, which will lead to more money for the grifters. Follow the money.

Everyone capable of feeling bad about it is. Unfortunately we are 3 1/2 years away from a new administration. And we don't know that the election even then will be free and fair.

Your suggestion would have us choose an arbitrary measure of achievement to say who is allowed full participation in a society. That seems extremely fraught, to say the least. Why is education any better than amount of land owned? Or tax paid? Or holiness? Or age/experience?

From a certain perspective, each of those groups has a more vested interest in successful governance than other groups. And each has an agenda to promote their own interests.

You think education is important because presumably you are educated. I'm not, in the traditional sense. Everything I know is self-taught through reading and hard work. And I work in a field where almost every single person I encounter is better educated than me, down to the interns. And I am more capable than 90% of them.

Education alone doesn't make one more capable of clear reasoning or logical thinking and its lack is no preclusion. It's just another arbitrary distinction. You are suggesting a meritocracy based on education rather than wealth or status, but it's still a meritocracy with all the flaws that entails.

Sometimes, I feel like you do. It's hard to see so many stupid people harming society for stupid reasons. But then I remind myself they need representation, too. They are part of society. And importantly they think they are the smart ones and I'm the stupid one, and judging based on intelligence depends greatly on who is doing the judging. You and I might not both make the cut depending on what knowledge is valued, how it's measured, and where the line is drawn.