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There are a few people selling resin prints of ships on Etsy. They are of varying quality, but this one seems to be the best quality.

But I get it, it's just not the same as the real thing lol

I just got into Star Wars Armada, a game that was discontinued last year. Finding models has been hard lol

I would like to see a random person. Put the entire adult population in a lotto and draw a name. Congrats, that person is now president.

The knee-jerk reaction is to be horrified by this prospect, but I want you to stop and really think about this for a sec. I think we can all admit that most of our leaders/politicians are, to put it mildly, fucking monsters. Those positions attract personalities that fall firmly in the Dark Triad (machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy). And those that are capable of getting themselves elected are pretty much guaranteed to have at least one or more of those traits.

But these traits are relatively rare in your average, everyday person. Although the media tries it's best to warp our view of the world, individual people are, for the most part, good, decent folks who want to help those around them. It's practically built into our DNA. The problem is it only takes a small handful of selfish jackasses to ruin things, and our society tends to listen to those that are being the loudest.

By this metric, if you take a random person off the street, you have a higher chance of them being a good person; rather than if you selected from a pool of politicians.

Another benefit to this is the person entering office has zero ties to any company or billionaire. Lobbyists spend billions to ensure that anyone elected is already in the pockets of whatever big industry wants to fund them. By the time someone is elected, it's already too late as they've already had their hands greased and have accepted gifts, officially or unofficially. That's just the way the game is currently played. But a random person? They can't bribe someone ahead of time if they don't know who that person is going to be. Oh sure, I suppose they could try to appease the public as a whole so that your average person already has a positive opinion of them; but would that be such a bad thing?

Is it a perfect system? Hell no. Leaving leadership up to the whims of chance is a dangerous move to make. But is it a better system than the one we have now? I say yes. I truly believe we would be better off with a random person as president than any known politician or talking head.

Maria Cortina Machado dedicated the prize to Trump because she wants the US to intervene in Venezuela.

I would put the average American's knowledge of the "situation in Venezuela" somewhere between diddly and squat. I'd say we can't afford another war right now, but that's never stopped us before, so who the fuck knows?

That turnout is depressing.

No. Some no-name tik-toker claimed he had proof and threatened to reveal it, and then offered no evidence when the time came. But, the internet being what it is, people rolled with it because I guess the truth should never get in the way of a good story.

I'm not? The world population is just a fact. Unless you somehow think India and China don't have over a billion people each.

By world population, whites ARE a minority.

Assuming everyone lives in a city where the weather is mild, the distances to things are short, there is reliable public transportation, and has significant infrastructure in place for walking/biking. Also assuming that everyone using a car instead of biking/walking is just being lazy, without spending a second to consider the elderly or infirm.

Misinformation is fucking everywhere these days. And when you try to point out the truth, people get angry if it doesn't match up with their feelings.

All Q-tip packages say to not put them in your ears because they can cause damage. Hundreds of millions of people around the world use them to clean their ears. But apparently all these millions of people are suffering from hearing damage because "anEcDoTaL EviDEnCe iSN't FacT".