Maybe not the best parallel but a good point nonetheless.
A more apt comparison might be:
"What's the best all-beef hot dog I can buy at my local supermarket?"
"Ugh! OMG! Don't do that to yourself! Why would you even want to bother with eating beef if that's the shit you're going to put in your body?! Just get some Japanese A5 Wagyu ribeye and thank me later!"
Exactly. This is the system working as intended.
I like this one as well. Part of the reason I think this movie just works is because it doesn't even try to be a gritty realistic action thriller adventure movie, but rather it instead combines larger-than-life, over the top action with a healthy dose of wise cracking, levity, and failures...just like an actual RPG session. It's fun to watch but not mentally and emotionally exhausting like, say...a war movie.
Nope.
And even if it did, it was restarting itself anyway.
Bought a pixel 3 as soon as the 4 was released.
It was a fantastic phone... except for the two times it got stuck in a boot loop until the battery died.
Bonus points for the second time, when, thanks to a google update for emergency services, it decided it should dial emergency services every time it restarted...meaning I had to stay up until 330am that night, hanging up on emergency services, until the battery finally died.
A year or two ago, I bought a P7 Pro to replace it, hoping it'd have all the good of the P3, but with better camera, bigger screen, and no boot loop.
It is indeed bigger, the camera can zoom more, but isn't necessarily better, there's no boot loop issues which is great...but I find i have more cases of the phone locking up and needing a restart...and the in-screen fingerprint sensor (and gesture controls) are absolute hot garbage compared to the P3.
The fingerprint and gesture annoyances have been enough that my plan now, unless there's something significant that changes things, is to go back to an iPhone for my next phone.
Not only that, but there's a 100% chance they sell this shit to you as a forever mouse, then in a few years if it's not making them money hand over fist, they'll discontinue it and keep your money.
Thank you.
It shouldn't (still) surprise me, but it always does...when people do drastically misunderstand or misinterpret economic information.
It also wouldn't cover a meal from Uber Eats.
Definitely worse than nothing.
And the side that actually, verifiably tried to use fake electors to subvert the will of the people (even against the stacked deck of the electoral system that benefits their side)...is also the side that loves to spread constant (and constantly disproven) lies about their opponents' voter fraud.
Like...even if I agreed with their platform on the issues, the GOP would still not get my vote based on the way they try to get that vote...in order to gain power...to realize their goal...of getting to a point where my vote loses its power.
Right?!
Like...even if you had no idea what either party stood for, or what positions they took on the various specific issues that concern the population in the present, all you really need to know is how a democracy works in theory, how presidential elections work in the US in practice (and by extension, how these two things differ, thanks to the Electoral College)...and where each party stands on voting rights, voting access, districting (and gerrymandering)...and as a dark horse...public education.
One side wants as many people as possible to get out and vote (and while they obviously hope they'll vote Democrat, most of their messaging, to their credit, is focused not on 'go vote for us', but instead 'the most important thing is that you get out there and vote'), wants to make sure that everybody who wants to vote is able to do so, has no roadblocks, hoops to jump through, bureaucratic red tape, etc., wants every voter across the country to have a voice equal to every other voter, and wants everyone to have a good (and improving) baseline of education, as a foundation upon which to make an informed decision about their voting.
The other side wants to suppress the vote, wants to disallow voting by default unless the individual takes steps to prove themselves, wants to introduce obstacles to voting access, wants to maintain and perpetuate a system where some voters have disproportionately more impact than others on the overall results (a system which, by the way, has much of its origins in the political maneuverings of slaveholders)...and most telling (and disturbing) of all, in the long term, actively, directly, and overtly makes efforts to reduce and degrade the quality of public education, literally seeking to reduce access to quality education for anyone not fortunate enough to be born into a family with the means to provide for a private education.
Seen to its logical conclusion, one side is literally seeking to revert decades if not centuries of progress on education and return to a situation where an education (and the opportunity it provides) is a privilege reserved for the children of affluence, where wealth, opportunity, class mobility, and professional occupations are reserved and exclusive to the wealthy, and in effect secured to them and their future generations indefinitely. And the best part (for them) is that once this happens, the future generations of uneducated lower and middle classes won't have the education to understand what's being done to them, or how it might be different.
I hate to say it, but it would not surprise me one bit if Harris loses in November because Rust Belt moderates in PA, WI, and MI wouldn't vote for a black woman.
I hope I'm wrong, but right now, for me, that's the least surprising of possible futures.
Yep. Doesn't even have to be a group of armed people doing "maybe illegal" things. It can be a single person doing absolutely illegal and horrific things...like Uvalde.