I don't think a normal person has a great chance running for president or US senator, but what about State government? What about local government?

This is the thing that the fascists understand. They want people they control in local government. They target school boards and county election officials. Leftists seem to only think of the federal government.

I think the solution is for people who aren't on the Epstein-class payroll to run.

The efforts they go to to make voting more difficult shows that voting is still effective. The results we've seen recently show that the voters want to vote for someone who actually wants to do what they want.

How do we convince a normal person, a citizen, to give up their existence, disrupt everything, and run for office?

I asked for a water cooler for our office. We had about 10 people working at the site, one suffered from kidney stones and I had gout. The nearest water cooler was two floors above us.

I asked my manager for a water cooler and he said no. He said if we got a water cooler, the people at the other sites would want one too.

The other two sites had only two people each, so it was different, but also, why the hell wouldn't you want them to have water too?

He got passed over for promotion and left when a prior subordinate became his supervisor. After he left the new manager asked me if we needed something, and I said we'd like to have a water cooler. She was both shocked that we were previously denied and surprised that water was what we needed to be happy. We've had the water cooler ever since.

I was trying to get a slurpee machine next.

This is embarrassing, but I was really, really young.

Invasion of the Saucer Men

I watched it during a Saturday morning creature feature on TV.

It has a disembodied alien hand that crawls around attacking people. The hand has needle-like nails on the fingers that it uses to inject victims with poison. It terrified me. I spent years jumping to my bed from the door in case there was a hand hiding under the bed.

FYI, if I remember correctly, the "poison" it injects is just alcohol. If it attacked you, you just ended up drunk.

You don't have to be President Pedophile to delay a deposition.

I was in an accident a few years back. The other driver came into my lane and I tried to go around him, but failed. My best guess is that he fell asleep and just drove over the double yellow line. We hit in an offset head on collision, passenger side to passenger side.

The other driver had the state mandated minimum coverage, and the accident caused about $20,000 damage to my car. My insurance sued the other driver.

It took years to get the other driver to show up for the deposition. They'd schedule it, I'd take the day off, then the other driver would cancel at the last minute.

Eventually we all got into the same law office for the deposition. My insurance's lawyer put me in a room to read over the transcript* from my statement after the accident and asked me if I had any questions. Then they stepped out to see if the other driver and his lawyer were ready.

When he came back he said they settled.

They were hoping they'd get me to not show up so they could get the case dismissed. When they finally realized that would never happen, they gave up.

I might have not been so determined, but I have generous PTO (for an American), and the other driver lied to police at the accident and said I entered his lane. Luckily (?), the accident destroyed the windshield washer reservoir in my car, so it dumped all that out at the point of impact. It also destroyed the right front tire, so the rim dug parallel furrows into the street leading from where I ended up back to where the accident happened in my lane.

* If you ever have the opportunity to read an insurance company transcript of yourself, avoid it if possible. They note every dumb "uh" and "um" you utter.

Winter's Bone

I guess it depends on what kind of white people movie.

We are not actually at war with Russia. That's it. Without that, it can't be treason in the U.S.

If we were at war with Russia...we'll, he has a lot of wealth. I think that also means laws don't apply to him.

True, but as far as the requirements for treason, we would have to be at war with them.

No question, but we're not at war.

Trump is not happy. It's the one positive thing about him. He's absolutely miserable.

U.S. Conservatives suck Trump's butthole.

Trump sucks Putin's butthole. So, I think that means Putin can't be a U.S. conservative.

https://www.cnyhistory.org/2014/10/how-a-banana-became-the-terror-of-syracuse-it-can-down-anything-but-the-thermometer/

Flowbee user.

I don't have to request anything.

I don't speed.

I mean I do, but only if I'm not paying attention. I naturally want to go fast. If there were no cars on the road, I'd be going as fast as I want. During the pandemic, when no one else was on the road and cops weren't pulling people over, I was getting to work in 30 minutes. Normally it takes no less than 45, and usually more like an hour and a half.

However, I don't speed because there are other cars on the road.

I'll drive at the speed limit if I can. I used to drive about 5 mph above the speed limit, but the last time I was doing that, I stopped for a school bus dropping off kids, and the guy behind me didn't even stop looking at his phone (I assume). And it occurred to me that he was going 5mph faster than he would have been because I let him.

So now I try (again, fighting my nature) to never go above the speed limit. I also never drive closer than 4 seconds to the car in front of me. I also very slowly decrease my speed down to 10 mph below the speed limit if someone is tailgating me.

Prior to the pandemic, people would be annoyed, and they'd aggressively pass me when it was safe to do so. Since the pandemic people just cross the double yellow line into oncoming traffic to pass.

They've made it much harder than it used to be to get your license in PA, but it's still too easy to get and keep your driver's license. Every driver should have to repeat a driving test every five years.

My wife has health problems, and voluntarily stopped driving about 15 years ago when she noticed she was developing muscle weakness. The only time she's driven a car since was an early Sunday morning when I took her to the empty high school parking lot and had her drive our civic around so she could just see what it felt like.

My dad drove him and my mom to church on the day he died. He had been having increasing number of car accidents, but no one could stop him from driving. My wife and I refused to ride in a car with him driving. I think the last accident he had was with a light pole in a parking lot because "the sun was in his eyes."

If his heart had given out on the highway on the way instead of in church, my siblings and I would have had to bury both parents.

That's what a bad driver would say.

Yeah, you're wrong. If someone is tailgating me, I'm going to reduce my speed to minimize the impact.

I've been hit. I've been hit by people who were tailgating me. When that's happened it didn't matter what I did. If I speed up, they speed up. If I slow down, they stay right there. I've literally turned on my hazard lights and had people continue to tailgate.

It's not about policing other drivers. It's about minimizing the damage they will eventually cause.

Can someone explain why I'd need defender to protect my Linux desktop?

Way back in the olde tymes, I was having trouble with the NIC driver in my Linux install. I posted a question about it on USENET, and got a reply from the guy who wrote the drivers. He asked for some info about the card, then updated the driver to support it.

Luckily, if you try to eat a polar bear liver, the polar bear will stop you.

But don't worry, human liver is safe for polar bears to consume.