Unbelievably lucky for the eclipse, had a family gathering planned way ahead of time in Waco tx, some are older and anxious and wouldn't have been up for a journey onto the roads to try and get out of the clouds. It looked like the sun would for sure be obstructed at totality, it peaked out a few times leading up to it but never for more than a minute. But like a hole opened up just as totality was reached and it stayed for 3 whole minutes. Actually I was happy for the bit of clouds at the end because the obstruction allowed my phone to capture the last 60s and was still plenty visible with naked eye.

Super cool celestial event, spectacular even, would recommend!

It's perfectly possible to be racist and still not on board with genocide. Also just the general vibe is bad for Biden. People wanted a return to normalcy after trump/COVID and if anything the world has gotten more bizarre. Personally I am somewhat nostalgic for the trump years, the last 4 years have been the worst of my life and I'm surely not the only one. Not that that should have anything to do with who is president but also people are even dumber about politics than they are in general

It's from this I believe: https://reason.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/A-Tik-Tok-ing-Timebomb_12.21.23.pdf

I'm not going to read it but I believe they compared amplification of hashtags on tiktok to Instagram or something and found that "anti us" and "pro China" tags got more traction. Idk if that's deliberate, if so then good! But how do they know it's not Instagram de amplifying the same links and/or the userbase just being more, uh, based.

I don't care about confirming fantasies of insufferable and genocidal libs, they will believe these fantasies regardless. As to whether society can produce like a more effective version of Trump, idk I feel like it's not that hard. This hypothetical person doesn't have to match Trump's charisma, the bar is incredibly low, and they don't have to be that smart either, just smart enough to fill their cabinet with non-clowns.

I see this talking point that Trump and Biden are essentially equivalent, and I personally think it might be true but it's gonna be really hard to argue this to libs and if Trump ends up doing something awful you're stuck holding the bag of i told you sos. But you don't need to have Trump = Biden, because Trump is extremely and uniquely innocuous for a republican. Yeah this is also hard to swallow for libs but it's almost an indisputable fact and you need only remind them of the deeds of what the last 3 republican presidents did and ask them to produce examples that are worse.

So if there was every a time to hold a Democrat president to account, now would be it because the next Republican will not only be worse than Trump but probably worse than a Bush or Reagan, they'll be just as evil but will have learned from Trump (and Biden lol) that they don't even have to pretend that hard, in fact not pretending makes them more powerful. And aside from punishing the Dems for completely ignoring their base, we're very likely to get a republican in either 2024 or 2028, but not both years, like 4 years of either Trump or Biden and people are gonna want a change. So likely choices are 1) Biden 2024 / Satan but worse 2028, 2) Trump 2024 / Probably at least not Satan 2028. See, utilitarianism is good actually.

Biden MUST lose, hate to say it but if I lived in a swing state I would literally mark Trump on my ballot

It's like marvel logic or something, good is just a reflection of evil across some axis of low resistance, fight fire with.. idk blue fire, pit the misanthropic industrialist against the cool friendly one. Ethno nationalists a problem? No worries we've got a bunch of them with different ethnicity, wheeeee!

If I were homeless in San Francisco I'm sure I'd be doing drugs, also if I were employed and homed in San Francisco, also any combination of employment and housing statuses outside of San Francisco

Voters using issues they've become aware of within the last year to make decisions at the polls is un-american, it's not fair!

So he could talk almost as pretty as the dumbest person in historical deadwood, great, how was his wind turbine impression? How polite was he when receiving a gift of lakes? Thought so

The judge from Uganda is now the ICJ vice president?

60 pounds is only enough to put 100000 into a k hole, and that's if they IM it, otherwise it's like 60k max

It's still super cool to be able to send short messages with provable security. Also if you're not quite as paranoid you can just exchange a key for use with a symmetric encryption algorithm, which is almost certainly unbreakable even with a quantum computer.