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Palin was a candidate bucking the party to YOLO a VP, not the party giving up on any vetting. Don't make me tap the si...Former General Wesley Clark. If you believe that your opponent is a complete idiot, you're liable to loss to an idiot.

This election is fascinating from the lack of vetting from these supposedly professional parties. A presidential candidate YOLOed without a serious look at his abilities and now a VP candidate with a congo line of skeletons.

A 3070 isn't hitting 4K@240FPS in most modern games, save for things like E Sports or low-oomph titles like Diablo 4. Indeed, a 4090 would struggle to hit 4K@240FPS. On top of that, you're talking about $1,600 for the GPU alone when my strobing monitor was $300.

Meh, I give them a pass, as legions of people who were insisting that age is just a number a month ago have now discovered that 78 is quite old. It's motivated perception all around.

edit: moved to dedicated thread.

It's obvious to you, but less-partisan Americans will challenge you and you're going to be sputtering. Like I said, anti-abortion pro-labor Americans exist. Ultra-capitalist atheists exist. We know where anti-abortion policy originally came from. You can slot everything into a grand...

I'm guessing that a lot of this is how political American policy is. We put our policy-writing in the hands of the most charismatic snake oil salespeople who can win an election, not sober bodies of technocrats. So every policy is designed to be sold first and foremost in relatable terms. And...

Sure, but GOP voices point out the "grand plans of Democrats," and you're unlikely to agree that there is a vast conspiracy to let people over the border and then give each a driver's license to vote with to boost the Democratic result. You can't say "sometimes unified theories are right" as a...

Wait until you read up on the German domestic speech response to Gaza...

This is really a discussion of in-group posturing versus persuadable voter messaging. You can get away with going out on a limb with an in-group due to common cultural belief in the dastardly nature of The Other, but you're going to sound unhinged to people on the fence. I have both MAGA...

Health effects are limited to a subset of the population, and they are dependent on implementation and usage patterns. It's like saying that VR isn't a good solution, because some people get sick in some titles. The challenge with "just create more frames" is that it's not a feasible solution...

I'm responding to this: "We as humans are fundamentally incapable of designing perfect systems to defend against motivated insider threats. Denying powers completely will simply constrain actual justice while shunting the corrupt down different solution paths." We must deny unitary executive...

That type of formulation is only appealing to people like you, though, because it sounds unhinged to someone who is not already a strong Democratic partisan. So it's not helpful messaging, and would likely turn off the independent voters trying to sift through political messaging and make...

I'm exceedingly aware of the scope of presidential pardons. Good for hundreds or thousands has to be weighed against corruption that can affect hundreds of millions. But it wasn't just Trump. GWB pardoned members of his administration that were involved with crimes, as did Trump and GHWB...

I don't buy this at all. It's essentially arguing that we be completely passive on all corruption topics from campaign finance reform to pardon abuse, because the corruption will just be pushed around the balloon. You can eliminate key avenues for corruption or abuse of power, you do that...

Sure, but the country with the carrier groups would contribute a kinetic response. And that's more important than the reaction from Lichtenstein.

For flicker, you have to treat strobing or BFI as an optional feature and not an always-on facet of the monitor. I get nasty migraines and would be very leery of running my monitor in strobing mode 24/7/365. Indeed, when I've left it on by mistake before a work day I have felt strain. Nor...

Limited humanitarian usage does not justify a mechanism that allows for complete corruption at the highest levels of the federal government. That's like passing a huge tax break for the wealthy to give peons a tiny amount back, except it enables criminal corruption and not just largesse. If we...

You also need to kill presidential pardons to make the president accountable. It's been abused over and over to cover up presidential malfeasance, and that's before we get into the "immunity with extra steps" of a self-pardon. On the balance, there are zero good reasons for the pardon power...

Poker analogy from Silver: Edit: To round out the quotes, a cautionary note from Ret. Gen. Wesley Clark: