Are you serious? Most Americans are scared of losing their jobs and being unable to provide for their families, including caregivers for elderly parents. Many are only a few missed payments away from having their vehicles repossessed or being evicted and becoming homeless. Some have ongoing health conditions that require insurance.

If you have nothing to lose or you have a safety net and can stop going to work, great, good job. Most people aren’t in your position.

I’m ready, as long as my city isn’t flattened in the process

Why did they never release Disgaea 2 and 3 for Switch? Then you could have the complete run on one console, not counting D2.

With Final Fantasy, ignoring 11, you can play 1-12 on the Switch.

Casual dismissal of statistically relevant recount and largest recount ever in Wisconsin, even including compared to 2020.

Local elections officials in 336 randomly selected municipalities across the state hand-counted 327,230 ballots as part of the 2024 audit. That is nearly 10% of all Wisconsin ballots cast in the 2024 election and the largest post-election audit ever undertaken in the state.

The only errors found during the audit were made by people, not the vote-counting machines. And only five human errors were detected, resulting in an error rate of just 0.0000009%, according to the report.

He initially called Bush to concede and then called him back to un-concede, which really pissed off Bush. That’s what I was referring to. It wasn’t public, though.

Leftists and liberals all think they’re somehow immune to conspiracy theories, but here we are. Nearly everyone commenting or voting in this thread has an opinion based on feelings, and they’re looking for evidence to justify their beliefs. “I’m not one to believe conspiracy theories, but…” That’s a load-bearing “but” there.

No really: stop for ten seconds and think about why you believe this. Be honest.

Yes, I’m aware of the video that’s been linked repeatedly where they can’t explain how a small percentage of Trump cultists only voted for Trump and no one else. Imagine that: voters who think the entire system is corrupt and Trump is their savior don’t vote for anyone else.

Here’s an actual recount in a swing state, and it found nothing.

And as korendian has been trying to tell you, New Square in Ramapo, NY is a tiny, 100% Hasidic village and votes as a monolithic bloc.

There is a strong expectation that residents of New Square will conform to community norms… Those who have not conformed voluntarily have faced vigilante justice, as exemplified by the New Square arson attack and other incidents.

I’m not saying the election was clean. It never is. Red states purge voters they shouldn’t, they enact laws to discourage voters and make it more difficult, etc. And sometimes it actually is a conspiracy: 2000 is one example where it really was rigged for Bush through coordinated efforts.

But there’s zero persuasive evidence for 2024. If I see some, I’ll charge my mind. But not until then.

Edit: The down votes without comment or rebuttal just prove me right.

Almost like it actually happened and there was no evidence of fraud

Yes, but then he un-conceded. How do you think it got to the Supreme Court unless he fought?

He brought it to the Florida circuit court, and when he lost he appealed to the Florida Supreme Court, who ruled in his favor. Then Bush appealed to the US Supreme Court.

The problem was a coordinated effort to steal the election by the bitch queen Katherine Harris, Florida Secretary of State and Bush’s Florida campaign co-chair, a fake riot by Republican operatives to disrupt a recount, and a collaborating Supreme Court. It was all tied up nicely in a bow and there wasn’t much Gore could have done, although he should have requested a statewide recount right from the start instead of just cherry picking solidly Democratic-leaning counties like Miami-Dade.

“Don’t look up”

It spread because of one or two early studies with falsified data.

Personally, I wish this stuff were more lethal with prolonged usage. I think two people have died, but maybe people would think twice about believing social media if the risk were greater. And if they didn’t, well, it’s probably good for the survival of the species.

$50 million per day for 500 people is absolute insanity

$180 billion is what they claim

Here’s the thing, Tom. You just said a lot of things, and maybe they’re true and maybe they’re not, but I can’t believe any of them because you’re part of an administration where everyone lies continuously. And even if I did, it doesn’t excuse imprisonment for life without a trial in a foreign prison for terrorists. That’s literally the kind of thing that Nazis did.

If you have to prioritize one feature over the other, my personal suggestion is to prioritize 4K and HDR over 120 Hz. You’re going to get 60 FPS for the vast, vast majority of Switch 2 games. Currently only one title in the launch lineup supports 120 Hz: a single game in the Welcome Tour. Mario Kart World, their premier title, is 1440p at locked 60 FPS in docked mode.

I suspect Switch 2 games in 120 Hz will be only slightly more common than PS5 games in 8K: Sony eventually removed the 8K logo from the box because basically no developer could achieve it and virtually no TVs supported it.

There may be game-specific performance modes with lots of caveats, like 120 Hz at 720p in docked mode for single player, but you would think you would see that with the showcase title. Instead the frame rate for MKW is crushed when three or more players play via couch co-op.

Based on his comments and Katie Johnson’s testimony, I don’t believe he ever had sex with Ivanka, though he very obviously wanted to. I can imagine based on her reaction in that video that he assaulted her in some way, though, like groping.

“Aides said [Donald Trump] talked about Ivanka Trump’s breasts, her backside, and what it might be like to have sex with her, remarks that once led John Kelly to remind the president that Ivanka was his daughter,” Taylor wrote, recalling an alleged exchange with Kelly, who served as Trump’s chief of staff between 2017 and 2019.

“Afterward, Kelly retold that story to me in visible disgust. Trump, he said, was ‘a very, very evil man.’” source

Trump assaulted Jill Harth repeatedly in the early 1990s. On one occasion he pulled her into Ivanka’s empty room in Mar-a-Lago to try to have sex with her on Ivanka’s bed. source

Ugh. He’s such a monster.

Least surprising news ever.

My ex once told me the story about how Leto tried to seduce her when she was 15 and he was 30. She went to see Thirty Seconds to Mars (his band) and had a backstage pass. She was just a fan. He got really weird and handsy and she got really uncomfortable and made an excuse to get out of there. Needless to say, she wasn’t a fan after that, and when she got older and processed it with an adult brain, he basically disgusted her on sight. Since then I’ve had the same reaction to him for the last 20 years.

She was very pretty (and still is), but she definitely looked underage at the time.

Third-person cover shooter RPG from the Pathfinder developers? Yeah, I’m sold.

This was obvious after all the anti-Trump Republicans fell in line in 2016, and then did it again in 2021. Some even tried to create some space between themselves and Trump during the Biden administration, but ended up falling in line after the 2024 election.

The idea that anyone was ever going to line up for Elon Musk, a repugnant weirdo space alien who had just spent months pissing them all off, is about as plausible as the idea that they’d line up behind Steve Bannon. They’re all just useful tools in service of Trump, until they’re not.

AI slop

Unfortunately there’s no Smedley Butler today to speak truth to power publicly.