The hope would be that it would turn viral and covered by news voluntarily, but yeah it’s a gamble and I won’t pretend to know marketing.

Would be pretty good tradition if campaigns or advertisers competed to donate the most to charities for the superbowl. Would be pretty low-hanging fruit for a campaign.

Campaign advisor: “we’ve got 7 mil to spend on ad for superbowl”

Biden: “give it all to charity”

News reports politician giving all money to good cause instead of ad. Average Joe goes, “wow that’s actually kind of cool. A politician putting money to use!”

Win-win.

Dad (a mountain Appalachian man who did own guns but always hated gun nut culture) always said it was better to use your brain than bullets. I wholly agree with your assessment that if we’re at the point where we need guns, then we’ve already lost.

but it found that modern cars actually hit slightly more insects.

I assume this is from the larger more flat-faced grills, especially on SUVs and pick-up truck size creep.

This is the reality. A doctor is trying to see as many patients as possible who want to be seen. Not every condition requires the same amount of time. They do their best to estimate, but ultimately, if a doctor is willing to give you extra time, then the price is usually paying it forward by waiting longer in the waiting room for fellow patients. If you’re late when they are ready, then you drop the efficiency of the entire day. If you’re ready when they’re not, well, yes, their time is actually more valuable in this case.

I was working in the hospital at the time from a big-picture perspective and it seemed pneumonia cases were already spiking in the US during December 2019. My sister and my coworker both came down with a nasty “pneumonia” during then as well.

The first point of your comment I completely disagree with; the second point acknowledges why the the first point is bullshit to begin with. Yes, someone can be incompetent and require corrective action. This was not it and completely, grossly unacceptable. That he had to adjust his behavior is an acknowledgement to this. We are all flawed humans; but some are more flawed than others. That being said, if it’s true he has reflected and taken corrective action on his own negative behaviors, kudos to him.

Kindly explain how this is whataboutism.

That’s neat conjecture and botherism and all, but I’m citing facts. You’re just speculating.

Well, I do know for a fact that conservatives are (a) less educated, and (b) MRIs show diminished anterior cingulate cortex and enlarged amygdalas, which translates to lacking pattern recognition and dissonance while being hypersensitive to fear and disgust, so…

Can’t expect much logic from that starting point…

Wouldn’t it be nice if all these tyrants like Putin would just stay in their own homes…?

If only it were that simple to look the other way from your neighbor getting attacked and raped.

As if such persons ever stop after their first successful house…

If you’re in coach and hear the attendants kiss ass in business, then immediately change their tone with the plebs… It’s somewhat amusing, somewhat eye-rolling.

Honestly, this blows. WordPad fills a niche between a full blown text editor and notepad. Most of my random daily notes use WordPad still when not OneNote.

Yeah I don’t know how anyone could compel themselves to buy one. Do they really have that much of a monopoly on the industry? Is their tech that much further advanced? I genuinely don’t know.

What is the best, more ethical alternative? Growing up my dad had New Holland and we liked them. Eventually I’ll be going more rural and choosing a route to take and it sure as shit won’t be John Deere.

Because most are.

Now I know the new trendy thing is for gun lobbyists and right-wing operatives online to stoke the division by pitching guns to the left. I know the intent is to profit from a wider market while simultaneously muddying the waters of who is the most violent ideological group.

… And some ground is being made with this vector, but it’s still nowhere close to comparable.

Oh really? That sucks! Because the OxygenOS on my OnePlus 5T was phenomenal and I really miss its intuitiveness.

I was SO happy with my OnePlus 5T but AT&T network changes forced my phone to be obsolete. Otherwise I’d still be rocking that phone. I currently have this ultra crappy Samsung Galaxy A32 that was given to me by AT&T as a consolation prize.

Now I’m torn between a Google Pixel or a newer OnePlus.

Somehow I missed all that controversy. Looking it up now, wow what a shit-show. Just to clarify for anyone else reading this, it was the user AwkwardTheTurtle not theawkwardturtle.

Ooooh yes. Something similar happened to me out of the blue back in January. I commented, verbatim:

Random fact that I recently learned and thought was kind of cool. One of the very first responses of your body when you get a cut or infection is to synthesize hydrogen peroxide in the area that signals your white blood cells to rally to that area.

I then linked to Science Daily and Harvard articles about it.

Temporary ban for “Harassment,” citing this comment.

Later on I incurred another infraction and my account was permabanned, citing my previous strike as justification for the permanent ban. Smfh. 250 characters to appeal…

Meanwhile these idiots excused cesspools like The_Donald for years. Meanwhile I report a person being objectively racist (Calling them “out of control” and “absolutely feral savages”) and… They reviewed it not once but twice and found nothing wrong. LOL.

I wrote this all up in a medium article in more detail but I’m half-tempted to send all my screenshots to Fidelity and some news outlets for shits.

Hah! I can’t wait for the next devaluation to drop.

The incompetence of Reddit staff in recent years has especially impressed me.