please stop taking absolutely everything as a permanent debate.
But I think there's a case to be made that everything is a permanent debate. Let me just paste a quick wall of text here on the topic...
Sorry. Just trying to make you laugh. I will see myself out.
That looks promising. I wonder if it will be friends with me?
I'm a problems-oriented consultant. Whatever your problem is, I can help you split it into two barely smaller problems.
Sure, like NFTs were here to stay, and the gazillion different shitcoins that were popping up everywhere some years ago.
I bet you're just angry that you didn't hold onto your ape NFTs. They're going to skyrocket back soon. (I hope my sarcasm here is obvious, of course.)
I imagine this channel doesn't count as part of their official social media?
Sounds fun, but I'm not sullying my phone with Xitter or Buttbook.
I wonder if the AI will be properly trained on recycling frictionless bearings, though...
I felt the same, until I had my first lousy sleeper (child who had trouble sleeping due to minor health stuff). After a month of lost sleep, I couldn't remember my own name sometimes. I read once that sleep deprivation is effectively brain damage, and after that experience, I believe it.
The left shoe trick - throwing my shoe in the car next to the kid - probably saved my kid's life more than once.
One kind of parents who have these tragedies are tired ones. Which is most parents with small children.
Edit: not relevant in this case, but I'll take any chance to advertise the shoe trick.
The little squiggles are necessary to ensure election outcomes acceptable to the ultra rich.
I'm joking. (Mostly)
The squiggles are probably county line divisions, and probably simply the smallest existing land divisions with good population data available to make the map from.
I say "mostly joking" because existing county line divisions are already weird in some cases, to ensure election outcomes acceptable to the ultra rich. So there's an unpleasant grain of truth in my joke.
the very fact that there is a big urban/rural cultural divide is one of the things killing America.
I agree wholeheartedly about the problem. But blind highest count vote on every topic is one of the big dividers between rural and urban folks.
Rural folks will simply never have the numbers to influence outcomes in a pure vote count scenario. They're aware of this, and it leads to animosity.
Incidentally, I agree that financial decoupling would be ruinous for both, as well.
The real solution is represtational seats that give everyone a voice - no matter how the voting zone is divided.
I suspect that requires doing away with first-past-the-poll. The winner of that race will almost always be a city person, by raw numeric chance. That's fine, city folks have some good ideas. The problem is when there's no rural voice at the negotiation, at all.
And I think any sensible person realizes we also have to put a stop to all gerrymandering.
Also, we need to give seats to what remains of all of the first nations, while we're at it.
I'm sorry you went through that. I'm glad you got your trapper keeper, though. Your mom made the right call.