They believe that the status quo is better than any alternatives. They have not been exposed to other ways of living and those that have lock themselves to basic tribalistic thinking.

Imagine trying to get a sports fan to see the benefits of being a fan of another sports team. Even if they aren’t personally playing and their team isn’t winning they maintain loyalty. Some even bet on their loser teams and lose money just because of loyalty.

It’s all about team loyalty/ tribalism

That seems like a really low number considering how many homeless people I’ve seen in low population areas. I would imagine the dark figure is massive.

You are talking about long term consequences. Like capitalists who only look to the current quarter’s profits, politicians only look to the current election.

A smaller voter base is easier to appeal to. Both parties have relatively small voter bases and no competition because of the first past the post system and the electoral college.

The issue with appealing to the left is how fractured it is. Various factions will say whatever policies are presented are not left enough, and still refuse to vote. It’s hard to predict from the campaign’s perspective. Whereas they are unlikely to lose votes from obtaining the support of conservatives while possibly pulling votes from the other side.

Taking one vote from another candidate is worth two votes from someone who is not voting, or who is voting for a non-viable third party.

I know plenty of people who wanted to vote for Kennedy but will probably vote for Trump now that he’s out. This group is likely to listen to former Reagan staffers and republican presidents that they liked.

The American left and right have always agreed on the role of the individual voter in the government, and the role of the government generally. They only vary on who they think should be allowed to have rights, and the rights they should have. They generally agree on economics, business, the police, and the military industrial complex. Each of which contribute to the general oppression of the non-rich citizens.

Mute is your best friend. Unless you are playing with people you know there is no reason to talk to people. I just look at the players as bots.

I generally agreed with this sentiment, but the fact that admins and mods didn’t care makes me understand why they felt the need to point it out in the comments.

As long as the mods and admins care about removing bots instead of just wanting an inflated user base I think the comments about bots should stay confined to posts like this one where they are on topic.

It would also mean being involved in the most lawsuits, unfortunately.

Yep. The whole idea of seven deadly vices and seven heavenly virtues is a Christianization of the Ancient Greek ideas of virtues and vices. There really isn’t a direct connection to the Bible.

ENIAC was built in 1945. And Cray was building supercomputers in the 60s

Are you a land lord?

I feel like AIPAC is just a way for US politicians to get a higher salary. The feds give Israel money and an Israeli government associated agency gives politicians money directly.

The budget is for 1.5, make it work.

Because it’s art.

There is a lot of skill and artistic talent needed to create a facsimile of real life. Anyone can draw a tree, but a realistic tree takes some amount of artistic knowledge. The more realistic the more talent that the artist shows. Similarly, when the artist deviates from recreating real life it shows an artistic vision beyond reality.

We like art because it shows a different perspective from the minds eye of the artist. And when the artist can render that vision as something that looks real, even if it couldn’t really exist, it is impressive.

Make them “disintegrate” into the past where they train and become stronger until they meet back up with the main characters for revenge.

If you make them go far enough back, they could start a whole historical faction that has a cult about a coming apocalypse started by those who can send people back in time. The cult’s main objective would be to destroy the gun by allying with some time shift immune entity.

The players won’t know what is going on until they find a temple with “A symbol of the apocalypse” which is just an image of the disintegration gun. Bonus points if they discover this after the gun has been destroyed and the cult celebrates for a seemingly minor victory.

The average windows user is tech illiterate. They don’t know what a directory is. I work with a person who opens .docx files by opening Word and using its internal search function. She does not comprehend how or where files are stored.

Ah yes, the only illegal part is the rape.

I read this in Steve Austin’s voice

If someone released a donkey in East India this would be very plausible. Kangaroos on the other hand…