They didn’t lead to the apathy - they pointed out the existing apathy would cost Dems the election. It’s like saying the person who said you need to wear a seatbelt caused the wreck.

You’re exactly right about people being excited for Trump and lukewarm on Harris, but that’s entirely on the Democrats for picking the platform and strategy that lost to Trump in 2016.

Harris had a notable and surprising lead when they announced Biden was out - then they changed nothing else. People didn’t just not like the candidate, they didn’t like the policies. They only changed the candidate and thought Trump was a big enough cudgel to bully people into voting even though that demonstrably doesn’t work.

Must have dropped out of strawman school…

You’re definitely on the right track.

The only actual job of the police is to file crime reports.

They do not prevent crime. Protect innocents. Make people show up for court etc. They have no obligation to stop a crime in progress or protect someone being hurt, even if they’re standing right there and could stop it.

Anything in the justice system that you value is either done by someone else, or actually isn’t done at all.

https://youtu.be/GqeJ38DThVc

This was originally a spring song.

I got my prependix taken out as a kid due to an infection.

Thankfully Skittles listened to the people and went back to lime instead of stink bug.

Corn flakes were famously invented to discourage fucking one’s self.

- unprompted

White chocolate is literally the stuff they remove from raw chocolate to make chocolate taste good.

It’s like eating the husk and cob of an ear of corn.

Fruit on flour-based shortcake: Drake yes

Fruit on flour-based pasta: Drake no

Burning down Twitter has definitely been useful.

Half the time it’s not even normal sugar; it’s high-fructose corn syrup…

EDIT: Well over half the time.

It’s better for making asphalt than gasoline and the US just buys it from Canada anyway.

Remember way back when, when you could set icons to be whatever you want?

Missed opportunity for “No one can hear you croak”

Chat censoring should be mostly on the user side with user controlled blacklists and whitelists, with moderator involvement mostly for circumventing the filters.

Don’t want to see “penis”? Put it on your own blacklist.

Yeah. There’s nothing wrong with the crust, but if you’re going to blow your carb budget on a pizza at least keep the pleasure:carb ratio as high as possible.

Genuinely wouldn’t be surprised if someone did try to use it, but also don’t see why anyone would think a little red tag would prevent such a person from trying anyway.

Because the first digit in each of the numbers is larger than the second digit it would be the triple inverted pyramid as shown, where the larger numbers correspond to larger sub-pyramids and larger digits correspond to the larger side of the sub-pyramid.

The colored text and marks on the pyramids are to show that.