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Antifar posted...

This suggests that Republicans would make no attempt to win a popular majority. That's how they behave now because the EC allows them to win that way, but I assure you they would adjust to be competitive under a new system.

This is a great point, and I appreciate you for making it.

rwbonesy posted...

It hasn't been updated in 4 years and everyone I know that actually works with computers says "use other shit now".

Lmao, yeah, I realised I totally misunderstood what you meant by dead.

Speccy servers were last updated in 2019, although like you said, add another year for the software itself. Avast bought Piriform about five years ago, and CCleaner has by far been the main focus of the company. I think Covid had something to do with the lack of updates.

Their other software Recuva had gone just over five years without an update, but has now gotten three updates since March of this year. I remember Dave back a few years ago saying in the forums that that was more or less their game plan - Get CCleaner caught up, then continue on with the reat of their software.

rwbonesy posted...

god, fuck the dipshits that bought out piriform/fuck piriform

speccy is dead

https://www.ccleaner.com/speccy

Ive been using CCleaner for over a decade, and Ive never been dissatisfied with it.

https://www.ccleaner.com/ccleaner

divot1338 posted...

I feel quite confident that corporate farms will want to sell their products to millions of people located in the cities.

Besides as you point out small farmers will obviously supply the smaller population of rural America.

Why compete over the scraps when they have a huge market available to them in cities?

Yes, large farms can continue to supply urban areas, and small farms can continue to supply rural areas. That isnt the point of what Im saying.

The electoral college protects the voters, who vote in ways that will that will not only protect their income, but the actual farm itself. The land. The ability to even grow food or raise livestock in the first place. Thats why I listed examples such as uninformed environmental regulation and FDRs New Deal.

Without the Electoral College, urban centers are determining everything in the entire country. People who lived their entire lives in NYC and LA and have no idea what rural even means, or what a farm requires, or where their food comes from, are by default going to vote for things that prioritize urban life, because thats all they know. Im not trying to rag on urban life or city slickers or whatever, and Im not trying to suggest theyre idiots or something.

But thats exactly what the electoral college is for - Its not specifically to protect a conservatives shitty beliefs on abortion or gay marriage. Thats an extremely unfortunate side effect. The electoral college protects the actual, genuine, and necessary things that conservatives statistically bring more of - Such as farming, manufacturing, truck drivers, and the trades like construction and plumbing.

If you only ever have democratic policies passed and only democratic presidents elected, you will start losing in *huge* industries. Thats what the electoral college is for.

Choco posted...

oh yeah that is what i meant sorry

You dont have anything to be sorry for, haha
I didnt get the joke, but I do now. I was just still in the mindset of character from star wars

You are also correct in saying that would be a palindrome, but you knew that already lmao

Choco posted...

are you trolling or did you genuinely not understand my post.

I did not understand.
Considering my confusion from this post, I re-read your other one. Now my only guess is youre saying character as in a letter/symbol.

If thats wrong, then Im still not understanding lmao

No it wouldnt.

A palindrome is a word or phrase that can be spelled the same way forward or backward, letter-by-letter, ignoring spaces.

Obi wanken obi spelled backwards is
Ibo neknaw ibo

Which is not the same.

Wow spelled backwards is
Wow

Which is the same.

shockthemonkey posted...

So farmers in California dont deserve to be represented but farmers in Nebraska deserve to be over represented

Conservative logic is so fucking weird

Thats not anything like what I said.

All voters are protected with the Electoral College.

The reason Maine and Nebraska are extra protected is because they actually have some form of proportionate distribution of electoral votes.

The other 48 states have all or nothing which usually means, for example; in California, none of the Republicans get represented. In Montana, none of the Democrats get represented.

That isnt the Electoral College though. Thats the individual states decisions. California, along with 47 other states, are deciding to be all or nothing with their electoral votes.

And Im not a Conservative.

Ruvan22 posted...

I need some context... who is Mia ?

Mia is just a random person.

This genre of tweet is people who go into threads about transphobic people saying they can *always* tell when someone is trans.

Mia finds these threads and posts pictures of actual women and trolls the transphobes (the guys saying that bone structure and its a MAN), who then out themselves as completely unable to tell the difference between a trans woman and a born woman.

Tyranthraxus posted...

People here seriously believe farmers are still like they used to be in the 18th century and not giant factories run by the top 1% like Monsanto and ConAgra and that most of the "small farmers" are just living on leased land owned by those companies.

Excluding Hawaii and Alaska, about 40% of total farm land in the country is rented/leased, the rest is owner-operated farms. About 50/50 for crop farms specifically (though a majority is leased) and 25/75 pastures (a majority being owned).

The increase in commercialized farms is often blamed on FDRs New Deal and later agricultural bills that (accidentally) created a path for the rich to get richer in the farming industry, and thats a major factor in why farmers dont often vote for Democrats.

Antifar posted...

How much of that food comes from California? Does the EC protect them?

California is the largest food producer of the 50 states. A majority of US-consumed nuts (including 100% of the almonds) and fruits are grown in Cali, but Im not sure about the total US-consumed food that comes from the state.

The Electoral College protects all 50 states voters. It protects Maine and Nebraska voters more than the other 48, because theyre the only two states that dont do the winner take all crap. Thats the gripe I have about the EC - It should require states to proportionately distribute their electoral votes, in my opinion.

divot1338 posted...

Small farmers operate half of available farm land in the United States but produce only 21% of our food.

Wed probably be better off without them.

Okay, guy
https://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2014/may/small-acreage-farms-in-the-united-states/

Thats not even the point. Rural areas is, which includes the large farms as well, believe it or not.

TetsuoS2 posted...

how can you not recognize the actress of the most well written characters in movie of all time

Since hes the one who asked, he clearly recognized her lmao

BeantownHero posted...

Those few urban epicenters contain the vast majority of the country's population.

the electoral college is dumb as fuck

Then when those urban areas divert water supply, make uninformed environmental regulations, shitty land ownership laws, and New Deal 2.0 laws, all of the small rural farmers stop growing food.

FYI - 80% of the food that feeds the urban epicenters comes from the rural farms in the country. Now why would we want an Electoral College protecting that?

Evolician posted...

Is that Sigourney Weaver?

Yes

BlackBlueButts posted...

You can read it both ways.

It means you can spell it backwards and produce the same result.

Obi wan kenobi - ibonek naw ibo (not a palindrome)

taco cat - taco cat (palindrome)

Potato tomato!

viewmaster_pi posted...

just post a fucking palindrome or don't. you guys don't have to argue about every little stupid thing already

Dr awkward

Esrac posted...

Yes they are.

6536 karma

Your opinion is at least 190x more important than mine.

Well, I dont think its a stretch to say 22-6-22 is a palindrome. I dont know what to tell you lmao

gunplagirl posted...

34 karma

And yet I still manage to have a better grip on reality. Go figure.

gunplagirl posted...

They're not wrong to say that's an issue

Yes they are.

LinkPizza posted...

To try and say yesterday was a palindrome was a stretch, tbh

A stretch? How so?
2202 ,22 enuJ is clearly a palindrome.

MagnusX posted...

Want some fries, motherfucker?

No. Just pies, motherfucker.

The Popo posted...

Yo banana boy!

Draw, o coward!

Wont lovers revolt now!

Ah, Satan sees Natasha

Sit on a potato pan Otis

A nut for a jar of tuna

Thats a beautiful poem.

saspa posted...

It's legit crazy looking those up. I wonder, are they prone to hardware failure or corruption or glitching like the large mem 256 mb cards were for gamecube back in the day? Even sony wasn't immune with corrupt psp and/or vita memory sticks.

Eh, not really. Even brand name probably doesnt matter all that much (within reason), but if you stick with things like Corsair or Kingston, youre very unlikely to have any issues.

Waddlez posted...

Might as well add plugs of the butt variety too if you're getting ear and eye ones

The problem with that is the next time one of those extra-loud, scare the pants off you thunders hit, that plug might get sucked in never to be found again lmao

RetroGamer68 posted...

She left the industry two days after she turned 18.
FBI got an anonymous tip that she had been underage in her movies 3 weeks after she turned 18.

She was I think the highest paid actress for a time as well. That timing makes me wonder if she just popped in, made bucket of cash, then left and tipped the FBI herself to get everything she did purged.

RetroGamer68 posted...

Traci Lords left the industry when she turned 18.

Well, I think she was more blacklisted wasnt she? Lmao
Did all of that get uncovered before/right after she turned 18?

The_Creep_2020 posted...

Buy ear plugs

And eye plugs.

Step-mom and cousin might do the trick.

I grew up eating tiger meat.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_meat

I only cook or order medium-rare nowadays, regardless of what kind of meat. But I dont complain over medium or medium-well. Well done is not my thing at all.

Ive never done any work on, or owned, a vehicle newer than 2010, but I do a vast majority of repair on my vehicles, and all of the general upkeep/maintenance.
I often have to research things because I dont have any proper education in auto repair, but Ive never had an issue fixing something with basic guidance.

The last time I brought a vehicle into a shop was was 2018, when my timing chain blew while driving. Im not sure I would have figured out what happened or how to fix it on my own, but I didnt even try because I needed it fixed asap.

Bulbasaur
Decidueye

16 guesses, 81.25% accuracy.
First guess was novel which made things pretty easy from there.
I literally *just* read War and Peace at the end of last year. It was.. I mean, Ill *never* look at it again, I can say that much. It wasnt bad, but it was very hard to get through.

This crushed my soul. 387 guesses, 19.8% accuracy.
Worst part is is just got it by a fluke. I was dead-focused on some sort of camera-related thing for most of it, until the last two guesses.

rexcrk posted...

Tbh more cereal should have sex appeal

My spank bank is also getting boring

Veggeta_MAX posted...

i aint rejecting new information. and go ham at google, not me lmao

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/8/3/AAdGD8AADWG3.png

It doesnt seem to me that you did it on purpose, but your first post is definitely misinformation.

Veggeta_MAX posted...

So if you eat up to only 3000 calories per day then you'll lose 1 pound per week. Burn about 200-300 calories per day and you'll see even better progress weekly.

To put simply, to lose 1lb of body fat per week, people will need to have a deficit of around 500 calories per day.

You communicated a deficit of 500 calories compared to a pound of fat (3500 calories). What that screenshot/Google is actually saying is a deficit compared to a persons daily caloric intake that would result in no change in weight (based on their exercise, general health, current body weight, etc)

What you said is accurate for *some* people, but a 500 deficit for *most* people would be eating 1500-2000 calories a day, not 3000.

Make sense I think would be an exaggeration, but arguing that the gravitational pull of planets somehow affects the baby humans at the time of birth is probably the closest to rational explanation you could get.

Im a fan of astrology, but I dont put any genuine weight in it. I just think the (admittedly manipulative) wording can be useful to bring attention to things I wouldnt otherwise think about.

Malcrasternus posted...

Ok, but how many calories are in a pounding?

Your mom says she burns about 500 calories every time I pound her.

This one was tough. 161 guesses, 46.58% accuracy.

My early guesses got me in the technology area, but then not-very-helpful words like device and powered were all I was getting. At some point is started to feel like it was directly related to computers, so I just puked out tons of related words. Guess 155 was display and then 161 cleared it all.

Sayoria posted...

That is correct, yes. So if I had 100% accuracy, that would mean that every single guess I did yielded at least one hit in the article. My accuracy today means 1/5 words I did was at least one hit. Which is terrible.

Thank you for clarifying for me!

Ive only been on this site for like a month so it doesnt really say much, but I havent blocked anyone either.

I have ignored two people, but I admittedly havent spoken to either of them a single time. They posted threads somewhere about this person got SUSPENDED and Im just totally turned off by that.

I was more ignoring that type of topic than I was ignoring whichever users, hahaha.

Eh, dont worry about it too much. There are many more good people than bad in the world. Its the internet. Many of the shitty people are simple trolls, posers, or provocateurs.

Some of them are genuine shitty people, but thats how the world has always been - Its just more noticeable with the hyper-connectivity and de-personalization of the internet.

Go to My friends
It looks like you have to manually type user names and then add them to your blocked list.

wwinterj25 posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/user/blocked

That works too

I assume accuracy is measuring number of guesses that result in at least one hit, is that correct?

Sayoria posted...

August woulda helped before, because one word we had was "Autumn" and for some reason, I tried August and it helped.

Well I stand corrected, hahaha

This is such a great idea for a game. I do feel like maybe they have a couple too many basic words still hidden at default - Be and Are for example are surprising to have redacted. But thats not taking any enjoyment away, dont get me wrong.

93 guesses, 35.48% accuracy

My first dozen guesses were complete misses, than I happened to hit genre which at least guided me to the arts, but television was of course my last guess and finally gave me another hit.

For some reason, I was just absolutely stumped (and over-focusing on) the early sentence a genre of comedy and for almost the entire game was completely misunderstanding what that was saying. Then it clicked in my head and I realized it was a sub-genre. Hit on comedy and then cleared it two guesses later.