Because she didn’t want to win.

I say we invert it. To prevent aristicracy and nepotism, the wealthy will be prohibited from reproducting. No one in the top 10% of income or wealth gets a baby license.

Sure. But this goes right back to the idea that centrists can’t imagine anyone thinks, believes, or acts differently than they do.

You clearly follow utilitarian ethics. But others don’t. Seriously, two of the main branches of ethical philosophy are utilitarianism and respect for persons. You clearly follow, or at least pretend you follow, utilitarian ethics. But moral philosophers have long recognized the severe limitations on judging everything based on only the greater good. Most of histories greatest atrocities were done in the name of utilitarian ethics. Hell, everything Trump does is baed on utilitarianism, completely rejecting the respect for persons branch of ethical philosophy. Fucking Mengele justified what he did based on appealing to the greater good.

A respect for persons framework in voting would say that true red lines do exist. You can’t just look at the utilitarian consequences of your vote; you have to ask if the candidate you’re voting for has truly done something unforgiveable.

When you solely focus on utilitarian principles, you are ironically aligning yourself morally with MAGA far more than you know. You both say the ends justify the means.

Honestly, I would support total broadcast anarchy over our current state of affairs.

Without the FCC, whoever has the loudest transmitter wins. But actually look at the state of over-the-air broadcasts today. The radio stations have all been bought up and monopolized by a handful of companies like iHeartMedia. The broadcast TV stations are also similarly consolidated. Look at all the countless Sinclair stations pumping out endless right wing propaganda.

Frankly, I would prefer complete anarchy over this. Fines are how the FCC enforces its rules. Without any enforcement, broadcast regulation effectively ceases to exist. At that point, anyone can broadcast whatever they want, and the loudest transmitter wins. Now, maybe you don’t have the budget to build a transmitter that can completely overpower a major commercial radio station. But if that station is several miles away, you could set up a pirate radio station that would drown out a larger commercial station in your local area.

This is a case where deregulation absolutely would help the people. The broadcast network we have is so hopelessly corrupt that burning the whole thing down would be a massive improvement. I’ll take total anarchy over media monopolies owned by right-wing billionaires.

I use a tooth powder, not a toothpaste. My tooth powder:

We should pass a constitutional amendment requiring every diplomat visiting the US to French kiss the sitting president at first meeting. You want to meet with Trump? You have to kiss him square on the lips.

I guess it’s more of an American context. Someone “buying the farm” is a euphemism for them dying.

The explanation I’ve heard before is that it comes from the life experience of actual farmers. Someone getting started as a farm owner has to take out a very large loan to purchase a plot of land. If they have a family, they probably have a life insurance policy big enough to pay off that mortgage and provide for their family if they die young. So, if someone in that situation dies, their family gets enough money to pay off the mortgage. Through their death they “buy the farm.”

I think it may be a term originating from the WW1 or WW2 eras. There were a lot more young men purchasing farms back then, and with the casualties from the wars, there were a lot more of them “buying the farm.”

But then you have this small container of boiling water constantly in contact with a metal or plastic containment vessel, absorbing who knows what contaminates due the higher temperatures.

Why would anyone need an fancy indoor flush toilet when they can just go to the outhouse?

Because then you have to make tea with water that’s been sitting, boiling, in a tank, absorbing who knows what contaminates, for potentially days or weeks. You’re not even supposed to drink hot water that comes out of the regular water heater. For a boiling water tap, you need a second even tinier tank that will be used even less frequently.

I’m curious, is “bought the farm” also as saying in Germany?

You do know that capacitors can hold charge, even while unplugged, don’t you?

Let’s make it even MORE complicated. Let’s make the kettle a heat pump powered by a bank of supercapacitors!

All grass based crops encouraged group cooperation. Plants like potatoes remain safe in the ground until you need them. But all cereal crops require harvesting at a specific time. You can’t just harvest enough wheat as you need it. This means you inevitably have to have a stockpile of grain to get through the year. And a stockpile of already harvested and prepared grain makes you an instant target for raids by opposing groups.

Cereal crops of all forms necessitate cooperation.

South America needs its own NATO and a domestic nuclear deterrent.

“Why are people talking about their issues, why aren’t they talking about ME?!!”

No. But you’re literally doing “all lives matter” here. A women’s group pushes for change, and inevitably on any story about it, there will be a hoard of men not proposing how they can protect men, but whining about why the women’s group doesn’t worry about the men. You want to make progress on this issue for men? Start your own men’s welfare group and be the change you want in the world. Don’t just whine when a group advocates for themselves and their issues, and they just don’t happen to include you in their target audience.

What’s the ratio of male perverts covertly recording women to female perverts covertly recording men? Realistically, it’s probably a hundred to one.

There’s nothing in particular about smartglasses that would enable such a use and they’re considerably worse than a regular phone for that in every regard except for the covert picture taking.

“Except for the one thing everyone is concerned about, they’re harmless.”

Be more specific. Don’t just use the word “politicians.” You’re providing cover for them by presenting both sides as the same. At least in today’s political landscape, it’s only the right that gets caught in these endless fever dreams of imagined threats. It’s just one mad thing after another with Republicans, as they actively court the deranged and crazy. Anti-vax, chemtrails, etc. used to be fairly nonpartisan, but the Republican party has completely absorbed the conspiracy theorist crowd from both sides of the political spectrum. Just consider all the fever dreams Republicans have chased even just recently:

• Chem trails
• Vaccine denial
• Blood libel and genocidal fear mongering against trans people
• Immigrants eating domestic pets
• Entire cities delusionally labeled as active war zones.

Don’t help Republicans. This isn’t a “politician” issue. This is a Republican issue. There is simply nothing comparable on the left to the right’s need to endlessly whip up their 5 minutes of hate against the other. Only one side embraces this kind of madness. And by using neutral terms like “politicians,” you are ultimately enabling this behavior.