And they tried putting garlands and paint on cats and we never speak of that day again.

If people can secretly work two simultaneous full time jobs, you can work a different job while collecting the paycheck for the job you left but they won’t process the resignation for.

What are you going to believe? Something you read everywhere or advice from a random trustworthy guy on the internet?

If your goal is money, become an investment banker. I kind of wish I knew about this option when I was young. Those people are all millionaires at age 30.

Your life will suck for 10 years but you’ll have enough of a nest egg you can retire at 35 if you want.

Well sheeit. Look at Mr. Moneybags here. Care to spread that wealth around? When we eat the rich, you’ll be on my plate.

but if you dont actually like software engineering you have no chance when you are competing with applicants for jobs

It’s called faking enthusiasm and got me every job I had. I hate my job and can’t compete at all with the hotshot kiddos pouring all their lifeforce into it.

But I stay under the radar, rake in the same amount of cash they do, and stop work at 5pm while they are working till midnight and on weekends for some reason.

Did he just assume his friends’ partner’s gender?

Let’s get the guns. Who knows how to build drones we can use to drone strike the President?

He’s not just one guy. Republicans own the House, the Senate, the Supreme Court, and the hearts and minds of half the population. This is what happens when people don’t vote.

Can you link to an actual news article or documented trial instead of a random talking head on YouTube?

The slicer software is the same as Prusa/Orca Slicer. (It’s a fork of Prusa and Orca is a fork of Bambu slicer) You can use either and get all the same slicer features for any 3D printer. In short, don’t choose a 3D printer for it’s bundled slicer since almost any slicer can be used for almost any 3D printer.

Responding to Boxer’s criticism during that night’s town hall in New Hampshire, Sanders said, “Of course I am a Democrat and running for the Democratic nomination.”

He sometimes considers himself a Democrat. You are correct that being a Democrat means being a member of the party but the party platform can and has changed, usually to meet the views of its constituents. And even so, Democrats like Nancy are notoriously bad at defending the party platform. That’s one of the problems. They promise certain things they don’t always deliver. By your definition that makes her a bad democrat.

My argument for why either definition works is that “true Democrat” is a value judgement and different individuals will have different values. MAGA calls McConnell a RINO because he doesn’t align with their values of perceiving Trump as infallible. Now they might be wrong in their belief but they have the right to define who they want as a RINO just as constituents of the Democrat party have the right to label who they please as a DINO if they don’t meet their criteria of a “true Democrat”.

There is no such thing as a “true Democrat” or “true Republican” since both of these are contrived things.

So when you are arguing over what is the correct definition, it’s a waste of time because there is no true definition.

You can support your argument with what you believe are good supportive evidence but again there is no such thing as an empirical “true -insert-party-here-”.

I may respond to the rest of your post later but I’m in the middle of my workday so please excuse me at least until this afternoon for a more in depth response.

if they want to have lasting positive interactions with people IRL

You don’t seem overly concerned about this. Why would you care?

Horseshoe theory is real. Right wing and left wing fascists are both fascists.

Preach 🙌🏽

Instead of valid definition I should have said a “good definition”. There is no real definition of a “true Democrat” or vice versa for Republicans. Both your definition and my definition are valid definitions.

If you don’t like the platform of the party, you’re supposed to go join a different party

The other option is to slowly replace the members of the party in positions of power. Why do you think AOC is encouraging young people to run for office? She has the right idea.

The fact of the matter is that the US has a two party political system. This isn’t changing unless one of the parties gains power and essentially gives it up to implement a new system.

Another fact is that young people aren’t running for office so all of our politicians are part of the gerontocracy and all hold particular views from having been born in a generation most of us no longer relate with.

The only way to change things is to get young people into office at the lower levels and work their way up by building political careers until they are the ones in the positions of power in the DNC.

The ones who will hold the reins and make change happen are the ones who actually decide to run for office. This is the system of the United States that allows it’s citizens to control what happens in the higher echelons of government.

Yes voting is a part of it but it sounds like you are unhappy with the choices you are given to vote for and that’s purely because the people you would like to vote for are not running for office and winning. If they are running and not winning that is because they are not popular with the public which is another conversation but I think the majority of you are getting stuck in the “not feeling like doing anything but protesting” phase and not actually running for office.

Quite a lot of assumptions you have there and still not one real refutation of any of my points. Lol.

Smart man. This is how we fight being replaced by AI.

Yes. A useless thing.