Nobody in this thread knows your life story, yet you respond as if they should. First, you say you went back to college 5-6 times. No other information or context for why. Then, you introduce a new fact (that you went into massive debt) when someone says that’s lucky or privileged as though they should have known that information. Then, when they make the rational presumption that your massive debt you acquired throughout your time in college is from going to college, you reveal more information that it’s all medical debt, again as though that should have been obvious without ever giving any indication of that being the case beyond the vague term “survival” (which I took to mean surviving modern society with a high paying degree job).

I understand and appreciate that your statements make sense in your head within the context of your lived experiences, but when you choose to engage with strangers on the internet you are choosing to engage with people who lack that context and need it spelled out for them. So when someone replies to you in a manner that does not match the context they don’t have, maybe it would be a better use of time and energy to just provide that context instead of belittling them for not reading your mind.

And yes, you are still privileged for having gone to college 5-6 times. Not everybody gets accepted to college even once, which makes any college attendance at all some form of privilege. I would think after the second or third acceptance your future applications would be considered more risky for the school. The fact that they accommodated you another 2-3 times after that seems to me a sign of extra privilege, not less. Or is there even more context you’ve withheld that invalidates that line of thinking?

The War Powers Resolution they were planning to vote on anyway was specifically designed to be a check on presidential power, and therefore does not require him to sign it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Powers_Resolution

I just pulled the trigger yesterday. I don’t see prices coming down in a reasonable time, and the bundle at my local Microcenter was the same price as when I first looked a little under a year ago.

Well let’s get some data involved then. According to this article from mid last year, The Late Show was averaging ~2.5 million viewers in the Nielsen ratings: https://www.tvinsider.com/1202434/late-night-ratings-2025-gutfeld-kimmel-colbert-fallon/

Looking through the youtube channel, the average uploaded video over the last couple weeks has ~600,000 views. The biggest one scrolling down was almost 2 weeks ago with 2.5 million views as of now. Of course it’s not all one to one, but assuming no crossover between youtube and TV viewers, this interview would have to hit at least 3-3.5 million views to be more popular than the average segment, and higher than 5 million views to absolutely guarantee that it is more popular than an already popular segment.

At time of writing the interview has 2.3 million views after 16 hours, almost matching the TV audience for an episode, matching an 11 day popular video, and I’m about to add one more to the count which I normally wouldn’t. You can hold your belief if you want, but I am curious to see how it pans out over the next week or two.

You’re right, but I do think deep seeded could carry the same meaning.

I’m sorry, but I don’t follow how their comment on Kamala Harris losing displays a lack of understanding on voting between two candidates.

My understanding is that in such an elections people either vote for one, the other, or abstain. They vote for one over the other because they either like the one enough or dislike the other enough. They abstain when they don’t feel strongly about either. Does that sound right to you?

My understanding of what the person you responded to said is essentially that people didn’t like Biden because of his policy and were on track to abstain because they didn’t dislike (or weren’t worried about) Trump enough. Harris wrongly thought people disliked Biden personally but did like his policy, so stayed that course. That led to people not liking her and therefore abstaining while Trump riled up his base that for some reason liked him.

What am I missing here?

I bet there is one for you! The problem is that every person is in a different place with their diet, physical, and mental health, so the one weird trick that works for one person may not work for someone else. It might not even work for the same person later in their life!

When I was younger my trick was to only eat when I’m hungry. I worked at a pizza place where I could make and eat food whenever it wasn’t busy, so I could eat earlier or later in the day depending on how hungry I was. That doesn’t work as well now that I’m in an office position and have to eat on a regular schedule.

My book club read the book about a year ago and from what I remember it devoted a scene to clearly explaining that Buffalo Bill did not meet the criteria for gender reassignment surgery and was just kinda sick in the head. We were impressed with how it was handled for the time that it was written. Unsurprisingly this scene did not translate well when rewritten for the movie.

https://youtu.be/i384yhdqQ64

There were many decades between the proliferation of home phones and cell phones. During that time many people may be away from home and need to contact someone over the phone. Payphones were installed in public places that anyone could use to meet that need. They took change in exchange for minutes using the phone.

It works, I launched a rocket on it. Subjectively it feels 20-30% slower to do stuff than with a mouse and keyboard, but once I cooled down and adjusted to it instead of trying to speed through stuff it was good!

I totally agree, but I think it’s a question of how to go about achieving that overhaul. I think the best method for that right now is to “hijack” the primaries of one of the political parties, get the old guard out, and nominate new candidates that want to see that reform. I don’t see that happening with the Republican party for hopefully obvious reasons, which just leaves the Democrats.

All the while leading up to midterms, get organized outside the party system, stage protests and strikes advocating for changes to the system. And if it’s clear the midterms are rigged, or the newly elected Democrats fail to push reform, use those same external organizations to tear it all down and probably write a new Constitution (something I didn’t think I’d be advocating for two years ago).

But right now, the most important thing is getting involved in getting organized and getting involved in the primaries. Here’s a list of dates I found: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-primary-elections/calendar

Oh, that’s interesting! I’m not very familiar with German, thanks for sharing!

What is rice corn? An image search just shows me corn kernels mixed with rice.

That’s a great distinction.

Somewhere between 13.6 billion and 50,000 years old.

I wonder how different the world would be if all the energy put into conformity was instead put into understanding.

The most important step a man (or anyone else) can take is not the first step, but the next step.

There’s only one Opportunity on Mars, and I miss that little guy.

I find it annoying when a large portion of law enforcement would likely help the federal government interfere with elections and people start nitpicking over exactly how many. If I can offer a simple solution to prevent getting sidetracked like that in the future, I will.