Saw a fair argument that 911 might not have happened if Florida has been settled sooner, even if it were still a bush victory.

Evidently party of the dysfunction and delay with intelligence agencies was due to a somewhat botched transition due to the uncertainty. Maybe they still would have missed it, but there’s at least a reasonable chance it would have been caught.

Further, I think while the GOP would have been follow up to Gore, there’s a good chance we would have gotten McCain, which is pretty good as far as the GOP goes. Then decent chance you might have still had Obama for, say, 2016. We almost certainly wouldn’t have seen Trump, since Obama’s delay would avoid pretty Donald from going nuts over a non white president roasting him. In a public event.

There’s just so many specific things that went wrong that credibly wouldn’t have followed a Gore victory.

It’s not all great …

Let’s not forget the oil crisis. We have way too much oil, since all cars were mandated to run on trash.

And the glaciars are now on the attack.

It’s wild that whole a full state recount would have been a Gore victory and we know what, but the requested specific recounts would actually have been insufficient to change the outcome.

RCV would have been easily a Gore win.

Internet? Didn’t know what you mean. But so much great content on the information superhighway.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/lemon-stealing-whores

Worth being clear that all the people in question are between 10 and 13.

I actually never read the book, but heard of that one scene and can’t imagine it would have felt like it should have fit in, and really should have raised more questions about… Everything really.

Well if you are having to watch on mute anyway, not like you even know the plot…

Of course you miss out on the narrative masterpiece of things like lemon stealing whores …

I don’t know if I want to try to find out if that is satire or actual things…

Needed to at least indicate omitted word vomit that would follow.

Ah yes, that one scene that all the movies conspicuously skipped…

There’s been a non trivial incidence of MAGA people getting pissed about one of their central outrage issues, one that Trump himself fanned hard, getting dismissed while Trump simultaneously insults then over the issue.

They might not be “going left” or anything, but there does seem to be his “boys” (and “gals”) getting pissed at Trump specifically.

Yes, but in this case Trump tried to wind them up to try weaponize the Epstein case, and now he wants to leave them with outrage blue balls, while simultaneously calling then weak gullible fools.

On the other hand, my news feed keeps offering articles from “people” telling me how much better it is to rent and it’s a sucker"s game to own. Usually it’s based on an overstated claim of convenience, but most recently one tried to use all sorts of hand waving to assert that it is also financially better. Extra rich that the author even admits he owns a lot of property that he rents out while simultaneously trying to make it sound stupid to actually own your own house (claimed he himself rented so that he’s not “stuck” paying his own loan). I’m sure these are very sincere and smart people, why would they steer anymore wrong?

Don’t know if it’s real or my imagination, but it seems there are times when there’s extra pressure to convince people that they want to eternally rent.

What I dread is a game lengthening dialog using AI. Some folks mistake quantity for quality, and make their games unbeatingly tedious. Just like games that lean heavily on procedurally generated content.

I think there’s room for someone to recognize there’s an utterly generic facet to an otherwise creative work. If you for example know you just want a generic night skybox, I don’t think there’s going to be more quality by doing it directly.

However that sentiment carried forward to the assets will rapidly degrade the experience similar to using stock assets.

Feel like “anytime it’s good for” could be subjective.

There are likely folks who think they can just vibe code up an unreal tutorial and say AI was good at “all of it”.

if some boilerplate mechanics are AI code completions, or you had it generate a skybox for you, ok. If it’s generating a significant chunk of your “foreground” assets, then I’m likely to find out as disinteresting as the titles that have leaned hard on stock assets.

But that’s just it, the loophole would be that he is eligible to be president, but just that he can’t be elected as such. It’s pretty dumb but the phrasing of the 22nd does use the word “elected”, clearly we all know the intent but the words may have undermined the spirit.

Either way, both the VP and the president have the same stated basic requirements, but the 22nd amendment makes no statement of the VP. While common sense suggests it’s dumb to have a person that hit the term limit as VP, it is not expressly codified.

So no matter the interpretation of the 22nd amendment, it seems like he could be VP. If you have a sane interpretation of the 22nd amendment as a hard term limit, then the succession would skip such a VP, just like it would skip a foreign born person.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the missing end of the first clip was something like “NO SIGNAL”, as the input resets and the encoding continues.

The cut is a very reasonably explained outage with timing that is very consistent with mundane explanation, but very weird for a hypothetical murder.

If I were in charge of surveillance footage covering up a conspiracy, I’d just fake the footage instead of trying to edit out the specific evidence. Seems weird to obsess over a gap in a video that seems hardly difficult to fake instead.

Yeah, I think if this is truly the only video they have considered vaguely close to “having a video”, it was a fair description to say “we don’t have video”.