Last week I fell on the classic oxymethazoline dependence trap. Whole week breathing through my mouth.

Explain how the two parties are bad. Then explain why lobbying causes them to be bad, and the electoral system keeps them in power regardless. Finally, explain how, obviously, none of the two parties will remove either problem, and therefore the system must be destroyed. Bonus if they also agree that capitalism must end.

Just applied it. Super cool!

Rule 34/34

Exactly my thought. You're supposed to adjust for irrelevant variables.

This is a positive thing. I hope more governments do this, especially in South America, it could reduce the severity of anti-government protests fueled by outside campaigns.

Reminds me of the time an investigation into a high-profile corruption scandal in Spain revealed the names of those involved, among them "M. Rajoy". There's a running joke that no one knows who might be behind that name, it's a mystery that may never be solved.

Relevant context

Proceeds to ingest my entire stock of dopamine-depleting medication

Same policies, different PR approach. Democrats didn't codify Roe v. Wade, for example, because that would have taken away one of their main selling points. Best you can do is vote different in each election so they have it harder to form a coherent strategy.

There's a public modlog with all removed posts and comments along with the reason, so you can get the pitchforks when a mod goes authoritarian (or, more often, have a look at what a complaining user actually meant by "freedom of expression").

As a child, running as fast as I could, I didn't see some sort of horizontal metal bar at about my forehead's height. I bounced and fell backwards to the ground.

Interestingly, malfunction of cortisol signaling has been very strongly linked to depression. High-dose corticosteroids can produce an array of mood effects, including depression and mania, as well as other psychiatric symptoms. Relatively recently, psychoactive steroids have been approved for postpartum depression.

They count it as Linux, yes!

I wanted to delete all the subfolders in the current directory:

 rm -rf ./*

After a few seconds, I realize in horror that I had mistyped the path. Whole system nuked. Had backups though.

"Escanciar" in Spanish means pouring from a height for the purpose of mixing a beverage (usually cider) with air. I suppose it would still be valid if you're pouring a mix from some height.

Disabling the USB port is neat, BUT... What if it got instead reconfigured to pretend to be a USB keyboard when connected and then... you know... For research purposes, of course.

"Socialism turns out to work pretty well and is beating our ass" --> “Now, no one — certainly not me — is discounting the power of markets,” Sullivan noted at the time. “But in the name of oversimplified market efficiency, a large non-market economy had been integrated into the international economic order in a way that posed considerable challenges.”

Makes sense, thanks!

There are some really cool electoral methods that are used in some niche situations (e.g. the Schulze method). Obviously wouldn't work to elect a government, since that would not massively benefit the ruling class as the current methods do.