Coalition governments that can ignore the lunatic fringe on both sides, and actually govern as moderates? The "Antifa", or whateverthefuck you want to call the far left idiots, and the MAGA, or whateverthefuck you want to call the far right idiots, can fuck off in the corner and bloviate about all the horrors that are destroying this country. Meanwhile the moderate right and left, whom are much closer in idealism than far too many people are willing to admit for some reason, can form a functioning government.

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Yes, that quote you posted is bullshit. Does that make you happy? I'm not sure where you were getting your COVID information at the time, I sure wasn't getting mine from some talking head rage bait news pundit.

How about a specific quote/context instead of some nebulous "Biden said we're all gonna die" BS?

Are you expecting a train of Democrats to line up here defending Rachel Maddow as a credible source of information on vaccine efficacy? I wouldn't exactly put her in the "innumerate imbeciles with abysmal comprehension skills" category, but also certainly not my first choice as a source of information for, well, just about any topic of consequence.

Never been there, but that "chili" sounds awful.

No argument from me on that one. To quote Ron White: "I don’t even think you all told the Mexican boys you were having a [Cincinnati, chili capital of the world] contest. That’s right, ’cause a Mexican boy’d come up here with a goat and an onion and kick your ass."

Long COVID, if I were to take a guess.

For sure. I would argue those same requirements are met by our current smartphone ecosystems. I can install outlook, chrome, whatever on either device, and they provide (I assume) relative feature parity. (I have to assume because I have so far successfully avoided having to learn iWhatevers.) But when you start digging deeper, things like file-sharing or authentication on PC vs Linux vs Mac, things can get dicey. You can make it happen, but it's certainly not frictionless or feature-equivalent. Similarly, I can call or text an iDevice from an Android just fine, but as soon as you start trying to merge "advanced" features the cracks begin to show. ICS is a good example.

I need to get out more. I'm from Michigan, the upper part, I don't recall seeing anything like you described. I have to assume it's another regional thing.

I assume that's on the agenda, right after peace in the Middle East. Serious answer, though: That's like saying "Windows and Linux should perform the same function in a compatible way.". I cannot even begin to describe how much I don't want that.

Who the heck DOESN'T put beans in chili? As a lifelog upper-midwest resident the concept of beanless chili just doesn't compute.

That's one of those things that never really clicked with me until recently. An EO is the equivalent of a memo from your boss. The worst they can do for ignoring it is fire you.

This site is borderline unusable on a mobile device.

This does not compute. You're presumably using your phone to complete this transaction? I can literally take my phone out of my pocket, unlock it with a thumb print, and wave it at the card reader to pay via my debit card. If you're ordering online the checkout process is identical enough enough using PayPal, Venmo, or a stored card. I would have to assume Klarna is the exact same number of steps?

It depends on the purpose. For project notes, if it's something I'll need to reference more than a week from now, it goes into OneNote. But my to-do list, or anything similar, if I don't physically write it down it doesn't get remembered. I've carried a composition book around most of my professional life.

This matches my experience as well. I took so many notes in college I had basically a bankers box full of notebooks when I graduated. Rarely ever read them after I wrote them. Just the act of pen to paper was sufficient to adequately store most of it upstairs. And most of it done in cursive. I have passable penmanship when I take the time to do it, but if I'm writing quickly my print (or whatever the antonym of cursive is) is unreadable, at least my cursive is half-ass legible. Typing? Mostly forgotten by the time I start typing the next sentence.

That smells like bullshit to me. In what language? This article puts the world record at 300-ish. "To put this in perspective, remember that 40 WPM is the average typing speed for most people. At 300 WPM, Rocket is well over seven times as fast. Faster, even, than most courtroom stenographers, who use specialized keyboards and phonetic shorthand to achieve speeds of around 225 WPM."

That was the original spec, but was dropped due to budgetary concerns. People are cheap, hardware is expensive.