It's not lying if you believe it when you say it. And Trump is just bent enough that he believes these things while he's saying them. He's far less a liar than he is just broken.

Not true anymore. Hasn't been for a while. Better let that one go... it's an anachronism.

Neither can people. When groups emit and consume the same crap in a concentrated circle jerk bad things happen. You get pedo pizza basements and orange politicians.

I have no problem with supply and demand. I did take basic economics. You so wildly misunderstood my point that I'll have to simplify it. Why the demand exists at all is mystifying.

You can't make fun of the man through parody, because you can no longer extend his behaviour to the absurd to do so. Baldwin was only funny because he was accurate.

You Americans have to get a goddamn grip on your presidency.

Well... you can't generally use chunks of gold to buy those goods and services either.

To be clear I'm not pretending they are the same. I believe in gold as a store of wealth. Bitcoin mystifies me.i don't understand what the fuck any of it rests on. And I understand it pretty much too to bottom. I just don't "understand" it.

I'm sure Truman would approve.

Trump has a seriously sharp core set of feral knives in his toolbox. He is outlier good at a small number of things. It's wrapped around an astoundingly stupid core, of course. He's not smart in the global sense.

  But don't discount those around him. Many of these people are smart - and evil. Far more evil than their leader. He just "is". Callous malevolence is baked in, but it's not intentional. He doesn't care because he incapable of caring. They are intentionally evil. Truly terrible people.

In a way Trump is the most honest politician we've seen in a century. He cannot even pretend to be anything but what he is.

What percentage of your ham sandwich can be shit before you have to acknowledge it's probably actually a shit sandwich?

I don't think it has to be 51%.

I took the post to mean using Linux to build your own streaming unit.

Under that assumption, I'm suggesting it's a bad value proposition unless the act of futzing with the OS is the bit you like.

When most people watch porn, the fact that you do isn't really useful. The useful bit is whether you are willing to pay for it, and that's not gleaned from scraping your hdmi signal. That's happily given up by payment processors and sites.

Given these alternative routes the tv seems to find, such as unsecured nearby networks, I wonder if rendering it deaf and dumb would suffice. Allow it to connect to the network, but block all ports in and out. Would it be smart enough to drop the local network and seek other paths?

Why a linux box? You can pick from a selection of awesomely capable sticks or mini boxes that work perfectly, support wide formats, and never ask you to mess with an OS at all. And they're cheap.

So it's overqualified for the presidency of the US. A milestone indeed!

May I suggest the following mod distribution? I think it's fair.

5 x troll
6 x off-topic
3 x funny

And since there are some people who will think I'm making some devastatingly clever statement they agree with, instead of just being a jackass...

2 x insightful

I care about things I can do something about. I'm disappointed that I can't change their mind, but I trust the universe to force their hand eventually. But being dissatisfied is not the same as caring.