Underneath all the talk of "both sides the same" are a lot of bad policies. If we were all to treat the Greens as a serious left wing party and take a look at their actual stances, they wouldn't come out looking good. If I'm to vote for a party with little to no compromise of my values, the Greens ain't it.

This is the actual problem with these types of retirement plans, though. People are expected to know a lot about managing the investments themselves. There's a whole industry whose job it is to give you bad advice. The real advice is "drop it in a mix of an sp500 index fund it and bonds according to your risk level" and the rest is bullshit.

He doesn't think that. Newt is evil, not stupid.

It was a bad take. Intel has not been using TSMC long.

That said, it's pretty broadly agreed that Intel needs to toss its manufacturing arm into a subsidiary, and then possibly make that subsidiary completely independent. That's what AMD did with Global Foundries, and it worked very well for them. This process seems to have already started at Intel.

That one video of Trump supporters singing it was emphasizing the "and you do what they told ya". It plays into their belief that trans people are only supported because the mainstream media told you to. This is the start and end of their thoughts on the song.

It's funny to see Godzilla in weird contexts.

No, I don't think that's a particularly good reason for it all, either.

Fill me with cyan, daddy.

Freezy Pops for the Freezy Pop throne.

As a parallel, I seem to recall that the surgery banter in MASH is actually pretty realistic.

Myth Busters did that one. Even attaching big sail to a dummy, the shockwave is so thin that you can't catch much momentum at all.

Every once in a while, it's subverted. IIRC, that's how Gwen dies in Spiderman comics.

It is, but they don't recognize the contradictions between their various factions. They will very happily rally around a candidate that promises to sweep away all the leftists. Each of them imagines that their faction will be the one on top in the end.

Here's what happens when we refuse to compromise. Some people care more about minority civil rights than anything else, so they get the best civil rights candidate. Some people care about feminism more than anything else, so they get the best feminist candidate. Some people care about unions more than anything else, so they get the best union candidate.

Conservatives then rally around a putrid flesh monster who promises to shoot all the above on day one, because that's what they care about. That candidate wins with a 40/20/20/20 vote.

Values voting cannot solve this.

Wait, so they're saying "Duverger's Law" is really just a theory? That's not quite as dumb as calling evolution "just a theory", but it's up there.

Nope, not how it works. You don't need all of them to vote for one of the major parties. It's often only a fraction. Florida 2000 final tally was less than 600 votes difference between Bush and Gore. Less than 1% of Nader's own 97k votes would have needed to flip, and we'd be talking about a very different country right now.

This also applies to a few other states in 2000 that had close votes. Florida wasn't the only story there, and no, neither was the Supreme Court.

Binary thinking strikes again.

It wouldn't be my first choice, but it'll probably do the job. Depends on what you want to do with it. There's fewer people choosing this path, which means that when things go wrong, you'll have fewer sources of information to help.

Some old Dell office PC with a good amount of RAM and an SSD would be just as well.

Helps when that Intel "flagship" isn't worth covering in thermal paste.

Right. Margaret Atwood based the Handmaid's Tale as a combination of things that have happened somewhere, and she arguably didn't go far enough.

That's a common feeling among the children of well off parents when the parents are budgeting properly. What happens is that the parents do the smart thing and invest the extra and set aside an emergency fund. Having to dip into either one is psychologically a failure. They have a budget, and they only "struggle" because they want to stay within that budget.

That might mean having store brand mac and cheese for lunch and driving a ten year old Toyota Corolla. To their children, they don't seem well off. In fact, they're the only people who can be properly considered middle class. That is, instead of being one step away from being homeless, they're two steps.

Also, what he already did. The home office tax credit was dropped for W2 employees as part of his plan. Wasn't really noticed at the time, but circumstances later on meant that a lot of people could have been taking that credit if someone else was President. Amounts to a few hundred a year--not huge, but not nothing.

IIRC, it automatically goes back to the way it was in a few more years assuming nothing else changes.