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Voting by mail as usual.

Trying to avoid customers that can't shut up about how wonderful trump is.

"I think he's the antichrist but he's doing a good job"

You know, bat shit insane things republicans say.

Glow in the dark tape on the front and back of my phone and on the tips of the chargers to make them easier to find in the dark.

For the same reason my phone case is the brightest colored one I could find.

I had to get some clear heat shrink tubing to put over the charging cable ends to hold the tape in place otherwise it unravels after a few days use.

Sure they make lit USB cables but not in 20ft+

I'd really have preferred to have a bright solid glow in the dark phone case but for whatever reason barring I have one 3d printed (which will then not have the same protection of a normal cheap rubberized case) there isn't anything like that available.

Lead poisoning, it used to be popular for plates and cups cuz it made the food taste better (because the lead leached in and lead has a sweet taste), then later indoor plumbing (sometimes with lead pipes) became common like a decade prior to the founding of the Republican party in the 1850s. We didn't get leaded gas until the 1920s

Anyone considered getting rid of leaded avgas yet?

Or testing food for lead more stringently?

Like they had children suffering from lead toxicity recently from contaminated applesauce packages and it takes a fuckton of lead to cause toxicity.

as it seemed disingenuous to present both sides as equal

Because it is.

Didn't he already present one? Just it was so bad it was going to cause something like 20 million people to lose their insurance? So he couldn't even get the republicans to vote for it?... Went back and checked https://www.npr.org/2017/05/24/529902300/cbo-republicans-ahca-would-leave-23-million-more-uninsured yeah that did actually happen.

New York is a real place. Does that mean spiderman is real?

Still can't figure out why their voters either don't see it or don't care.

Like at least prior to trump you could kinda see it but now you just have to be in outright denial of reality.

I don't remember that bit but I think I only watched the first season of the Orville and that was years ago.

But yeah really depends on how difficult the equipment itself is to replicate.

If it's some massive machine the size of a room it's going to make some company extremely rich, they'd sell product for slightly less than normal market value taking over the market with perfectly consistent product and insane margins allowing legal capture.

Why feed everyone when you can almost literally print money?

If it's something small that can be easily transported and duplicated? Piracy. Nobody will give AF about patents and everyone will have them within a couple years no matter what laws they try to implement or how they try and prevent it.

This has actually already happened with media and this is exactly how it has played out and a lot of people still seem to be in denial.

They can complain and sick lawyers on as many people as they want but they can still make a million copies of something that cost 400 million to make for less than than the cost of a gumball.

The law surrounding it is completely broken and it's crazy that so many industries are trying to continue on like nothing has changed.

Well she did win the popular by several million but it's not like anyone actually cared what the people wanted.

The miles and miles of empty dirt's vote was way more important for some reason.

Sometimes I wonder what they would do if you could make endless perfect copies of objects like you can mp3s.

Dududdo you wouldn't copy a car. You wouldn't copy a cheeseburger Copying is a crime.

Like remember it's only been recently that it became possible to make endless copies of media at effectively no cost.

Mint (MATE). It's preconfigured closest to what I want, with just a couple tweeks I can do whatever I need with utilities and a GUI I'm familiar with.

If Its a headless machine Ubuntu or Debian. Again familiar with both can do whatever on both without having to relearn low to build a wheel.

Primarily a windows user but I do use Linux for some applications.

It does though. Installing a matte screen protector was one of the very first things I did after I got it.

Put a matte screen protector on my iPad a few years ago to cut down on the glare and that was it, everything had to be that way from then on.

Downside is you do lose some image crispness but it's so very worth it for the huge reduction in glare.

Also matte protectors aren't nearly as popular so there's a lot smaller selection to chose from.

If it's room sized and sold to other companies it will rapidly be in multiple countries.

There wouldn't be any way to keep it to one company with it being public knowledge.

Like realistically I'd think any country would ignore whatever laws on the books and just outright sieze the tech as a matter of national security and duplicate it for their own use if they found out a company was hiding such a thing.

From there it'd again leak to all other major countries in short order.

If it's small and easy to duplicate, (can it replicate itself?) It would spread like wildfire and would like piracy be completely uncontainable.

I don't think there is anyway the tech could be either contained or kept secret any real length of time.

He had them ready to give him a third term before he finished his first.

Remember back when the republicans were all saying he was entitled to a third term because his first was nullified by the failed impeachment?

Yeah considering they didn't discover electricity until the 1700s then they didn't even invent one that lasted long enough to be practical until 1879.

My first thought was oh is that supposed to make me feel better that he had to be a bigshot lawyer to be able to get healthcare?

Maybe for some models? IDK I haven't seen one but I've noticed there is a much smaller selection of matte protectors in general vs glossy.

I don't think there's any reason they can't.