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The candidates that qualify to be placed on our ballots are never the best the US has to offer. They’re just those who had funding, organization, and support enough to beat there others who challenged them in earlier contests. They’re the ones who knew how to leverage power and get things done in their favor. The “best” we have to offer (besides being subjective and representing different things for Neighbor A versus Neighbor B) don’t run bc it’s such a miserable job with real harm done to the wellbeing of those who hold it and their families. There’s a saying that anyone who actually wants to be president should be automatically disqualified. I tend to agree. Hubris is a seductive siren, though.

The risk is that voters lukewarm to cold on Biden will be pushed to RFK Jr or similar (which is de facto a vote for Trump given electoral college)

Point 1: Biden won’t step down. Absent that, nobody will replace him. Point 2: If his wife Jill convinces him it’s time to go and he reluctantly agrees, his weight will get behind his somewhat unpopular VP Kamala Harris, itself a risk. Point 3: He’s not technically the candidate yet since the convention hasn’t happened. It’s slightly possible there’s a contested convention, but extremely unlikely. Bidens delegates are pledged to him and take their pledges seriously. Point 4: While I agree a Newsom / Whitmer ticket would perform better, it’s like wishing for snow in Texas in July. It’s liberal wish casting and little more and we need to be realistic about the cards that have been dealt. Point 5: Yes, he’s old and yes he had a shit debate that amplified those age concerns, but he’s been a very solid president with a solid team and while that doesn’t excite apathetic voters, it does matter. Neither of these guys should be our candidate, and RFK and Jill Stein and Cornel West etc. are playing a dangerous game with zero paths to actual victory for themselves, but the primaries were the place to choose different candidates and voters did not. That ship has sailed.

Your position is clear. It’s your recalcitrance and reflexive deflection of valid counterpoints and criticisms that is turning people like me away. I see others before me have also provided similar feedback

I’ll take the thousand armed soldiers. The flower willjust create compost.

It’s best practice to link to sources from which you copy/paste huge swaths of text https://jonlieffmd.com/blog/where-is-mind-in-nature

That sounds miserable

Paint them on

Yes

He's already ignored them since there were shared right here within thread

Negative but am familiar

I’ve noticed it too, yes. iPhone and frequently there are ads which cover the text editor box and make the action buttons like submit etc hidden behind the ad itself. It takes lots of strategic scrolling to get to the spot I need to proceed.

*sanctions

We tend to find a way and IMO this is a when question not an if question

Interesting thought, though I’m not as familiar with the power supply needed to enable 5G at scale

While BTC mining eats enormous resources, it’s gonna look like a drop in the bucket compared to the power demands coming from AI and the systems on which they run

Any fool can knock down a barn, but it takes a carpenter to build one up.

“Yes, and you’re right. I do need to do more squats.”

The landscape isn’t as simple as you suggest. The US making such a declaration would also have ramifications back at home and result in protests, likely loss of elections, etc. US allies would also pushback and potentially add sections and restrict trade or otherwise exert pressure against the US. The audience goes well beyond “Russia” and it’s naive to believe otherwise when discussing topics as complex as nuclear holocaust.

I don't know the answer to your archeology focused question, but do wish to highlight that brain size, volume, and amount of matter are hardly as relevant as how that matter gets organized, connected, and folded

Your lifts have nothing to do with this exchange we’re having here, however I’ll allow that your sleep likely does.

It’s okay to struggle with mental health. Find help. There is no shame in trying to become healthier or allowing others to assist you in lightening the burden. Doing so will likely improve the central topic you’ve introduced in this thread in parallel.

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When did this turn into your blog?

It's almost as if those most loudly decrying cancel culture are themselves doing the majority of the cancelling, and in far more insidious ways.