Pretty sure when Orange Box was released, it included HL2 and HL2 Episode 1 in addition to HL2 Episode 2. Hard to remember because there were so many good games that came from that one purchase.

This is how the worms win.

Obligatory Line Goes Up video, although not exclusively about Bitcoin.

I do admit that early in Bitcoin’s life, around 2013, i was a interested in Bitcoin as an alternative to banking, but the volatility and speculation alienated me from the community. Anyone buying BTC now for $90k, you need to realize this turned into a pyramid scheme and you’re not at the top of it. You may be able to find someone who’s more of a sucker to take the Bitcoin off your hand and make a profit, but it’s not sustainable, someone has to loose. Any gains you make are probably less than 10% what the person made by selling it to you.

If you do end up speculating on crypto, don’t invest more than you can afford to loose, and assume you’ll loose it all. It’s very likely you’ll either get hacked/scammed, loose your wallet, leave your wallet in an online exchange who runs off with your keys, etc. You’re on your own if that happens. If you do end up making any profit, it’ll be a blessing and you’ll be way happier than if you thought this would be your key to get rich, and you end up loosing it all.

This is giving him way too much credit, thinking he’s some mastermind who engineered this whole thing. He’s very wealthy and addicted with twitter, and started amassing a lot of shares of the company. He didn’t really care to own it, and instead tried seeing if he could sway Twitter to benefit him, namely by trying to ban the Elonjet account. That didn’t work, so he used his classic 420 joke to say he’s going to buy Twitter for $54.20 per share, which was way above market rates. He had to be literally sued to purchase the company, after trying to get out of the deal.

Once he was forced to buy the company, it was the company that assumed the debts, not Elon, so it immediately was performing terribly, and Elon had to cut costs, firing employees, not paying rent and server costs, etc. Nothing was planned out ahead of time, the company is flying by the seat of its pants. And arguably the second most prominent user of the platform, the next President, has a competing platform and is directly invested in seeing that succeed, not Twitter/X.

If anything, both Elon and Trump are the modern epitome of failing upwards, exploiting the labor and systems in place to protect Americans, just so they can make more money for themselves. The fact they’re celebrated as much as they are is disgusting.

Perhaps I’m just in an echo chamber? John Oliver spent a full half hour of his show outlining it all and that has 10M views on YT and an estimated half a million who watched it live. ¹

And everyone just let him get away with that answer.

This is the most baffling thing, he can do every career suicide move and get away with it.

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I hope we have mid-terms

is he paid residuals for theater and streaming sales? 🤮 if so, this would be a great reason to pirate it.

Sadly search interest for Project 2025 only peaked after the election. I assume of the people that heard about it, they either assumed Trump wouldn’t be elected, and they therefore don’t need to care about it, or think they’ll be unaffected if Trump is elected. Now they’re seeing the ideas outlined in there and probably freaking out.

Not really sure what more could be done to inform people of the dangers of Project 2025. Maybe repeating it ad nauseam caused people to tune it out or something?

There’s always going to be a large majority of the population who is not informed about anything and just vote on vibes. Biden & Harris took a lot of the post-Covid economic heat that many countries are dealing with now, and isn’t unique to the US or specific policies. That’s causing bad vibes and rejection of incumbent leadership everywhere.

“There comes a time when the… the risk of doing nothing becomes the greatest risk of all.”

Once they decided to skip the primary and started getting contributions to a Biden/Harris campaign, it became virtually impossible to select anyone else once Biden dropped out. Only a Harris campaign could take over the money already raised for the campaign. Any other candidate would have to start fundraising a few months before the election starting from nothing, and would have been at a massive disadvantage.

voted my conscience by picking a third party instead of picking either unqualified candidates

Are you implying there was a qualified third party candidate? Is this an oxymoron?

Of course, which is the risk for at least Sotomayor this term. If Trump gets 3 more nominations, it could be possible that he’d be able to have 6 justices with an average age in their 50s, with plenty of time to continue the chaos.

Yeah, out of everything, his Supreme Court nominations are the longest lasting. They will outlive him and be a lasting influence for most of our lives. Every unconstitutional thing Republicans want to do will be handed to them by the SC. So long for checks and balances.

2020-2024 had no Supreme Court Justices to appoint.

Biden got one, Ketanji Brown Jackson, in 2022. And had Trump been president during this time, Thomas and Alito would have probably retired after Dobbs.

Trump had two weeks to pre-pardon them in 2021 and didn’t. 71 million people just voted for Trump this time around. If 0.01% of them are crazy rioters, that’s 7100 people at his disposable. He doesn’t need an additional few hundred who already went to jail and had their life turned upside down, and may not still be loyal.

Pardon all the losers who voted for him and committed crimes

I bet he won’t pardon the Jan 6. rioters since that doesn’t do anything for him. He already won with them in jail and without their votes, there’s nothing more he needs from them.

Thank you!

Anyone have a non-paywalled link?

“I’m playing both sides, so that I always come out on top losing”

~ Missourians, probably

Surely the party of states rights will not allow the federal government to take away the rights voted by people in the state \s