DeepFriedDresden

Do you have a Microcenter near you? Their prices are usually the best I’ve found. They have some shippable gaming laptops that just barely miss the specs or price target you have from what I saw but it’s worth looking into.

Since individuals aren’t 501©3 non-profits it wouldnt be tax deductible and is treated by the IRS as a gift, so a gift tax may apply depending on amount given. Just in case you were curious as to why it’s not a tax write-off.

I think they don’t see it because the people who support Trump and see him as a harbinger of prosperity are the same people who take the Bible at face value and are already of the belief that should the Rapture come tomorrow, they certainly won’t be left below.

They believe in the wrathful God of the Old Testament, they are fundamentalists and they are a far cry from what good Christians can be. Should Jesus come tomorrow, these people would have him lynched as a pinko liberal, labeling him the antichrist.

They’re not Christian because they have read the Bible and learned to love thy neighbor and become a righteous person, they are Christian because they have been told a lake of hellfire awaits those who don’t accept Jesus and they were indoctrinated into the religion of Revelations. They’ve been fed the cherry-picked apples of knowledge by pastors with agendas and never challenged the version of God they were given.

Trumps persecution by the state and mainstream politics fuels this fire. Surely if he were the antichrist he would not have been challenged by the DOJ and “anti-christian” liberals. In their minds, his path to the white house, as a leader of men, parallels Jesus.

Because he retired from the show in 2015. Hence why he’s only coming back part time. It was his choice to leave the first time, so that’s probably why he was the last one to reach out to.

This feels like the beginning to Nightmare at 20000 Feet

Propaganda does not have to have a hidden agenda. Literally the “I want you” uncle Sam poster is propaganda. That agenda was pretty obvious, there was no question who was behind it and it was pretty clear why it was commissioned in the first place.

There has been propaganda encouraging car-pooling, reusing materials, conserving electricity, promoting employment etc, and many of them even had credits as to who the message was coming from.

Propaganda is not inherently evil, but it’s important to understand the context and where it’s coming from.

Yes, but people who order a burger medium can still get sick. Not to mention heightened risk of cross contamination with ready to eat foods.

It’s just safer to not use meat from a source known to have food-borne bacteria. Food safety is designed with many layers of protection, if you already know the first layer has failed, an unsafe source of food, then you’re now counting on kitchen staff to protect you.

Not to say kitchen staff are inherenrly unreliable, but during a weekend dinner rush with low pay and high pressure, things can go wrong, so it’s just best to take out food that is already a risk.

It already is an option in certain states in the US and I think parts of Europe.

Close. He died on 4/30, he was born on 4/20. But there were many deaths at Columbine High School on 4/20/1999.

Problem drinking and alcoholism aren’t the same though. 9 out of 10 excessive drinkers aren’t alcohol dependent. So yeah, while many people who at some point have a problem with drinking can learn to moderate without future issues, I don’t know if most of them would fall into the alcohol dependency category.

When I replied, you didn’t have all of that info in there. Good for you though, if it works then great!

Yeah I’m going to have to agree. I’m an alcoholic myself and this is a problematic way of living with it. Moderation seldom works for alcoholics as it is and by putting your choice to drink on someone else’s offerings seems to just be a way to escape any blame should it end in full relapse.

Everybody’s journey is different though so I’m not going to judge. But at no point was I able to stop drinking until I straight stopped drinking. As they say “one drink is too much and a hundred isn’t enough.”

That’s pretty much the year. Like they will have to cut off the data collection at some point. Because, well, when the wrapped Playlist comes out, you’re probably going to listen to that Playlist a few times, to recap your year, which would drive more data for those songs.

I dunno, just seems like a silly thing to worry about. “Oh my gosh they only captured 11 months of my listening! How will I know that I went from Taylor Swift non-stop for 11 months and then nothing but Mayhem for all of December!!” It’s a personal record of what you listened to throughout the year, and its kind of fun to see, but it has no actual bearing on your music taste. You still like what you like.

December can skew the wrap though. People will listen to more holiday music in December, they might use their spotify for Xmas parties, while wrapping presents, or just listen to it because 'tis the season. Suddenly Mariah Carey is contending for a top 10 artist and holiday music could be one of your top genres.

My buddy gave me a VHS camcorder and VCR for Christmas in like 2015. My favorite thing to do with them was to buy VHS movies from the thrift store and record home movies over them, but each time I would start to record I would randomly fast forward a minute or two. It was kinda cool and trippy to watch goofy shit we’d do and then it phases into a random scene from Edward Scissorhands before going back into the next adventure of ours.

USB-C wasn’t designed until 2014. So yeah you’ll need a charging cable regardless

Don’t forget a charger, otherwise you’ll be screwed for awhile

Kissinger didn’t give a shit about the Jewish people, or people at all, even after seeing first hand the horrors of the Holocaust. Kissinger backed the genocide of Bengali Hindus, personally approved bombings in Cambodia, directly influenced the reign of terror that would murder thousands of Chileans, and told Nixon that the gassing of Soviet Jews wasn’t America’s concern. He called US jews who called for action against the Soviets “self serving bastards” and completely ignored his own heritage when visiting his home town in Germany.

Amazing that you would claim him when he wouldn’t claim you.

Scanning your own ID probably won’t be a thing since it won’t be able to determine whether the ID belongs to you or not.

Yeah money gets around, which means once you exchange it, it loses all connection to you. Merchants don’t track serial numbers, and there’s no guarantee those bills will be picked up in the next deposit to the bank.

That’s why banks use dye packs, because once it’s gone there’s no actual way to track it. If there were, they wouldn’t use dye packs…