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Damn that’s crazy. I knew federation could be slow but eight days is nuts.

I agree with you. Do you think people become more conservative with age or is it society becoming more progressive and leaving them behind? Obviously ignoring the current regressive times of the last eight+ years there.

To contribute an answer to the original question I offer this post as evidence of age- thinking about how much has changed during my life may have come through above.

Source on this? I was young but I remember that election. Perot seemed to be like some kind of ultracapitalist “run the country like a business” moron that people respected because he was rich. My grandpa loved him and I rarely heard him talk politics. He was also only educated to the sixth grade for what that’s worth.

Seems like the kind of guy to take a bite out of the conservative vote.

I’m gonna fix my ignorance and go look him up right now though.

Edit-- I’m back, learned a lot. I love that he supported electronic direct democracy way back in 1992. He was in favor of gun control and money for AIDS research. Openly supported gay rights in 1996 but notably not until his second campaign when he really had no chance.

He didn’t believe trickle down economics worked. Was a billionaire who spoke against greed which is really strange. But me calling him an ultracapitalist is probably misplaced. Also not a moron. He was into taxing the wealthy, starting to like this guy, but balancing the budget by cutting social programs, nevermind do not like.

He opposed outsourcing factory jobs and favored environmental protection. He wanted to decrease the budgets of both the military and NASA. Wanted to cancel the space station.

Quite the complicated guy. I love some of his policies and hate others. Seems like a weird mix when viewed through a modern lens. I think I’d have considered voting for him if I was ten years older in '92. Probably would have voted for Clinton though who notably achieved one of Perot’s primary goals, which was to balance the budget.

So I ended up researching Clinton’s campaign and it was straight up racist against black people. He also pledged to end welfare “as we know it”. I think I actually would have voted for Perot! Maybe there’s something to what you’re saying about reducing Clinton’s margin of victory.

Holy shit. I was around before the Internet and I’ve owned four smartphones.

Baker Bucket is a good name for a gravity bong setup.

I take vitamin D about 5 months out of the year. Stupid fall back daylight saving time is part of it. Makes me furious my already battered mental health has to get worse from changing the clocks.

If it makes you feel any better I’m 40 and I’ll never afford a house either. Millennials got screwed.

It wasn’t just the Midwest. I lived in West Virginia (in a city) and I had no power for seven days. And yeah holy shit it was 100 degrees every day and maximum humidity. 300 year old trees were scattered around like nothing.

Pretty common in hilly areas in my country and especially my state. For my house, you have to climb about fifteen stairs to go in the front door and the back door is ground level. It’s a small one storey house.

When I get crazy stressed at work I sometimes flip the fuck out. I scream and curse things like motherfucking cocksucker piece of shit where people can hear me. I’m a contractor so those people don’t know me or are just there at the place I’m working on. Occasionally I break shit when I get this fucked up.

I just came off two forced 80 hour work weeks no days off so it was pretty bad. I’m off now. I’m at peace.

A proper white Russian is half and half or cream. Don’t worry I drank plenty of milk ones after I watched the Big Lebowski when I was 20 but it’s just not the same.

Mods are great for fixing this.

Mind your own business and you’ll have a happier life, less hateful.

Part of the background noise really. I grew up with it so I’m used to it. I’m not really watchig the thing anyway, it’s just background noise while I do other shit. When it comes to PC, or something I’m actively watching, I don’t do ads at all.

TV is constant background noise that I don’t have to pick.

I’m talking ads you can’t avoid on TV. Yeah I’m so old I don’t have a screen in my face but across the room.

Maybe switch to antiperspirant? I did that many years ago and it really helped.

This is on cable TV. I don’t see ads online because I’m not a fucking idiot. I think cable ads are the same across the country but I’m not sure.

I’ve already been overly specific on this account and I don’t want to get doxxed. I install and service computer networks of a certain kind.