Shouldn’t be turning people away that are apologetic, but don’t think the path to victory lies there. All the people that are sitting out elections are the ones that should be targeted. So few of eligible voters are actually doing so.

Handy guide, but this whole USB situation is a cock-up, since it needs the freakin guide in the first place.

Saw a FB post from him with the “Killdozer” drawing, and the text of ‘Tread on them’. He may have done good work, but that does not make him heroic.

Apparently, the classification levels in the US are illegal! Snowden will rejoice, he can come home, as the first amendment allows free speech, even when it damages national security.

I did not read the article, but the summary made me actually laugh out loud. Hell the supreme court has already said the government has the right to intern a whole class of US citizens based on national security. The SCOTUS rulings do seem rather crazy at times to me though, so perhaps this is a winning strategy for ByteDance.

I still miss having a physical keyboard for messages. If HTC had kept making slide out keyboard phones, I woulda kept buying. Though it seems, based on market trends, I might have been one of the very few.

Dungeons & Dragons (2000)

One of the few movies I’ve gotten more than a few minutes into, but stopped watching. Seem to remember my breaking point being when some female char was supposed to be struggling to crawl forward, but instead looked like she was swimming on the floor. Seems to me the actors aren’t bad, but the director must have been.

They towed the boat out of the environment.

Can’t wait to hear about the violations, and their million dollar fine.

I think you’ll find that Kennedy is the one that really ramped up the Vietnam war/conflict. He even knew the intervention would fail, but committed more troops anyway. Many southern democrats did indeed try to stop democracy also, during reconstruction. I realize that both of these things are decades or more old, but this goes back to the overconfidence in our group that the article was just describing.

And putting money in the bank is just rent for living? The money is used to increase your home’s value. But I see we are at an impasse, and will be done discussing it.

It’s nothing like a landlord, as the person living in the apartment owns said apartment. The owner makes the money off it when it’s next sold.

While often HOAs are abusive, and I don’t want to ever be a part of one, I also don’t want to live in a condo/apartment again. Someone needs to take care of the building, so they set up HOAs which, when run well, are democratic. You elect the board, you can go to the meetings and make your voice heard. If you speak well you can convince all the people in the building to get behind the idea you’re championing. Condos require a Home Owner’s Association due to the fact that no one person should get to dictate how the common area is run, and no one should be on the hook to fix, say, an elevator. Everyone pays dues, and those dues pay for the repairs.

If people elect to hire a company to be the head of the HOA, well they’re choosing to be lazy, and for that reason, the HOA will be paying the company to run it’s affairs. If the HOA is run by the residents, no money is going to enrich any one person, the money is being used to enrich everyone that lives there, through keeping the building in good shape to raise the value of their personal property.

Would imagine it’s an HOA situation.

There’s a company that owns the land, and it’s sole purpose is to maintain the land and common areas of the building. All the units could be individually owned, and that company exists to have a bank account that can pay for repairs/repaints. In this situation I’m describing, while the company would own the building, they have no ability to raise rents, as all the units would be owned by the tenants.