One correction… I wish RPis were still cheap.

They also fill it all sorts of unnecessary shit while forgoing basic safety features such as, idk, being able to open the door in the event of power failure.

The CA Prop 65 warnings are largely meaningless because it’s cheaper for companies to label their goods with the warning than to test to the level of precision required to prove that the label can be left out.

I think you underestimate the number of people who protest voted by refusing to vote at all, which is neither an actual protest vote nor the same type of problem. Not that I think it would have been a guaranteed tipping point, but it sure would have made things a bit closer. Compound that with one of the (designed) effects of the electoral college (devaluing voter turnout in high-population states), and you widen that gap much more.

“America will have the most lethal military” and other signalings in favor of status quo imperialism sure did kill any interest for many left wingers to vote, and anecdotally I know many of my left-proclaiming peers took that as reason to forego the polls altogether.

Ah, yeah… the kid who had zero influence on any of it deserves zero sympathies. Got it…

They were specific about those who weren’t straight white males. That includes gay white men and white women. Doesn’t seem like a race thing to me.

Looks like I’m late to the party!

All of that delectable FAFO snark, and then the AI generated logo at the end. Bleh.

I’m just waiting for the cattle farmer interviews to roll in on the news.

“I voted for him twice, and I would vote for him again, but he’s really making it hard for us out here. At this rate I’ll have to sell the ranch, which has been in the family for five generations.”

Account made 5 days ago to refer to POC as “blacks” and suck on capitalism’s toes.

Yes -> Absolutely