[–] 21 points 1 week ago*

From Sep 20, 2020:

President Donald Trump told supporters Saturday night that he will never speak to them again if he loses the election in November. 

Speaking at a campaign rally in Fayetteville, North Carolina, Trump railed against rival Joe Biden, calling him "the worst candidate in the history of presidential politics."

"If I lose to him, I don't know what I'm going to do. I will never speak to you again," Trump told the attendees at the rally. "You'll never see me again."

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-says-youll-never-see-me-again-loses-to-biden-2020-9

Obviously not what happened, and never in a million years would he actually admit to losing an election.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 child)

    If those things don't matter, why'd you list them as complaints?

    Frankly, I don't buy this particular issue as "choice being taken away from us," I see it as obsolete technology falling by the wayside. As far as I'm concerned the freedom from having your head physically tethered to some other device outweighs any of the concerns anyone's brought up, so why would I be upset about losing the "choice" to use an objectively worse option?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago* (3 children)

    FWIW I've exclusively used wireless buds and over-ears for years now and none of those things has ever been an issue for me.

    For charging, I take five seconds at the end of the day to check the charge and plug them in overnight if necessary. I've never once had to think about wireless protocols. I've had to re-pair them a literal handful of times. I've never had to use a dedicated app.

    Are there trade-offs? Yes, absolutely. But for me, none of them come close to rivalling the massive inconvenience of having your head physically tethered to another device. Being freed from the cord outweighs every other consideration by an order of magnitude.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 week ago

    But they give you the link to the definition of "emulsion" right there in the text. If you don't know the word, all it takes to find out is one single click. That's not laziness, it's efficient simplicity.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 weeks ago

    Republican voters: spend an entire decade primarying any representative who dares to push back on Trump even a little

    Also Republican voters: "Why isn't Congress reining in the President's harmful and reckless policies?

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  • [–] 16 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    If that sounds like a crazy amount, just remember that it's only 0.05% of his net worth. Proportionally it's the equivalent of me making a fifty-dollar donation.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    What really annoys me about this one is that if there really was a drink that would make you grow breasts, surely it would be regular milk, no? The fluid secreted from the mammary glands of post-partum female mammals?

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