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…requiring 15 push-ups, 32 sit-ups, and running one-and-a-half miles in 14 minutes…

That’s a stupidly easy test. I’m a programmer, gamer, and I have a bad back, and I can easily do that.

Are you in Victoria? They have peacocks running around Beacon Hill Park: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beacon_Hill_Park#Ecology

OK, that’s weird. Your comment works for me, but when I tried updating my comment to that syntax, it didn’t work.

I’ll play around with it and see if maybe I just typo’d and need more coffee or something.

Is it not hidden? I’m on a pie-fed instance, and it works fine for me.

I’m not sure that you’re gonna find “The Answer” that you want on here, but this is my attempt: Vote for someone that isn’t the lesser evil. Self Organize on a local level. Fight fascist supporters even when they pretend to be the good guys. Unionize.

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So it’s fair to say that the Democrats won’t sue to keep other leftist parties off the ballot? They’ll back leftist candidates even when it’s not their “chosen” candidate? They’ll actually oppose fascism rather than continue to pave the way for the facists? That they won’t keep pushing more funding to facist policies and systems, and will actually dismantle the facists’ tools?

Because I continuously see them do the opposite of those things.

which is currently the only other actual option in our political system

Premise: false

Isn’t it weird how continuing to do the things that got us here, isn’t fixing the problems that were created? I wonder why that could be. I guess we’ll never know.

…yes voting for the lesser evil is not the best option it’s still better than just letting the evil evil win.

Who said that we should just let the evil win? I don’t see that anywhere.

It’s so weird to me how many people accept the binary that’s been handed to them. As though the ones that hand you that choice would ever let one of the options be to your advantage.

I gave up on khan academy after having this happen enough times.

/me glares at TTRSS after seeing this meme

It’s rare for me, but yeah, it does happen. I usually try Epic Games Launcher, Lutris, then Steam. If it doesn’t work with any of those, I ask for my money back.

No, the problem is Neoliberalism. The Dems that you listed aren’t the outcasts of the party, they are the goal of the party. Their entire purpose is to absorb the rage of leftists into thinking that one of the two parties is actually fighting for the people.

ITT: People pretend that Democrats give a shit about democracy, or what their voters want.

Democrats when they are the majority: “OMG, the Republicans are preventing us from giving you any of the things that you want. I guess we gotta go bomb a bunch of brown people, and spend a bunch of monies on our rich friends.”

Democrats when they are the minority: “What do you want us to do? We don’t have any power. I guess we gotta vote for the Republican policies.”

You don’t even have to read it, there’s a movie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent_(film/)

Seriously. I pretty much only buy things off GoG nowadays. I can back it up to my own storage, and take it wherever I want. High-five to GoG.

This is what fascist supporters don’t understand. The fascists will turn on anyone in a heartbeat. It doesn’t even have to make logical sense. As long as it gives them any kind of political advantage, real or perceived, they will turn on their allies.

Lepards eating faces, and all that.

I’m not who you asked, but I wrote PHP website years ago, that stores everything in an .ini file. It’s super simple, and has worked for us for over a decade with minimal updates.