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  • Not who you’re replying to, but I’m a tab forgetter and a tab user.

    I try to clear my tabs daily, but regularly end up with 40-60 or so in a day at work. Plus tabs for PDFs, probably 10-15.

    I’ll click back to about 50% of the tabs I open at least once. But if I go weeks without clearing my tabs, it is definitely diminishing returns.

    PDFs I generally do reference back. I close my PDF program when I finish a few projects and get frustrated I can’t find my new one.


  • Yea, you’re right I should’ve said 10-30 years ago. But even that, its all a slippery slope. Democracy takes a lot of work.

    Here are two milestones on our descent.

    Under Obama:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC

    A bit further back:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_Act

    The patriot act is one that’s really been echoed in Europe recently with the age verification stuff.

    Electing far right leaders is a sign of what might come. And if your response to it is, “our elected far right politicians don’t shit themselves on camera, we’re better than America” then you’re going down the same path we did. When the Patriot Act passed, critics were shutdown, because this is America, and we’re the righteous ones, our leaders are elected and want to see our country succeed. If you time traveled to 2001 and warned people of everything that Trump is doing now, they wouldn’t believe you.

    We’re not saying America is better. We’re not saying that we have the answers. We’re saying that your path looks familiar.



  • I do wish we were back at the point you are at.

    A lot of the European news I’ve noticed echoes some of the points we were at 10-20 years ago. It’s a lot easier to fight back against at the point you’re at, but it’s also a bit harder to convince people that it is problematic.

    When we’re ready to start making our country better again, it’ll be good to have role models. And if we don’t make our country better, I don’t want to drag Europe down with us.

    We Americans may be a special kind of stupid, but if you love your country, you should recognize that it can still happen anywhere.



  • This shit, right here, is the exact underwear I’ve been wearing since 2014. Without David Archy, I wouldn’t have been able to run 3 marathons, or do a lot of stuff.

    I started 2014 with briefs. Then the boys got sweaty. That led to cheeseballs. I realized that the boys needed to breathe a bit more.

    So I switched to boxers. I did a lot of walking and a lot of stairs, in boots. One day, I was going down the stairs and I took a step and a sharp pain shot up my nuts.

    Went to the doctor, he said I needed more support. I told him my issue with briefs and he said to look for a natural fiber.

    So I started researching natural fibers, and micro-modal is one of the best. It’s wicking, cooling, etc, but still cotton. You won’t get no cheese balls with it.

    But I was still scared of the compression that happens with briefs.

    Eventually, I found David Archy’s. They’ve got a sack for your sack that keeps em separated. Woah. Gotta keep em seperated.

    I slapped these bad boys on and have been wearing them ever since:

    https://davidarchy.com/products/david-archy-mens-dual-pouch-underwear-micro-modal-trunks-separate-pouches-with-fly-4-pack

    In terms of buy it for life, it’s probably not it. But I have ordered new underwear from David Archy’s about once every 4 years. And for underwear, I think that’s pretty good. I’m sure if I didn’t shove absolutely everything in the washer, it might hold up even better. But I’m lazy.

    I feel like the sizing runs a bit larger, but I haven’t worn any other brand of underwear since 2014, so I don’t know if that’s actually true. But you get a tight fit and your partner will be like, “dayum.”

    Edit: sorry, I didn’t see what community this was at first. I don’t think this is an EU brand. But I would look for micro modal, and a sack for your sack (which seems to be called pouch underwear). I did a look, there are a few EU brands that sell pouch, I didn’t see any that separate the boys from the shaft though, with DA does.









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    Oh and I forgot to answer the additional question. Good ol’ Chucky boy gives money to Israel for the love of the game. There was a subtle nod the the banana stand in Arrested Development when the first Israel donation.

    Centrists love genocide. It’s one of the main reasons people choose to vote for a centrist over a progressive. Centrists take joy in murdering middle eastern kids, just like Republicans.



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    I think from your edit, youre getting it. But to be clear:

    Centrist voters bid to their exact position. They are walking into the negotiating room with their ideal final offer.

    A smart centrist democratic voter would vote for a far left politician, thus bidding to an extreme high, so that their compromise is where they want to be.

    It sounds like you may not be American, but for context completely unrelated to this comic, Amy Schumer’s uncle is feckless Chuck Schumer. Obviously, and not just in the interest of not wanting to get sued, I chose the name Chuck at random.



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    Centrist democrats in congress constantly negotiate by starting in the center.

    They may want to get rid of all student debt.

    But they want to be good faith, bipartisan law makers, so they soften their stance to begin negotiation. They bring to the negotiation table something like, “no student debt for teachers, government workers, and social workers.”

    The Republican lawmakers then say, “meet us in the middle. We’ll only get rid of debt for government workers, if they work 10 years in government.”

    The centrists agree.

    And centrist voters are just as dumb. They vote for their strongest positions to be the starting point of negotiations. Want affordable healthcare? Start your negotiations with free healthcare for all. At the very least, when you meet in the middle, you’ll have affordable healthcare.