Democrats have guns. They just don't worship their guns, display them like phallic symbols, or make a big deal of having them like conservative nutsos do. So there's a ridiculous stereotype that Democrats don't have guns and want to take guns away that conservative nutsos use to terrify their base into voting against responsible gun ownership laws.

I have no hope, only fantasies that people will come to their senses someday. Hope? Nah.

Bad news about depression. The clinical kind? The stuff you're describing? We don't have a cure yet. We have stuff that will alleviate symptoms and allow a person to live an almost normal life, but it doesn't cure it. Worse, you might find a medication that seems to fix it, but your body may eventually adjust to it and the depression will come back.

Talk to your psychiatrist. They should have some suggestions that might help.

I've had to deal with depression my entire life. The fight is constant and real. Don't give up.

"That was left-handed!"

So instead we're going to have to listen to half-baked conspiracy theories for the next few years in addition to everything else. Gah!

Easy enough to disprove. Do the hand recounts in the supposedly affected states. If those hand recounts aren't done, there's going to be a lot of progressives who spend the next four years looking as lunatic as the "stop the steal" people - with the difference being that there was a really easy way to disprove the lunacy that wasn't used, whereas the "stop the steal" was disproven multiple times and even went to court repeatedly.

So, what I'm saying, just do the damn recount so we can put this thing to rest.

She's trying to extort her fellow Republicans into not releasing the report, not realizing that the public is saying, "HELL YEAH!" at the suggestion. What's sad is it might actually work, and they won't release anything.

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Right, I understand you now. You are being pedantic about the definition of Kessler Syndrome, assuming people are using it to refer to a permanent status. Gotcha.

In short, you don't disagree, you just aren't using the same words to mean the same thing as everyone else, leading to confusion and conflict.

Kessler Syndrome, even if it "only" lasts a few years, would be devastating. That is what people are worried about, and that is what could happen, even with low earth orbits. Given big enough pieces of debris, the "any significant period of time" you refer to could certainly be significant enough to cause lasting problems.

Just to be clear... you believe because the satellites are low enough that they will only last a few years, that they cannot run into each other and cause a cascading effect of debris? I mean, sure, the cascading effect (Kessler Syndrome) might only last a few years, but it still could happen, couldn't it? Or is there something special about them that means they can't actually accidentally run into each other and break apart, with the pieces hitting other satellites and breaking apart...?

I'm not sure why these satellites being in low orbit protects them from the laws of physics.

No lies detected (Seattle native here)

Miez has helped me to get through the day. Please give another scritch for me.

Are links allowed? https://wandering.shop/@realtegan/113465326723014007

Edit: It's also in the original post, I just noticed. Not used to Lemmy yet. And I'm treating the first part of your post as being as flippant as I tend to be. If you meant it, please let me know so I can swat you with the clue-by-four.

You know, I wrote it kind as a flippant comment, not expecting anyone to pay attention (because, really, who pays attention to me?) and suddenly it's all over the place.

Anyway, I already responded to a lot of people who commented on the original post. I eventually had to mute it due to too much traffic. So if you want to see more, go look at what people were telling me over there. I don't disagree with most of it, and I think having a good discussion on the subject of this is probably a good thing.

I love the ghost cats. Thank you for introducing me to this artist.

Sounds like a contradiction in terms to me.

Interesting stats in the statistical analysis: "The most decisive contest was for Best Game or Interactive Experience, where the winner got 47.0% of nominating votes and 42.7% of final ballot first preferences, winning on the fourth count of a possible six."

The other finalists were Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Chants of Sennaar, DREDGE, Alan Wake 2, and Star Wars Jedi: Survivor.

A "save Karlach" DLC that takes into account all your choices during the main game... like, did you rescue the Gondians? Did you kill Raphael so the House of Hope is available? Did Tav and Wyll go with Karlach? Did you romance Karlach (I want SPICY)? I'd want lots more lines from Karlach and a frigging dancing scene with her at some point, because Karlach just begs to be danced with.

In my mind, the story would have to range all over the world, and we'd finally see the upper city and some of the other places visited in the previous games. Add in more potential companions, and some hard choices to make it interesting. I think my fantasy would basically make it into a BG4, so I know it'll never happen.

Tagline, "First you saved the world, now can you save your friend?"

I play (PC). Finished with the current season, just doing daily challenges now. I usually go nuts on the seasons/scoreboards and finish them as quick as possible without doing the xp grind, and just wander around having fun the rest of the time. I've been playing a bit more than a year, and I'm around level 650 or so. I'm usually close to max on caps, so all my plans and recipes sell for 1 cap no matter how rare they are, but lately I've been anti-social and put my camp away so I can just run around shooting things.