Because who can afford a new gaming rig/system AND games to play on it?

Getting upset over this is so draining, especially because there’s nothing we can do to stop him in the short term.

For me personally, I think the most draining part of the whole thing is that nothing was done to stop him in the 4 years he was out of power.
1,461 days, all of them spent listening to people talk about how horrible it would be if he got back into power, and yet absolutely fucking nothing was done in that time to prevent the horrible things we were warned about from happening.

Honestly, the journalists who normalized Trump for the last 4 years are responsible for the mess they're about to be in. Refusing to ask Trump hard questions while making Biden and Harris answer for every rumor pushed by the right.
I won't say I'm glad to see it happening, because an attack on journalism and the press is horrifying and carries some huge future implications, but I won't deny that I feel a bit of schadenfreude about it.
"Leopards will never eat my face"

Don't respond. Anyone who feels the need to express that is just looking for a reaction. Don't indulge them. When people genuinely dislike someone they tend to only interact with them when absolutely necessary, so if they're volunteering the information without being prompted it's only for a reaction.

Absolutely.
There are two ways to make sure nuclear weapons are never used in war:

1. No one has any nukes
2. Everyone has nukes.

#1 is never going to happen. The US, Russia, and China are for sure never ever giving up their nuclear weapons.
So #2 it is, level the playing field and give everyone nuclear weapons. A nation is far less likely to use a nuclear weapon if they know they can and will get nuked back right away.

If there's a Discworld community they'll love this

Michael Caine

A decade ago, It was predicted that we would hit 1.5°C between 2050-2060, and even as recently as 2 years ago the prediction had moved forward to between 2030-2040.
The next decade or two are going to be very... interesting

22 years? Yeah that is disheartening.

There are several states in the South and Midwest that possession of marijuana can land you life in prison. That's potentially a 70 year sentence for a young adult.

Yet these jackasses can attempt to overthrow the US Government and install an unelected dictator and the longest sentence we've seen yet is only 22 fucking years?

Yeah it is disheartening to see the hundreds that got off with house arrest, probation, or even at best landed behind bars for only a year or so.

By Ukraine or Russia?