How did you get into going your "job"? Sounds super interesting and cool

As someone from Kentucky, I could've sworn that I saw reports coming out that the margin McConnell was winning by in some rural counties was higher than the ratio of registered Republicans to Democrats. Implying that a large swath of rural democrats were voting for McConnell. Now, I don't claim to know every democrat in the state. However, every democrat I met hates the guy and a lot of republicans hold their nose voting for him.

Also as quickly as I saw those reports, they vanished. Myriad of reasons to explain things, but sure seems odd, right?

Does that not hurt you on your taxes/government forms? For instance, for a period of time, my wife was making far less than me and that helped us with our taxes by giving us deductions since our combined income was under a certain threshold. I believe it helps with other things as well.

Just trying to call you out, just curious because I saw this as a net benefit overall.

It's a bit reductionist to boil Obama down to the shit implementation of Obamacare that the GOP killed in the womb. I encourage you to read on it. TL;DR, it was gonna be pretty good, but the GOP threw a fit that it was going to be a win for Dems and tanked it. You're also leaving out the fact that Obama expanded gay rights and got talking about climate change on a policy level. Should both of those things happened sooner? Yes, but that's letting perfect be the enemy of good.

Biden isn't amazing and honestly, I don't care for him much. However, I doubt he letting the genocide in Gaza happen for profits. With the Dem's own party, Israel is a divisive issue and I'm sure he's having to tread carefully so it doesn't shoot in the foot later because politicians are scummy petty people

You got science right, but math is blue because it's cold and calculating while English is red because it's full of passion and life

Pancakes

Yeah, but to me that seems worst. If the fascist comes to power by a slim a majority, it's these 'honorable' citizens to blame. Voting is a simple act that holds tons of power. I'm not gonna say that one vote could change the tide, but the past two elections have been slim where key voters in certain states can certainly change the outcome of the election.

If you want to change the system, you don't fix it by throwing your hands up and say 'I don't want to play anymore'. You fix it by voting and pestering the fuck out of your representatives to change the laws.

Ehh, I'm sure it's something like if they let you manage your subscription through the play store, Google is entitled to their 30% cut. If you subscribe through desktop, they'd like to keep 100% of the money opposed to 70%. Might be off base, but I'd wager that's the reason

Google seems to be caught in an awful feedback loop. I feel like at this point, most tech savy people are weary to try new Google services for fear of liking them, but eventually getting shutdown. In turn causing those tech savy users to not recommend it to their friends/family that actually might cause it to grow.

Honestly don't know how they get out it without either losing tons of money on maybe side projects or happening across the one things that's so good it's impossible to not use. The latter seems more unlikely by the day

That comes down to your state. For Instance, in KY, we have closed primaries so you can only vote with the party you have registered. The general election are open, of course, but the intent is to keep people from voting for the best candidate in their party and the worst for the competing parties.

Every state does it a little different though. Some states like Iowa don't even have primaries, they have caucuses. That's you go into a room (typically a school gym) with a bunch of other people and move from side. Being on a certain side counts as a vote. The main drawal to this approach is it encourages people to discuss their thoughts on matters.

Typically though, Dems will have a primary. Even if all the other candidates drop and Biden is the only option.

If you're interested in the Dems, I wouldn't recommend voting in other parties primaries. In the lead up to Trump vs. Hillary, many democratic analysist hoped that Trump his primaries. Thinking that it would be a slam dunk for Hilary to win. We all saw how that turned out...

For real. Only two other people have officially stepped forward, but I didn't learn about that until I seeked that information out.

Imo seemed like they don't have a ton of funding and that could be that the powers that have money see Biden as having the best chance.

Ahh, an enjoyer of technology connections I see