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It’s one of those “critique of pure reason” things. The “logic” here is informed by epidemiology, not hypotheticals or dialectics or anything like that, so those methods of discovery may not be effective in refuting such evidence. In reality it’s not as simple as legalize or don’t legalize as a binary issue - theres an entire policy framework which comes with those things.

It’s the shy voter effect. When politicians are unpopular, people don’t like to admit to supporting them. In most historical cases, this correlates with low turnout, so the effects on polling tend to cancel out. When Trump has been on the ballot, this correlation hasn’t held up the same way, and polling has slightly underestimated MAGA turnout.

Basically it depends on how “real” you think Trump’s unpopularity actually is. Are these people done with him, or just annoyed enough not to talk to pollsters?

I just assumed it was cake

I need the sauce for archival purposes

A rare moment of lucidity

Someone check Lemmy.ml traffic

Tarantulas aren’t cheap pets. That’s definitely sending a message.

I remember when these actually had trombone spit. Now it’s all filler.

Instructions unclear, will continue to consume 85% of my daily calories as beer and olives.

50 hours of b-movie cut scenes it just every AAA game these days. Regardless of what some people really want to believe, no games are ever really on par with actual A-list cinema. That’s not to say no game has a good story. Being interactive provides cover for a lot of mediocre storytelling, but the reality of the situation is that actual Hollywood grade production, direction and writing simply isn’t making its way into game development. This may change as gaming becomes bigger than cinema, but I still thing the medium presents a lot of challenges.

Actually they avoided an inedible stain, because Trump would have shit himself at the ceremony.

Oh damn this explains a lot actually.

I knew it was a leftist instance. I went into it (naively) excited to engage with a more thoughtful leftist internet space, considering it was a bunch of reddit exiles who were upset about heavy handed Reddit censorship. I was quite disappointed to learn quickly that it was just more of the same tankie brain rot, with more of the same tankie censorship you can find in a thousand different tedious places.

Even then I stuck with it for a bit. And then I learned that the head admin was potentially the most fragile person on the Internet, who literally will not post outside his own instance because he cannot handle any internet where he does not have (what he believes to be) a “win argument” ban button. It is literally so cringe, I cannot stand to be associated with it, and I don’t understand how other people tolerate being associated with his antics.