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The restrictions on RF in aircraft are not based on band, last I heard. Low signal strength might let them slip by, but the question is will staff know that? Are you going to argue with them about it until they remove you from the plane? shrug I'm just saying, if radio signals are the problem, other sources of radio signals are also potentially a problem. Seems like it'd just be easier to use wired/attached/whatever controllers (I don't own a Switch, I dunno how that works.)

Yes because if it isn’t perfect may as well not even try.

Do you have to try to be that disingenuous or does it come natural?

What a thing is trying to be is pretty irrelevant to what it is. A wife-beater can talk all he wants about how hard he's trying to stop beating his wife, but meanwhile she's got a fresh supply of new bruises every day. Whether or not he's trying to stop, what he's doing is beating his wife, so is he a wife-beater or is he a changed man? Here's a hint in case it's not as obvious to you as it is to everyone else: he's still a wife-beater, but that doesn't mean he should stop trying to change.

The fact that the US talked a big game about democracy does not make it a democracy, but that also doesn't mean it should've stop trying to become one.

If the wifi on the switch is a problem on airplanes, why are wireless controllers not also a problem? It's still RF signals, just in a different band of the EM spectrum whether it's bluetooth, or something else.

Yup, they have no positive vision for the future anymore since they're so far up the oligarchs' asses they can't see past the end of their nose. And people still choose the 'lesser evil' and then act like they're somehow surprised that what they got was still evil.

Indeed, on both counts.

Nah the kids are strictly an excuse of convenience. So much of conservative antipathy toward gay, queer, trans, etc people amounts to 'get back in the closet so that I can forget that people who are different than me exist.' They are willing to heap a lot of hate, discrimination, etc upon other people just so they don't have to be a little uncomfortable occasionally. Pretty much any time someone drops a 'Won't someone please think of the children?!' what they mean is 'I hate this but I can frame it as being about protecting children so I don't look like a hateful bastard.'

Democracy isn't defined relative to other countries. Only property-owners could vote, and only white men could own property, so that means the vast majority of the population couldn't vote. That doesn't sound like a democracy to me, that sounds like an aristocracy. I will grant you it was more democratic than monarchies and such, but even some of them (like the UK) had a parliamentary system so the king's power wasn't universal. They were deeply unequal, of course, but that's just the pot calling the kettle black, because so was (and is) the US.

Right? Someone clearly hasn't read Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States.

Aside from this being a little fucking melodramatic and defeatist, the thing that really bothers me is the implicit assumption that if only we'd all just vote blue no matter who we wouldn't have this problem, like the Democratic Party hasn't been kowtowing to and enabling those same oligarchs to undermine our democracy. It's like they're standing in the rubble of a bombing and saying, 'This is happening because you chose the short fuse on the bomb, if only you had chosen the long fuse we ~~wouldn't have noticed this happening quite so quickly~~ wouldn't be having this problem!'

Don't get me wrong, boom tomorrow is definitely better than boom today, but it's important to not forget that there was never not going to be a boom.

It's political correctness expanded to also care about how people talk about gender issues and such. That's all. And it's so hilarious to see people feel threatened by such an inoffensive idea as 'maybe respect people and how they want to be addressed or referred to.'

I have recently combined my love of (real) mayo and spicy brown mustard on sandwiches and burgers and the shit is 🔥.

What could have been is more of the fucking same. If you think mainstream Republicans aren't also falling over themselves to implement Project 2025 you haven't been paying attention.