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Indeed, it is way better to have a vindictive, narcissitic asshat with the intelligence of a seven year old as POTUS. Or worse, imagine if Biden had become president and stepped aside after his cancer diagnosis, it'd be a mixed race femoid with a weird laugh running the country. Unthinkable.

You make the mistake of thinking that Trump is the only one who is the problem here. It's all the people behind Trump that are the problem. You can't compare this with the Biden side, like, at all. It's pure and unfiltered greed. If Trump would die tomorrow, nothing would change. They'll just turn him into this mystical godlike figure and keep on keeping on. You have to get rid of the entire upper echelon of the GOP and I doubt that's ever going to happen. That said, I really need to stop engaging with you when it comes to Trump. Your incredibly consistent naïveté (I googled how to write that, I think it's a nice word) everything Trump related gives me serious rage. That's master level political trolling.

am so not embracing the biden v. trump cognitive race to the bottom. neither one 'o them shoulda' been running for President in to 2024. we mentioned multiple times how we wouldn't trust either one 'o them behind the wheel o' a car or working a gas stove, so why on earth would we think they were up to handling the office o' President? am thinking it's possible that most o' the biden team had genuine convinced themselves that he could still handle the duties of President in 2024, 'cause people are capable o' all kinda self-delusion and goal post shifting when confronted with tough choices. what am not able to accept is that the biden folks thought joe could manage another four years, and if that is the case, then multiple people shoulda' stepped forward to insist on a traditional primary. should never have needed get to the debate performance. am not letting the biden folks off the hook. they doomed democrats by not convincing biden to step away and let somebody else be the democrat candidate. unlike biden, trump is the one who shows legit signs o' dementia as 'posed to just old age, but so what? biden were looking very old, too old to be President. nevertheless, biden weren't a threat to democracy who had already tried to stop the peaceful transfer of power. biden were not a convicted felon who had, according to grand jury testimony of his own lawyers, attempted to prevent federal agents from retrieving top secret documents from mar-a-lago where he directed multiple persons to destroy evidence o' his interaction with those documents. biden were never found liable for sexual assault/digital rape. biden weren't talking about the enemy within and a mass deportation o' 20 million people, which is the approximate population of ny state. etc. elections is usually a lesser of evils choice. the thing is, biden were old and NOT on the ballot at the time of the election. we didn't much like kamala harris either, but compared to trump? even if all the republican fever dreams 'bout harris were born out, the worst case scenario for 2025 is... what exact? with a republican house, senate and this Court, harris wouldn't have been executive ordering her way to through the charred embers of the Constitution even if she had immunity from prosecution. so maybe a few more trans athletes competing in girls/women's sports? economically, what could she have done that were worse than trump's tariffs idiocy? and again, am a fiscal conservative, so am most certain not embracing many o' the progressive suggestions regarding economic change, but the US did better than virtual the rest o' the world post pandemic and is not as if the biden folks had implemented a communist takeover while nobody were looking. with biden out of the race and none o' those pesky age/capacity concerns at play with harris, it were difficult for us to see why a traditional free market conservative would vote for trump instead o' harris... even if we were able to ignore the rape, felonies, obstruction, mass deportation and "enemy within" crap from trump, which we couldn't. but yeah, the biden folks had to know he weren't fit to be President for another four years... and? HA! Good Fun!

Well, his and his doctor's. It's probably the most detailed section of the report, for whatever that's worth, since it mentions no less than three specific tests. It is perhaps relevant that you don't tend to get people saying Trump's doctors think he has anxiety or depression, which were the other two tests he took along with the MoCA. It's pretty clearly so a damned if you do, damned if you don't for Trump. Whatever he does people are going to think it's evidence he has dementia. If he takes a test it's because his doctors think he's got dementia. But if he doesn't take one then that's because he's trying to hide his dementia instead and he'd probably end up taking one anyway. He certainly has signs of mental decline, but that is what inevitably happens to old people. 14 for Trump, 20 for Biden. Number and even quality doesn't necessarily correlate to effectiveness though, given those 20 medical professionals missed Biden's cancer. In terms of a neurologist specifically, Biden's campaign claimed he'd seen one three times during his presidency, by way of comparison. Don't really want to write a thesis level analysis but quick and dirty: cognitive tests like the MoCA are useful because they're quick- and if you're seeing 14 or 20 specialists in a day that is important, same as it is if you're seeing a dozen patients a day- and a litmus test for a specific symptom. Dementia can be hard to diagnose from 'physical' tests, in part because it isn't actually a disease per se but a symptom of (a) disease(s) (or other cause) such as Alzheimer's/ Parkinson's/ ischaemia/ TBI etc. eg my dad had no direct physical symptoms at all when he was diagnosed despite two MRIs.

I was playing, and it turns out nothing respawns in the game literally nothing. So once you clear an area, the whole place just stays completely empty. You end up spending most of the time just walking around like it’s some kind of walking simulator, ‘cause there’s no one left to shoot at. It makes zero sense it’s the first game of this kind I’ve seen where enemies don’t respawn at all, and it’s supposed to have RPG elements too? Like, what the hell were they thinking? And someone please explain to me how this makes any sense when the game used to be even more expensive. For the kind of game it’s supposed to be, it’s completely broken and unfinished. And it’s not just me saying it if you’ve actually played it, you know what I’m talking about. Though honestly, I doubt the devs even tested it, ‘cause this is a huge problem. A game where you literally have almost nothing to shoot at. I’m playing it on the highest difficulty, and it’s the same thing. Stop with all the hypocrisy and actually put in some work money doesn’t grow on trees, and people are spending it on broken games.

I finished helping Hogarth with the automech parts and afterwards he refused to talk to me so I moved on. After finishing other quest and getting the quest The Brain Benders of Auntie's Choice one of the objectives said talk to him but no conversation is starting. He's still acting like I just finished the automech parts quest and saying the same lines of dialogue making it impossible to continue the quest. Don't really have any idea on how to fix this but this is where I was told to report bugs. Thanks for any help!

regarding the impending halt of snap: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQb2n6yETOC/ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/us/politics/federal-judge-food-stamps.html "Despite the imminent lapse, the Trump administration has maintained that it would not try to cover the shortfall, not even by using billions of dollars that Congress had previously set aside for SNAP to address possible funding emergencies. That prompted 25 states and the District of Columbia to sue this week, arguing that the White House had a legal and moral obligation to provide the benefits. "During a tense hearing on Thursday, Judge Talwani appeared to doubt the government’s claims that there were legal, technical and budgetary hurdles to reprogramming the money during the shutdown. "“Congress has put money in an emergency fund,” she said during the hearing. “It’s hard for me to understand how this isn’t an emergency, when there’s no money and a lot of people are needing their SNAP benefits.”" this is not a new thing. there has been previous government shutdowns, including idiotic ones such as the 2018 wall shutdown. snap benefits continued during previous shutdowns 'cause Congress had foreseen the possibility o' such interruptions and they included a mechanism to make certain that snap funds were available even in the event o' emergencies, no doubt 'cause regardless o' which side o' the aisle you were on, children unnecessarily going hungry were seen as politically bad.... and wrong. and as a reminder for those who is opposed to handouts for the unworthy, the vast majority o' snap recipients receive benefits for six months or less, and sixty-something % o' all snap money goes to children. even if you believe folks taking welfare is habitual ne'er-do-wells who interminable suck off the government teat to pay for their drug and alcohol addictions, snap ain't the program you should want ended. edit: update: Federal judge orders Trump administration to pay SNAP benefits out of contingency fund funny aside, we went back and looked at the 2018 wall shutdown situation and discovered that, to our surprise, the trump administration did not use the Congressional emergency fund to pay for snap during the government stoppage. the thing is, what trump did last time, and what the government is arguing they can't do this time 'cause is too complex and difficult, were declared illegal sometime after the shutdown ended, but maybe not for reasons you might initial expect. the government accountability office found that trump ignored all the money Congress had set aside for emergencies such as shutdowns, and instead used other inappropriate funding sources to prevent a delay o' snap. the reason why the 2018 funding o' snap were deemed illegal were not 'cause trump did it but 'cause he did not use the funds specific provided by Congress to deal with the problem. in short, the usda and trump is saying they can't use the emergency funds 'cause a shutdown is not the sorta emergency envisioned by Congress, but there were already a post 2018 shutdown ruling on the mater which concluded the exact opposite. trump were able to fund snap in 2018 w/o much difficulty and in spite o' technical hurdles, but his actions were illegal because he didn't use Congressional emergency snap funds to accomplish the feat. nuts.

Trump Says He ‘Aced’ a Cognitive Test. What Does That Really Mean?Experts say one popular test that the president might have taken is by no means definitive, or even diagnostic. "Do medical societies recommend cognitive screenings? "No. Such exams are not like mammograms for breast cancer and colonoscopies for colon cancer. With those tests, doctors can get a diagnosis and begin treatment. "But they are only part of an assessment of the mental functioning of an older adult. It can be more valuable to ask family members or others who know the patient well whether the person has been inefficient at tasks they once did well, like negotiating a new route when driving or following a recipe." "Screening tests like the MOCA cannot rule out declines in reasoning or memory, or difficulties with planning or judgment. The test is just too blunt an instrument, and for many high-functioning people, too easy. "For that reason, dementia specialists say they would not make a diagnosis based on a screening exam like the MOCA." btw, the test were original administered to trump in january 2018 shortly after an episode wherein the President were showing signs o' difficulty in speaking. "Asked about a much-discussed episode in which the president seemed to slur his words during a televised speech in December (2017) about the Middle East, Dr. Jackson said that he and his team of a dozen specialists conducted several tests, including an ultrasound of his carotid arteries, to determine whether there might be a clinical explanation. "Dr. Jackson said that the tests all were normal, leading him to believe that the slurred words might have been caused by Sudafed, a medicine for nasal congestion, that he prescribed for the president. He said Mr. Trump does not wear dentures “of any kind,” a popular theory on Twitter for the slurred words." so, if the number o' specialists reviewing a case is significant... again, biden is a red herring. irrelevant. trump had the test relative contemporaneous with a december 2017 speech which garnered much concern at the time. that said, am admitting having reviewed the video it seems positive pedestrian by donald's 2025 baseline standard. regardless, there were an obvious not-biden motivation for a doctor to administer the test. and speaking o' his 2020 MoCA test, trump observed, "I took it at Walter Reed Medical Center in front of doctors,” Mr. Trump said. “And they were very surprised. They said, that’s an unbelievable thing. Rarely does anybody do what you just did..." ... a dementia test. but hey, the statement came straight from the horse's mouth, right? trump has managed a kinda mass hypnosis in that most people has voluntarily disconnected any ordinary standards o' decency, intelligence and morality when reflecting 'pon trump behaviors and statements. how would any o' us ordinarily treat the self serving claims o' a pathological liar with literal thousands o' documented falsehoods to his name ranging from trivial golf score fabrication to pr0n star payoffs and even the most ridiculous and easily dismissed boasts such as the number o' floors in trump tower? have mentioned previous how post January 6, any accusation of tds sans irony is comical bold and deserving o’ brutal mockery, but zor using the derisive maga label in the context o’ the reliability of trump public utterances is exhibiting implausible credulousness which somehow managed to surprise us. when reflecting ‘pon trump’s improbable pride in his MoCA score, am faced with deciding whether it is more likely the President of the United States is so ignorant and divorced from reality that he genuine believes that acing a dementia test is praise worthy, or we must consider that trump is lying to the American people in an effort to explain why a doctor felt a dementia test was warranted for the most powerful man on the planet. curiously, zor’s defense o' trump’s explanation forces us to consider almost the same choice o’ unfortunates. but again, insofar as mr. trump, how the hell has he managed to so complete and utter change standards and expectations? we observed already that, "am having no idea what were the real reason why trump got the test," but we sure as heck wouldn't give any weight to trump's claims recognizing his tortured relation with truth. imagine not trump and instead your annoying neighbor who were the pathological liar, and they were bragging about their sexual, athletic, intellectual prowess. would you believe 'em w/o real proof? but let's say you somehow convince your self that corporal bone spurs and dr. feelgood are reliable sources regarding the motivations for the 2018 trump dementia test. the obvious alternative is that trump genuine believes that passing a dementia test (identify the elephant) is "very difficult" and praise worthy. ... as grotesque as it might be, am gonna suggest americans is much better off with a President who reflexive lies than one who is honest taking pride in his dementia test results. is not even one full year of trump's second term and we are in such a weird f'ing place, but somehow people have normalized it. HA! Good Fun!

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy40jj71243o Might have space for you, Bruce

Started Outer Worlds 2 (using Gamepass) and played through the tutorial. It was great. The graphics are improved from the original. So far so good. I don't think it will win you over if you didn't like the original, but it seems like a solid sequel so far.

Ah, the big mistakes of the very late 90ies and early 2000s. I feel like I need to apologize to George Lucas and George W. Bush, even though I obviously know neither personally. In hindsight, Bush wasn't that dumb, and the prequel trilogy wasn't that bad. Yeah, Bush wasn't the brightest bulb, and the prequels weren't good movies, but boy, did it get worse.

One does need eyes to see, unless they're going where Doctor Weir went.

Not going to bother a couple of days after the Ukrainians complained that China was shutting them- and suppliers in Poland and the Baltics- off from buying drone parts, which is (or would be, since there doesn't seem to be anything official just the Ukrainian complaints) probably the most effective sanction package of the whole war. Not that there's much competition there. As a general comment, the quality of analysis is utterly appalling. If I had a dollar for every time I read a hyperbolic headline of imminent victory/ doom/ economic implosion or whatever over the past 11 (!) years I'd be able to buy Larry Ellison out of Oracle with some spare change for Elon and Mark. Very far from all from the David Axes and Hamish de Bretton-Gordons (or Dimitri Medvedevs) of the world either; we've had supposedly reputable organisations complaining about pro Russian plant growth and the like.