I’ve used Calibre and stripped DRM off eBooks, definitely recommend.

Event Horizon.

Damn, beat me to it!

Made a friend in Final Fantasy XIV, which then blossomed into more. She moved across the country to be with me. We are one of those super-affectionate-joined-at-the-hip couples.

I wear whatever I want whenever I want. I have no carpets to fuss over, and I have cats so you never know when you might step in some mess. We vacuum and mop regularly so don’t really care.

You mean lease it? Rent it? Own implies it’s mine period. Not mine until they decide to remove it. A bank can’t take away your house cuz they feel like it after you’ve paid for it.

I will grant that it is different. But is it meaningfully different? Either way, the people are not represented.

Semantics. It’s genocide then. Or some other more technical term. There’s a word for it, who cares? Everyone knows what we mean. And that’s the point of words. To covey a meaning from one mind to another.

If you want to play the semantics game and abolish in-context definitions of words, then abolish all slang and idioms too.

It’s not enough for YOU to vote. We ALL need to vote. And not just in the Presidential election. In all elections, including local, state, and most importantly PRIMARIES. We have an FPTP Voting System, which trends us towards a 2 Party system.

In such a voting system, the only way to meaningfully change the position of the parties is to make sure the party is compromised of and is led by people who share your positions and who will actually represent your interests effectively.

1 person voting in a general election that’s already narrowed down to a few swing states isn’t going to do it. Get everyone you know to get off their asses and vote in primaries, in general elections, and any other local elections you can manage.

If you only have time to vote in one election? Make it the primary for your party.

Voting is the lowest hanging fruit. It will cause the biggest impact for the least amount of effort. If we cannot get our asses to polls we aren’t going to get our asses up to do anything harder than voting. Not until people get much more desperate, much hungrier, and much more miserable. I think our voter turnout for primary elections is around 20%. We should be ashamed of ourselves.

Imagine a world where the shittiest candidates were all weeded out months before the general election. That’s what the Primaries are for.

Example? Just so I’m not beating around the bush, here’s what I mean by being kind, and you can let me know if Israel has been kind to Palestinians by this metric.

You cannot rule without consent of the governed. I’m not super well versed on what’s been tried, but violence, terrorism, and crime are generally carried out by unhappy, stressed people.

From what I’ve gathered, Palestinian areas in Israel are basically little more than glorified prisons with terrible living conditions.

My question is, what control does Israel have over their living conditions, and what control do the Palestinians have over their local government.

Can they meaningfully improve their lives on their own? How has Israel been kind?

Lol. Ok. Easy, I declare peace. And immortality. GG. What’s next?

Oh I did? Well, I would need the specific problems to provide specific solutions.

Why did terrorists kill my population? Let’s get problem solving.

How would I deal with this? By being kind.

Heheh, I figured most people would think it’s RuneScape. Actually, it is a classic server for Final Fantasy XI called Eden.

Here’s the info if anyone is interested:

https://edenxi.com/about

I’m about to harvest my first batch of vegetables in a very old MMO.

Some kind of Sony Erickson phone, don’t recall the model, or if that was the model name.