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MTG is just happy she finally found someone (slightly) more racist than her:

“If @KamalaHarris wins, the White House will smell like curry & White House speeches will be facilitated via a call center and the American people will only be able to convey their feedback through a customer satisfaction survey at the end of the call that nobody will understand,” Loomer wrote.

Yeah, that asshole is nobody's favorite.

If they do not kill an Ender Dragon after first dying 40 times with unenchanted armor trying to blow up those things on the obsidian towers, I WILL SET FIRE TO THE THEATER!!!!!!!! RESPECT MY GAMING EXPERIENCE!!!!!!!

I could go either way on this one. There's no great cache of lore to betray, and everybody already sort of plays Minecraft how they want. It actually could work as a fairly generic but charming Jumanji clone.

It could also suck donkey cubes. I'm just saying the licensed IP isn't really going to make or break this one.

Well, I did it again. I clicked the "show in context" icon on Alexendrite instead of the identical one to add a link and nuked my comment. :-)

Summing it up:

1. Those poorly managed franchises occupy a cultural space in North America not unlike "sleeping giant" clubs in Europe, and the financial and other parity measures are designed to encourage fans to hope every year. Sometimes it even works.
2. The systems are different, largely arising out of differences between America in 1885 and England in 1885, but both have more than a century of passionate fan support and I find both compelling.
3. MLS is a weird hybrid, being both the perfection of the closed shop model, yet also participating in the global market for both aging stars and younger players of decent but fungible quality.

So a little bit of investment in stadiums here, a new TV deal there, some exciting QB play, and a sprinkling of Canadian exceptionalism...... Sorry, wrong CFL.

Some people think that failing ballasts will trigger their thermal protection, so it could be as simple as cooler weather or components that are failing but haven't yet, and a little variability in temperature or the intial jolt of electricity may make it work for a while. I generally found CFLs to be finicky and annoying after a while, though i don't recall ever having one that seemed to die completely and then come back.

https://www.edn.com/teardown-what-caused-these-cfl-bulbs-to-fail/

Thanks! I pulled up a few roughly similar, though modular pushbutton videos. I also found an old reddit thread about some significantly nicer Allen Bradley switches, and some general reading about how these sorts of switches are supposed to be deployed, and I'm inclined to think the necessary components are part of the assembly already. I've hooked it up to 3.3v on a USB breadboard power supply, and I'm just going to let it run for an hour. If it doesn't burn/blow out, I'll feel confident enough to use it. It's never going to have more than that on it anyway.

"It's always projection." 🤣

That’s one of his go-to turns of phrase, and like all his go-tos he grinds it into dust through overuse. Apparently, he is not a dog person.

Yup. Maybe not very many, since he didn't go full Colonel Jessep, but I can't see anyone but the true believers being pleased by his performance.

Tests related to voting have tended to break the other way.

I was, and still am, very introverted and, around people I don't know well, very reserved as well. I found that first AOL and USENET, and then the web provided a safer space, where just that veneer of anonymity was enough of an excuse to engage more readily, and with people whom I knew, based on the literal names of the communities, would share at least one interest, LOL.

Glad to see you eventually found avenues for self-expression.