At least in the USA, it is known as the Robber Barron period as the extremely wealthy monopolized everything.

https://taxheaven3000.com/

Oh I get it.

They’re all cousins. /Trolololol

Remember Sailor Moon Dub anyone?

First hit on Google was this list made by some Redditor: https://www.reddit.com/r/Betamax/comments/z8cun4/films_that_only_exist_on_betamax_or_alt_editions/

In any case: the big advantage of Betamax (and VHS) was how easy it was to get home-recordings done. An entire generation of family photos / family events (birthday parties, etc. etc.) are on Betamax and likely lost.

deleted by creator

Flash still got it good.

Consider the entire generation of 1970s and 1980s Betamax footage that is basically lost today.

When format wars snap to one side: VHS vs Betamax, HD-DVD vs BluRay, Flash vs HTML5, QuickTime vs DivX… The losing side basically loses a ton of footage.

For the most part, we know how to play Flash right now and mostly how to upconvert it or otherwise archive it. That’s not true of all formats.

Foil here. Tall people suck to fight against. Skilled tall people were straight up impossible.

And I at least have right-of-way to deal with tall people. Eepee don’t got that, its all stupid hand-jabs or foot-jabs (as far as I can tell as a Foil-ist, lol).

that short fencers are usually quicker and dodge easier.

Lulz.

No. It’s that shorter fencers must doge quicker to compete.

In my days in College, as a 5’9" average guy, I wasn’t much faster than anyone else. And without any reach I couldn’t keep up vs the taller people either.

Just being shorter doesn’t make you faster.

And a tall guy is usually bigger than a short one, so he’s a bigger target - and then there’s his juicy belly right on a convenient line of shots for a short fencer.

Just gain some flexibility and squat down deeper. The good tall fencers could hit me in my belly consistently despite me being shorter.

And while squatting down, your tall legs are longer anyway so you can lunge deeper when you do this maneuver. We shorter fencers cannot.

No, you won’t. Worst you’ll do is stay home on election day.

There’s some leftist picks that will make me pick Trump.

It sounds like you got a good head on your shoulders at least. I’m not sure if I’m convinced yet but I can appreciate your point of view now.

EDIT: I should note that I’m worried about the money because its $240 Million. That’s a lot for this portion of the race, and a lot of money to risk in this time where inflation has eaten away at most small people’s savings. I’m really not sure if Democrats will raise similar amounts if Biden drops out now.

Go cancel a Kickstarter and then tell everyone the team has moved to a new manager and everyone needs to switch their donations. And see how many people you get to successfully switch. Its only going to work if the new candidate is better than Biden. And you can’t even tell me who is better than Biden.

Chances are, you’re just a progressive hoping to bring down the party and warp it into your own mold. So anyone is better for you. But that’s the problem, I don’t trust Democrats. I’m not even a Democrat. If you throw this to chaos and try to get someone on the far left in I might vote for Trump.

Can you at least give me an idea of who you want in the top position? No. Because you know that risks tipping your hand. You’ve spent this entire discussion avoiding the subject.

I’m just saying: forget the delegates. Just discuss with me who you’d support. If not Biden and if not Kamala, then who? There’s a few governors who people have made as a rumor (but I’ve made it clear that I’m quite concerned about the financials / hundreds-of-millions pledged to Biden’s campaign). But since we disagree with that, we can move on anyway. Can you give me anyone who you’d support?

And if its Bernie so help me.

I mean, the main hope is that the Biden delegates basically get together and crown someone else the nominee.

The delegates are basically set since so much of the primary is done already. Having Biden drop out will force them to pick someone. (Without dropping out, the delegates may vote for Biden like they initially promised)

But we still have the big money problem, whoever they pick. Haris would be the leading contender of this process anyway just because of the money thing.

I’m not 100% sure if Harris can beat Trump, even if I support her personally. I just want the one who has the biggest chance to win and today that’s Biden from all options presented to me.

You’ve had 2016, 2020, and now the entirety of 2024 campaign season to come up with somebody.

Time is out. We pick now. Its Biden or Harris. You pretending like there’s a 3rd option ignores the fact that fundraising season is over and that you’d permanently hamper the new candidate to not have money in time for the November election.

Lets say Biden resigns tomorrow. Where does the campaign cash go? Maybe (and I’m not 100% sure), MAYBE Harris. But its not earmarked to anyone else. So that just burns that pile of cash effectively.

So maybe before going into the 2024 election without any fucking money, give this a few minutes of thought and come up with a better plan.

Obama circa 2008 hasn’t shown up yet. We’ll get to meet them in about three weeks.

Why didn’t your hypothetical and imaginary friend show up in the Democratic primaries earlier this year? And why do you delude yourself into thinking that they exist?

Some strong governors have been floated as options aside from Haris. But I’m not seeing how the various governor candidates deal with the money issue highlighted over the past week. Biden resigning, Haris inheriting the money and then picking a strong running made might be the best path forward.

Can you agree to this plan? Of course not. You’re resisting me. I know you won’t agree to this. If that’s insufficient, I’m pretending that Biden gets 25th-Amendmented on January 2025 anyway and Haris takes over. So I’m not seeing a major difference aside from Harris maybe getting a good VP pick to help her out this season.

Yeah. The plan to not have a plan at all.

Lovely. And you wonder why you lose independents and don’t like your style of governance.

Now come back when you have a real plan to win Arizona, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.

The chaos of Occupy Wall Street in 2011 caused the Republicans to win in 2012, 2014, and 2016.

I don’t think you guys are as good at chaos as Republicans. No offense. I’m betting on predictability. You guys think you’re winning when in fact you’re just turning the independents against you and killing your chances. Every fucking time.

Biden beat Trump. Biden got results. I’m still putting my trust in that over the random chaos that the far left asks for every time.

What we can’t have is another “Bernie or Bust” scenario, where we name a viable candidate too early, get everyone to fall in love, then replace them with unmitigated boredom. Naming a candidate today runs that risk.

The problem with Bernie is that he’s a socialist in a country that hates socialists. Yall picked poorly. We’re not running to make progressives feel good (like Occupy Wall Street in 2011) only to have Republicans kick your ass. We’re trying to beat Trump this year as priority #1.

I already said earlier who the alternative is: its Kamala Harris and only if some legal technicalities regarding Biden’s campaign funds can be figured out. Can you pledge your support of Kamala Harris today with me?

There’s some very large piles of money that need to be moved around and maneuvered here to support whoever the Democrats pick is. And a lot of that pile of money is signed and earmarked to Biden specifically. If Biden and Harris aren’t your pick, what’s your plan to do with the money?

Yes. You need to prove to me that Biden stepping out is better for Democrats and/or America than Biden staying in.

If your strategy is bullshit “I’ll figure it out later”, then sorry, I’m sticking with Biden for my support. If you can’t even reliably tell me that you’ll back Kamala Haris (or any other specificly named reasonable replacement), then that’s proof of your lack of strategy.

This is too important of an issue to fuck up and turn into chaos just a few months before the election. If yall don’t like Biden, then my strategy is for Biden to run and then resign in January, making Kamala President (and keeping the important technicalities of donations which are earmarked to the Biden campaign). Anything else has incredible amounts of risk tying up important money that’s been collected for months. (Alternatively, if someone can assure me that Kamala will have the full support of the Biden campaign’s resources if Biden leaves… I can support Kamala without a doubt).

Being concerned about your own race is not enough.

We need to know what the national strategy is. Who would replace Joe Biden? The fact that Scholten calls for Biden to get out, while is herself unable to name a reasonable replacement shows the magnitude of the problem. These Democrats want Biden to leave before a cohesive post-Biden strategy is formulated.

I’m not necessarily against replacing Biden. But I am absolutely against Democrats running around like a headless chicken 4 months before the election. Have Democrats settled on Harris as the replacement? Are yall actually cool with that?

Can you actually say “Harris should replace Biden” moving forward, rather than this wishy-washy “Please leave Biden” kind of talk? One statement speaks far louder than the other.

I’ll vote for Harris. I’ll vote for Biden. This strategy doesn’t affect me or my vote. So I see it as a waste of time. But if everyone else is nervous, give me a sign that you actually have a cohesive strategy moving forward rather than just having nerves or weak knees about this situation.

I expect progressives are using this as an opportunity to backstab Biden and most Democrats, and install someone much further left / appealing to their personal politics. That’s why progressives can’t name someone they actually want to run / replace Biden and want to just bring Biden down in the vain hopes that they win out in the chaos. But that’s too dangerous of a strategy for me moving forward. I want to know who actually has reasonable chances of beating Trump (and I think Kamala Haris has worse chances than Biden actually). I want to know who specifically these people want to support before Biden steps down.

The problem wasn’t the glass.

The problem was using wtf touchscreen controls to shift between drive and reverse. Mrs. Chao confused the two then died.

Shitty UI kills another person. Tesla fucking up basic UI design is the real villain here.

Survey results pointing to shoddy reliability is… not a bias though. Its just the facts for now.

Consumer Reports always favored reliability / low-maintenance above all else. They don’t care very much about speed or zoom-zoom factor. If a car does poorly their reliability metrics, they’ll shit on that car.

Hopefully EV makers improve their reliability over time.

I saw some other article suggesting that Lincoln has one of the 5 worst days of inventory in the USA right now.

Lincoln isn’t selling well. A shame, I do like their vehicles though luxury vehicles like Lincoln are always impractical. They cost so much more than normal vehicles but offer… well… luxury.

Massage chairs, heads up displays. Things I want but nothing that I need…

In Qanons case, Q gave them the info and was leaking it.

Allegedly anyway. It’s not very hard to say you have an inside man.