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I do find this a bit interesting. Not that I disagree that is a more important issue, but seeing how this issues play out. When you can take the constituent out of what we care about and vote independently on the issues it's a much better thing.

I guess I'm weird but 8 billion seems like a small amount for the chain. Maybe it's because subway is everywhere. We lost a lot of food places downtown which are fortunately coming back now, but during the worst of it there were still 4 subways within a couple blocks depending on which direction you wanted to walk.

The fact that this is even news on this big of scale is because of conspiracy ridden posts on TikTok and other sites. This was two weeks ago. Most levels were read at 4 parts per billion on the Ohio river. Don't we have something like 500 - 1000 derailments per year? People didn't report on this because it was a very small town with no environmental reporters in their small news cast. One journalist was charged, later withdrawn, for disorderly conduct during a press conference which caused multiple social media posts to say things like, "what are they hiding", "why am I seeing it here first", etc. Disaster it is, but nothing extreme that would cause you to worry if you use water from any treatment plant on the Ohio river.

So I don't post much, but I've been around these parts for a really long time. I'm 100% on the glad Griner is home train. I think her imprisonment / sentence was ridiculous, even based on Russian law. That said, can someone give me a devil's advocate on this trade? I've seen so much shit like, "only saved because she's a basketball player", "only saved because she is a well known American", "She didn't like America so she deserved it". I disagree with all of that stupid shit I've read, and heard. But the other ear does hear about other Americans in Russian prison for similar crimes that don't get the same grace. Is this just a social justice win for the left? Regardless of actual humanitarian benefits for her.

Didn't you know that all planes have been unmanned since the 80's? The pilots you see are just there to assure you'll still get to your destination on time when there is a delay. That part is too hard to automate.

I have barely any idea what nonsense was said here, but I'm pretty positive it will be something my parents bring up next time at the dinner table.

I was supposed to go back to the office for the first time on Tuesday. Any return has just been postponed until September. I can't imagine that date holding either. When we do return, I will have absolutely no idea how to behave professionally in a public setting.

I think we are coming at this from different angles. I agree that the behavioral susceptibility of a child is much greater than an adult and that humans by nature follow the tribalistic patterns they were born into. What I'm primarily getting at is that a large portion of Q followers have grown up in their social norms where you start with step one and incrementally and gradually reach what we are seeing today. It isn't always, and probably not often a rational, fully developed adult that suddenly reached this ideology as you mentioned. It led to this over a lifetime. The reason why I think that distinction is important is because adults can break out of their lifetime of beliefs. Eg. A parent that always looked down on gay people and found out their son / daughter was gay. There are many examples of terrible beliefs that can and have been shaken from fully developed adults. We should also treat this the same way as opposed to ostracizing them. We can be abhorrent to the idiots, but welcoming to the possibly few that realize their mistakes.

As someone that was raised in a very religious / cult like upbringing that is now an atheist, I struggle with your opinion that you can trust a brainwashed child that had their "come to god moment" but cannot do the same with an adult. The psychological impact of being raised a certain way, and constantly being around an echo chamber can last for a lifetime. In your inner circle, it is obvious that you should never go from a seemingly rational, intelligent person and suddenly leap to being a Q follower. From my unfortunate experience with people I love, it is a much slower incremental process. There are incredibly intelligent people that I don't believe have inherently deficient cognitive functions, but have found themselves wrapped up in a lifetime of "truths" that lead to the insanity's that seem absolutely stupid to us. I would allude it to an analogy closer to Stockholm's syndrome. It is not through some deficiency that you fall in love with your captor, and it is not always through some mental deficiency that you can find your self believing in something so bat shit crazy. That said, some people are definitely just stupid. I just would not want to get to the point where we shame or distrust others because they believed something terrible and then came to their aha moment. It can happen in all degrees of previously poor thought beliefs. Sometimes in your 20's, sometimes in your 60's.

I have no idea why I'm still up to watch this, but also what is the benefit of a 2am est speech by Trump?

I wish I could just binge watch this as if it were an episode of the Newsroom in which the newscasters actually felt responsibility for their calls.

It is, but still a million votes left to be counted (estimated) in just the counties surrounding Philly area.

As shown in the screen captures above, I love that Twitter finally had immediate tags of misinformation to some of Trump's tweets.

Fox lead team doubling down on the Arizona call saying they are absolutely correct in the call.

Ohio still blue by 300k+ with Cincinnati not reporting yet is positive.

I'm bouncing around between ABC, CNN, and BBC News Network.

Hey, we aren't bad people just because we have chili that isn't really chili.

I hope Hamilton county has a bigger swing blue than 2016. That's where I live.