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The sad thing is it took me a few minutes to notice E: Something, damnit, not someone. I really need to eat something.

Sidenote:  Anybody willing to put their stones on the block and take a stab at who is going to win?  (The whole election, not just the republican side)

S'felt like the general consensus here is that Obama's probably going to take another four years, mostly because the republican candidates are utterly destroying themselves/are near-complete filth of one sort or another.

Hell, I can almost see support for the theory that the republican party has intentionally sabotaged their chances at getting a president in. Maybe they think they'll have a better chance getting legislature through under Obama than they would with (probably) better than half the voting constituency up in arms about whichever madman that wins the republican primary managing presidency.

I'm pretty sure a lot of people would be a lot less alert with Obama in power again than if one the current candidates managed it, really. It sorta' makes sense.

Though, of course, beware attributing malignancy to what can be attributed to incompetence, and all that. Most of the upper half or so of America's wealth bracket seems to be pretty damned disconnected with the lower half (Which makes up a majority of the population, iirc.), so maybe they really are that blind. Eh. We'll see how things go, anyway.

... /.5 = *2, innit? Calculator seems to think so.

How do economic teacher fail math so bad

One of those other bits I picked up elsewhere: This, the "Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act of 2011." Here's the "fun" part, from what I can see: Illusion of privacy? Shit, you don't even get that anymore. Excellent example of trying to slip something frakking horrible through the cracks? Yup!

An aside, but total honesty: Whoever allowed something -- anything -- to be titled like that needs to be flogged, fired, and then kept at least 100 yards from, and completely incommunicado with, any decision making process for the rest of their lives.

Which is kind of a "Yaaaay... shit. What now?" thing. I'm not exactly willing to start killing people over this shit at this point, but it seems like that's the ultimate end point. Those in power aren't willing to compromise or adapt and are willing to resort to using the physical enforcement organizations (police, military) already in place to force through their wishes, while the other side is either unable or unwilling to go to those lengths. Those in power don't give a shit who dies (so long as it's not them) or suffers (so long as it's not them), so how the hell can the more moral individual (who refuses to cross those lines) do anything about it? There's currently more than enough industry and physical power centralized to completely destroy any attempts by decentralization advocates to advance their position and we're seeing them do exactly that.

So what hell do, yanno'?

Hey, anyone know where I can find the source of all pain and punch it in the mouth? I could really go for that right now.

You have no idea how much I hope (though very much don't believe) that there is both an afterlife and anthropomorphic incarnations of stuff like that.

I have every intention of spending the first bit of eternity after death getting to the point I can kick the shit out of those bastids and then the rest of said eternity doing just that. There are days when that whimsy of sweet vengeance is all that keeps me going. Sometimes spite really is a sufficient motivator. "Up yours too, reality. I'm still alive and moving. You'll get yours, you bastids."

First step, render their plans void for as long as possible (Survive, because the universe hates you, so it's only fair you hate it back.). Second step, eternal bloody vengeance. It's a nice fantasy

Still... I have never really felt comfortable being dependant on something to get by.
I pretty much developed a full on phobia of medical drugs for fear of developing a dependency, and now being told that I will need glasses seems sort of scary. I'm very much a 'carry your house on your back' kind of guy, and that becomes more and more difficult the more things become indisposable.

Well, you don't need them in a technical sense. You can go functionally blind just fine, it'll just mean becoming pretty much non-functional in a lot of ways. 40's a good age to shoot for you're looking to go without all those delightful dependency-related advances the human race has made in the last few hundred years, really.

I've got that near-phobia of drugs, too, but glasses don't elicit nearly the same response from me. I can take glasses off really easily, after all. Be basically useless, yes, but there's not a direct physiological dependency of any sort. They're just a tool, like a magnifying glass.

Started wearing them I think around 17-18 years ago, though, which probably has something to do with it. Also helps that not wearing them and attempting to function (read: Read or identify any details beyond that foot or so) is accompanied by crippling headaches. Having to choose between a painkiller dependency or glasses is a really easy choice

God dammit, I have the eyesight of an old man...

Better than the spine or the nervous system of one

And not really. Plenty of old men can see just fine, same as plenty of young ones have trouble seeing. I've had functional vision problems since I was in the single digit year range and I know people in their 80s that don't have a single issue. It's just a thing, yanno'?