Disclaimer: I’m not American so will never understand your culture towards politics as well.

I don’t think it’s fair to point at every bad thing Trump has done so far and say that’s the fault of your MIL for voting for Trump. The way I see it as a non-American, Trump did say he was going to be a racist xenophobic piece of shit on his election campaign, but the media heavily downplayed this, and Trump still tricked and lied to everyone. Politics is weird like that: you can theoretically campaign on one thing but then throw everything out and do the opposite once you get elected.

Hating Kamala and Biden is a fair opinion to hold as well. I consider a vote for them as picking the lesser of the 2 evils, rather than voting on what’s best for America, because both parties seemed awful to me (a non-American).

I think it’s important that you try to at least understand and empathise with why your MIL voted Trump in the first place. You were very light on those details in your post, which I suspect is because you’re very quick to judge someone based on who they vote for.

Maybe she really hated one policy from the democrats so voted for Trump? Maybe she bought all the lies Trump told during his campaign and regrets her vote strongly? Maybe she’s a single-issue person who voted for Trump because of one policy and ignored everything else?

Waiting for blurays to just come with an activation code like a lot of PC game copies do already

It’s fine, you’re just making a copy of their crops for personal use

Some appliances are louder than others. Curious to hear what appliances you can hear

I’m able to hear the AC hum from motors and any inductive heating elements.

When it’s completely silent in the room, I can hear the transformer in my phone charger make a variable squealing sound

10B could make a couple underground metro lines in an otherwise extremely car dependent city with no public transport

Many modern cars will stop working and there will be a huge demand for cars from the 90s, due to the anti-theft authentication in the key not working.

In America, not being able to drive is basically a death sentence. Especially for the few people living rurally with no fixed internet or phone line to be able to call for help.

The way we socialise has changed to the point where it’s normal to talk to people over text chat. This leaves a footprint that talking face to face with someone does not.

In addition to other privacy concerns, I don’t want things I say that I would’ve gotten away with had I spoken it to my friends in real life, to come back and haunt me, either by a platform having a massive data breach, or it being used as evidence in a legal case against me.

On that last point, I’m not using chat services to organise crime, but taken out of context, any message I send can paint a picture that I’m an awful person and change some jury’s opinion of me. This isn’t something I want to think about before sharing a dank meme to a friend on discord.

Royalties every time you use a line from a Disney musical in spoken conversation

Thank you for sharing the lies that trump supporters tell themselves. I think you’re getting downvoted because you forgot the /s

What goes on in an agitation washing machine that affects how shoes clean?

Can’t wait for people to deliberately add the metadata to their image as a meme, such that a legit photograph without any AI used gets the unremovable made with ai tag

Sure But you could also achieve a similar effect in-camera by zooming in or moving closer to the subject

A pirated copy of acrobat

Looking at you, Adobe

Or leave it in the office, always on charge, and with no lock screen so anyone can take the phone and accept a request

My entire life is about using logic instead of emotions to make decisions. Fortunately I am slowly getting the help that I need, but for now: Using logic definitely allows me to get by in daily life, even if it would be better to be able to describe my actual emotions

I have the same combo of illnesses (though maybe less intense Alexithymia)

A useful resource for me is an emotion wheel (you can find one with your favourite search engine)

It has tiers to it, so you could start with happy, for example, then get more specific with the sub-categories

You and I both know there would be great difficulty in identifying what actual emotion you feel with regards to your childhood home, even with an emotion wheel. Since you’re not being judged on the accuracy on the emotions identified, you can pick a few that sounds reasonable.

For me, your assignment would more feel like a language exercise of picking the right word that makes sense in context, rather than thinking about the actual emotions experienced. In this case, the emotion wheel would help by acting as a reference of emotions to consider, and act as a sanity check if you’re writing something positive but chose an emotion that is a sub category of anger, for example

8.1 as well

So what you’re saying is we should short the stock to make it big

Could even open a lawsuit and force reddit to investigate how much of their traffic is bots, immediately after the IPO

Do those not end up as heat later down the line as well?