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So what can get you there? Because from the outside it appears the main reason Trump won was because of people not voting for Dems precisely because of this “they’re barely better” attitude.

If I have to vote whether to get punched or stabbed I’m not going to avoid voting just because they’re both bad and just hope everything works out and then maybe get stabbed anyway.

Whatever magical solution you believe in can be attempted under both governments. So what possible reason is there to attempt it under worse circumstances?

Sure, but I’m one of the very few people in this thread that didn’t go in that direction so I’m not really sure why you’re directing that point at me.

Though I guess the main point would be that if the game can only end after someone catches the snitch, you’d still rather it be you than the other team.

In many sports, how much you lose by matters for certain things like rankings and such. Like say the other team has 160+ more points than you. Clearly your team is catastrophically terrible at the game to have ended up in that position. You’re probably not catching up.

Even if you have faith they could make 2 goals, there’s no real way to time catching the snitch at exactly the right moment, nor to make sure the other seeker doesn’t get it in that time.

So in general it’s probably better to put your team out of its misery and lose by 10 points rather than by over 300 points.

I know there’s been a fair bit of discussion and I only skimmed it, but the main issue I could see is if one team actually ignored everything for the snitch, it’s feasible the other team could get 15 goals literally for free before you actually succeed. But the video game nerfing the snitch tells you everything you need to know about whether it can be balanced at all.

You underestimate the number of teens that currently smoke and number of new teens that will take up smoking even under this system.

Without going down a 2 hour rabbit hole I found https://12yamase.wordpress.com/2010/10/06/

From 2010, but it doesn’t appear to be the source.

Sushi doesn’t have to be raw. Sashimi is raw by definition. But yes, that’s what they were aiming for.

Yes, because that’s what they’re used to. That’s not nothing. But in Australia I’ve had the opposite experience. Every single one saying they prefer uncut. It’s just what you’re exposed to.

It’s more complicated than that.

Most immigrants without proper documentation arrived legally and therefore haven’t committed a crime, they overstayed or fell out of status, which is civil.

But people who enter or reenter the United States without permission CAN face criminal charges, specifically under 8 USC section 1325 (improper entry, a misdemeanour) and section 1326 (reentry after deportation, a felony).

Well our parents were/are mostly tech illiterate, were they also bad parents because they couldn’t educate us on it? The new generation have 100x the ability to self educate than we did as well.