CmdrShepard42

And in this case, "tech" is short for "technically."

I use Ersatz like others mentioned and it works fine, though I don't fully understand how everything works. Following a guide was enough to get several channels setup, but since I also have an antenna and HDHomerun set up, I had to also use xTeve to combine the real and fake programming guides.

This works as expected in Emby (which means it probably also works in Jellyfin), but in Plex it breaks the guide as the channels get all mixed up with respect to their programming data meaning I never know what I'm going to be watching when I click on it. If you don't have an antenna set up already, this probably won't be an issue for you.

If you can afford it and plan on staying a while, buying is the way to go. I'm in NW Oregon and waited to buy because I was nervous and thought I "needed 20% down to avoid PMI" and essentially missed out on an extra 1000sqft for the same price by waiting. Putting 10% down, my PMI was $40 a month, which is chump change in the grand scheme of things, and has already been removed due to increased value and payments.

Even still, buying in 2019 when I did, I'm in so much better shape now than if I'd continued renting. Rent would probably be $500-$1000 more each month, and I wouldn't be gaining equity on top of that.

Of course nobody has a crystal ball to make it 100% risk-free, but this is still a pretty solid strategy, and you live in an in-demand area in case you ever wanted or needed to sell, so you should be fine. If the interest rates go down substantially, refinancing is also a good idea.

Nah seems about right. "We have no tolerance for those who break the law," speaking about a group of officers who killed a man, "therefore they're fired!" seems about right.

I suppose it's still early so maybe they will actually be prosecuted for murdering someone but I have my doubts.

Trump just needs to lie and his voters show up. Game theory would say these are the easy votes that Democrats should go after.

Except that completely ignores the context of the situation in that "Democratic lies" aren't going to be seen as appealing by right wingers in the way that "Republican lies" would be. Democrats did exactly this in the 2024 election and it blew up in their face.

Lower the costs of child care, health care, long term care, and housing aren't progressive? Strengthening Medicare and Social Security aren't either? Protecting reproductive freedom, civicl rights, and imposing term limits on Supreme Court justices aren't either?

These are the lies I'm speaking of. None of this was on the table. It's all empty rhetoric and lies in order to deceive people into voting for them. Why would any of this need to wait for Harris to be elected when she and Biden are currently in office right now at this very moment? It makes zero sense, and using history as our guide, Democrats will go out of their way to favor Republican plans in spite of the left a la the Affordable Care Act, which passed with a Democratic supermajority and zero Republican support.

Again, you're proving my argument. Democrat voters are too hard to convince to come to the polls to stand against the coming fascism and kleptocracy.

They're not hard to convince to come out and vote, there's just nobody out there worth voting for. The left got plenty of energy from Bernie's campaign until that was squashed by the DNC and the media in favor of Clinton. They got plenty of energy from '08 Obama who heartily won his election and then transformed right into the same status-quo neoliberal we're seeing in Clinton, Biden, and Harris.

GOP voters require no actual delivery of policy supporting campaign statements, or if so the most simply lip service will do. The GOP voters show up on campaign statements alone. The lesson is that these are the voters to target to get elected.

The Democratic party has these same supporters too. You'll see them chanting "blue no matter who" and calling you a Trump supporter if you dare criticize their right-wing, anti-immigration, or pro-genocidal, pro-corporate candidates. These are the type of people that elected Tulsi Gabbard, Sinema, Manchin, etc.

That's like saying 3D TVs are mainstream. We all saw how that turned out.

Well the media invested a lot of time and effort to get him elected and now they want to cash in on all that hard work.

Just as one can be true while the other is false.

His track record does speak for itself and that's why things like this happen.

No she isn't. They're cut from the same cloth.

Up north here in Oregon, our Democratic leaders are pretty much the same. They have quite literally argued that housing isn't a solution to homelessness and instead just have police bust up their camps and push them down the road to do it all again in 3 months.

Voters passed a law to pump a bunch of funding into rehab centers rather than constantly arresting and releasing people for addiction issues, and they refused to disperse any of the funding. After a few years of this, they pointed to the lack of progress as a reason to overturn the law and pump all that money into policing and prisons.

They'll dole out money for homeless services but only give it to church-run shelters who then impose faith based rules upon their guests which cause many of them to sleep on the streets instead.

They refuse to fund mental health services to the point where we have little more than a couple dozen beds available in the entire state for people experiencing psychiatric emergencies and those that do make it in only stay a few days before getting kicked right back out on the streets.

When he won in 2020, he said he was only going to run for a single term. The fact that he even ran in the primary was a huge mistake.

the lesson Democrats need to learn is that American voters just care about what the candidate says during the campaign, not actual policy delivered if elected. So Democrats should adopt the same method of the GOP, simply straight up lying to the electorate and the Democrats will have a better chance of winning.

That already happened long ago. The problem this time was that the things they thought "people wanted to hear" were a bunch of right-wing talking points about immigration and genocide along with a slew of others.

I'm not buying this as a reason they voted for Trump. If they saw Harris as the "lesser evil" then that would acknowledge they are actively voting for the "greater evil".

Trump got about the same number of votes as he did in 2020. Trump didn't win because former Democratic voters switched sides. He won because people who voted for Biden in 2020 didn't vote at all.

Voters didn't want any measure of progressive policies. They voted for Trump with his regressive policies. Democrats apparently need to do the same to win votes.

Based on what? No progressive policies were on the table this election. As I said above, Trump didn't gain any voters this election. The Democrats did push regressive policies this election, and that's why they lost 10 million votes.

I disagree with your assessment, but that is exactly what Trump is going to do, and he got the votes, so its the winning strategy apparently.

That's the winning strategy when you're an avowed right-winger trying to court right-wing votes. When you're supposed to represent "the left," spouting a bunch of right-wing rhetoric and courting endorsements from people like Dick Cheney is a surefire way to lose as evidenced by the fact that Harris lost so many votes.