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Pig Cups said:
Oh joy. So things are so bad for Joe at this point that non-starter Kamala is looking like a more viable option?

I would think that even a severely hobbled Joe would be a stronger choice, considering that Kamala leads everyone and their mother to detest her the nanosecond she opens her condescending mouth and starts gesticulating. Aside from the document scandal, maybe they know that Joe can’t mount a campaign for 2024? He was barely able to keep it together for 2020, even with the lucky mulligan that COVID provided that made basement campaigning acceptable. Perhaps he’s deteriorated to the point where that incredibly low bar will be difficult to clear?

Even if this is the case, I don’t understand how they can look at Kamala as a better option. I assume that the plan would be to have her serve in the interim between now and 2025, on a tight leash, and with the full intention of ousting her in the primaries. But the biggest problem with that scenario (for the left) is that it’s the best option for Trump, who’d benefit the most from running against Kamala over Joe. Kamala is so bad that she’d inspire even the wine aunts to go full misogynist.
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Does it actually matter if everyone hates Kamala? 40% of the country will still vote for her and fortification can deal with the rest.

They haven't ever appreciably altered the plan, even when continuing to follow it would lead to a disaster.
 
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As for VR, its only real application presently is for entertainment, [....] The only reason that people put up with the expense and hassle of VR is so they can do all kinds of things they can't do in real life.

Nobody wants to attend a fucking meeting, shop at Walmart, or build a fucking spreadsheet in VR.
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I worked on a VR product for most of 2018-2019 and can state with decent confidence that the reason it hasn't taken off is because every single early SDK for the headsets was complete unreliable dogshit, Oculus in particular. Every major patch would rework something fundamental (usually involving nuances with how registration between the headset and hand trackers worked) and there were so many ridiculous bugs/regressions that it was like being a tester on an alpha branch especially if you were stuck working in fucking Unity (I could easily dump 2000 words on why Unity specifically killed VR) where the headset runtimes only seemed to be at all reliable on the bleeding-edge releases.

Only recently has this improved at all and a lot of smaller devs are soured on VR entirely at this point. My prediction is that Apple's going to launch RealityOS with a decent SDK as well as tools akin to VR Hypercard and MacPaint and pull the same takeover shit they did at the iPhone launch and I'm really not looking forward to it because I really don't want to interact with that ecosystem at all and fuck post-ppc Apple.

E: The only VR app I feel really came out of the gate with a good, polished experience is Google Earth VR. Give it a shot if you have access to a headset.
 
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ok, who egged the Dems to do it because of a timid no?
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Democrats push to eliminate the debt ceiling, allow unlimited government borrowing

Dozens of House Democrats are supporting a bill that would eliminate the debt ceiling and allow the federal government to borrow whatever it needs to pay its bills.
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Dozens of House Democrats have proposed legislation that would eliminate the debt ceiling, which would allow the government to borrow without any limit set by Congress.

The federal government hit the $31.381 trillion debt ceiling last week, and House Republicans are pushing for commitments to cut back on the record growth in federal spending before agreeing to allow more borrowing. But Democrats accuse Republicans of setting up the possibility of prohibiting a debt ceiling hike, which would make the government unable to fund all of its current obligations.

Democrats say a better idea is to eliminate all limits on federal borrowing and allow the government to borrow whatever it needs.
"Weaponizing the debt ceiling and using it as a pawn in partisan budget negotiations is dangerous and repeatedly brings our nation to the brink of default, which would be disastrous to the U.S. economy – something we’ve witnessed as recently as 2011 when Republicans created a debt ceiling crisis that resulted in the first ever downgrade to the U.S. credit rating," said Rep. Bill Foster, D-Ill.

"The government has an obligation to pay its bills," he added. "Threatening to default on our debt is the same as ordering an expensive meal at a restaurant, eating it, and skipping out without paying. We can and should have a real conversation about overall spending, but the full faith and credit of the United States must never be compromised."

Foster’s bill is the End the Threat of Default Act, and it’s cosponsored by 42 House Democrats including Reps. Pramila Jayapal of Washington, Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas, Gerry Connolly of Virginia, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Barbara Lee of California.
The Biden administration and its Democrat allies in Congress have argued that raising the debt ceiling does not allow "new" spending, and only allows the government to meet its current obligations. But Republicans say congressional approval of new spending programs is what has repeatedly forced the government to keep hitting its borrowing limit, which has then forced Congress to keep raising the debt ceiling.

Before the housing crisis in 2008, the total national debt was $9 trillion, an amount that more than tripled to more than $31 trillion in less than 15 years thanks to programs related to the housing bailout, 20 years of military presence in Afghanistan, COVID emergency response measures, and routine funding increases for defense and social programs.COVID drove federal spending to record-high levels, and the government continues to spend near those levels even though the emergency has abated.
The federal government spent $4.4 trillion in fiscal year 2019, just before COVID hit. It spent $6.5 trillion in FY 2020, $6.8 trillion in FY 2021, and $6.3 trillion in FY 2022.

While President Biden last year said the pandemic is "over," the government is still on pace to spend more than $6 trillion in the current fiscal year.


While Biden is seeking a blank check, Republicans this week noted that in 2011, Vice President Joe Biden championed the idea of bipartisan negotiations on the debt ceiling. Biden was quoted in a 2011 Washington Post story saying that "everyone wants an agreement" on the debt ceiling that "bends the curve on long-term debt."

The Treasury Department said last week that now that the debt ceiling has been reached, it will temporarily halt funding for federal worker retirement plans in order to avoid new borrowing, and has said an increase in the debt ceiling will be needed by the summe
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Terrifik said:
ok, who egged the Dems to do it because of a timid no?
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Does it even matter? Has the debt ceiling ever stopped the government? I thought they just raised it every time they hit their limit, which makes a limit pointless to begin with.
 
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John.Doe said:
The problems with VR, or rather its limitations, are manifold. Its got a long, long way to go before it can meaningfully replace current PC or console experiences. Its most successful aspect is in giving you the feeling of having a 50-foot wrap around screen, but that is it. You don't have the precision control, feedback, or gameplay/mechanic interaction. It just isn't there.
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VR won't succeed until you have something akin to the Star Trek Holodeck. That gets rid of the need for clunky-ass headsets and it solves the whole immersion problem nicely, imho.
 
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