The words Grimace chose are telling: Trump “feels” there was a large amount of voter fraud. He doesn’t “think” it, and he certainly doesn’t have “evidence” of it. It’s about feeling, not reality.

Couldn’t agree more. It was a perfect storm of malevolence and incompetence on any number of fronts.

You definitely didn’t in the comment to which I was responding, but in any event it appears you agree that it’s silly to pretend it was ONE thing and not another.

All? Of course not. Partially? Of course.*

Do you honestly think that Comey or media coverage was responsible for flipping any votes?

Well, you definitely don’t secure a state vital to your election by ignoring your own people in the state telling you there are serious problems and insisting your own numbers must be right even though your own model didn’t hold true in the primary.

I’m genuinely baffled by people who insist that the fact that HRC ran a historically bad campaign means that Russia/FBI/etc. didn’t have any effect on the outcome of the election. And vice versa.

Did you also not realize that events like the election of 2016 have more than one factor influencing the outcome?

I can’t get pregnant. My ovaries are diseeeeased...

If hyping was what they wanted, there were a dozen ways to go about it other than this. As it is, McGregor is going to probably be suspended for a length of time, and he’s not really interested in fighting even when presented the opportunity. White is a lot of things, but stupid about promotion like this isn’t one of…

When cocaine is combined with being a genuinely shitty and aggressive person naturally, things happen!

I don’t think White was in on this at all. This is terrible for the UFC’s business model, and only serves to highlight the fact that their most compelling fighters don’t actually fight very much (or at all) any more.

That’s something that blows my mind—this was the least harmful outcome that was possible from this. If McGregor and his goons had gotten what they wanted and those guys had gotten off the bus, there would have been a brawl involving 30 people on concrete with sharp metal shit being used as weapons.

So McGregor is mad that other people are fighting for a belt he won’t defend, and is challenging people to fight outside a bus after refusing to fight them in an actual fight?

I never said how much they kept. And Pauly is silly rich, but most of the rest made a ton of money too.

The fact that most of the people in this picture have made millions of dollars is the best argument for smashing capitalism I can muster.

Totally agree, and the Kreg Jig is a good example I think. It just works. The tolerances are tight, you don’t have to fight it, and it makes what you’re doing significantly more enjoyable (or at least less frustrating). That’s what I think is worth investing in.

I disagree a bit with #2 to the extent that having a good tool makes it easier and enjoyable to make/fix things, so it makes it that much more likely that you’ll actually make/fix something. You’re right that most home DIYers don’t need a SawStop table saw and Festool miter, but having a wobbly Chinese knock-off drill…

Yeah, but they’re still half as heavy as the NiCads, you don’t have to discharge them, and they don’t run down sitting on the shelf.

1. It’s better to spend $100 on a solid refurbished tool than $100 on a new crappy store brand