It sounds like you’re feeling unsatisfied with your current life and what you spend money on, and that you have a lot of ideas for what you could enjoy more but you have a hard time getting started.

Completely changing your life is hard, and you probably won’t go 0 to “move to thailand” in one day, especially not if you are lacking energy. You might need to start with smaller things. Do just one of the smaller things you think you might enjoy. Go to the gym once. Have a board game night once. Spend the 40 minutes on getting to a DND group once. Then keep doing small things that make you happier or bring you closer to something that does.

Also, if you like going to thailand, and don’t like yardwork or getting kitchen supplies etc, budget accordingly. Do the mimimal spend you can on yard stuff. It’s OK to not like that. Talk to your wife and find a compromise budget if you need to.

warmongering

The only current war in Europe is an european country not wanting to be invaded and destroyed by Russia

Well, either those voters prefer Trump or their actions are unaligned with their goals

So how does not voting for Harris fix FPTP?

Any voter who is given the two options of Trump or Harris, and chooses to not vote for Harris deserves blame for that. It should not be a hard choice. It should not be a reality show competition for the most exciting campaign.

Trump has been president before. If someone votes for him now, having been alive and conscious during his previous term, then yes, they are to blame for that decision.

There are no more excuses

Getting rid of FPTP in only blue states will make it more likely for the Republicans to win overall, as they will take all of the FPTP red state and some of the now proportional blue states

I think this will be easy to hire for; imagine the damage you can do to competition, or the low cost regulatory capture you can achieve, by just getting one clever manipulator near this not too bright narcissist

Python has its drawbacks but it also has a pretty useful standard library so as a language for small scripts, one can do much worse

“giving up against the endless weight of capitalism”

We just call it “having a job” nowadays

It’s like 5 lines of trivial code

Hello World

30 minutes of boilerplate

writing imports

$ cat <<EOF > Hello.java
public class Hello {
  public static void main(String args[]) {
    System.out.println("Hello world!");
  }
}
EOF
$ java Hello.java
Hello world!

ok

We’re quite a few years into “the blockchain will revolutionise the world” now and we still don’t really have anything but bitcoin and scams

I envy your trust in the efficiency of banks

What, you don’t think Russia can afford it?

It’s useful when people use “liberal” as a slur as it really saves time on identifying who is a trump supporter or effectively a trump supporter through mental gymnastics

Because

A: electronic voting is an awful idea in so many ways

B: direct democracy is an awful idea in so many ways

C: voting is supposed to be secret which the petition signaures aren’t

Does he need to yet?

It’s not like he can be impeached and most of the cases will pause by default as he’s a sitting president. If any don’t he’ll have a tame Attorney General to kill them for him. State level charges could have a theoretical shot, but what state will take that fight?

The window to hold him accountable was 2020-2024 and the people responsible dropped the ball, sometimes with obvious intention, sometimes from naivité or incompetence

The problem as usual is that the Democrats bring Debate Club weapons to a knife fight

Anyone not voting for Harris, really

Perhaps they’ll fragment after he dies? A lot of dictatorships don’t survive the death of the supreme leader

You have a good point that understanding the voter is a good path to figuring out how to fix this in the future.

We still get to judge them for being awful people, because fooled or not, they effectively are

Dig deep enough in any awful begaviour and you can find causes and explanations, but that doesn’t make every behaviour ok