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This. They just gradually morphed from Teabaggers into MAGA. It’s the same people.

Ballots are destroyed immediately after they’re counted.

Well that’s not suspicious or prone to encouraging nefarious actions at all.

Mail-in ballots that were postmarked by Election Day, per state law.

With the margins this close they might actually change the vote. The delay is reasonable. Frustrating, but reasonable.

We’re a schizophrenic in a period of lucidity. That doesn’t mean you should trust us around the sharp objects.

It’s worth noting that Trump has claimed to have authority over a lot of things that were previously considered under the control of the Senate and Congress, or at least something that they had a say in. However, the current Senate and Congress for some reason have not stepped in to tell Trump that he doesn’t have full/any authority over those things. That will almost certainly change when the new batch of legislators is sworn in, so there will be at least some additional restrictions on Trump in the sense that some of the restrictions he should have already been subject to will finally be applied.

This isn’t a meme, this is just a snapshot of a bad relationship.

They actually did XKCD 221. What the hell?

Pretty much nailed it, but for anyone out there thinking “hey I can do that”…

Point #1 is hard to do these days as a solo effort. A lot of these piracy groups have massive manpower backing them up, whether it’s a paid business or just a bunch of like-minded enthusiasts.

Point #2 is a little more doable, but you’ll spend all your time doing that to keep up with the release schedule of these groups. That or you’ll have to rubber-stamp your releases without much quality checking, which will affect #3.

However, Point #3 is where small enthusiasts can absolutely shine. A great example (though possibly on the more involved side) would be Adywan, who made their name focusing entirely on releasing maximum quality Star Wars releases, recuts, remakes, and remasters. There’s maybe a few dozen releases to their name, but mention that name to any piracy-aware Star Wars nerd and they will know it.

For as much content as the big names cover there’s lots of stuff that falls through the cracks, whether it’s entirely absent or just present with sub-par quality. Despite how large the Star Trek fanbase is there’s basically one copy of the non-remastered version of The Original Series floating around out there, and it’s a rather ancient encode.

If memory serves one of the affected medications is used to treat some kinds of heart attacks, so possibly literally yes.

Is it? You can have female hormone levels and still have male genitalia. Science is cool like that. And no, people aren’t defined solely by their genitals, but they aren’t solely defined by their appearance either, or their biology. It’s a big mash up of those things and a few more.

Point being it’s really hard to describe that situation as being solely one or the other. It’s definitely something that needs to be indicated for medical reasons though, but most Identification Documents don’t draw any distinction between sex and gender, much less allow for notation of something like that. Once again, paperwork lags behind reality.

It’s not really complicated: they just include their name in the filename(s), whether it’s in the readme or the installer or the media files. Upload enough releases named something like “Some.Show.S01E01.Pilot.1080p.x265-AverageJoe.mkv” and people will start recognizing AverageJoe and their work.

It’s medically relevant information. If you’re incapacitated, this could be vital information to whoever treats you.

This one is overlooked and can be literally a matter of life and death. Certain medications react differently based on hormone levels for example, so even if someone was born male if they have a nominally female balance of hormones they need to be treated (medically) as female.

It helps if you branch out from general meme communities a little, but you can keep it all memes. NonCredibleDefense has kept me on top of the various ongoing conflicts, for example.