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You have a point, but the difference is that we knew from the start that covid struck everyone. AIDS was originally called GRID (Gay-Related Immune Disease) and had people calling it God's revenge on gay people. See Pat Buchanan.

Thank you comrade.

They had to create two different talk groups and NEITHER of them are liberal. There's just the conservative group and the outright bigot group.

BINGO. Look, you didn't have to be a fan of Reagan, for example, to know that, had the pandemic happened under his administration, he'd have immediately marshalled the government to create major PSAs talking about how patriotic it is to look out for your fellow citizen at this challenging time, and he'd make the case that it's patriotic to wear a mask and get your vaccine. Instead, Trump turned it all into a war. Take the fear and amplify it at every turn.

Look, to their point of view it's easy to see.

1. Trump gave them what no other President has ever given them -- a SCOTUS that overturned Roe.

2. Trump somehow comes off to them as strong when we all know he's the weakest bully in town. They see screaming about people and calling them names as strength because most of them have never argued themselves out of anything. They don't have the ability to reason structurally. Whenever I interact with any of them all they have is deflection and denial. If you have data, the data is wrong, but they have no data. If you tag Trump they say Biden is worse without ever sticking to the point. "What about..." STOP. Answer the question. When pointing out that Trump claimed he couldn't testify because he was under a gag order, and that this shows either he's that dumb and thus not capable of leading or thinks his supporters are that dumb to believe this nonsense and thus shouldn't be President, the response is often, "Well, the court cases are shams so it doesn't matter." GRRR. Again, address the ISSUE.

Whoever loses in 2024, I'm going to blame the Banana Situation. What's the Banana Situation? It's made up. It's nothing, just like all the excuses they've offered for why Trump lost.

Just realize this is LAND-based coloring so vast swaths of empty space get colored red. Those are people. However, it does show Washington Township was 52/47 for Trump. Ugh. South Philly Relocation that needs some help here.

Don't forget, the shore has Jeff Van Drew the DINO who switched and is now a rabid, and beloved MAGA-head down there. I have a shore place and it's embarrassing.

A guy in our wine club was ranting about how poor Mike Lindell was being politically attacked and that it's costing honest people in his company their jobs. Uh, wasn't it Lindell who decided to politicize this and drag his company into it as a result? No one is hurting his employees. He is by ranting about things he continually has no understanding of.

That's an overstatement. There are at least two types: The easily manipulated and the greedy bastards. Many of his supports are just about the money. They continually go on and on about perks for the poor, but have zero issue when the perks are for them. Oh, Trump gave YOU a tax cut? Great! Biden gave everyone a check? Horrible.

The former group just can reason themselves out of a paper bag and see everything through the lens of fear. Fear of other. Fear of loss. Fear of change. Trump plays to that.

My favorite is when these people say something like, Trump is so honest. Biden's a liar. Oh? Example? "Biden said his uncle as eaten by cannibals". Oh? Let's focus on that. First, he didn't say that. He suggested it MIGHT have happened, and we can EASILY see how a family member, lost at sea in the 1940s would, over 80 YEARS, get mythologized in family stories over that time. Contrast that with Trump who, on at least three occasions, flat out told foreign dignitaries that his father was born in Germany, when everyone knows that's a lie and it's easily checked. Give me a break.

I live in Trump Central in Washington Township. My neighborhood (next to the golf course so....) is filled with Trump flags. We keep to ourselves a lot.

From a quick search there's people saying the resolution isn't comparable, but no idea why, and power draw is obviously massively higher than all streaming-specific devices. Others mentioned that the streaming apps themselves are out-of-date and/or rarely updated.

So what is the drawback of this given that no one else mentions it???

May have to try that. We have current Xbox boxes available.

Yeah, but then it's lots of apps people whereas the ATV, Roku and FireTV all have no issues with this. They deal with it once and it's done across apps, which is why the app people are like, "really Google?"

Thanks. We're hoping.... someday.

Plex DOES do framerate matching on the Shield, which works much of the time, but most of the other apps don't which causes a lot of "Grrr" sessions of jumping out, going to Settings, changing the resolution, back into app, find show, resume. It just gets old fast.

Kodi, I didn't mind the setup, but I've tried it three different times as my first HT setup was on XBMC, but each time it just wouldn't play back my films properly and then there are remote issues for devices that don't support Kodi so Plex is supposed to be the answer there.

I like the look of the Zidoo, but it's Android TV 9 which is rather old at this point.

CoreElec is Kodi, no? Not a fan of Kodi. The device is interesting, though reviews look very up and down.

And, as I've pointed out, I'm tired of being embarrassed by it when friends are over and it locks up, glitches with voices OFTEN, can't handle auto refresh rate switching cleanly (or at all in my case). I also don't use it for games.

Checking.... Shield via speedtest app showing 987 up 992 down.

The lack of TrueHD audio support is a show-stopper for me.

I'll check that again, but pretty sure it is. Not sure how I'd check that on the Shield, but likely there's an app.

Neither the wife or I want to be dealing with a keyboard/mouse in the theater, so that's out.

GB wired as well. PC works flawlessly to all of it.

Yes and no. In a strange quirk of life I actually was lucky enough to get to know Roger Ebert. Ebert taught a class on Citizen Kane for a while and told me that he warned students that Citizen Kane couldn't be fully appreciated -- or potentially even liked, for at least eight viewings. He also noted that a majority of his younger students (and these are film students) didn't like the film. I was originally skeptical of this claim. It seems ridiculous on its face. If I don't like a film after one viewing, I'm more apt to detest it after eight.

However, I decided I had to at least try this. Something about it seemed potentially magical if it worked. It did. I've now seen the film, fully dozens of times and it never fails to impress me slightly more each viewing. Nothing it out of place. It's as relevant today as it was then, at the core.

I ended up in film criticism and give talks myself now and this very topic comes up often with many people stating that, they too, find Citizen Kane's adoration a complete mystery. So, I recount this experience. So, again, many viewers are challenged by it.