Being Kamala put Kamala in a tough spot. She just wasn't that good, she was frankly kinda meh. She exuded a feeling of "I'm a good mid level manager", and never managed to convince us she could move past that.
Every time she opened her mouth to make a point, nonsense came out. She just exuded "incapable". Trump did too, but never pretended otherwise.
She'd been pummeled in the primaries, and got a political version of "get out of jail free" card being put on the ticket as a token for Biden, and then when Biden dropped out it was a lot of "wait, whaaaa?' I can't help but think the only reason the democrats ran her was that they would have had to give back all that donated money had they changed the candidate.

I've never even visited Lebanon, but reading up on it's history previously and now just makes me so sad.

Insert south park smug joke here.

ah, the old double switcheroo!

I know three people who are decidedly Windows users who are considering one of these systems. they would most definitely NOT buy a more expensive Mac.

Everyone keeps pretending that the strait of Hormuz is a magical fairyland all oil must pass through.
Shortly after this conflict, investment will be made to circumvent the straits.

Perhaps...the reason... conservative comedy isn't funny for you...is that they use periods? and that...you prefer... Shatner pacing?

This applies to anyone, and I mean anyone of any political bent: when the politics becomes the primary message, the comedy fails because of it.
You can make a few political jokes. But if it's your primary topic, and always leans in one direction, eventually you'll become preachy and only funny to an odd audience who will laugh at anything that aligns with their beliefs.

Carson, on for years, wasn't exactly a comedy goldmine. But he was consistent and stayed away from strong stances to keep from alienating his audience.

Colbert is also "passionate" about a lot of things I frankly don't care about.
Passion alone does not make a good outcome.

They lost me at handsome dwarves and some elf having a crush on one.

we got my dad a 65" one last Christmas, it seems normal. Didn't make us connect to the internet, we just use a roku on the back to watch any streaming. It does occasionally try to get you to give it an internet connection, but this only happens when you're looking through the various background settings.

We've just kept it dumb and it's been fine.

Oooh, look at the big wallet on Brad...

Really? DSL? sigh.

It's also a really short jump for the average user to ask AI a simple question: "What is the best way to cook linguine", for example, and receive a good answer. They then extrapolate that it can handle much more involved tasks because to them knowing how to cook linguine correctly is far more difficult than manually doing some task online.
They easily discount their own agency and skill.

Oh god, the old "You're not really left, THIS is really left" adage we always see. But you did manage to work Donald Trump into the death of a random celebrity, so bonus points for that.