Sure all of that is true. But also outside the scope of the direct question.

Because he’s so much more elderly than trump.

To answer your specific question, in this example, no she’s not gaslighting you. Gaslighting is a special form of lying intent on having you doubting your own reason, judgement, and even memory, in favor of someone else’s.

In this case, it sounds like she’s afraid of her own neighborhood, and is depending on you to make her feel safe. Were I in your position, I would talk to her about looking for someplace to live she does feel safe.

We’ve never had a pair of candidates this unpopular. (Maybe Trump vs Clinton)
If the Dems had any kind of brains, they absolutely would pick someone else at the convention.
Just not Harris; She might be the only one, less popular than Biden is.

Trump has his evangelicals, they’re a done deal. His others voters are a “tear down the system” vote. People who are tired of being fucked over, no matter who’s in office. They see him as the “worse” things need to get, before they can get better; And they may be right.
If the Dems picked a genuine progressive, who offered several big radical changes (that we all know the ownership class hates), they would take a lot of votes from trump. They would win.

But I doubt they’d do it.
The only thing more scary to Dems than Trump, is a genuine progressive.

Are you using the additional AVX12V 4pin power in the upper left?
I would bet the 5950x needs the extra power. The old CPU may not.

That’s a very capitalistic form of democracy. Candates need to pull themselves up by their boot straps.

While the Republicans promote socialistic politics, giving candates universal basic airtime.

I get it now.

Here’s all the changes.

Literally anyone could’ve been a contender. We don’t know who they are, because the party never wanted to seriously entertain anyone other than Biden.

Contrast that with what the Republicans did. They had several debates with anyone who felt like giving it a shot. Trump decided he didn’t need participate, and was right. The Democrats could have done similar but refused to.

Biden is too elderly. Trump is too many kinds of wrong. Most people know this. If the Democratic party figures out that Biden is almost the only candates weaker than trump, they’ll be able to win.

Who said first?

The early primary states were specifically changed to states where Bidens poll numbers were strongest. And yes, the early primary winners carry that momentum into states where they might be less popular. They didn’t have to change the primary order, but chose to, to help Biden.

Wait. I thought is was a federal tax system. Does it do state taxes also? I missed that.

How can we know there were no strong candidates, when they don’t get a real chance to run? They (and to be fair, most) simply assumed the incumbent was the best, because that’s the way its been forever.

The party literally refused to hold any primary debates, or even primary elections in several states. They gave people no chance to even consider other candates.

Just be careful you’re not letting the perfect be the enemy of the good.

FPTP is absolutely the worst. Anything else is a massive improvement.

It doesn’t usually much more than, “I’m not going to talk about that.”
After repeating that a few times, when people ask or talk about something too personal, they’ll give up.

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.

-Robert Frost

That’s the other way of saying the same thing.

For now there is the web app. It works well on mobile.

There are some genuinely terrible things that could be considered “a person’s personal love life”.

You’re not alone.

On a good large screen, 1080p is a noticeable upgrade from 720p.
But the distance you’d have to sit at, to get much out of 2160p over 1080p, is just way too close.
However the High Dynamic Range that comes with 4K formats and releases IS a big difference.

On the other hand, storage is pretty cheep. A couple cents per GB really.
But you’re talking more about bandwidth, which can be expensive.

But yeah. You’re not alone.

Kapersky is the example you want to point at for an example of a bad actor corp capturing classified data and sending it to an adversarial government.

Not talking about collecting or sharing data.

TikTok just trended anti-political messages for a few different popular politicians and lit a match as a result.

There’s no real evidence they did.
Even if they did, that’s not a good enough reason to cut them off, though it is the reason many politicians want to; That, and the Israeli apartheid / genocide stuff.
But again, there’s no evidence ByteDance and TickTok is doing anything about those topics.

Did you read the article I linked to?
It is the NYTimes, I get it if you didn’t; Their paywall’s annoying.
Here’s a Kagi summary:

A report from the Network Contagion Research Institute at Rutgers University found that topics often suppressed by the Chinese government, such as Tibet, Hong Kong protests, and the Uyghur population, are unusually underrepresented on TikTok compared to Instagram. This raises concerns that Beijing may be influencing content on the popular video platform, which is owned by the Chinese company ByteDance. TikTok disputed the report’s methodology and claims of content suppression. The Israel-Hamas conflict has reignited scrutiny of how social media platforms like TikTok moderate content, with some Republican lawmakers calling to regulate or ban the app. Researchers have been urging TikTok to provide access to data to study the spread of information on the platform.