Just a quick note here: I don't want the off-topic thread to turn into a long political discussion. It's fine for us to have one off-topic thread here for all sorts of miscellaneous stuff, but prolonged political discussion belongs on the
Current Events and Politics board.
I only mention this because political stuff has a tendency to overwhelm a thread if left unchecked... nothing wrong with what's been written in this thread so far, but there are limits.