ClownStatue

This is a good analogy, but I have something easier: the good old GOP standard of it not being a big deal until it directly affects them. Practically coded into their DNA. Sure raping kids is bad, but in lieu of a video of it actually happening, they can rationalize it away. Kind of like with gay people. They're all evil deviants who can't keep their hands to themselves until you learn your daughter is one. Suddenly they're people with rights, and you're in your gay daughter's wedding because why wouldn't you be? Forget about all those years of dehumanizing citizens because you don't like what they do in private. You're enlightened now.

I mean, if they can just name it whatever they want whenever they want, I feel like o can do that too as a taxpayer. I like Department of Buttstuff.

Well, anyone saying Russians should vote Putin out aren't paying attention. Their elections haven't been legit since he rose to power. As for why they haven't kicked him out, it actually is complicated.

Timely. I have a feeling armed citizens might be necessary soon in at least one country.

I think that's a bit different. If all desktop OSs are affected by this law, Apple is in no better or worse position than their competitors. The mach kernel that macos is built around would still be available. TBH, I'm not even sure how reliant Apple still is on the mach source. If such a law were to effectively outlaw Linux, it would have massive implications for pretty much every company with a moderate or bigger enterprise footprint.

There's a shirt that you could buy where a kid is asking his dad what clouds are made of. Dad replies, "Linux servers, mostly." It's no less true today than it was then.

It's very important to make the distinction between Congress failing to hold him accountable and declining to. In the first case Congress is ineffective. In the second, and current situation, it is willfully inept. Big difference.

I'm getting tired of all these assholes calling Americans cowards for not rioting in the streets every day and erecting a guillotine on the ellipse! They tried that during the George Floyd fallout, and the right was quite successful in vilifying them. It was only the glaring racism of Trump's first term that revitalized BLM. His second term has effectively quashed that as well, somehow.

The US population is effectively a hostage, and this started long before Trump. Their livlihoods are financially bound to their employment, which is precarious at best. I've said it elsewhere and I'll say it many more times: US citizens, particularly the ones in the upper-middle class are going to have to be willing to die. It's that simple. If the population "rises up" like all the internet idiots want them to, Trump will implement the Insurrection Act ASAP. The aforementioned willfully inept Congress is highly unlikely to stop him. That's going to result in one or both of a lot of dead citizens or a civil war.

All of this brings me to the midterm elections. Americans are facing the shit sandwich of the current criminal and his willing accomplices in Congress, and the Democrats who:

Aside from 2 weak funding fights, have refused to act as an opposition party in anywhere near the same manner as the GOP when they're in the minority.
Are largely funded by the same authoritarians friendly billionaires and tech bros.
Are unlikely to behave like an opposition party even if the manage to win back both houses of Congress, which is not super likely.

I think a lot of Americans are hoping things improve after the midterms, and I hope they're right. I don't think its going to happen, but I think plenty of people are looking for a reason to not risk their livelihoods, or lives. And that's what its going to be. This criminal has no care for anyone but himself. He has no compassion or empathy. He sees US citizens the same way the worst Kings and Emperors of old did: as expendable. If they get "uppity," he will not lose a wink of sleep ordering the military, National Guard, ICE, police forces, or any armed body he can control to open fire on them. Whether they will or not is a massive question most rational people don't want to see asked.

The US is effectively being run by a mad king, and whatever safeguards used to be in place for such a situation are either complicit, or ineffectual (ie, the courts). People are really hoping that a Dem "wave" in the midterms will somehow fix something. Like I said, I hope they're right.

Wow. Didn't see that coming. Not at all.

I hate this timeline so much.

Could the dildo of consequence be pointed in her direction?

J/k. That's a myth. The only consequence these ghouls ever face is losing a job so they can become talking heads on right wing media. ETA: Or secretary of defense.

Apple and Microsoft are both rather large Linux customers. On desktop, they sell their operating systems, but both of them use a lot of Linux in the enterprise. Apple more so, but Microsoft is no slouch.

Musk is the kind of guy who thinks he cab responsibly build Skynet.

He will only refuse to pay after the Supreme Court tells him he has to pay.

Always important to remember. The main reason they accuse others of doing the bad stuff is because they do it and can't understand why everyone wouldn't do it too!

it’s too bad we don’t hang anyone for treason anymore.

Anything they do to interrupt the speech will be criticized. That should never be a metric in deciding how to protest. Effective protest must be disruptive.

So… enshitification?

Is there an index fund of just defense contractors?

I’m sure the men’s team would be happy to fill in. What would be interesting is how they would respond to The Idiot inevitably shit-talking the women’s team, during the speech, for dissing him.

I was at a Bojangles earlier this year and they had an AI doing their drive thru. I was trying to order a meal, but didn’t want a drink. That confused the heck out of the AI. It kept trying to force a drink in me. Gave up and walked into the store. Guy behind the counter was smiling and said something like, “we can hear what you’re saying to it. Next time just pull around. We got you.”

I never thought it was shit. For sure, it was the weakest of the three by a pretty good measure, but it does end the story decently enough. Plus, considering the success of the first two, there was nowhere to go but down with the third one!

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Here we go again

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K.I.S.S.

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TIL: Cmd+Shift+Delete

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