As much as I despite Trump, vice presidents usually only get protection for 6 months after leaving office. This really isn't a thing and there's plenty of real things to focus on.
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As much as I despite Trump, vice presidents usually only get protection for 6 months after leaving office. This really isn't a thing and there's plenty of real things to focus on.
Neil deGrass Tyson: "How sad it must be believing that scientists, historians, scholars, economists, journalists devoted their entire lives to deceiving you, but a reality-TV star proven in court to be a lying felon is your beacon of truth & honesty"
The Trump administration is the greatest gift our geopolitical adversaries could have hoped for. It's hard to imagine he isn't a Manchurian agent but enough incompetency can yield the same result.
Because bending the knee to right-wing insanity worked so well for Target. Don't they get it that reversing course just ends up alienating both sides? If the right-wing whines about something, let them. You don't give in to fucking babies.
Straight out of pages of totalitarian history. Can you imagine the uproar there'd have been if Obama had done anything like this? Oh wait. We got a glimpse. The right went batshit crazy over Jade Helm 15 when it was just a training exercise. This shit is REAL and... where are they now?
To be fair, guns *are* tools. The problem isn't directly the availability of guns. The most direct problem are selfish, sociopathic right-wing deplorables not able to recognize the horrible culture they're cultivating that's most assuredly neither Godly nor pro-life.
And if the UK courts give a warrant then UK LEO can still walk into your house and take your neatly boxed up NAS of personal information. You can squabble over which jurisdiction is more trustworthy but at the end of the day your evidence still isn't pro-NAS. [insert government] can still get it.
In fact I'd argue it could be harder for government to get data from a megacorporation than from you via warrant by simple virtue that megacorps have all manner of compliances and teams of lawyers to make sure law enforcement demands are above board. Do you have those resources? I think not.
Guess what! If law enforcement gets a warrant they can walk into your house and take your NAS, too, and you'll have all your stuff neatly boxed up for them and ready to go. Law enforcement can take anything from anyone if they can justify cause to the judiciary. This isn't pro-NAS evidence.
Wow, conspiracy theory much? Do you have any actual... you know... EVIDENCE that Microsoft is doing any such thing with personal data uploaded to the cloud? Because even a cursory search on the subject revealed nada. Better log off quick. Microsoft is surely watching you right now...
Same as Musk. Frist he was cool, then he went crazy, then he went evil.
I'd rather be liberated than vindicated. I replaced my NAS with OneDrive a couple years ago and now I don't have to worry about maintaining it or doing something stupid that would screw it up. More people with far more expertise work to make sure OneDrive is reliable. I much prefer outsourcing.
Many tools are invented and adopted primarily for the purpose of reducing the cost of human labor. Such cycle of advancement isn't balanced. It's a zero-sum game. And eventually human labor will be so unnecessary that, in a world designed around the necessity of laboring, we'll be truly fucked.
And then she fell into the trap of labeling her mother one when her mother was only doing what she felt was necessary to keep her family alive. I don't disagree with the sentiment but care must always be taken not to assume a person's intent and desire just based on what you see at a glance.
So let me get this straight. Decentralized militias were the counter to an oppressive federal government but then we consolidated them into the National Guard and gave the president the power to declare superseding authority. That was stupid.
First, they came for John Bolton And I did speak out Because even though I'm not a nutty right-wing warmonger with a ridiculous mustache, I am an American who is horrified by a simple-minded tyrant using our Justice Department to avenge his petty, personal grudges.
It's why Republicans are actively moving to limit Democrat influence and reduce the competitiveness of any political opponents. They know they won't be able to win in a fair election. And if they still lose, well... the national guard will be sitting in the Democrat strongholds.
My latest project was almost all vibe and I honestly did very little coding, but I did have to look over everything AI was doing. It basically felt like being a team lead looking over someone's shoulder. You still use your knowledge but the AI does the actual labor.
I've been getting into slowly for the past month due to the powers-that-be pushing us to use AI more. In general it's had more misses than hits, but I find it does help in two key places: 1. Stubbing for a project to get things started 2. Doing smaller things that aren't worth the time to learn
I want one just to see the reaction of our existing 10 cats.
To be fair, you wrote "sound cards".
Yeah, he's not well. At the rate he's going he's going to completely decimate his legacy as a chill guy.
Now I remember why I fucking hate taking my truck to the dealership repair shop. JFC they price gouge you. I don't know how that shit is even legal.
Right? Nah, I think I just went for $100/hr which, at the time, was more than twice my normal pay.
Even better when they lay off people with singular knowledge over critical system. That's my story. I developed and maintained a system that normalized and fed CDN usage data into billing processes and they laid me off in the first phase of a RIF. Then they immediately wanted me back on contract.
Federalizing and placing the national guard in blue cities sure sounds like an attempt to normalize their presence as "law enforcement" for if/when Democrat candidates win elections in 2026 "illegally", pushing Republicans undemocratically into power there to "save the people".
So where are all the libertarians and that NRA who for years rationalized their existence for days like these? Probably on the side of the jackboot fascists.
Newsom and California need to spearhead an initiative to create a cross-state organization that, funded by all members, provides financial support for education, science, NOAA, and all the other things Trump has the federal government withdrawing from. Let's see Trump try to sue that.
While I generally agree that Trump is going to be an extreme detriment to the Kennedy Center, I don't really have an issue with these people receiving the award? Maybe I'm too low brow to know who'd usually be honored, but they're all long-recognized names in the arts.
We didn't abandon shit. Those on the left have supported socioeconomic programs and change for DECADES that would have helped them. They constantly refuse the help, usually after being duped by right-wing media telling them it's the left's fault.
It's getting harder and harder to get through a day without a moment of dread sweeping over me. I don't even need to see a headline to trigger it now. What's happening is a permanent fixture in my psyche.
It's silly and easily disproven that they'll "always" do it. There were all manner of accusations to that affect during COVID -- that the emergency powers assumed would not be given up -- and yet, they were. Some people abuse power, some people don't.
We can start with the fact it's far more reasoned and evidence-based.
Nah, worse than that. They're standing back and standing by to be Trump's final column once he's done federalizing, militarizing, and bribing the loyalty of law enforcement.
Ah, so they found the face of their Fourth Reich Culture Chamber. Time to start the new hunt for degenerate art!
Precisely. You're an agnostic and a subset of atheists. As am I. And when discussing the existence of gods in a knowledge-centric context, it's more descriptive and relevant to identify as an agnostic than an atheist.
It's a sad reality that, by nature, the good guy's morality and ethics disadvantage them against the bad guy's immoral and unethical actions. It's why they're always seen in literature having to fight uphill battles. It's always harder to win as the good guy.
That's part of the problem that got us here. Generally speaking, modern Democrat politicians aren't motivated by the same things modern Republicans are in the same measure. This reality has given the Republican party an advantage visible farther back than the Southern Strategy.
Graham is nothing but that ghoulish little minion that limps behind their master, singing his praises while being mocked and beaten by him. And that says so much about the people who keep electing him to represent them.
Battlestar Galactica Quotes. QuotesGram "There's a reason you separate military and the police: one fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people." - Commander William Adama
The balance of fear needs to move from the oppressed to the oppressors.
Systemic fear is setting in. If you're not high profile enough to become a target of frivolous federal investigations or other federal action, you fear your fascist neighbors will kill your dogs. Practical resistance will require galvanization through one big shock. Not a lot of small shocks.
Also dishonest to invoke the "Chinese Communist Party" in this context. While it's true that's the party's name, it's as misleading as North Korea being democratic or a republic. China never achieved communism, nor did it ever intend to.
Atheism includes _both_. You can be an atheist who rejects the assertion that gods exist or you can be an atheist that asserts gods don't exist. The term covers both. You might be better off identifying as an agnostic. It would reject both assertions due to lack of information.
Well, it can depend. Atheism runs the gamut from lack of belief to the conviction that god(s) don't exist. The latter is most certainly an assertion. That's why I foremost identify as agnostic. I won't assert existence or non-existence because I don't know and, for now, probably can't know.
So Many Amendments Should Have Already Been Made To Our Constitution….
It literally starts as "For Trump". That clearly sets the context that it's specific to his viewpoint not objectively true.
Hillary has been right about everything.
Anyone smart enough to use the data understands how it's collected and revised. The idea that the data shouldn't be released because Trump and his fucking idiotic supporters are too stupid to understand it is both hilarious and dangerous. We're dumbing down the country to the lowest denominators.
Interesting. Where did I include Palestinians in my list? Oh. Right. I fucking didn't. Fucking idiot. Pretending like there aren't legitimate threats to Israel either makes you monumentally ignorant or monumentally stupid. Or both. My vote's on both.
When a president threatens to withhold funding, withhold merger consent, increase tariffs, sue, or otherwise do anything to coerce corporations, educational institutions, law firms, state governments, etc. to do what HE wants.... THAT'S AUTHORITARIANISM YOU STUPID RIGHT-WING FUCKING IDIOTS.
What they refused to do was leave Israel defenseless against Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas, and other threats in the region which were all active at the time. Even an amoeba could have processed this by now.
You're truly as fucking dumb as a MAGA. What's stated does NOT contradict the fact that she, and Biden, were ALSO insisting that weapons given to Israel not be used against civilian targets. They can be FOR Israel's legitimate defense AND against genocidal use of the weapons at the same time.
Right... you sound so credible saying that to someone who doesn't drink and hasn't so much as smoked a cigarette their entire life. 👍
Opinion. It was absolutely a condition. One we expected Israel would eventually concede to and respect, based on a long history of Israel's behaviors. You just can't accept that because it doesn't fit your narrative. As dumb as a MAGA.
And maybe if you actually tried to have a life and consider the fact the universe doesn't revolve around your stupid ass, you might begin to comprehend how someone only comes around to BlueSky every few days.
I know how to read, dipshit. And I know not to make dumb shit up to fill gaps to serve my own purposes like a MAGA conspiracy theorist. Provided weapons were REPEATEDLY done so on the condition they not be used to target civilians, up to and including NSM-20.
I'm no fan of Apple but, news flash boys and girls: This is what tyranny looks like. American businesses being coerced to act a certain way for fear of government power being targeted specifically against them.
We DIDN'T know they would do it again. Historically Israel eventually bends to US pressure and it was completely reasonable to believe it would do so again. But Oct 7 emboldened him like never before and normal pressures no longer worked. That was a new development.
This is why you don't put strongmen in power. They'll use that power to silence anyone who says anything they think could possibly threaten their facade of strength. News networks, universities, their own people just doing their damned jobs for the people.
Giving them them weapons IS NOT EVIDENCE OF CONSENT OF ANY INDISCRIMATE BOMING CAMPAIGN. Especially when Biden was PUBLICLY CALLING FOR AN END TO IT. It's like a MAGA saying solar tech is stupid because the sun sets. You're citing something as proof that isn't proof.
Sphincter, you're the one demonstrating the ignorant mob hysteria so often witnessed among MAGA. As is evidenced by your citing something that doesn't actually rebut the argument. Yes, we gave them weapons. Literally nobody's denying that.
Is it normal that my teenage son sleeps like he's always just survived a 15-episode Dragon Ball battle? 🤔
Next up, chocolate fudge Poptarts with melted marshmallow in between. Because the smore Poptarts just don't cut it.
By the standards of contract law, a contact signed under duress can be challenged and voided. So how will any country be legally bound to any treaty with the US made under Trump's threats of tariffs or other retaliations?
The US is treating the world the way England treated the colonies but conservatives by like 🤷♂️.
Gold.
Fun fact: Even despite the Second Amendment, there are laws out there limiting the rate of acquisition of firearms. Get too many too quick and the government can step in. Why exactly do you think the same can't be done to money?
There's even legal precedence for quantity being a factor in legal ownership. And I haven't seen anything that would specifically exempt money from similar treatment.
You're seriously not thinking about this critically. There's a very long list of regulated items that people cannot legally possess and can be legally confiscated by the government without any form of reimbursement.
Modern events are compelling the perception of history that when "left-wing autocrats" rise to power it's from lies aimed at people's best natures. When right-wing autocrats rise to power their intent is clear and their supporters are convinced not to care.
Who said anything about a tax? This would be a simple seizure of assets as a penalty for possessing something illegally.
Why's that? If laws can exist against the possession of drugs, guns, and many other substances; why not excessive wealth? Not that i agree or disagree with this specific plan, but I don't see what would make it unconstitutional.
Someone should remind this animated ass wort that New York has been the focal point of immigration for a very long time and it somehow managed to become one of the wealthiest, most powerful cities in the entire world.
A person who is psychologically averse to admitting failure should never be trusted with proclamations of success; they're inherently predisposed towards dishonesty.
Always the great orator.
If you don't hear David Tennant when someone says "Jessica" then you don't know the MCU.
Disturbing that this is getting traction in this country but wholly unsurprising it's the right-wing courting it.
You know how you can be unknowingly sitting on something for an hour and you don't realize how uncomfortable it was until it's removed? The same can happen to an oppressed people under a tyrant.
Quick! Someone fire all the people in charge of our nuclear arsenal and replace them with AI! It'll save money!
If the desire to be moral and ethical instills fear of social or professional ostracization, you're already living under oppression.
Truly the stupidest fucking timeline. Not because the idea is stupid (it's just evil), but because this is the kind of vile "entertainment" seen in the background of so many post-apocalyptic scenes -- competing to win to avoid being punished -- and people seem too stupid to get it.
Been doing a Babylon 5 binge-rewatch and watching the fall of Earth is like watching the fucking news.
Guess you're not a fan if Tuna Helper...
NRA in 2020: "We need guns to resist tyranny!" NRA in 2021: "We need guns to resist tyranny!" NRA in 2022: "We need guns to resist tyranny!" NRA in 2023: "We need guns to resist tyranny!" NRA in 2024: "Ya know, tyranny's not so bad."
They don't even have to be in the air to fall out of the sky under Trump.
"Move to Trash" seems like an insensitive description for removing a contact from your phone when that person just recently died...
He has to distract from the fact that Jesus would be disgusted by him and his supporters. Especially those claiming to be Christian. He's rebranding Easter.
So the Pope couldn't recover from exposure to Vance's extreme sociopathy. That tracks.
I think my own brain sparked this perspective (albeit more simplistically) when I witnessed Reality TV take precedence in the naughts and what remained of intelligent programming became infested with exaggerated emotional angst. That represented the first celebrations of ignorance.
Hahahaha. Trump backs down on tariffs (repeatedly) ... and on Powell ... and on Gaza-Israel peace ... and on Ukraine-Russian peace ... and on Harvard Whether it's incompetence or cowardice, Trump's strongman persona is completely fucking shot and he can't jail or threaten enough people to hide it.
Boo-fucking-hoo, enabler.
So just to be clear, Trump can detain a person who's done no wrong, forcefully send them to another country, and then leave them in a foreign prison on no charges and with no due process. Kinda like what Hitler did to Jews. Just wait until Trump realizes it's even cheaper to just kill them.
Just a casual reminder that before the gas chambers, Jews were caused all manner of economic pain throughout Germany to compel self-deportation. Not to mention them being shoved off to other countries for detainment. History is repeating itself...
We can *sometimes* filibuster. Unfortunately a lot of the destruction Republicans want can be done with only 51 votes, to say nothing of the executive abuses that can only be checked by a Congress majority that cares to do its job.
Democracy dies by a thousand cuts, any one of which the layman can dismiss as inconsequential while ignoring the accumulative effect.
The lives of American troops - and every American life - depends on the people in charge of our government taking their responsibilities seriously. But again and again, including with the incompetence that came to light today, they are demonstrating the opposite. My full interview here:
Hegseth, Waltz and company texting war plans to a reporter on signal is just the tip of the iceberg. This whole administration is full of incompetent, inexperienced, and unqualified clowns. Our national security is compromised in ways we’re just beginning to understand.
I imagine LeVar slowly coming over your shoulder at some point, whispering "Reading Rainbow...."