They can't even get people to vote for them after Trump says he'll do things that will hurt those same people - you think they're going to do anything else? Get used to them doing fuck all, and that WE will end up having to do all the ugly work ahead.
Wait until they get to the mattress sheet with the brown stain.
Joke, not comedian.
2021 alone had 725 cases resulting from the Jan 6th attacks and would dwarf all other years on the red bar ALONE.
The requirement of 'resulting in a guilty verdict', and based on the numbers shown for 2021, that's only showing cases that went to jury trial with a not guilty plea, and found guilty. That cuts the red bar by a TON for 2021, 2022, and 2023, because of how many pled guilty, avoiding jury trials.
Or he could be so ballsy as to say we've had enough of Trump's crap, and that the party needs to realize he was never a Republican in any sense, just a self serving dictator. But nah. He's not going to be so bold. If by some miracle he does, and he survives, we could have hope for stability.
I'm pretty sure Harris would have done better pulling away from the Israeli government and standing up for the human rights of the Gazans. Sure would've been better than the doubling down Trump has done in support of Israel. But sure, you showed them 'complicit' Democrats.
Brazil has clearly gone through a lot of evolution into a far more ethical and reputable country than it once was, but the US at the same time has fallen far enough that the Brazilian response is superior. I doubt people of ~40 years ago would have expected such a turn of events.
Someone with a superior attitude accusing me of having a superior attitude - how ironic. It's a pretty widely accepted fact that Brazil has not always had the most ethic and reputable government. Situations like this prove they've improved massively while the US has fallen as proportionally.
So was that your excuse for sitting out last election, or voting 3rd party, rather than voting for Harris?
Hard to believe those words could be true, but such are the times we live in.
I would remind you of the ethos of what Patrick Henry said: "Give me liberty or give me death." It may not be just, but he knew that freedom, and free speech, came with risk. It may not be a valid response, but not an impossible one, especially in a free society.
Ouch. This sarcasm is so sharp it could slice through a Uvalde cop's Kevlar vest while they stand outside a classroom listening to the sound of screaming children being shot.
So The New Jan Brady does a reply and block to avoid debate, and being held to their stance that children should be punished for their father's actions. That's sick. @jimmykimmel.com should block you for such a sentiment. Your thinking is just as sick and abusive as Kirk's. Become your own enemy.
Wouldn't it be a great defiance of him to show empathy for his children? Like your point though.
But his children, and maybe even his wife, were not. It is valid to both feel Kirk's death is a consequence of his own actions, and show sympathy for his children who see him as their father first. His wife and children were victims of his ideology, too - including the brought risk to his own life.
His wife and children were also victims of his ideology, and of the violence it brought to him, by the hands of his attacker.
I could've had (but didn't) a kid old enough to understand what was going on on 9/11. I also skipped looking for a job, because everyone stopped hiring by the end of that same day.
They only made an announcement over our PA system in my high school - and we finished the day.
Seems like a perfectly logical thing to do, eh? Been a number of similar situations where 'experts' were like 'nah, that's not really gonna work'. Well, why not? A similar situation was on Amsterdam Island, with cows. My first reaction was to say "shoot the cows". They eventually did.
There's a Simpsons episode a bit like that.
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In the long run I envision power without a grid, at least not required for power to be delivered to every home or other building - just a way to balance the occasional demand beyond ones supply. Solar roofs, small wind production, and a battery bank, maybe geothermal or small hydro.
Kirk said what he believed, and right or wrong, he was hated, celebrated, and eventually killed for it. He is also being 'canonized' for it (Presidential Medal of Freedom). The saddest part is that nothing in our situation has really changed.
This is some people's definition of 'actions', especially when they feel like protests and voting aren't working. Words have consequences, not always just ones, but the risk is there. Patrick Henry understood that when he said "Give me liberty or give me death."
His death was the consequence of his words, just as much as speaking out against tyranny, or expressing racial hate as a minority can have deadly consequence. Patrick Henry understood the risk of free speech, when he said "Give me liberty or give me death." Right or wrong, words have consequence.
I was only roundly aware of who he was, knew the name, didn't know all of the stupidity connected to him, like that empathy is a bogus fabrication, suggesting we instate martial law in various places in the US, and other ridiculous things. I don't celebrate his killing, rather dread the consequence
Oh, that's rich. As if we can't produce volumes of social media posts of Trump demonizing his detractors and those he disagrees with. What a giant hypocrite, not that most of us are surprised.
The scene he's ripping off is an ironic choice. That character stood in an actual combat zone with shells landing just feet away. He was obsessed with war, but he ends that scene with a resigned mentality, uttering "Some day this war's gonna end..." Not a declaration they'll win, just resignation.
This is shallow enough a toddler couldn't drown in it face down.
Where does it say that those 20 Democrats are running to unseat their own party incumbents? I see reference to one Democrat looking to replace the incumbent, who has decided to retire after his term. I'd bet many are looking to turn seats held by GOP, as young people are tired of the old in charge.
Oh look, Hegseth, who wants to solidify the xenophobia of MAGA in the military, extend the Christo-fascist regime, and you can pretty much bet will find an excuse to depose Vance if Mango expires.
And a lawsuit takes forever, meanwhile Trump can draft new executive orders about a thousand times faster. Eventually, he'll write one up to make challenging his EOs illegal, and he'll order the military to enforce it, since lawsuits about that haven't been processed and won. Bye-bye democracy.
Most people stealing laptops are not doing it to mine your data, they're doing it to wipe and use your device as their own, or even more likely to quickly convert it to cash for their own uses.
Again, you want to protect your browsing history from anyone else? Set it to be deleted when you close the browser. What, you never close your browser or shut down your machine? That's your stupid mistake. Also, don't save your passwords. Use a better password discipline or solution.
3. Don't stay logged into your bank account. Most banks have a time based session token anyway, requiring you to log back in or at least extend your session, and if they don't then your bank sucks and you should change banks. 4. You're more likely to leak your info through social engineering.
1. You don't need BitLocker enabled to require authentication to get on your laptop, even if you have a local account. 2. If you're worried that somehow after circumventing your PIN/password/Hello biometrics a person could look at your browser history, set your browser to delete it upon closing it.
Voting against him twice led us to him? That doesn't make much sense. Driving off people with 'vote our way or we'll destroy you' doesn't help anyone win. Trump won on one dimensional voters accepting his lies that pandered to their single minded agendas. Think they're going to come back to bile?
I believe your one dimensional "all X must suffer" is a myopic view that doesn't end the conflict and strife of the world. Absolutism of that nature, based on labels often gained through deceit or duress, creates collateral damage that isn't acceptable to a truly compassionate society.
It's not my draft. I never voted to have one, I was never offered the chance. By the way, where were you on November 5, 2024? If you didn't turn out to vote to keep the orange one out of the White House, reconsider who's got 'weak willed bullshit'. If you did, spend more of your anger getting votes
I'm not justifying anything. I just know that people just try to survive in a world where they feel powerless - be they conscripted soldiers, refugees, wage or state slaves, defectors, or asylum seekers. Sometimes those decisions don't make sense outside of the moment of desperation they arise from.
"being forced to work a regular job with no chance of leadership but your life needs are still fully met for free is the world i want" If I'm reading that right, you want to live a full Marxist Communist life as a state slave, rather than a wage slave? Yeah no thanks.
Pray the draft isn't activated, and we don't get stuck into a war for Mango's self-satisfaction. If that happens, and you got drafted, you better flee into exile or accept your imprisonment, because otherwise you are complicit - did I get that right? Life ain't that simple.
You're familiar with the draft, right? The vast majority of people who fought in Vietnam were not volunteers, they were drafted. If they refused induction, they were imprisoned. If they fled the country, they were forced to live in exile. The refugee life is neither easy nor cheap.
If you've never taken violent action toward the GOP or MAGA specifically, and are a staunch Democrat voting for them consistently, and the MAGA took over like the Nazis, and they used your rationale, you'd be stripped of your assets - like the Nazis did. Don't become your enemy.
So you're at least limiting it to the soldiers. Do you think Vietnam War veterans should be treated in a similar fashion? How about veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan? Not everyone swept up into a war, even in combat, is a perfectly willing participant. Not everyone's actions are complicit.
The German people on the whole were lied to, in a desperate state, with runaway inflation. If you were to count anyone who joined a federal political party as war criminals, you'd pretty much be eradicating most of the population of Germany. If you believe yourself immune to such influence, be wary.
When you say 'countless Nazis', are you counting every single member of the party, or those who specifically served in the military or government, or more specifically in the war crimes relevant to the Holocaust? Are you expecting every person that ever voted GOP to be executed? Consider carefully.
That one Windows system has not BSOD'd since. I think I managed to encounter one kernel panic under Ubuntu on the other laptop, as I recall because I was trying to make fluxbox work on it with wifi still functional too.
I own 4 Windows 10 laptops, and 1 laptop that was a factory Windows system, but I used with Ubuntu, and is now a Chromebook (Chrome OS Flex). Only 1 of those 4 Windows systems has BSOD'd on me, and that was just after setup when it was going through a heap of updates to the OS, drivers, and firmware
"Dumb when it comes to computers" We have a name for that. Luddite. The majority of what computers do, and how they work, are based on idioms that already exist elsewhere in life. Inductive reasoning is pretty easy, and is the heart of intuition. The alternative is willful ignorance.
How do you get through life not hearing something like "on Lifetime Network", or have been taught about the Roman network of roads? They have a construct to use to understand, they simply shut down and refuse to.
What most people do is put up mental blocks to avoid what they believe is more complex than they can understand, no matter if it's obvious they could understand with only the most basic of attempts. I once challenged someone to name a tech term that they didn't understand. They said 'network'....
You're saying people who went to school and used a locker, don't know what a locker is, and don't understand the concept of what it does? People watch the likes of CSI or see other things that mention bits and bytes. You'd have to work to avoid exposure to such language. Isn't plausible otherwise.
I don't get how people can forget the whole process of having created a Microsoft account as part of setting up their laptop. If they had someone else do it for them, and neither of them created notes or explained what was being done, then that's a problem between them and their 'help'.
My only conclusion I can reach based on that is that people are being dumb, and if you defend that lack of very simple use of intuition (basic thinking, really), you're defending being dumb. If someone said your drive was Kerberos Encrypted, that is more obscure and could be excused.
If you went to school, you know what a locker is. If you have paid even a small amount of attention to the education and info around computers, you've heard the term 'bit' to refer to information your computer stores and handles. So intuiting what "BitLocker" might mean shouldn't be hard.
I can agree that control is far greater with Linux, but with control comes a need for skill, comfort using it, and being on your own when things go wrong. That's just not feasible for everyone.
My experience with MacOS and Linux was that sooner or later, you're likely to experience at least one kernel panic. If a driver change doesn't get along with your hardware, for example, you can end up with one. Just as I rarely (like, it's been years) see a BSOD, I also didn't see kernel panics much
One can still turn it off, though. That's the thing - if you are prompted about BitLocker as part of an update process, you can opt out. Most people just don't bother to pay attention and take action - then they blame the computer when their inaction has consequences.
So they traded a corrupt PM for a corrupt military or monarchy. However, will they hold new elections for a new PM? Does the monarchy declare the new elections? That's pretty normal process for a parliamentary monarchy.
I dread the resolution to our problems that may become necessary. There are several options, not the least possible being Mango decides to invade someplace, and China joins a coalition to push us back, and we get WW2 style regime change. Ask the Germans how easy and comfy that was.
That Linux is no more immune to failures than Windows is. My experience is a Windows installation that's been set up and cared for properly rarely bluescreens - much like it is with MacOS and Linux. I've experienced kernel panics on both of the latter.
Point is it has nothing to do with Windows 11 per se, but rather does have to do with BitLocker first and foremost, and needing a Microsoft account secondarily.
Unless you're doing DoD work or RICO level crime, why do you even need BitLocker, right?
This could happen on WIndows 10 too.
kernel panic exists
I've seen the Star Trek Strange New Worlds with @pattonoswalt.bsky.social It's hillarious. Isn't that awesome?
Rendition. Abduction. Exiled. All better words.
They won't. They have no spine. Despite their pandering, they were still targeted for defunding, successfully. At this point, why would I even want to 'donate' to 'save' this excuse for 'journalism'?
"Legally questionable"? NPR, your reporting has become pathetic. PATHETIC. Stop pussyfooting. This is not 'neutral reporting'. This is a farcical excuse for reporting to make it sound like the ethics or legality of any of this is debatable. To act like it is, is pandering.
Remember how there were Texans campaigning for secession, on the premise they retained the right to leave based on how they joined the Union? Well, how about we let them go?
This is what Trump sucked up to Putin for?
Man, that hurts. It hurts because of the unreal amount of times I have had to decline sales of hundreds in Apple or Steam cards to some old lonely (or horny) guy who thinks some hot woman online is the love of his life and going to bang his brains out.
So @bsky.app what's the point of showing me a post I can't reply to, nor can anyone else? This is a conversational site, right? Or do you want it to become yet another disinformation and propaganda site? 'Cuz that's one great way to get there.
Remember, memes didn't win the last election, votes did. Meme all you want, but make damn sure you also VOTE.
Went to watch the Made by Google event video, started scrolling to find them showing actual product... and there's like 5 minutes of that, and most of the rest of the hour and a quarter video is people rambling. I go to mock them in the comments. Comments are off. Of course.
Those look like the same kind of Blackwater-esque mercenaries that appeared to be padding the ranks of ICE. Is he just hiring a bunch of mercenaries for all of his 'projects', and are they in fact the same ones being shuffled from 'assignment to assignment'?
That's inferior to a 45. The 7" 45 would hold roughly 5 minutes, so longer than the original 'radio play' length songs (about 3 minutes). Lots of modern songs are easily 5 minutes long. A 4 minute max means those things can't hold a standard version of many modern songs.
To be clear, NO form of state based vote counting for the Presidency should exist. The raw popular vote should decide the Presidential race. It's been a long time since a President really tried to promote the fortunes of 'their' state. We would never have had Mango in the first place.
Well, gotta make the most of what they get. He's erratic enough and says so much crap on the fly, they can't rely on prepared propaganda and policies to guide his cult. If he had been killed, it's way easier to hold him up as the martyr and claim 'it is what he would've wanted'.
"All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education." - Sir Walter Scott Characteristic among those who behave as such is they tend to pursue such education perpetually.
They and others through history were willing to stand up and present their ideas, even if it was at risk of their own selves and harm, at least to their minds and egos, if not to themselves. A few harsh words endured on a platform like this pales in comparison. We're closer to Diogenes than Luther.
There's a thing in the name there: media Either it's a misnomer and should say 'social club' (think MySpace), or it's a forum of ideas presented by personalities large and small. If there's one thing we've lost from the Founding Fathers of the USA, it's how they were willing to 'put it out there'.
“Great Minds Discuss Ideas. Average Minds Discuss Events. Small Minds Discuss People.” Eleanor Roosevelt Always figured you for an ideas person, so I do prefer when you do accept some risk of noise to experience some great signal.
Thing is, having to follow just to respond gives benefit to the poster that the responder doesn't want to offer. You can always block someone that's uncivil, following you or not. And about 'who you are' vs 'discussing an idea', I'd like to share a bit of wisdom from a very wise and tenacious woman
If he survives, he's 'brave', the 'other guys' are trying to get him. If he doesn't, he's a martyr, and the rest of his regime gets to keep his closest supporters and carry on in his name. It worked for Johnson, right?
If as many are saying Trump controls those close to him through fear and dubious means, they're willing to risk him while creating a situation to incite his supporters to stay faithful and take action. His support was slipping. Allowing a threat to 'slip through' and score a close shot? Handy!
He wasn't actually hit with a bullet, nor do they actually claim that. He was hit by the shattered teleprompter glass, and that's what was supposed to have cut his ear. The glass definitely was hit. I don't think the staging is as elaborate as people think... it was more of a 'let it happen'.
If they don't want to hear back from me, I don't want to hear what they're saying.
What you said in the OP seems a little... convoluted. Maybe I'm not getting your quote vs post juxtaposition. The thing about replies need to come from followers - that creates an echo chamber. I also take issue with Bluesky pushing such posts into my Discover feed. I mean logic in my mind is...
If you are going to limit the replies to a quoted post, don't do the crappy thing where it says 'some can reply' - if it wasn't your post originally, how ethically can you curate the discussion around that post? You either let it carry on your quote post, or you push people to the original post.
If we're not meant to discuss it when a post is quoted, it should shunt us to the original post for replies/comments. If that's the way you wish it to work, can you not turn off the ability to reply on your quote post? That would force people to go to the original post to discuss it. Oh, and...
Know how to get the Colts to the Super Bowl? Buy them tickets.
With the amount of time focusing on things like that so close, young people now won't make it past middle age without issues. They'll develop far earlier in life. It was already happening with computer screens, with a phone being held so close as to occupy your FOV sufficiently for videos it's worse
You might get nearly the same field of view, but your focus is way different. You're stretching your lenses in your eyes to the extreme to focus up close, and they DO wear out. As someone who is old enough, and never wore glasses before, I know how it works. 20/20 became farsighted. However...
The oligarchy doesn't want the average person, or certainly the working class, to create their own wealth - they want the poor masses that will serve them and take any scrap offered.
Name your favorite President and tell me why it's Theodore Roosevelt.
People are just barely being willing to wave flags, chant, sing, and shout at protests at state capitols and cities where ICE shows up. You think they're ready to show up en masse at an atrocity like that and start cutting chain link fences and risk life and limb to restore freedom? Not even close.
That 'hello hole' shouldn't even exist. There should be no interactions, because there should be no concentration camp.