Well said, man. Well said.

Republicans are revolting, you say?

Nothing about what they’re doing resembles anarchy. It’s straight autocracy.

Something you have, something you know, something you are.

On iOS, you can press the power button five times in a row or hold the power button and volume up button together. Either one of those disables biometric login.

Of course, you need to know that you need to do that and have the chance to do so.

That’s exactly what a vampire would say

These sorts of agreements are always so one-sided, also. What the company gets (tax breaks, property deals, etc) is always explicitly specified in the agreement but what the town gets (jobs, tax revenue, whatever) is left as unwritten assumptions, with the former never seemingly tied to the latter. If it wasn’t for the kickbacks and bribes, you’d think these towns were just really bad at writing contracts.

He invested $800M in Yahoo! In 2008 and lost it all, among a whole series of other fuck ups. I think he’s an illustration of the rule that if you’re rich enough you don’t have to be very good at anything

Suppressors are a prime example of how Hollywood has shaped so much of the population’s perception of firearms. You even make a great example yourself by calling them silencers.

Suppressors are a great tool for making a loud hobby less likely to damage people’s hearing (yes, even with proper ear protection) and less annoying to everybody else within a few miles. They don’t make guns silent like in the movies. Some countries like the UK even require them or make them readily available because they’re so obviously beneficial.

It’s not that frightening. You can get the app yourself: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pantone-connect/id1491023737

The A in ACAB really does mean all

Tally fucking ho

I wouldn’t say that they aren’t doing anything. The number of letters we’ve received asking for donations to the party has sharply ticked up. They’re getting what they really want from the situation.

Maybe a coronavirus was the plan for killing off the plebs when they finished hooking up LLMs to the means of production and didn’t need us anymore.

Yes, but it’s all in $Trump

This was before my time, so it’s always interesting to read about Nixon and see that he was way to the left of the current Democrats and saw a lot of positive things happen under his terms. He’s remembered as a crook and a boogeyman, but by modern day standards, the Watergate scandal would barely even raise an eyebrow.

How times have changed.

This is obviously just a distraction from the Epstein files, but I wouldn’t mind starting a tradition of each president (and politician in general) retiring from office directly into their own trial.

This Russiagate BS is almost certainly nonsense, but Obama’s hands aren’t any cleaner than the average president.

Stopped clock. Hell, even a backwards running clock is right ever so often.

Royalty (even ornamental) in the 21st century is just an example of having backwards and ridiculously outmoded cultural constructs. I admit that I could have phrased that better.

European résumés include photographs and marital status, which would be an outrageous reach into one’s personal life in the states. It’s not surprising that they’re ok with the idea that bosses should be able to have relationships with their employees and still keep their jobs. I guess that makes the resumes make more sense.

The Europeans had, and still have in some cases, dynastic royalty and state religions and stuff. They’re surprisingly backward in a lot of ways. The personal freedom to use your power imbalance at work for sexual gratification seems like the sort of thing they’d never move forward away from.