Hemingways_Shotgun

It’s fucked up that he says it like it’s some sort of flex, and his cultists eat it up.

I know that there has been a demonization of higher learning for a very long time in Conservative america. But I’m floored by how pervasive it’s become that a vast majority have been completely gaslit by it.

There will be plenty of lawyers ready to take this on pro bono. Easy case to make AND a name to be made.

That’s a whole lot of easy lawsuits.

Free market, bitch.

GOP: “Now where did I put those maps. I know they’re around here somewhere. You can never find them when you need them, am I right?”

I call dibs on shouting “WEESA FREE!!!” in a Jar Jar voice.

When this fucker finally kicks it, I feel like it’s literally going to be the special edition ending of Return of the Jedi in America.

“There’s a reason we separate military and the police: one fights the enemy 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

I 100% agree. And I think that, if America survives this and gets back to normal, future historians will most certainly discover this to be true.

But as say, without evidence, how it happened just becomes less important that stopping it by any means necessary.

The fact that anyone still believes there will be anything resembling “fair” elections by 2028 is baffling to me.

The american capacity to stick their head in the sand as long as they have the newest gadget in front of their face and an endless stream of tiktok content to look at is fucking insane.

I’m probably already on several.

Totally unrelated. But I just learned that the longest sniper kill ever recorded was 3.5 kilometers…

As a Canadian, American Express most certainly exists here. A quick google search shows that it exists in the UK as well. I’m going to guess it exists in other major countries as well.

No idea about Discover though. Barely even knew it existed at all.

You know what’s fun? Watching these people pretend like the rule of law actually matters and that Bondi won’t just fucking lie anyway, if she even does bother to show up.

My previous Motorola also has an e/OS/ spin. But sadly my current one does not.

Any Google app that would have Gemini baked in has long since been disabled on my phone. I’m presuming it’s bullshit isn’t going to be able to access my Fossify Messages or Dialer or Gallery or every other app I’ve replaced and disabled, especially since I’ve also disabled the Assistant and Google Apps.

(If I’m wrong please correct me.)

Sure. That might end up being a socially healthy place for adults to end up.

But it will never work that way for young teens. Their brains aren’t done baking yet. They don’t have the emotional maturity to understand that enough to be “okay with it because it’s just a fake”.

That’s why we protect kids rather than just telling them “hey it’s okay…it’s only a fake.”

I’m not even going to begin describing all the ways that what you just said is fucked up.

I’ll just point out that online deepfake technology is FAR more accessible to the average 13 year old to use on their peers than “porno mags” were in our day.

You want to compare taking your 13 year old classmates photo off of Facebook, running it through an AI and in five seconds creating photo-realistic adult content featuring them, and compare that to getting your dad’s skin-mag from under his mattress when he’s not home, cutting your classmates face out of a yearbook, taping it on, then sneaking THAT into the computer lab at school so that you can photocopy it and pass it around in home room, and then putting the skin-mag BACK under the mattress before your dad finds out.

Is that right…is THAT what you’re trying to say? Are those the two things that you’re trying say are equivalent?

When a stock price is all that matters, everything gets reduced to line items on a spreadsheet. That includes humanity.

I just use Syncthing. No cloud, just keeps any folders I choose on any devices synced with one another. Never had a problem, and while the files yes accessible on the internet technically, they’re not stored anywhere except the devices that have access to them. Works like a charm.