There are alternatives, you can see the alternatives on display in various Linux distros, and hell, even Mac OS. The thing is that with Windows Microsoft doesn’t want you to think of an alternative.

It’s simply not true that the only way to do computing is to force everyone to use your trashy software or be nagged about it during every upgrade.

They are only doing this because they have the average user by the balls. Hopefully, Linux continues to get better and then that won’t be the case anymore either.

I still can’t convince my dad to just switch, but at this point running Windows is in nearly every single way worse than just running a popular Linux distro.

the only difference is 2 white people got killed this time so people started paying attention.

Which unveils the nature of the dual state in operation, exactly as the article is pointing out.

As always, me to DHS:

This sounds like an explanation the Russian government would give. Looks like those dumb assholes in the I’d rather be Russian than a Democrat shirts got their fucking way.

In order for something to rot, it has to have existed in the first place.

This “movement” never had any morals – and certainly never had any empathy – to begin with.

Doubt

“A lot” is a great, quantifiable metric there, computer man! 👍👍👍📈💯🍾

AI executives don’t matter

Oh she did, I’m referring to various things in this post but yeah she did some queer-baiting photo shoots as a model.

No shame in being gay or even being “gay for pay” or a sex worker or any of these but she and her husband are vile, trashy hypocrites and are trying to dismantle rights for LGBTQ+ people. So, I think it’s worthy of ridicule.

What the fuck is possibly the content of this movie?

How to pretend to have a headache so you don’t have to sit on the mushroom again?

Melania’s early career as a queer-baiting wannabe porn star?

The story of the first mail order bride to become first lady?

The story of the last occupant of the East Wing?

Where to find Dick Tracey’s haberdasher?

And here I was just naively blaming all three of them

Sue sue sudio

Keep them coming. I hope the Pretti and Good’s families are taking notes.

By the way, they are also open to slander and/or libel along with the media that tries to pass off their lies as the truth.

None of this brings your loved ones back, but it is still very much worth doing anyway. These people are scumbags and any dollar you can take from them is a dollar they can’t use to do further harm. Hit these asshole Trump losers in the only way they understand: their “taxpayer dollars.”

Say goodbye to Col. Lockjaw, everyone.

May the Christmas Adventurers Club give him a nice private office to celebrate his retirement!

Even if, as I put it in my other reply to a similarly limp dicked Atlantic article, you’re so late to the party that the caterers that were hired for it were deported by ICE months ago.

The Atlantic continues its role as the rag of choice for hand-wringing, neo-liberal stupidity with this piece. Its content is a constant stream of bad takes by people that have fundamental misunderstandings of the way power and politics have or would ever work making fanciful predictions that betray a Disney princess’s understanding of America, history, and geopolitics.

I read some amount of free Atlantic articles because their RSS feed – probably unbeknownst to them – provides a large amount of their magazine to you for free. Despite this, I find them to be fundamentally unserious and often not even worthy of the small amount of ad-free attention I pay to their writing, nor the effort to swipe their articles out of my feed. Without looking at the header, I could likely tell 100% of the time that what I’m reading is an Atlantic article, because the consistent tone of their contributors – who are seemingly vetted by the editorial staff to guarantee that only the most lame-brained, navel-gazing positions will ever be published.

Just today, I read a piece of theirs by someone who thought it was important to dedicate such a large amount of nuance and verbiage to a discussion of whether or not Trumpism could be categorized as a form of fascism that he published at least a thousand words in what was practically a lengthy description of the odor over time of his own flatulence. All of this flowery bullshit purely to conclude how it was time – finally time – to say out loud that Trump is a fascist.

Like not only are you so late to the party that the caterers that were hired for it were deported by ICE months ago, but who fucking cares what you call it you stupid, pedantic fuck?

To return to a discussion about this specific Disney princess prediction posted here, the police will “collide” with ICE agents in the exact same way they haven’t at all in previous days and weeks. The best you can hope for is that the police will not eventually collaborate with Trump’s paramilitary and help brutalize the people of this country, and even that is something of a long shot.

It still has to pass the Senate as far as I know. I find it unlikely that it won’t, but maybe if folks pressure the senators enough they can at least delay it. Either way, folks should pressure the shit heel senators.

Kenneth Walker shot police and Kenneth Walker was not only in the right, he was adjudicated on the matter and found not guilty by a jury of his peers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Breonna_Taylor

Masked, warrantless federal thugs that are indistinguishable from home invaders will eventually be shot or even killed. There are reasons that the police operate the way they do, and they are usually not out of the good of their heart.