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  • A two-millenia old criminal organization criticizing a criminal head of state. Oh the irony...

  • I wasn't being condescending and I wasn't asking you why you don't own a gun.

    I don't either. I hate firearms. As such, neither you or I are in a position to exercize our 2nd amendment right. It's not for everybody.

    But there are plenty of people in America who DO own a gun and who DO talk big, but don't walk the talk when it matters the most. That's my point.

  • You as a people. Not you Mr. Nice Guy who doesn't own a gun.

    America is awash with guns and gun owners who don't like what's going on one bit. Where are they with their guns? They keep saying guns are necessary in part to keep the government in check, they go to the range and shoot boxloads of ammos to "train", some of them are preppers and talk big about defending the constitution and the American way of life. And yet when a fucking fascist is installing a dictatorship before their very eyes... suddenly, not a peep.

    Fucking pretend tough guys. That's what Americans are - as a nation, not you Mr. Nice Guy.

  • What do you want us to do?

    How about using that 2nd amendment you keep flashing to justify tens of thousands of useless deaths by firearm every year?

    Now is the time to rise up and prove that y'all ain't just a bunch of wannabe Rambos.

  • Mo' Gestapo-style shit.

    ICE officers will be tried for human rights violations in a Nurenberg-style trial one day. They should remember that. Even the Nazis knew full well the law would catch up with them months before the end of the Reich.

    If you work for the DHS, now would be a good time to resign and disassociate yourself from that criminal organization.

  • Looks like Rupert Murdoch had a flare-up last night and called the WSJ's editorial board this morning...

  • I never understood why Wikipedia didn't relocate out of the US. It's not like the US was a the best place to try and disseminate impartial knowledge from even before Trump.

  • They want to keep the bandaid and add another one on top.

    It's called fascism. The whole point is the bandaid.

  • The one EV I would have bought is the Kalashnikov CV-1. The fact that it was just a concept car, and from Russia, were a bit of a problem. But as square wild-looking electric cars go, I would have sprung for that one.

  • It takes one to know one.

  • I would buy one, were it not for 2 major problems:

    • There's no way it's going to cost $20k with the Trump tariffs in place
    • Slate Auto, the reportedly Jeff Bezos-backed electric vehicle startup - yeah... I'm not giving my money to fucking Bezos.
  • All this would be swell if the Trump regime obeyed the courts.

  • Dictatorships always end badly. But it can take decades.

    In the case of the US, the closest analog - the Third Reich - lasted 12 years. I'm hoping the American Reich won't last nearly as long but I'm bracing for about a decade.

  • When this madness is over, the next administration should outlaw the Heritage Foundation somehow. They clearly have proven to be actively working against the interests of the American people.

  • Two of the most vile human beings ever to defile the surface of the Earth duke it out and all everybody else wish is that they both go away forever.

  • Latinos who voted for Trump deserve everything they get: Trump's "comedian* openly spat in their faces with Trump's full support and they still voted for him.Pendejos...

  • AI & AGI have me kinda terrified

    If you're young, you should be.

    I'm not and I'm nearing the end of my professional career. Even if I get the sack tomorrow, I've had a very good run. And I have other skills that simply can't be replaced by AI or robots, so I'm not really worried. Concerned, yes. But not worried.

    But I know I won't have any retirement, that's for damn sure. Still, it beats not having any professional prospects from the get-go.

  • Snap was just one side thing. Coreutils is, well, core. Diverging on that is like diverging on systemd: if Mint does that, they may as well split from Ubuntu completely, as the dependency hell with Ubuntu packages will be completely unmanageable.

  • All new technologies eventually displace obsolete jobs. But crucially, they usually do it slowly enough that the workers whose jobs are being obsoleted aren't all sacked virtually overnight (i.e. society has the time to evolve relatively peacefully) and more of the new and better paying jobs are created for newer generations.

    The internet is no different. My Grandpa was a telegraph operator. My Father worked for AT&T installing landlines and I'm a computer guy. Both their jobs are virtually gone and mine will be soon. But I did manage to make a career out of it.

    The first real, violent disruption is happening now however: AI is on the verge of obsoleting a MAJORITY of all jobs within a few years, and no new jobs are really created to replace them. Society will be deeply uprooted and won't have time to prepare for the shift. A lot of people will lose their jobs with no alternatives to put food on the table. That's a recipe for war.