While horrendous, a great many of them (or their families) are completely complicit, so my empathy for them is a lot lower than it probably should be.
Of course, my heart does go out to those who had no hand in this monstrosity, although they will still equally be affected by it.
“It’s a big club and we ain’t in it,” but Trump and co. don’t feel the need to put up the facade anymore.
Bingo. Instead of “hiring” (paying off) politicians, they’re just doing it themselves. They’ve lost any and all care about keeping up appearances. After all, what are we going to do? Sue them?
Of course, they’ll be able to do tremendous amounts of irreparable damage to society.
Ugh, that site has phone cancer.
A “good” thing from a bad thing: my 6 year old computer monitor decided to croak today. As it’s currently black friday deals, I managed to order a new one fairly cheap-o.
It’s just extremely humbling to realize that in this lifetime, I will never have enough time or money to even rise to a middling position in the field. It doesn’t diminish my genuine love for the subject or my personal drive to collect and learn what I can, but at the same time some millionnaire could start in my field tomorrow and have surpassed me in every way including knowledge in just a few months, and that makes me… not envious but just sad. I’ll always be just the dog getting table scraps while the “real” players feast at unimaginable, unattainable hights in perpetuity.
Slow, buggy, annoying interface, hogs extreme amounts of resources locally, can be used to spy on its users.
What’s not to like? It’s basically how Elon envisions X, an “everything app” that is actually good at nothing specific.
I’m trying my best but it’s so goddamn hard. I went to two trade shows past weekend and actually talked to someone new (well, the same person twice, but still). But literally every other person there had a much more extensive collection and knowledge than I do, after 5 years of obessessing over the subject.
I will always just be a very lightly informed amateur without real skills in any field.
I think the general feeling now is very similar to how medieval serfs must’ve felt about their Lords. Totally disconnected from everyone else in their castle towers.
I don’t want to live on a planet where these are the kind of people who decide, well, everything.
Doesn’t look like I’ll have much choice though.
Weimar-levels of hyperinflation, that’s what.
Always has been. It’s just that the thin veneer that was always on top has now has come off.
Looks at the heap of empty cans on the desk
Wabi-Sabi it is!
Something tells me this day will eventually live in greater infamy than 9/11.
Like in 2230, provided there is still something resembling the human race, “9/11” will be just another boring date to memorize together with shit like the Alamo w/e.
The day the republic fell, however, will be a lot more recognizable and memorable.
248 years. Empires “always” last around ~250 (Let’s ignore the Romans for now) so we’re exactly on time.
Wanna bet he’ll put up one of his kids (hell perhaps even Barron?) and bend the whole sycophantic side of the GOP into endlesdly propping them up?
In 4 years, you may simply get Trump III. I want to say this notion seems absurd, except that it absolutely isn’t.
Let me put it this way: we will see the true beginning of WW3 in the Baltics. Trump will predictably not act upon that and the response will be 100% up to Europe itself.
That response better be an armed one, and quick too, or we all better start practicing cyrillic here in W-europe.
Regardless if we are lucky, “only” tens of thousands will die. More likely it will be millions.
So yeah, Trump kinda bedazzled us there, no way around it. Won’t be until the people who voted him in will start hurting personally that they’ll finally realize they’ve been conned. But too little too late.
Seems to have worked for Jesus. Maybe they’re trying to bring about his second coming? Althought it thought it was the other side that was into that kind of stuff.
He literally killed more Americans than all previous wars after WWII combined, and no one gives a fuck. Truly indescribably baffling.
Seems rather bulky for a ring also. I wonder if it snags on a lot of things while using your hands normally.