I was on a Boeing plane the other day that was delayed while we watched a guy with a wrench and a rag trying to stop fuel leaking out of the wing. It wasn’t hugely reassuring.

Oh right, sorry, I missed that. Makes sense now - thanks!

You’re missing a verb but you’re probably right.

This is an American actively serving the country.

This is not someone killed in battle:

Donald Trump raged when he learned the funeral bill for Vanessa Guillén—the U.S. soldier who was sexually harassed and horrifically murdered by a male soldier at Fort Hood in 2020—cost $60,000, a bombshell report revealed Tuesday.

Somehow knowing the circumstances of her death makes Trump’s awful remark even nastier. Especially since he is a rapist.

Guillén, a 20-year-old American of Mexican ancestry from Houston, was buried in her hometown on Aug. 15, 2020. Months later, in December, Trump reportedly asked his advisers in a meeting, “Did they bill us for the funeral? What did it cost?"

When an aide responded “yes” with the bill’s total, Trump allegedly unraveled. “It doesn’t cost 60,000 bucks to bury a f—ing Mexican,” he said, according to people in the meeting who spoke to the Atlantic.

Trump says vile things every day but this has to be one of the vilest.

The author asks many questions, but never the most important one: “Why don’t people like Windows 11?”

Overturning a Kamala Harris victory would require an enormous amount of help from Republican power brokers in statehouses and Congress, some of whom spurned him four years ago.

That won’t be a problem for them. Republicans spurn only until it’s to their personal advantage to un-spurn.

They complain about unprofessional communications then fill this article with whining like this:

Weeks elapsed with little to no activity, because they were super busy pretending to be doing something else out in the abyss of phantom world.

And they never seem to consider that maybe their own code wasn’t as great as they thought:

He finally built the coreboot ROM with our code, flashed it, and tried to boot the laptop, which displayed an FSP message. Max said he was surprised it made it that far. Why? We told them our code just needed debugging, but they didn’t want to believe it.

Why does the author expect it not to have problems? I know from experience that you can hand over your best, most thoroughly tested code to someone else and they’ll immediately find a problem you have never seen. How professional are these people if that surprises them? “But it just needs debugging!” is not the response of someone who knows what they’re doing and just needs a second pair of eyes on the code.

In the end this blog post backfires. They paint themselves as an arrogant and problematic client to deal with.

Edit: After reading the links in another comment on this thread (sorry for the instance-specific link, will fix if someone can advise me on a better syntax), and in this reddit thread this is evidently only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Malibal’s behaviour. Definitely a company to avoid.

Pirating it is a bad idea if you’re downloading it from a non-Microsoft source, since malware would be a big risk. That would defeat the purpose of installing a supported OS in the first place. If you download it from Microsoft and use a pirated key maybe that would work, but would you get the security updates?

He is full of hot air though.

The media, as usual, talks as if they’re trying to discern his secret, rational plan. Even when he spouts fascist threats of mass oppression and murder, they discuss him as if he’s just another politician with policy proposals. It’s unclear under what circumstances he’d call in troops against Americans because he’s psychologically chaotic, fragile and highly volatile. Anything could trigger him to do so. The only thing that’s consistent is he threatens retribution against immigrants, trans people, Black people, women, and anyone who doesn’t worship him enough.

How does he know he’ll lose? From what I see in the polls there’s a good chance he could win

You should get his name right if you’re going to incite action against him.

Not to be pedantic, but you might want to fix that typo. “Purpose”, not “propose”.

Trump’s holding rallies that explicitly promise a violent dictatorship and call for killing some of the most oppressed groups of people, and he’s about to be elected President for the second time. Then people like these cops are going to be celebrated and encouraged.

But then how would they violently enforce white supremacy and the interests of capitalists?

It’s just the global turn to fascism, that’s all. Just humanity dealing with crisis in the most stupid and destructive way it possibly could.

Hanson’s razor

Hanlon’s Razor

Why would anyone have thought it was over?

Many of them are too cowardly to admit they support the actions of said cunt.