“Did you hear about that crash in Washington?” “Yeah, the Republicans took $3.8m in bribes from Delta to let them cram in an unsafe number of flights, and now 70 people are dead”

That’s it, that’s the response. No Republican will read this if you send them a link. Just give them true sound bites.

If they say DEI, just ask them about the bribes. If they say terrorism ask them about the bribes. If they blame Biden ask them about the bribes. Don’t engage with any sentence that doesn’t include the word bribe.

Life, uh, finds a way

A summary (no AI, I actually read things then summarise them):

The digital world is the real world - It’s where most people in Western society spend most of their personal social time, and a lot of other time (e.g. work)

But it’s shit. It wasn’t always shit, but it is. Platforms don’t do what you want them to do, or even what they used to do. Cory Doctorow’s enshitiffication describes one mechanism, but really the problem is the rot economy - a mindset that causes technology providers to consider only growth and profit over anything that might be important to real people

This has made technology (and by extension much of everyday life) traumatic. As a tech savvy person you may be aware of some or all of this, including the effects and motivations, and may even be able to avoid some - but by being in the readership of this article, you have to acknowledge you are in a privileged minority

Take the example of someone buying one of the most sold laptops from a big retailer - a common and necessary way for large numbers of people to access the digital world. By the time you fight the kludge of Windows with its integrations and bloatware and updates, then try and use a browser on this underpowered machine, you’ve already been bludgeoned into accepting that everything digital is just terrible, with no way of knowing or understanding that this is not your fault

This is not a trap you can easily escape, and any suggestion that these users are to blame because they bought cheap technology is just another example of the lack of economic awareness and empathy that lead to recent US election results. Similarly, blaming users for a lack of digital literacy when the technology is actively thwarting them would be inappropriate

So what’s the answer? I don’t know. At the very least we need to be empathetic, be aware, and raise awareness that this is happening. Why is this important? Because the digital world is the real world, and it’s being stolen from us

https://www.localsearch.com.au/guides/landscape-supplies/what-is-blue-metal

“It’s called blue metal since it has a blue colour.”

That explains the blue, but not the metal…

Thanks, I ended up going with virt-manager and it was relatively easy

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/08/a-patch-microsoft-spent-2-years-preparing-is-making-a-mess-for-some-linux-users/

I haven’t booted into Windows since

What do you use to run the VM? I run Mint and have been meaning to get a Windows VM up but there are too many options

Agreed, see also

https://slrpnk.net/post/14138900

Not OP. I guess that it is for someone missing a finger on their left hand

Fatal Distraction: Forgetting a Child in the Backseat of a Car Is a Horrifying Mistake. Is It a Crime? (2009)

Thanks, you did say to watch the video and I missed that, I’ll give it a watch

The website doesn’t really explain anything though, and even says that the laws should be amended

Why would the legal world take much longer and many more dollars to achieve what this guy can? Why wouldn’t everyone just sign a lease to their friend?

If the landlord is aware of the squatters and then enters into a lease intended to deprive them of possession, how is that not just an end run around the law?

Bet you $100 he is breaking the law almost every time

That really doesn’t seem like much money. If Reddit is worth $10B, that is 0.6% ROI

Only 90s cats will get this

Why every x looks the same

City

Car

Advertisement

Interface

Influencers

etc.

This is a nice piece of writing, and a good message

Luckily, a constitution is guaranteed to be an unambiguous representation of inherently true principles that will not be subject to change over time

14 years ago, an Epstein co-conspirator was deposed and refused to answer any questions. A Clinton associate had contact with Epstein within 3 weeks (not minutes, not hours) of a search warrant being executed, so a baseless question was posed that suggested there might have been a tip-off about the warrant. Obviously the question was not answered, and now this article has appeared to revive the baseless suggestion