Send the Gestapo to disappear you in the middle of the night, maybe…

The word ‘terrorist’ has lost all meaning at this point.

I would even go a step further and say that cops’ testimony should not even be accepted if they don’t have bodycam footage to back it up. When you have a camera that’s able to verify anything you need it to, the absence of that verification should be viewed through the lens that you specifically did not want whatever was happening during that time to be recorded.

Worth noting if you take this advice: SteamOS (and Bazzite, recommended elsewhere) are immutable distros, which, to over-simplify it to an extreme degree, limits your ability to install things that modify the system directly. This can be a good thing, but it can also make it difficult to install certain things that you might want. There are workarounds, but you might find this frustrating at first.

If you primarily game, this is probably not an issue for you except that some non-Steam games may require some extra work to run (particularly ones that, for example, require you to install .NET Framework or specific Java versions.)

Not trying to discourage you from these - they’re great OSes and the ‘downside’ of immutable distros can actually be beneficial when new to linux, as they prevent you from breaking things through inexperience, but it’s something you should be aware of up front. (FWIW I use Bazzite as my daily driver for everything, and it works fine.)

Well, I guess we’ve reached the “Disenfranchise every voter who is the minority in their state” stage; that’s neat, I guess.

Obviously ‘they started it’; it’s necessary, but everyone should be upset about this.

I disagree; “fake it til you make it” prescribes specific behavior (faking it) for a specific period of time (until you make it) but does not specify what behavior should take place (faking it or not) after that period has been exceeded.

Don’t insult reptiles like that…

If AI agents stick around, I feel like they’re going to be the thing millennials as a generation refuse to adopt and are made fun of for in 20-30 years. Younger generations will be automating their lives and millennials will be the holdouts, writing our emails manually and doing our own banking, while our grandkids are like, “Grandpa, you know AI can do all of that for you, why are you still living in the 2000s?” And we’ll tell stories about how, in our day, AI used to ruin peoples’ lives on a whim.

This has always been my understanding of the purpose behind the signs. It removes or at least makes it harder to use the defense that you didn’t know you were trespassing.

I guess now we know how Putin got the pee tapes.

We absolutely want to, and if having money was the only barrier to doing so, we’d sell in an instant, but unfortunately it’s simply not an option for a lot of people

And, you know, US Presidents whose families own real estate empires.

Here’s the thing that I think a lot of people don’t understand about home ownership: Housing prices going up is only beneficial if you plan to sell.

We were (very) lucky and were able to get in on the tail end of the early 2010s housing crisis and leverage the first-time homebuyer incentives that were offered at the time to buy a modest house. It cost $245k. It’s currently worth $550k, and people seem to think this means we made $300k in profit! Yay us! And technically, on paper, sure, we did, but in reality, no.

Housing prices across the board are up, and we still need a place to live, so if we sold this place, we’d have to buy something else (at the same grossly inflated prices), or we’d have to rent (at grossly inflated prices). If the $550k this place is worth on paper buys us something that would have cost $245k in 2010, we haven’t gained anything.

Either way, we have no intention of selling, so we will never see a cent of that increased value. What we are seeing, however, is increased property taxes since the property has, on paper, doubled in value.

What I’m getting at is, this doesn’t benefit homeowners, it benefits housing investors, who are the group Trump really wants to prop up.

If someone told me this is specifically why it isn’t called that, I’d believe it.

Dub Dub Dub

Trump had a call with Tim Walz yesterday, so of course he’s pro-Minnesota right now. Just wait until Pam Bondi phones him up today, and he’ll pivot again.

Oh look, once again Trump is on whosever side last spoke with him.

Nobody is going to drop the quote from Orwell’s 1984?

Well, the post was 6 minutes old when you commented it, and presumably anyone who came in during that time was reading the article before posting (right? Everyone does that, right?)…

I loved them as a kid for exactly that reason. I was not good at video games in the NES era, and Kirby was the one game I could actually beat. It was cool not just replaying the same 2-3 levels over and over again for hours.

I don’t really know anything about NED or what they do, but if every House democrat voted not to cut their funding, I’m much more inclined to trust that they know more about the subject than I do and there’s some reason for those votes, over believing the opinions of presented on some random person’s Substack page.