Rhaedas

Was going to make some Titanic analogy jokes, but in trying to do so it’s just depressing.

Money.

Why DID is the correct phrasing? And there were reasons then. More bad than good, but that’s the advantage of being first, then biggest.

Why trust them now? It’s not trust when it’s what’s embedded everywhere, required by most large companies. The licensing that was Microsoft’s key into everything became dependency. And dependencies can be broken, but that takes time and effort. There’s been movement…

If they keep doing this Co-pilot shit, they’ll be helping the cause.

I feel the pain anytime I look at a video outside of my browser. So if it becomes where I can’t find a workaround, then I’ll just have to go elsewhere. And there will be other places. There are other places, it’s just hard to get people to not go to or be on the big one. Push people hard enough, they’ll leave.

This may be a common human thing to do. The difference is the buffer zone that someone has before things become unbearable. Not an excuse, the right thing to do in a society that’s interconnected and educated is not to wait until that point to take action. But… we could probably argue how interconnected and educated people are with echo chambers and propaganda designed to keep them in control.

At some point things do break, regardless. Hopefully sooner than later.

Not at all equal time measures.

Still pretty remarkable, just that they were so much bigger before. The wild thing is learning that most of the land east of them to the coast is sediment from their erosion. It makes sense once you think about it, but imagine the amount of time to do that.

Then Britain and friends jumped in and drew new borders for everyone because that’s exactly what wasn’t needed.

When you’re being raped and forced to do things, you do what you have to do.

Joining the conservative Republican party that has been there for a while.

The ones that followed his order? Apparently not.

Nobody knew war was so complicated. Nobody!

Fired because of stuff she’s been doing, or stuff she hasn’t been doing?

Noem repeatedly suggested the president was aware of the campaign and signed off on it.

Oh, that makes sense. Fired for a petty reason by the hurt snowflake in charge.

The end of Season One of “Years and Years”.

Funny how people use other movies like Idiocracy to compare where we are, but I never see this one mentioned. It’s a UK drama and the US is in the background, but the parallels that we do see are disturbingly close. Particularly in how the world shut out the US as it declined into a fascist state.

If we start seeing a bunch of “Don’t change horses midstream” political commercials soon, then I know we’re in a simulation, and the creators are just lazy, pulling from “Wag the Dog” because they’re out of ideas.

In the administration, true. The military side has some smart people, though, and at some point, this has to break. We might as well make a crown now if it’s yes-men all the way down. They took a damn oath.

I also get the dilemma of falling on a sword one at a time. It doesn’t do much of anything except lose a career and ruin a life. Much like protesting single-handedly against oppression results in losing a job, while needing that paycheck, and no change from the action.

But enough pebbles at one time make an avalanche.

As a sidenote to things flying off, if you’re in an area that’s had snow, ice, or even just freezing temps, stay far back from any semis pulling a trailer. Guarantee that they don’t get up there to remove what’s there, and large chunks of ice can not only do damage to a following car, it could be lethal. It is absolutely the responsibility and even maybe the legality of the truck driver, but that doesn’t help the dead.

This is the least of the reasons why he should be removed from his position by the people who can do it. But it’s a reason. They won’t because they’re benefiting (or hoping to benefit) from the shitshow.

More importantly, nothing was done. A decade or more ago, associating and supporting such things was done, but quietly. Now (or last year) it’s openly okay for a Congressperson to say it out loud. That, and saying fascism is fine. We’re past the point of warning signs, the house is on fire.

That is an issue, one that is being discussed and can be turned off currently. Meanwhile Microsoft is head deep in AI so much they’re renaming known trademarks into their AI brand. So… I don’t think Mozilla is the bigger problem.