Makes sense. Fat Gollum can’t resist the call of his Precious.

Oh, my bad. I must have replied to the wrong comment.

Edit: I misread a word. I read your original comment as “how far right are you”

I know your asking a figurative question not a literal one. But the fact that they are using the Express as a new source tells you all you need to know about their position on the political spectrum.

Also, if the Express is the source of news then that raises some critical thinking concerns.

The sign falling on him… Now if that’s not emblematic of his error-prone campaign then I don’t know what is.

And yet he’s still statistically tired with Harris. The old man who’s a senile, malignant narcissist, who has lots of criminal charges, has been impeached twice, is now an overt Nazi, and and who failed spectacularly in his first term (among many other negative aspects of his record and personality)… is tied in the polls with a healthy, intelligent, relatively young, middle of the political spectrum candidate who thrashed him in their only political debate.

Sure, Harris has some political baggage and isn’t the perfect candidate. But holy shit, at this stage he should be trailing her by 30+%. The fact that he’s not shows that this country is in deep deep political trouble.

Oh weird. The deleted comment just made counter assumption that I was referencing a recent incident where IDF forces got dangerously close to a battalion of Irish forces working under the UN to protect the Southern Lebanon border.

My reply to the deleted comment was me confirming that was the incident I was referring to originally.

You are correct. That’s the reference I meant.

ETA: the fact there are multiple incidents of the IDF going after Irish soldiers is kinda crazy.

This man spitting facts. Good man.

When you’re a hammer everything looks like a nail.

If they can’t bomb Irish defense soldiers they’ll get the next best thing.

So… If it looks like voters might turn out en masse for liberal candidates then there’s a freak-out about voter fraud and a demand to lock voting down. But when something happens that might impact conservative voters from casting their ballots then the rules need to be eased. Sounds about right.

Yup. Everything has to be about him. That’s how malignant narcissists roll.

Give it enough time and he’s gradually replace all the boring old books in his Bible with new ‘classier’ ones that focus exclusively on him.

The Gospels of Steve, Roger, Jared, and Mike.

The Books of Kim Jong Un, Putin, White Supremacy, Sexual Assault, Embezzlement, Sedition, Gluttony, etc.

All taking about how the Orange Messiah was bulletproof, super-buffed, the smartest man who ever lived, irresistable to the ladies, so so virile, better than Jesus, etc.

And his hardcore followers will gleefully lap it all up.

“FECK! ARSE! GIRLS!”

Well, I didn’t have Israel vs Ireland on my WWIII escalation bingo card.

Article doesn’t say, but I’m assuming they captured him in Ukraine. In which case Russia took someone from a foreign territory they were at war with (they’ve done this so much already that we know it happens) as a prisoner of war. And then sentenced him in one of their internal kangaroo courts.

I’m not a lawyer, but it sounds like they broke a plethora of Geneva Convention provisions. (Again, something we know Russia does a lot.)

Fuck Adobe. They are the epitome of the greedy, toxic software company.

I switched from Photoshop over to Krita last year. I’ve tried Gimp in the past, but just can’t adjust to the UI. Krita is different too, but not to the same degree. I’ve been enjoying it. It’s well-made and very powerful, with very good online support.

Isn’t this the second time he’s had a fly buzzing around him recently?

He either needs to ignore them, or keep fresher diapers.

I get where they are coming from to a degree - that the Israeli government has not fulfilled it’s obligation to get the hostage home, and that the country on general is becoming increasingly run on religious fervor. But it’s disappointing that the ongoing genocide seems to have little to no part to play in their concerns. There’s millennia of bad blood there and they have been victims of atrocities too, I understand that. But if the murder of innocent people in their name isn’t causing pause for thought, then there’s something seriously wrong. (Same thing goes for every nation or cultural group.)

To expand on what others here have said: no they can’t, and there was a recent article here on Lenny taking about how AI (which I know is different from average bots) has figured out most of the visual captcha types.

I hope so too. Although the IT job market isn’t great right now, so I doubt the departures will reach a critical mass.