Just so we are clear, taking acts to directly impede the democratic process across the country.

That’s High Treason, right?

I always took it as “if you do your best you’ll never be without what you need” but that could still have a lot of broad interpretations

For me at least I feel like it was when the American dream turned from “anyone can do it with hard work and dedication” to “anyone can do it if they exploit others, get lucky, or come from money”.

The dream used to be “work hard and this will be yours” and it seems to have been turned to “work hard and dream about it someday, and maybe you can get close”. And it definitely changed over time. People often forget when the “American dream” came about it wasn’t “get a degree, and be a white collar worker for a chance” like it was with people my age. It was “go to work, wherever, with whatever skill set/background, contribute and you get a piece of the American apple pie”. Over decades though those goal posts have been shifted further and further.

Earning the American dream used to be a given for everyone if you worked hard and contributed, but over time it has devolved with a bunch of extra conditionals of “well that doesn’t count either” until we are left with “the dream exists, but only for a few who can actually get it.”

People these days are turning to betting, day trading, side hustles, and extreme budgeting to even be comfortable in some cases. That’s not how it used to be. You could work any job, minimum wage or not, and the benefits were supposed to be for everyone. That’s not the case anymore, and the American dream has faded along with it

Sure, let’s whataboutism the discussion, love that.

It’s always been a shithole. The good part was the freedom, you used to be able to be exhasperated and complain to your friends. But we decided instead of improving society that some of us would rather give a bunch of facists cameras and microphones and turns out, those facists are the evil kind of facists, not this mythical “only here to protect us” kind.

With this though I think there is legal stance because prohibitively high prices can be used as grounds to say that a product “can’t be repaired”. The legal precedent is there, you can’t just say “technically we give you the option, it’s just $2m”.

Exactly. They know what they’re doing. Nobody thinks he’s some “spring chicken”. He’s old as dirt and he freezes in public all the time. If he didn’t look nearly dead then they’d do a 30 second video of him saying “hello everyone I’m getting better” but they aren’t. If he was really sitting in that chair with the paper and coherent then they’d let him be coherent.

Honestly it’s the fact that the paper was there that sells me for it. Like whoever took or doctored or made that photo was like “no we have to include the paper, nobody is going to believe us if we don’t” but if they really wanted us to believe them they’d make a statement. Which means that it wasn’t a good faith photo, they deliberately did their best to trick us by making it “as believable as we can”

Linux is a system and a tool, Windows is a product. You don’t market high end precise machinery to everyday people, because it can be a pain. You sell them a product that is easy and simple.

Microsoft is trying to do both and failing at both horribly.

You have a point, and therefore rump is going to ignore it.

What sucks is you know the US is going to put it in their cars “to simplify production” and we dont have GDPR to protect us, so you know that data is going somewhere.

Obviously this is bad, but there is definitely some irony in the fact that if the government and all the evil lobbyists that are pushing these data centers would have significantly less issues if they’d actually invested in clean energy earlier like we were all already asking them to years ago.

But instead all that BS about “clean coal” is coming back to bite them in the foot now that they actually want to use that “clean” energy

Everyone thinks invaders are saviors at first. Colonizers were welcomed with open arms on their first arrival.

It was hydrogen peroxide. Which is what I said. Although it is 12% not 13%.

(edit because clarity is important, this is only what I have heard, I don’t have a source other than some short form content I watched about it that claimed it.)

It was hydrogen peroxide, and from what I remember it was 13% (most of the stuff you use at home is 2%, 13% will burn your skin) so the theory I heard is that it might have been eating away at the paint, or getting between the paint and the actual structural layer and causing it to peel off

Well that’s what they’re saying… they don’t have any dignity, that’s why they can get him to do all this stuff.

So these Flock cameras ARE being used to falsely arrest people based on incorrect “evidence” and NOT being used to verify people were at a different location to prevent them from being arrested UNTIL the court forces them to.

Sounds to me like the problem is still the police NOT doing their jobs, and these cameras ARE just an excuse for surveillance. Just like we expected.

I don’t know how, but I bet there’s an enterprising way to make a nice cheap battery powered Bluetooth scrambler that can be stuck right on one of those poles with a magnet and just absolutely ruin their signals.

“I never thought the leopards would eat my face”

• Person who voted for the “Leopards Eating Faces Party” after having their face eaten.

Just remember, every time your insurance goes up, every time you see teachers stressed and struggling, every time you debate going to the doctor because of the cost.

They said “we can’t afford it”.

Remember who approves this, and vote their asses out. This isn’t a representative democracy, it’s been taken over by scam artists favoring their own interests.