I don’t know how people can build these tools with a clear conscience.

Have you seen the job market for programmers lately? It feels like it’s almost all for AI slop, abusive rentier middleman business models that add no real value, defense war contractors, or all of the above at once.

That’s not to say that it’s acceptable for people to work those jobs with a clear conscience; it’s to say that for a bunch of people the only ethical options would be to remain unemployed or leave the industry.

The notion of a “peace plan pushed by US President Donald Trump” is a farce to begin with. This is nothing but fascists colluding with fascists to piss on us and tell us it’s raining.

Pistols are tightly restricted weapons under New Zealand law and possessing one requires an additional permit beyond a regular gun license.

Restricting pistols (i.e. the type of firearm most useful for crime and least useful for hunting or militia defense) more than long guns makes a ton of sense, and it’s a shame the US doesn’t do it that way too.

from the it’s-the-only-real-story dept

Maybe a little against Greenland (Denmark) and Canada too, as a treat.

School boards… too.

As seen in another thread today, some podunk shithole town in Oklahoma just learned that the hard way, LOL!

You think a government shutdown would stop ICE thugs from being deployed?

Democrats don’t have this luxury. If they feel like the Democratic Party sucks, they won’t vote.

All the more reason Democrats need to start fucking listening to their voting base (working-class Americans) by moving left instead of conspiring with corporate donors and moving right to screw us.

The key thing to understand is that there are no mythical “moderate voters” to court. Those are nothing but a fucking fantasy; a lie perpetrated by the Democratic Party as an excuse to chase money at the expense of votes.

push all the moderates out of the Democratic Party so we’re left with only the truest most liberal of politicians.

Why should we listen to you when you have no idea what words even mean? The moderates are the liberals!

On top of that, your argument is ass-backwards anyway, even after we interpret it as you meant (“the truest most leftist of politicians”) instead of as you said.

By your logic, since the MAGAs successfully pushed all the moderates out of the Republican Party so we’re left with only the truest most fascist of politicians, they went on to win only 20 Senate seats and never saw the presidency again.

…oh wait.

It’s the UK. What’re ya gonna shoot them out of?

Unlocking the phone voids the warranty?

No, it doesn’t. Motorola apparently claims it does, but they’re lying. The Magnusson-Moss Warranty Act requires them to honor the warranty no matter how you modify your property unless they can prove your modification caused the fault you’re trying to claim the warranty for. They don’t just get to presume it because you flashed the firmware.

Don’t even joke about that.

I’m not saying Trump is a traitor working behalf of Putin to deliberately destroy the US, but his actions are indistinguishable from what they would be if he were.

(Note: Do not do this. Court reality is different from everyday life honorable reality. Get a lawyer, don’t say shit, fight to negotiate a better deal and threaten to waste their time and resources making them prove it if they don’t work something out with you. That is what a person will do if they want a good outcome. My priorities were different, I guess, I don’t know. I will say that in this case it didn’t wind up getting me in any more trouble than I would have been anyway. Mostly I’m just telling what happened to me and how I reacted and why.)

See, that’s the whole fucking problem: as I’ve gotten older I’ve realized that even if you want to be ethical, systems in society have been designed by sociopaths to exploit that inclination and punish you for it. From a game theory perspective, trying to be a good person in 2025 America has become a losing strategy.

The adversarial court system is one example, but increasingly fucking everything is like that. Tipping at restaurants is a tax on being nice. Deregulated utilities, insurance companies, telecoms, and all sorts of recurring-payment businesses like that form confusopolies to punish customers who don’t threaten to switch to competitors every six months. With digital goods, rentals are misrepresented as sales. There are contracts of adhesion with mandatory binding arbitration clauses everywhere. Everybody tries to screw you at every turn, daring you to go full Karen to fight with them to honor their agreements.

That’s why MAGAs have been making a concerted effort to systematically take over elections boards etc.

It’s very possible (even likely) that he was transphobic, but it’s also possible he didn’t know about them or that he didn’t consider them a significant enough demographic to mention.

First of all, you’re wrong: any sailboat that has a cabin for living aboard, even if it’s a shitty dilapidated Catalina 27 that you buy for $1, is a “yacht.”

Second, even if you were right, don’t bitch at me, bitch at the article writer. They’re the ones who first called it a “yacht,” even though from the video you can clearly see that it’s way smaller than 24 meters.

I found another article about the incident that contained enough information to track down exactly which boat it was: “Oceanview” owned by Nautic Squad Club, a Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 349. Only 34 feet long, yet still described as a “yacht” by literally everybody but you.

By the way, most of the listings for that model of boat on Yachtworld are under $200k.

An indictment is not a “lawsuit;” those are civil. What Trump is doing to Comey is a criminal prosecution.

The literal Nazis started with trans people, too. (It’s unclear why Niemöller failed to mention them in his poem, but it’s true.)