That’s the thing I’ve been most worried about. The media have largely capitulated out of (justifiable) fear of reprisal and violence. The fear is legit, but we depend on the media to speak truth to power especially when democracy is on the line.

This is why I no longer believe this will end without violence.

Twice. They did it twice.

Well sure. Trump literally does not care about the truth value of any word-like sounds that squirt from his facial sphincter. The algorithm running through his toupee support system works like this:

1. Is it something the idiots who support me will buy, at least long enough for me to come up with the next distraction? (Y/N)
2. If Y, say it. Say it a lot. Say it everywhere and anywhere.
3. If N, accuse everyone else of saying it.

That’s it. Whether it has any relationship to the truth, good or bad, never enters into it. He’s not even as honest as a liar, because a liar has to at least care what the truth is. He truly, genuinely doesn’t.

Literally have the opposite experience. Fought with my old Brother printer constantly. My Epson Ecotank is rock-solid.

Why is this weirdo so obsessed with the letter X?

I’m shocked! Shocked! Well, not that shocked.

The stupid fucking idiots in the maga party will blame Biden.

You inspired me. I added a few more entries.

Trump’s plan for the next four years:

• Send Israel bigger bombs
• Fuck up the environment
• Fuck up the economy
• Fuck up education
• Fuck up privacy rights
• Fuck up LGBTQ+ rights
• Fuck up civil rights
• Fuck up the proper functioning of government
• Fuck up the military
• Fuck up healthcare
• Fuck up our alliances
• Crib everything else from Biden or Obama <- We are here

Do you think Israel should be destroyed?

Edit: Interesting. No one is willing to say “no.”

Here’s the thing: What Joe Biden tried (and yes, failed, because Netanyahu is a corrupt madman) to do was simultaneously support Israel’s right to exist and defend itself, and do what he could to minimize damage to Gaza.

Now we have a “president” who will gleefully help Netanyahu destroy Gaza entirely and take over the land. You’ve gone from someone whose friendship to Palestine was tepid to someone who actively wants it destroyed.

This isn’t an upgrade.

That’s not an answer, and I’m not “carrying water for genocide financiers.” I never once excused or denied Israel’s behavior. Netanyahu responded to a horrendous terrorist attack by turning the dials on “horrendous” and “terror” up to 11. He’s a monster and a war criminal and should spend the rest of his life in prison.

Now then, how would you do it? Put yourself in the president’s shoes. You need to come up with a solution that allows Israel to continue to exist and not be destroyed by, say, Iran… AND allows the Palestinians to survive. Cut off all weapons, goodbye Israel. Give Israel a blank check, goodbye Palestine. What do you try to do?

Lying about Biden trying “nothing” doesn’t make it OK that you carried water for Trump.

No it fucking isn’t, what with Israel set to receive 2,000 pound bombs that can level a city block.

It’s a much, much more complicated situation than you’re presenting. Biden was trying to thread the needle between “deny Israel weaponry” (end result: Opportunistic invasion by Israel’s neighbors) and “give Netanyahu all the weapons he wants” (end result: what we’re about to see with these gigantic, city-block-destroying bombs).

How would you do it?

This article is literally about one of Biden’s efforts to rein in the violence. He did try. Now go ahead and excuse Trump freeing up 2,000-pound bombs for Israel, and how that’s better for Palestine than it would be if Harris had won. Good luck.

I can’t find the will to make a leopards/faces joke about this. This is exactly what we told people who wouldn’t vote for Harris because of “gEnOcIdE jOe” bullshit.

Biden made real efforts to prevent the Israeli government from committing genocide. They failed, but they tried. Now we’ve got an absolute monster in charge who is going to outright empower the genocide.

If you voted for Trump, voted for a third party, or refused to vote… FUCK YOU. You own this.

Headline in six months: Salesforce Hires Software Engineers After Realizing Middle Managers Don’t Know How To Turn AI-Generated Code Into Actual Applications

Being a software engineer is a hell of a lot more than just the actual act of writing code.

The world needs to stop using “deported” to describe these kids.

They were kidnapped. They were not “deported,” because you can’t be deported to a country you weren’t previously a citizen of. This poor kid was stolen from his home, sent to a shithole, denied the ability to go home, and eventually decided life wasn’t worth it.

Kidnapped. Use the right word, everyone.

Not many, but plenty use various corporate applications that are Windows-only.

I only ever use Windows on my work computer, and only when I need access to a resource that requires our Windows-only VPN.

But seriously, “just use linux” is worthless advice. Lots of people use Windows for specific applications that don’t exist in the Linux ecosystem. For example, there are no Linux applications that come close to AutoCAD, and it simply doesn’t work on Linux.

Better advice would be to get new (or newer used) hardware if possible, if you absolutely need to use Windows, since this workaround will inevitably be “corrected” by Microsoft. Then you can do whatever you like with the old hardware, such as install and learn Linux at your own pace.