Let's blame Joe so Kamala can run again.

Not fooling me, DNC. I smell what you're cooking.

He's blaming the parents of dead soldiers.

What a loser.

The loss of the actual internet + The loss of actual search engines.

Let me explain. The internet used to be an open playground where anyone could post a website dedicated to their interests, and did so. There were websites about octopuses and electomagnets and all sorts of obscure niche interests. Free website space with plentiful, and everybody used it. You could see 50 pages of information about someone's dog Fifi, just because they wanted to put it out there. Or hand loading ammunition if that was their bag. Or why the Communist manifesto was a better document than the declaration of Independence. Anything went on your own web page.

And it became massive; so big that we needed search engines to find the exact thing we were looking for. When we wanted to find information about octopuses, we needed to search through all those obscure websites and find what we needed to find about octopuses.

So the search engine wars began.

We also had things like stumble upon, where you could be surprised by some interesting site, and there were rings, where interesting sites of the same genre linked together so you could follow a threat of interest through a bunch of obscure sites.

None of this was forced on you.

Now we have possibly 20 to 30 large websites that account for 95% of all the traffic on the internet? We have search engines that show us what they think we meant by our question, but not the exact answer to our question.

It's gone. We wondered how they were possibly going to tame the internet how they were going to close Pandora's box.

It's all gone.

Life tip: if you don't already KNOW the answer is yes, don't ask. It's too early.

Piggybacking for-profit prisons.

Picard

How is he being blackmailed by TWO superpowers? China and Russia both have his balls.

What a loser.

Hey, they're lucky not to be used as slaves!

The 13th Amendment states: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”

Let's call for-profit prisons what they are - Plantations.

Why not Federal prison? NOTHING they did was legal and at least the mayor (sic) and city council knew full well they were subverting the Democratic principles of the US.

No fine, no probation. Prison for these manipulative shits

I love this but no way our Democrat leadership thought that far ahead.

From the "Great American Melting Pot" to this shit in one generation. WTF

Cops don't have to serve and protect or abide by the law. Power companies don't have to supply power. People who sell you things can deny you access to them.

Hey this is fun, let's do more!

That's a damn good stick

If you were using one, you were already okay with this.

So wait.

GitHub is Microsoft?

EDIT: Okay, fuck that. I was just getting all set up there but not now.

I am trying to decide between PyCharm and VS Code for my Python IDE. I was leaning toward VS Code, but they're Microsoft too, aren't they?

Where do I send the beer? Whoever you are, you are the backbone of what makes pirating great

Never before in history has ANY institution done more to enable open and free access to ALL books for ANY person.

BOOKS FOR THE PEOPLE!

OPEN INFORMATION = FREEDOM

I know some people are saying it was always this way, but never have I ever seen (since the '60s) or heard of a president propose annexing sovereign nations and buying countries as casually as this one.

I hope it's just some strange psychological ploy, but it's just too weird and informal to have a Presidential precedent.

I feel like this whole conversation is so alienating. You talk to people. You interact with people. Some of them are women. Some of the women you interact with are really cool. Maybe you find them attractive. So you say, "hey I know this is kind of a random encounter, but I'd like to see you again. Is there any chance we could hang out and go see a movie or get dinner or something?"

You aren't making first contact with an alien species. It's just people. Someone you're interested in, who might be interested in you. Don't bring a whole lot of baggage to the dance, just see if they want to go out. Have something in mind to do.

Maybe that's how you could spend your off time. Engage in something creative. Go to shows or plays or something that you do regularly that you can invite them along on. Listen to live music at some venue. Take an art class. Book club. Ping pong lessons. Go to a pokémon tournament if that's your bag. Just something that represents your interests that you can invite them along to, and if they don't want to come, ask what they want to do.

It's amazing how well he's hitting a target he never heard of before.

Hexbear

Hexbear

Hexbear

I figure it works just like Candyman.