Sounds like everyone else is weirdly angry that he's STILL IN OFFICE causing problems when he's clearly not fit for the job, regardless of the reason? Isn't that the more pressing concern than his health, him being an utter stranger to almost everyone?

Why do people need to be kind and sensitive toward someone's recovery while that person insists on keeping a position of extreme responsibility, and constantly fucks it up, while "recovering"?

Crappy take, friend. And the "so much for tolerance" is such a loaded phrase, you almost sound insincere, to boot. We don't owe these politicians a fuckin thing, CERTAINLY not some prioritized level of compassion. Get real!

You say complacent, I say complicit.

And they were cool! And it was better that way! And get off my lawn!

People watch porn on their work computers, after being told not to. And not just a few. The Venn diagram of folks who do that and who wouldn't give a single shit about handing over their ID has gotta be roughly a circle. A whole lotta folks are seriously ill-equipped for the burgeoning surveillance nightmare, in fact their complacency (and frankly just being thoroughly outmatched in sophistication) will march us all towards it.

You need to spend some time thinking on the (misnamed) "paradox of tolerance". The idea you're espousing is exactly the most critical, fundamental misunderstanding of tolerance as a moral value.

The "paradox of tolerance" is the idea that one must even tolerate the intolerant - it would be a paradox because this tolerance ultimately ensures the unbridled spread of intolerance. Folks weakly on the left have misunderstood this forever.

But there is no paradox, never has been. Tolerance must never be given to the hatefully intolerant. Nazism can never be tolerated, it must be defeated as quickly as possible everywhere it sprouts up. And I do absolutely mean violently, I am not talking about just simple ostracism or censorship.

A society that tolerates the hatefully intolerant is fully doomed. Please, come to realize that you are not advocating for anything high-minded, you are advocating for the destruction of all things beautiful, art or otherwise.

People live in way different fuckin worlds man, and the weird part is a lot of us just go through life thinking our "version" is normal. The folks who do this and whose friends do this and whose parents did this - it's normal to them.

I don't think I'm conveying this well. There are whole communities, made up of individual people, for whom this is standard, expected, because it's what they've always been surrounded by, grew up practically breathing it as normal. And for these folks, the reciprocal realization to the one you made, realization that MANY people do not (can not) do this - comes as a similar level of surprise.

It's really fucked up. And it's something deeper and harder to fix than just pointing to one guy or class of people as The Problem (to be clear, that guy and class of people I'm referencing ARE an enormous, hideous problem).

What gets left out of this is how much he had to lie and scheme to do it all, which makes it worse to me. There's a lot to be said about the failings of the US military and general diplomacy throughout our history, but holy fuck.

That one guy is responsible for forcing (through deceit and other trickery) a big proportion of some of the worst atrocities our country has committed. He's seriously among the very worst people I can think of.

Smart observers will realize this saga is a story about the effectiveness of modern media at distorting reality. Americans aren't just magically, uniquely shitty people. We had a coordinated disinformation engine, truly a superweapon, trained on our population for a long, long period of time.

Shit works pretty great, and the world will see more of it.

Edit: strongest bit of evidence is probably just how the target group got their world views completely rewritten. Hard to really document properly, ya kinda just have to witness the dramatic shift firsthand. People got reprogrammed within a single generation. The same folks who raised us on "two wrongs don't make a right" and "treat others how you want to be treated" behave completely unrecognizably today. The disinformation engine is so effective they were tricked into completely rewriting their own internal values.

.world is known (largely due to the Luigi Mangione stuff) to have moderation that's a bit more heavy handed and more similar to the sort of "corporate Internet".

No real hate for them and they've indicated in the past that some of their actions are just to comply with their local laws. But if you're looking for an older internet experience you'll wanna move to a different instance.

I called this shit from the beginning, that the tariff bullshit was just a legit-seeming way to make the market do stuff he could easily predict (by directly causing). Didn't realize he was literally communicating, nakedly, when to buy and sell though. Fucking WILD. And I promise before long he uses that exact mechanism to do the opposite thing and fuck all the folks who get used to listening to such announcements.

And nothing will be done. Stock market itself is such a fuckin scam, and I say that as a dude with a 401k.

Edit: actually, to add, one thing I didn't notice initially is that these naked manipulations, with some ability for randos to profit too during the ride, that really has the Musk stink all over it. Same shit he's gotten away with often, just now with the goddamn US President as the mouthpiece, scamcoins and all. Truly bananas, where we're at.

Um. Think for a moment, who'd be granting these licenses?

This post really doesn't call for this comment but here we go -

One of my favorite authors wrote at least one book in a setting where many galactic civilizations have come and largely gone, and treasure hunters try to "crack baubles" - break into old vaults and such left behind. Think Space Indiana Jones! But what's really compelling and brain melty to me is that these civilizations used entirely unknown tech and physics in some cases. So they're trying to break into and steal things they cannot possibly even comprehend, which is SO foolish and so fucking cool, and if that were available to me, my curiosity would utterly demand I keep at it until dead or worse.

Book is Revenger by Alastair Reynolds. Plus it's got one of the scariest fuckin pirates ever, so I mean, Space Indiana Jones with horrifying unknown tech treasure and implacable, immortal(?) pirate villains...that's gonna be a strong recommendation for the right flavor of reader lmao.

So, the heart of the issue is that each object's path changes continuously, and the forces involved change in kind. Even worse, the objects interact with each other, again continuously - it's not one-sided.

If you imagine trying to do it pre-Calculus, some kind of "just map it all out into a grid, etc.", you can see the problems this continuous change imposes (exercise left for the reader).

By involving the Stravinsky Interpretation, it quickly becomes clear that the dimorphic superposition destabilizes. The clever reader might object "but what if you fold in all the noodly surfaces to recohere the manifold?"

And that clever reader would be right! But we didn't know that until old Dr. Isaac "Zeke" Newton came along and made it that way.

Some say the devil himself taught him how it's done, because no one else can read his notes! So keep your eye on old Zeke when you run into him.

For real, what a braindead (at best) thing to say. His attempts to ethnically cleanse Palestine and build resorts on the coast, and his attempts to steal mineral wealth from Ukraine while under brutal attack by Russia, those attempts have faltered? Yeah, thankfully they have, I'm sure he's still trying though.

I'm so tired of all the "reasonable language" used for this administration. It just amounts to flat out lying to avoid upsetting the very worst fucking people. Again - at best - that's me being charitable, there are even worse motivations than that of course.

I think they're in a dicey spot because any investor understands that Tesla is way overvalued, due to its status as a meme stock.

So sure, get rid of Musk for the sake of the business, that does sound like obviously the right move...but at the cost of utterly tanking the share price? Not likely. And make no mistake, getting Musk out of Tesla totally reverses the meme stock status.

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Lotta moments like these adding up. Lotta times I myself just end up not buying a thing instead of getting it from better places, too. Between that, financial uncertainty with all the craziness lately, and folks just being broke, I have a feeling consumers are spending a lot less these days.

Thanks so much for sharing! I've recently moved to daily driving Linux and went Bazzite for the gaming element (which I've since only somewhat used, lol).

Haven't dove into the bits and pieces that really make the games work much yet, had no idea Lutris was all this! Particularly the wider library management / enablement, the very thing the dev called out as not well known lol.

AND I was very happy to find out it's all Python! That's my bread and butter (and it's delicious), I may just have to do a wee bit of dev'in someday too. If I ever get around to the games lol

Guarantee this prick is furious over this, don't worry. Like, probably even more upset than you or I would be for getting fired unfairly. These people have their entire identity and ego wrapped up in this stuff, their brains are broken.

This is the left's "rolling coal" lmao

For anyone who grew up learning about MLK Jr and not Malcolm X -

I'd recommend a book called "The Sword and The Shield"! I thought it did a dope job comparing and contrasting the two figures. Importantly, MLK Jr was way more radical than many of us were taught in school, and by the end of his life he was changing his approach, having been forced to acknowledge that non-violence alone wasn't going to cut it. In other words he became more aligned with Malcolm's principles and beliefs as he watched the civil rights movement struggle and falter, and I believe this is ultimately why he was killed.

And then our lords and masters de-fanged his legacy, teaching generations of kids only the non-violence, giving millions the false idea that non-violence alone is enough, and not just enough, but the preferred and historically-proven method of achieving change.

It never has been and never will be, non-violence is only effective alongside credible threats of violence (at a minimum), and Martin and Malcolm both knew that to their core. That book helped me correct what was a confusing hole in my understanding of the world.