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- Comment on Judge in Trump criminal case delays sentencing indefinitely: court 2 months ago:
For a counter at fought to not have a king, they really seem to want one.
- Comment on There is only 1 choice 3 months ago:
Steve Irwin would want anomalocaris
- Comment on New "Lower Decks" poster 4 months ago:
This show is just so good.
Stupid and juvenile, yes, but it’s a love letter to fans in a way that only SNW comes close to being.
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- Comment on The boomer generation hit the economic jackpot. Young people will inherit their massive debts. 4 months ago:
Sorry, the double-negative threw me for a loop.
- Comment on The boomer generation hit the economic jackpot. Young people will inherit their massive debts. 4 months ago:
The Boomers fought in world wars?
In utero, maybe.
- Comment on The boomer generation hit the economic jackpot. Young people will inherit their massive debts. 4 months ago:
You could start taxing them. Especially the rich ones.
You know that’s an option, right?
- Comment on It's coming! :( 4 months ago:
Lynx
- Comment on Trump rallies plummeting! Sell! Sell! Sell! 4 months ago:
I suspect getting shot had something to do with it.
But us, rallies aren’t his narcissistic supply any more. Now they’re a source of fear and dread.
- Comment on I’m the Republican Governor of Ohio. Here Is the Truth About Springfield. 5 months ago:
Dear NYT,
You have the power to fix this.
You could help this situation a lot by not normalizing Trump at every opportunity, and not letting your OpEd contributors and headline editors whitewash and soft-cell fascism.
Learn to use words like “lie”, “liar” and “lying” when taking about Trump. Don’t shy away from “rapist” or "felon”or “fascist”, either.
Failing that, firing Haberman and Stephens and all the access-journalism flunkies would be a good start.
- Comment on Dollar General warns poorer US consumers are running out of money 5 months ago:
Disclosure: I’m Canadian, I didn’t catch that this was a US story. In Canada a lot of people who received our equivalent of COVID relief used that money to invest, which made our housing crisis that much worse.
- Comment on Dollar General warns poorer US consumers are running out of money 5 months ago:
A lot of people used pandemic relief funds to invest, notably in real estate. As the market returns to reality, those people are finding they’re massively overextended.
- Comment on Why don't cell phones have BIOS? 5 months ago:
ARM doesn’t specify a standard firmware interface like x86 PCs do.
I mean, they could, but ARM comes from a different era, where interoperability isn’t a requirement and devices are disposable instead of upgradeable.
There no incentive, no IBM PC to be compatible with, not even an Apple, Macintosh, Conmodore Amiga or Atari ST to make peripherals for. ARM devices, even the rPi, are one-and-done.
- Comment on All Windows users should immediately update their computers. An exploit rated 9.8/10 (CVE-2024-38063) compromises all devices running Windows with an IPv6 address. 6 months ago:
“There but for the grace of god go thee.”
Or, to be less poetic, “don’t get cocky”.
Hacks can happen to anyone. Better lessons to learn is “don’t enable or install what you don’t need” and “keep machines you don’t trust off your local network”
- Comment on A classic never dies 6 months ago:
These drove like crap off the lot, but in their defense they’d keep driving like crap a million miles later.
- Comment on Any love for the Honda Odyssey? 6 months ago:
The Hondamatic five-speed transmission really tanked this van’s desirability. It made Chrysler look good by comparison
It’s a great vehicle otherwise, but there was a period around the turn of the millennium where any V6+5AT Honda or Acura product was a serious dice-roll.
- Comment on Liz Truss: Oppressed by Tweets, Victimized by Reality 6 months ago:
“If everyone is covered in mud, it makes it less obvious that you’re covered in shit.”
This is Liz and her cohort trying to “both sides!!” away the behaviour they incited.
It’s crab-bucket PR: if they can get enough of the media saying how bad the left is, it makes the right-wing pogroms less horrifying.
Trump did the same thing post-Charlottesville, conflating BLM and Antifa with the rich-setting, “Jews will not replace us” chanting, protestor-merdering neo-nazis who supported him.
- Comment on oldsmobile silrulette 6 months ago:
The Toyota Previa is still cooler.
- Comment on 1990 Pontiac Trans Sport SE 6 months ago:
Ah the GM U-Body. It’s good looking trash, but it’s still trash.
Based on the then-problematic W-Body, it didn’t drive well, lacked a fourth door, had front suspension that got misaligned if you went over a speedbump and ate head gaskets for breakfast, which was a challenge because almost every issue with the powertrain or accessory belt stuff, and there were lots, was an engine-out repair job.
It made the Astro look good, which was not easy. Only the Toyota Van (the HiAce and Previa) were more challenging, and at least they were reliable.
The Caravan, exploding transmission and all, was a better car.
Interestingly, this same chassis got a lot less sexy as the years went on. GM butched it up for the SUV craze with the Montana/Uplander, and the shorty version was the basis for the Aztek.
- Comment on Video of Eric Schmidt blaming remote work for Google’s woes mysteriously vanishes 6 months ago:
Because Google was so focused and strategic before the pandemic rollseyes.
The issue is Google’s broken governance and incentive system, which gives product owners and executives incentives for new products and actively disincentivizes maintaining and improving existing products…and that was a thing from well before the pandemic hit.
It’s why Google launched three pay systems and had five messaging systems at the same time.
And, finally, this is all because of the strategy set by senior leaders.
- Comment on Olympic Sneaking: Qualifying Round 6 months ago:
The Olympics weren’t always about peak skill, at least in the athletic sense. Prior to (I think) 1948, they used to give out medals for artistic competition, like painting, sculpture or poetry.
Personally, I think they could bring those back; I wouldn’t mind seeing an Olympic art competition. Heck, they could modernize it: Olympic rap battles/battles of the band, or Olympic Iron Chef.
- Comment on The Dad Trilogy 7 months ago:
“Father” (in a British schoolboy accent) would be Picard.
- Comment on Why a union president crossed partisan lines for a starring role at Trump’s RNC | CNN Politics 7 months ago:
He’s delusional if he thinks that a Republican administration wouldn’t be multiple times worse, and Vance has about as much conviction as a weathercock.
I’m reminded of Democrats that plan to sit our t because of their party’s failure on Palestine. Motherfucker, do you think Donald “bomb them back to the Stone Age” Trump, the man Netanyahu prefers, is a better choice?
- Comment on Why a union president crossed partisan lines for a starring role at Trump’s RNC | CNN Politics 7 months ago:
You know who the Nazis came for first, right?
Hint, it wasn’t the Jews. It wasn’t the gays. It wasn’t the Roma. It was the trade unionists.
There’s going to be some serious leopard/face moments for this fellow and his supporters should Trump win.
- Comment on Developer ports Windows NT to Power Macintosh systems — firmware and boot loader now available 7 months ago:
NT 3.5 wasn’t too bad.
NT4 moved a lot of stuff into the kernel that wasn’t ready for prime time and we suffered for it, at least on NT Workstation.
- Comment on HP forced to ditch popular printer range following user backlash 7 months ago:
You have have my LaserJet 5 when you can pry it from my cold, dead hands.
- Comment on A key part of America’s economy has shifted into reverse 7 months ago:
Quick, let’s cut taxes for billionaires again, I’m sure that’ll solve the demand problem!
- Comment on 3D technology has gone too far 7 months ago:
As a Canadian, I can’t imagine our governments spending money on fake potholes when we’re rich in the real thing.
I mean, after poutine and sex clubs it’s what everyone remembers about Montreal.
- Comment on UK | Welsh government commits to making lying in politics illegal 7 months ago:
Meanwhile, the Americans have legalized murder in politics.
- Comment on Threads can now show replies from Mastodon and other fediverse apps 7 months ago:
Does it work the other way? Can I follow Threads users without being on threads.net myself?