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Fascist praises fascist, go figure.

Oof, another busted IFF. Womp womp.

This was a great thread for finding tankies to block, thanks OP.

The tweet said “the presidency” not “the president.” It didn’t even say anything about Reagan himself, just repeating what Reagan said about the title and office.

Why do I get the feeling you’re voting Republican anyway…

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Compulsory and making Election Day a Federal Holiday but yeah agreed

NPVIC was a great idea to me in 2017, but less so in 2025.

2022 was still not that good of a year for the internet guys.

I think about this comic often nowadays.

the next 1000x in 4-5 years

At the risk of stating the obvious, Ars is working backwards from this metric to get their headline “double every 6 months.” 2^10 = 1024, to get that number in 5 years means doubling every half-year.

But Google didn’t set incremental 6-month deadlines for 5 years straight, they set a single 5-year deadline. Because in 6 months shareholders can call their bluff quite easily, but in 5 years they’re hoping everyone is A) distracted by some new disaster, or B) there’s a new tech hype cycle they can push. They’re trying to stall the bubble popping by pointing to a nebulous future where they magically scale to infinity, and hoping we all forget that they ever made this claim.

Little bugger

So the cats were in the bathroom, with no one else inside, with the door closed? Cats are flexible sure but I’ve never seen one get under a door jamb.

It’s a Jeep thing.

Just the ones run by fascists and grifters. RIAA is here because discord is popular and not indexable, not because discord is somehow uniquely suited for facilitating piracy.

I’m not allowed to say “huh, would ya look at that?” Calm down.

100% with you, well put

Sure as shit, there he is, lol

That is why I get tired about the “individual action” suggestion, that I alone could stop using Amazon and hurt their sales, I could de-Google my life and keep my privacy, or recycle plastic and save the ocean, or swear off AI to fuck with Nvidia.

But all that is a drop in the bucket compared to the millions of people who all readily handed over their lives to these companies and haven’t left (or can’t). And governments who abdicated regulatory authority to them, which have allowed them to run rampant.

They’re still making it so these massive companies have force in my life. I alone can’t do anything about that.

So here’s the hot take I took from his video: yeah, an internet connected dishwasher is dumb, but so is a LAN connected dishwasher. “I don’t want to have to maintain my own app to run this thing, keep this thing secure,” damn straight. That little open source app is probably gonna get abandoned at some point, I don’t want to have to fork it and fix things and patch vulnerabilities. I want a strictly Dumb dishwasher.

The part of that video that makes me empathize with his experience is the fact that Luke took on the same challenge, happened to choose Mint, and had no problem installing Steam. So you run into this catastrophic failure, and even your friend can only tell you “worked on my machine, I don’t know what to tell ya.” Then you search the internet and just keep finding the same instructions you just followed, to the letter. So you share your experience, and then half the Linux community blames you for “not heeding the warnings.”