Miles O'Brien

If Bob is pissing in the sink, who the fuck cares if Larry The Sink Pisser is saying someone else is pissing in the sink too?

“what about all the sink pissing Larry has done?” is literally whataboutism.

“but what about…”

The meat grinder is working exactly as they want it to.

All those pesky social programs keep allowing the poors to escape it.

It’s a good thing those torches are still burning after thousands of years, otherwise you would have needed a flashlight!

Skilled truckers

I have met truck drivers that can (and have demonstrated) back their trailer up to a cargo dock blindfolded.

I’ve met some that can navigate turning radii (radiuses? Radiens?) smaller than my old Nissan.

And then I’ve also met some that couldn’t figure out their 13ft tall trailer can’t fit under a 12ft 8 bridge…

For the most part though, in my experience truck drivers are better drivers than 97% of regular drivers.

As an American, even the ones that aren’t should stay away. Why visit a place where you might get kidnapped by government sanctioned brute squads and sent to a death camp in another country?

I’m sure they’ll have plenty of proper god fearing Christian good old boys just lining up to do their solemn duty.

I had exactly 0 intention of ever buying anything from Adobe.

Inkscape gave me an alternative to the high seas. And it happens to do everything I need it to, although it’s way more powerful than the simple vector graphics conversions I use it for.

10/10, Adobe never lost money from me getting Inkscape. They lost the game before they knew I was a player.

I wish we still lived in a country where legal arguments are still relevant.

When half the social networks, such as they were, have been decimated via illegal orders and people who don’t have legal authority are allowed to do as they please, fire who they please, and confiscate funding as they please, laws mean nothing unless you’re poor or in the “out” group.

These people have no issues holding multiple conflicting opinions.

I take issue with the title.

The term “new MAGA bosses” says “these ARE their new bosses and the staff aren’t letting THEIR NEW BOSSES in”

Ajent Ornj doesn’t have the authority to place these goons into the library of congress, therefore THEY ARE NOT BOSSES, new or otherwise. They are THUGS trying to break into a library after being told to leave, because they are there to ruin any positive thing there and burn half the contents. Figuratively or a literal bonfire, doesn’t matter.

Suggested new title: LIBRARY OF CONGRESS STAFF TURN AWAY MAGA THUGS WHO CLAIM AUTHORITY WHERE NONE EXISTS

They get to send strongly worded letters to formally request that other nations possibly consider the contents of.

Or possibly maybe at some point in the future face slight financial consequences.

They’re protesters with guns that refuse to use the guns to actually help people unless it’s inside the extremely narrow scope of their rules.

When you’re dealing with a person that refuses to listen to anyone around them, holding an intervention is useless. Discussing the problems don’t help unless the person doing something wrong is willing to listen to the people they hate.

I’ve meditated a lot.

I’ve done a few drugs.

I liek drugz

That one I think is more “the people in charge figured they would all be dead before it became a problem”

I fully expect that if the cure for aging was discovered, billionaires would suddenly care a LOT more about climate change.

It’s become very clear over the last 20 years that most people in charge all just assumed everything would continue to coast, the status quo would never change, and have absolutely no idea what to do when someone grabs the steering wheel and jerks it into the oncoming lanes.

Not once in my enlistment, such as it was, did I question what was in the pants of fellow service members.

Nor did I question their capabilities when they were needed.

Because I’m not an insecure idiot with the maturity of a child.

In this particular instance it reminds me of trees like this:

However, in general I agree that it can be off-putting.

“Well the guy is pouring gasoline everywhere and kept playing with his zippo lighter screaming about how he’s burning my house down, I have to go talk to him if I want to push back on his plan”

A 7 million fine for stealing 1 billion in profits.

Just another day in late stage capitalism.

Of course someone usually has to go to jail for something so public, so Steve from accounting is getting his “jailbird bonus” and will be admitting to fraud, and spend 4 months in a hotel cushioned cell. He also gets weekends off.

In my experience, it’s either total incompetence of the people in charge, or it’s malicious in order to “catch” people doing something bad.

Like a bait car, but way more malicious since the person getting in the metaphorical car doesn’t even know it’s not their car because the keys worked, and nobody bothers stopping them for a few days so they get extra criminal charges.