Small correction: US companies sell it to the US government.

How else are those tax dollars supposed to stimulate the economy? Everybody wins this way! So much winning! I’m so tired of winning!

The real one is this:

But there are many edits floating arpund online.

I’m in this image and I don’t like it.

My parents recently saw this when buying a new car. My mother really only drives within a 30 minute radius of home, not far. Fuel-wise, an EV would be perfect for her. But even a used hybrid was outside of the price range they could spend. So used gas engine it is.

Long term they’ll be paying more because they couldn’t handle the up front cost for the better option. What was that bit about good boots from Discworld again?

The gas station has far higher marginal profit on a car wash than on gas. Also, most of the time you don’t even break even on the supposed savings.

It’s a trick to get people to spend more money in a way that is more advantageous for the gas station owner.

No

The gamble is if there’s enough of these people in the right places to keep society running.

I’m not as confident as a lot of people seem to be that there are/would be. And that’s ignoring the aspects of training, physical ability, etc and just considering interest/desire.

Be prepared that it looks like it’ll be a giant robot anime but it’s far more about trauma in its many forms.

In less terminally online terms: “I think they’re a member of a US intelligence agency doing some vaguely psyop thing, not a normal poster”

So, you still don’t understand why it wouldn’t be appropriate to react strongly in a room full of kids is what you’re saying.

It’s not an ad hominem when calling out your inability to comprehend the reason for that is the entire point to my comment. It highlights a severe deficiency in your social awareness at the bare minimum, which doesn’t reflect well on your ability to discern the motives of other people online. Does that spell it out directly enough?

Fine, let’s put that aside. In your eyes, what would have been an appropriate response for Bush to take in that situation? This ought to be entertaining.

You’re the one that brought up Bush and his reaction. If you can’t understand why someone would act like nothing was wrong in a room full of young schoolchildren, then you’re sure as hell not mentally prepared to make serious claims that someone’s a government plant.

Oh no, you’ve uncovered my evil zionist plan: softly questioning one singular photo with incredible timing and an easily photoshoppable focus! The Mossad propaganda department is in shambles!

Edit: Since people have a problem with this comment, the image is a still frame from a video of the bombimg. Awful.

There are links in the replies, which were not present when I made this comment (it was the first comment on this post).

I prefer this message which was also beamed into space. Fuck off, we don’t want any! No solicitors!

Don’t make someone (even a landlord, but it would most likely be their maintenance person) have to find a decomposing corpse. Not cool.

I’m surprised that they hadn’t been using that data until now.

Just patch the Youtube Music app with Revanced Manager, or use NewPipe’s background play feature.

The corporate lobbiests. Unless you’re seriously arguing that swapping the Presidents from their era until now would have actually made a significant difference.

You aren’t seriously arguing that, right?

The issue is that Linux shouldn’t be making any attempts to handle this at all.

If the various governments are going to try and require this, they can make and maintain their own forks and accept all the responsibility and risk that entails. Or the businesses beholden to the laws can. We have no obligation to make this easier on them, and every reason to make it harder.

If various Linux (and Linux software/component) maintainers would hold the line, we’d be fine.

The godawful mess of what would come from all of these different groups scrambling to implement their own solutions would be the fucking point. The most effective way to manage upwards at people who don’t understand or want to listen is to make them feel pain for their shitty decisions.

As others have said, time. Also, the realization and repeated internal reminders to yourself that they were not who you thought they were.

It’s very easy to build up someone in your head to be better than they are and to fill in the gaps with positive assumptions, especially when you’re crushing on them. You have to realize that those fuzzy feelings were in your head. The feelings weren’t based off reality, and they obviously weren’t the same feelings in that person’s head. At the very least, those feelings weren’t based off the full person, because you didn’t know them fully.

The version of them you liked didn’t exist, because that version wouldn’t be (in this specific case) homophobic, ableist, hating special needs students, and making fun of you behind your back.

Yes, it may hurt to remind yourself of the reasoms they are shit, but it’ll hurt less than allowing yourself to pine for a “what could have been” that was based off a version of them that only existed in your head.