Yeah, acknowledging the racial component is fine, but the OP frames it in a much more productive way than @[email protected].

I have personally given the speech about how your white skin won’t save you from the ICE thugs. They’re not checking documentation. There’s no judge. And if they don’t care about proof of citizenship, why do you think they’d give a fuck about the color of your skin? That’s not much of a shield.

But this one is different, and it’s not just race. “Could easily find yourself in” hits the nail on the head. It’s not just that she’s white; it’s that you can tell what she was doing. She was turning around to leave, allowed traffic to go in front of her first, and then allowed the truck to pass before she went, not knowing the unmarked truck was ICE.

She wasn’t on the front line of a protest. She wasn’t living in a barely habitable apartment complex struggling to scrape by. We should, and often do empathize with those people as well, but they’re not as relatable.

Race might be a good chunk of why it’s so easy to empathize, but it’s not the only reason. Renee Good’s crime was turning down the wrong street.

Which treaty is the one he really wants to dissolve? I bet it’s one Russia wants dead.

repeating the same tired, thought-terminating clichés

like “both sides”

The 2020 election.

Sorry, I stopped reading where you “both sides”.

Shouldn’t it be called Microsoft 250? There are 250 working days in a year. As soon as I’m home I’m using Thunderbird or Libreoffice, certainly not the product formerly known as Microsoft Office.

It’s already happening, in part because of this and in part because of the unstable, unpredictable US government.

Several European countries are looking towards investing in open source as a way to get away from American big tech because they’re suddenly considering US sanctions against them a real possibility, or at least a real threat.

Kind of. It’s certainly difficult to deal with this.

Honestly I’m more concerned with domestic law.

Or they don’t care and just pay 30% more. Encouraging every other place to pull the same scam.

Theoretically.

That’s just law, and law means less than it used to these days. Understand your rights, fight for your rights, but don’t count on them in 2026.

Really, please just vote in person this time if you can.

Unless you’ll be intimidated by National Guard or ICE, in which case just vote as soon as possible.

Really just vote as soon as possible anyway. We all know there’s going to be illegal interference in the election. The question is to what extent and what kind. Do what you can to predict and avoid problems.

Yeah, but they never really care about consequences besides the one they’re aiming for.

The most short-sighted administration in American history.

ies in this case. I hope you don’t want to know why. ‘y’ usually (but not always) becomes “ies”?

You can just have things be out of scope. It’s really okay!

Thanks for the work you’ve put into this.

Don’t get complacent. The EU countries are toying with the idea of collapsing with us. AfD doesn’t seem to be shrinking, and there will be a lot of money and propaganda dumped that way soon.

I hope you’re better at resisting it than we were, but seeing as how we’re all still on vulnerable social media…

The latest Libreoffice update has ribbon menus (optionally).

Enough to use the stupid fucking fast food apps that need to ask which location I’m ordering from six times and every screen takes two seconds to load.

It works well when you use it for small (or repetitive) and explicit tasks. That you can easily check.

Which is probably a good thing. I appreciate projects like Thunderbird as well.