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.

You can not push the button that says AI.

You can also hit the kill switch that completely removes that button.

That’s opt-in enough.

If it starts reading pages or doing things without you pushing a button, that’s an issue.

I had the choice when buying a new PC to go with single threaded 64-bit or multiple cores. Particularly for gaming, I figured a single core was all I really needed, and 64-bit was the future.

The correct choice at the time was multiple cores. Everything going to 64-bit wasn’t going to happen until that computer was long dead.

They could, actually. I was there, in the olden times.

Not efficiently, of course. And these days it’d be a disaster. But it was possible.

The corp doesn’t get the tax break either way.

You only get it if you claim it (in the US), of course. Nobody is tracking that for you.

The corporation does not get a tax break.

They get the PR, and they get some leverage over the org they’re donating to. But, you know, the leverage is that they stop collecting money to the org, so if you refuse to give in the first place then…

It’s better to give to the charities of your choice without needing some other corp to effectively advertise and collect for them, but that seems unlikely. It probably is helpful that someone is out there advertising. It may be worth making that deal with the corp.

Would be better without the text overlay.

Every generation has said that when they were 12-35.

How many things will you make up to avoid just being wrong?

You should try AI. It’s pretty good at telling you what you want to hear.

To expand on that, the prosecution wouldn’t have an obligation to reveal that evidence to the jury, but they would have an obligation to provide it to the court and/or defense during discovery. And, you know, that seems like something the defense would both use and request if it were missing.