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That’s the one.

“For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.”

Why is he getting involved?

I hate to defend a chud Senator, but it kinda looks like the marine has his hand trapped in the door and Sheehy’s trying to get him loose before the cops do further harm. Really hard to say from the shakey camera angle. But it looks like the security goons were going to happily tear his arm straight off if someone hadn’t stepped in.

There is no reason for a civilian to help in this situation.

To help the cops? No. To help the marine? There absolutely was.

no way this skinny CEO eats that shit

I think “Super Size Me” touched on this. Calories in the burger aren’t as impactful as calories in the fries and drink.

Why is this allowed?

It’s a private company operating under a contract that affords representatives ability to deny you payment for care on conditions that favor the company.

Why would it not be allowed?

Damn. Maybe next time bring your gun

It is a bigger deal in business settings, where one laptop can see multiple hands and you’ve got a team dedicated to repair.

Not typically an issue for the individual user, but increasingly an issue for a team of users as the size of the team grows

You’re going to trigger so many libs with this link.

My motto: Rhetorically cocks gun

ICE Officer: Actually cocks gun

:-/

So many keyboard commandos. Vanishingly few actual leftist militants.

Reminds me of the old (apocryphal) story of Stalin, FDR, and Churchill debating what to do with the Nazi officers’ corps after their defeat.

"The German General Staff, [Stalin] said, must be liquidated. The whole force of Hitler’s mighty armies depended upon about 50,000 officers and technicians. If these were rounded up and shot at the end of the war, German military strength would be extirpated.” When Churchill angrily declared he would be no party to such mass retribution, the President quipped that he would act as mediator, and suggested the compromise of shooting only 49,000. In heat, Churchill left the room. Stalin himself fetched him back, assuring him it was all a jest.

The tendency to treat enemy soldiers as honorable adversaries while foreign civilians are resources to be exploited or speed bumps to be flattened is extremely fascist.

What separates Hitler and Hegseth isn’t their army’s treatment of survivors of a military operation, but their view of their targets as military or civilian. Hegseth knows he’s targeting civilians and treats them just like a German military commander would treat other civilians.

TikTok now that Ellison owns it.

Facebook is also joined at the hip with the Zionists.

Unfortunately, the other half of the people who don’t want it banned have all the political capital.

You’re way too optimistic.

I’m putting my money on Mr. Burns, A Post Electric Play.

“Wow, are you going to give further details?”

“Then we might have to actually do something, so… no. But hey, elections are coming up! Maybe we can form a committee to look into it in the next ten to sixteen months if we win.”

Hey, friendly reminder that this bitch voted for Marco Rubio right along with everyone else in the Senate.

2001

I believe we didn’t invade Iraq until 2003.

Although, curiously enough, Iran helped us do it.

Doubly ironic, given that Bush Sr was so instrumental in beefing up the Iraqi military ten years before the '91 invasion… for the purpose of invading its neighbors. (https://archive.is/HwX3A)

What is it about hardline reactionary Islamic governments getting baited by American neoconservatives to spin around, show us their backs, and point to the spot a knife would sink in most deeply?

I’d love to see how Microsoft is gonna convince those cheap fucks that this is the correct path forward

I suspect we’re going to see some kind of sweeping compatibility issues in the next few years. Possibly a really ugly virus rips through the business community to scare people into switching.

What are u even discussing about guys…

Doomerism

I guess you’ll just need to convert to proprietary cloud services

Twelve years ago, when XP released, there was legitimately a decision to be made what with nine distinct versions of the OS available. That still hasn’t stopped even in the modern day. So I could see people discussing exactly which version of Win10/11 they needed and then recommending others based on their experience.

But it’s sort of like the BMW that comes with a subscription to heated seats and ABS. Like, why would you subject yourselves to this kind of abuse in an OS?