* women not included

“Economically devastating” seems to be the plan nationwide. Tariffs, protectionism, shrinking the population by deporting working people, persecuting the educated and defunding education… None of this fascist stuff will do anything but drive the country into greater misery and poverty.

Dropbox is better value and faster, in my experience, than these others. And when it backs up photos, it doesn’t hold them hostage on its servers so you have to keep paying or you lose access to them, unlike Google at least. Nor does it try to trick you into saving files to it when you don’t want to, so you fill up your quotas and end up paying more, like OneDrive. I still think Dropbox is the best of the bunch. It will be a shame to see it go to shit.

Just another instance of US politics leaking over to Canada a few months later.

The car was pushing the fast asleep (at the wheel) agenda.

It depends what kind of Christianity you’re dealing with. Where I live, most of the churches have rainbow flags on display with “everyone’s welcome here” messages and lost of leftish liberals with fairly progressive views. Some even put pro-LGBTQ+ messages on their signs that call people out for bigotry. But Liberty University isn’t that kind of Christianity.

Ah shit. A broken clock is right twice a day. Still not worth it.

I had to read the article just to be able to parse the headline.

the development/testing is done on Windows under VMs rather than a sample of real world hardware

And yet there’s a recent update that keeps killing my Windows VMs. They’ll run for a while then one day they install the update and won’t boot again. It really feels like MS have lost control of Windows testing these days.

Not just luck. You also need a willingness to fuck people over, again and again. But it could be any lucky asshole.

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/odessa-tx-just-put-10000-bounties

As far as I can see, the article doesn’t misrepresent this law. It says that anyone has standing to sue a trans person for using a gender-appropriate bathroom, and the damages of at least $10,000 would be awarded if the trans person lost the lawsuit. Normally, as I understand it, you wouldn’t have standing unless someone’s activity had provably harmed you, but by waiving this the door is open for the trans person’s use of a bathroom to be judged harmful in itself. So, a bounty on trans people.

harmful to trans people.

And there’s the true intent of the Republican legislators.

“I’m so over people complaining about racism,” says wealthy white politician from the racist party. More news at 11.

Depending on who wins this may be the craziest and last.

He has $270.3 billion dollars, which at $50K per year would take almost 3.5 million years to earn, and he’s preaching to us about cutting back. What a guy.

The main ingredients of conservatism are greed, hatred and ignorance. Coincidentally these are also the things the Buddha identified as the sources of all human suffering.

Say “Flock forks Flutter” ten times fast.

Fascism can only function with the help of amoral profiteering corporations. Unfortunately there’s never any shortage of those under capitalism.

I think the point is that some capitalists, both in business and in politics, encourage us to put our faith in future carbon capture so they can keep profiting off their polluting activities for now without having to invest in carbon emissions reduction. This is unrealistic and just an excuse not to tackle the difficult task of reducing emissions. We can’t afford to let the problem become that much worse before we attempt to mitigate it by sucking carbon out of the atmosphere, if there’s ever a technology that can do that effectively (which right now doesn’t look likely). We need to focus most of our efforts on reducing emissions.

It’s probably not very funny to all the people in the Netherlands who are not right-wing idiots. Sounds like the Netherlands are experiencing something like Florida: when the problems get really urgent and bad, half the population fights hard to prevent action and preserve their delusion that everything’s fine.