Tangentially, I’m curious to see how ticket sales crater from international visitors compared to years past, due to our the absolutely unhinged customs/border policies the regime has introduced (and is actively making more extreme).

As a unitedstatesian, look into the wildly changed and extremely invasive entry/visa requirements before you consider visiting. If I were in your shoes, I wouldn’t - and I say that out of respect for privacy and human rights, not any sense of xenophobia. Shit is getting very weird here in a very bad way, if you’ve not been paying attention.

Unitedstatesian here: that “elbows up” strategy really is going to be your best bet going forward. You should start treating our government as a potential/likely adversary.

You could have just not said anything and left the matter ambiguous, I guess you simply had to announce to everyone that you’re an asshole.

I mean… yeah. Any agreement that he’s ever made is built on sand. It’s kind of his whole thing. He’s a con artist. Also a narcissistic psychopath.

Yeah, but chrome/chromium is relegated to trash-tier now, due to the introduction of manifest v3 and the blacklisting of uBlock Origin.

It’s working because a lot of people are pretty stupid.

Tbh, 20% is markedly better than the default ~37% “shitgoblin vote” you see in the US, amongst other places

As to the choice between gnome and KDE (desktop environments): Gnome is gonna have more of a ‘macOS’ vibe, while KDE is more of a ‘Windows’ vibe.

Probably because it wouldn’t be done until after he’s dead, and he wants to be congratulated and thanked for it by everyone

Do you… seriously think you’ve found a “gotcha” moment…? What even is this diatribe? You’re jumping to conclusions that are in a different goddamn timezone.

I mean that Taco Bell is ass-tier Mexican, and it’s very easy to find better quality Mexican food. And solid Mexican food is delicious. Excellent Mexican food (and Chinese, and… well, seriously, name any cuisine) is one of the few things I miss about living in Los Angeles.

Taco Bell is “Mexican food” in the same way that French fries are “French food”. Which is to say: it’s not.

And Taco Bell gives you the shits because it’s fairly poor quality, not because of any ethnic lean that its offerings are marketed with

It’s not fear mongering. It’s a real area-denial weapons system capability that the PRC initially deployed in 1991, and upgraded the terminal weapon into a hypersonic glide body in 2015. Lob a few of those at a CVN and it’s probably going to the bottom of the ocean.

If the Biden admin was the first time the seriously looked at and understood that threat… well, that’s a bit insane, because the PRC has had that capability since the mid 2010s, and it’s only gotten more effective.

HO-tee HO-tee HO-tee-HO!

Cool I guess we’re doing piracy now 🤦‍♂️

Tbh the fundamentally fragmented, federated model the fediverse uses as a core design element does seem like it’d be far harder to centralize and comprehensively corrupt.

It’s insane that we defined a bunch of the things he and his circle are saying as “white supremacist stuff” back in the decades following the civil rights era, and now I guess we’ve decided as a society that that’s just an okay thing again?

I want off this ride, it’s not fun anymore :(

Move that decimal point to the right once or twice if you want Phony Stark to meaningfully react, because this is just a slap on the wrist.

Oof I hope not :(