Is this the Epstein files we’ve been hearing about?

Handegg

So what role are they fulfilling?

Well, right now, the role of fluffing up Donald Trump’s ego with big silver letters at taxpayer expense.

I feel this a lot in this administration. The government actually is too big and it actually does need to be reigned in and seeing some (not all) of these institutions destroyed or crippled is actually gratifying for exactly the reasons you mention. I just wish it wasn’t accompanied with a side of “here’s some piss on your head, it must be raining.” These idiot cosplaying shitheads are not the right tools for the job.

This is precisely the concept of Asimov’s short story All the Troubles of the World.

I think it’s fair to say those rookie numbers don’t reflect reality. The orange turd can’t have his minions saying anything is less than perfect.

Ah yes, the Cox Communications model.

Hey I just did it! I completed my migration today. The only reason I keep a desktop around at all is for gaming and I’ve been locked into Windows for years because of it, but no more. Steam is a given, but I’m running games off Epic and Gog through Heroic and standalone games using Lutris (ESO and Elite Dangerous so far). Not a single problem with any of them.

Mint is great, the only complaints I have are minor and I can easily deal with them. Like when you launch things, you don’t always get a cursor animation to tell you you successfully set something in motion and you just have to wait for the window to pop up. That kind of thing.

Trump envoy reportedly told Kremlin official that Ukraine must cede land for peace deal

This statement is gibberish. It makes no sense.

“But I’m saying instead of talking like that, let’s talk more hopefully because I think we’re going to get to a deal here.”

A deal with who for what? This is an American talking to a Russian?

What the fuck is this point of this stupid verbal diarrhea?

I like JavaScript a lot and would be excited by its use in this context.

Oh well if a senator said it then by all means, let’s stop and take notice.

Ah yes, White Christmas. That episode fucked me up. It’s a depiction of hell, straight up. And heaven is depicted similarly in San Junipero - not sure if you have seen that one.

Oh hey, that was easy. I guess they have nothing to hide after all!

Yeah, was gonna say - this guy is another one of the “always, in every context, thinking about gay sex” closeted Republicans. Religion does this to them, the systematic and merciless repression of sexuality causes it to become an immense burden.

Lemmy After Dark^TM

Well. Robin Williams, a (hilarious) American comedian and actor, gained much of his early fame/notoriety on a TV show called Mork and Mindy circa 1978 in which Robin played an alien named Mork.

The show was actually a spinoff of Happy Days, where the “Mork” character first appeared.

“Bjork and Bindi” is clearly a play on words that leverages this.

I barely managed to understand this and I am from this era.

Can someone explain to me why Rust enthusiasts are so evangelical about it? I get that it’s memory safe, OK - super great. But rewriting a stable, small-but-important legacy tool doesn’t seem like a good place to prove its worth. Surely there are a million better places? And yet when I heard about this, it totally seemed to track. I’ve never touched Rust but I already find its proponents to be strangely focused on it. I never felt such religious zeal with regard to a programming language.

The most common response on social media to the democracy crisis in the USA seems to default to a need for extreme violence.

I know there are actual people like this, but I do think it’s mostly foreign bots beating the war drums. It happens here too, though far less than on Reddit.

In the age of LLMs, it’s pretty well guaranteed that it’s going to be far worse than described in a study from five years ago. Anecdotally, it feels to me like closer to half if not more of the responses I get are engagement bait. It’s not just corpo, a lot of it is government trolls trying to shape opinion, domestic government and foreign governments. I don’t post anymore at all - just read - and that only in my very niche communities that aren’t likely to be targeted for this kind of bullshit.

Are people having a hard time remembering this? I sure don’t. If there’s any hilarity to be found in any of this, he’s going to get fucked anyway.