It does feels like we are all riding together on a burning chariot of doom to hell.

Edit: re-worded so it actually makes sense.

Let’s Goooooooooooooo!

Thanks for the heads up. Good to know it’s a bad faith actor behind the account.

I like to believe all the baby penguins dropped off the cliff in Mario 64 are the reason the penguins in the Madagascar movie have a military air about them.

They were the special ops team trained to take down the mustached maniac menace before getting captured enroute to the LZ.

How I know you didn’t read the article or your reading comprehension is abysmal:

"DOGE failed to cut spending because most federal spending was for entitlement programs, where spending remains high due to structural reasons and policy autopilot,” CATO’s analysis continued. “Congress alone has the authority to cut these programs, so it’s unsurprising that DOGE did not reduce spending.”

The article doesn’t say DOGE is the cause of the increase of spending. It states that the purpose of DOGE was to reduce waste and cut spending, but federal government spending has gone up in 2025 from 2024.

This article is stating the obvious, to those who didn’t buy the lies Trump and Musk were selling, but backed up the assertion with financial data.

TIL they are decentralized and that does make keeping them offline harder, but does make issues like honeypots and malicious mirrors more likely as sites come and go.

Ya this is sure the beginning of the end for them. They aren’t an “AI” company so the full force of the government will come after them now that they have been named in a mainstream publication.

When you can’t comprehend that jury nullification is a by product of our judicial system. It can be used for bad or good - see lynchings of the jim crow era vs those helping slaves escape.

This prick is the embodiment of the fascist belief that the law has in groups that it does not bind but protects and our groups that bind but do not protect.

As much as I want to make a joke about Teams sucking this will be the foothold that Microsoft uses to work their way back in.

Its what people know and are familiar with and it might cause enough friction to undo the migration.

It’s used by some Discord communities to prevent spam/bots. This would be inconjunction with other measures like how some communities require a verified email or to have a phone number associated with your account.