Unfortunately the monkey’s paw would curl here and using DNS other than that provided by your ISP would become illegal.
(I know there’s a difference between your devices using their network to access the internet and your “purchased” (licensed software running on) your device using your network to access the internet - but the monkey doesn’t care)
Yeah, I was making a 13th Amendment ‘joke’, since you said “own”
They are not supposed to own my body except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.
/hj
Yeah, I couldn’t avoid the meme response.
Careful tariffs can help shield a local industry against an exploitative economy in another country, which could result in benefits to a larger workforce / population.
But “tariffs so American automakers get higher profits so they can do more stock buybacks” ain’t it. (Example; I don’t really know who other than Trump is benefiting from current tariffs)
strategic benefit for US industry … just funnel money to the rich
They’re the same picture
I don’t like violence, may I salt the tester instead?
The roof is on fire
I don’t usually buy into “both sides same”, but this is actually how ‘both sides’ win or lose elections - if you put up a candidate that people are excited to vote for, people vote. If they’re disappointed, they don’t.
This is the majority of voters, not the vanishingly small minority that post online or pay attention to politics.
I don’t know the reference, but how about:
First rule if getting out of a hole: Dig faster than the walls can collapse on you.
Did I get it right?
assert(titles == DIFFICULT);
Thank you for the post
It’s impossible for me to back Platner - he’s out of the race. If I had a choice, I’d pick him over Collins, but I’d prefer a candidate with a more marginalized identity and substantially more experience in successful “leftist” political work.
The Democrats spent roughly a third as much promoting Platner as the GOP spent trying to take him down (I don’t have exact numbers), so I agree that propaganda is everywhere. Perhaps the GOP is more desperate, while (as you say) the Democrats have other avenues to power, so they’re allowing this one to slip by.
Regarding the rape allegations, I sincerely hope the victims receive justice and healing, even though I don’t expect much from the system - that’s a whole different conversation.
My only point here is that the massive amount of propaganda aimed at demonizing political candidates gives us a very distorted view of who they really are, mostly on the side of “wow they’re so eeeevil”, so we all need to be wary of that. (Unless they’re a billionaire of course; at a certain level of power evil seems to be compulsory)
All I know is that Republican-aligned groups spent a ridiculous amount of money to get him out of the race.
If he was a bad candidate, they would have had to do that.
Oh, that’s a game changer, I love it
(Intended as a reply to another comment. Apprently I’m still learning Blorp)
Bruce Willis was dead the whole time - but you would be delightfully unspoiled if you didn’t choose to come all the way in here
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Eh, they’re either not tuned to you, or you have a bias that’s blocking you from engaging with their output.
I definitely have a bias, I’m always looking for the intelligence behind the words and getting repulsed when it’s not there.
But I know intelligent, normal people who aren’t looking for that and are quite happy consuming the slop.
And then there are people who get output that’s tuned exactly to their mental state. Which does not end well at all.