Microsoft: your computer, my choice

If only it were possible to make points without inventing goofy and easily ridiculed scenarios.

There are well defined lines at which supporting the government would not be supporting a stable democracy. Project 2025 has enumerated several of them.

I would certainly love to not see a single one of them come up. I plan to be disappointed.

The main difference between a prime minister and a president is the fact that they’re appointed, not elected, no? Little difference when you consider the state of national primaries in the states, but still.

Their face looks like “you know, I was going to murder you, but I’m just gonna see how long you keep this up for until you realize.

To be fair, in that world body armor seems to be both commonplace and extremely effective.

I quantify it as: Taylor might not deserve the guillotine, the rest inarguably do.

How often does a solution need “new” code and not “basically the same code as a previous issue but with two small details changed”? This is a genuine question, I have only ever coded as a hobby. But 25% of your work being essentially just copy pasted sounds plausible, and that’s sorta all LLMs are doing, right?

How’d that work out for Johansson?

I’m unaware of Gates’ complicity in any genocides, though I’m certainly no expert.

Yeah 1, 2, and 4 are easy lever flicks, 3’s a bastard but I would be on the fence about the lever flick and 5 is even less “objectively deserves to feel the consequences of their actions” though no one with that much net worth is particularly easy to be sympathetic to.

Realistic as in “this is a believable real person” not “this is exactly what everyone looks like”

muh libs aren’t left leaning

And you expect me to take anything you say after that seriously

They… don’t though? Unless you’re pretending saying “voting for [not the democratic candidate] is a vote for Trump” is now apparently right wing and not just a basic understanding of how first past the post works.

Like, your definition is both wrong in terms of what right wing means, and not even descriptive of either. They’re just not tankie shitholes so I guess that makes them look bad to you?

Neither .world nor .shitjustworks are “right leaning” they just hate the tankies most vocally lmao. Neither would it make too much sense to call a tankie “left” leaning given their raging hard on for authoritarianism. I also think most of Blahaj would be offended by being lumped in with them.

Where do you draw the line? I don’t even live somewhere where it would be reasonable to expect a major disaster, yet I’ve got some water and non perishables set aside “just in case” alongside a crank powered radio and that sort of stuff. It wasn’t that big of an investment, but if there’s some mega blizzard or whatever I’ll be much better off.

How much rebuking has the Israeli government done of these extremists?

Is that why they’re airing property listings in southern lebanon?

The worst thing is, this is a far more effective way to make them productive members of society. It just isn’t cruel.

To the third: ymmv. My babies LOVE belly scratches, though they’ll give you a soft love bite if you overstimulate them.