havocpants

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Are you guys all sockpuppets, posting from the FreeTaxUSA office or something?

If I were on Tesla's board, I would be doing my best to get Elon the hell away from the brand.

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I read this in the voice of the alien from omicron persei 8 on Futurama

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There will be insanity if he's allowed to run at all.

There should be no way for people to participate in a democracy they have attempted to overthrow, and these fuckers are absolutely going to try again. It will be a shitshow. I hope the US justice system comes through, but it will be a very dangerous time for America if Trump and his cronies are not prosecuted for their crimes before the next election.

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He's really shitting himself about being sentenced isn't he? Good.

it is still an inferior experience to Windows for anybody that isn’t incredibly tech savvy and the kind of person that lives and breathes command lines.

Since when do you have to live and breathe command lines to use SteamOS?

But then again, what did I expect from an industry where people are genuinely paid to talk out of their butts about games.

Yeah, there's only one person talking out of their butt here.

But there has been the occasional ‘Steam Deck Verified’ game like Cthulhu Saves The World which soft locks on a black screen after battles.

Oh well, I guess if you have a problem with one verified game then we should all write off the entire platform then.

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The choice is help Ukraine now, or kick the can down the road and lament when Russia is at your borders.

That might seem scarier if they weren't nearly 2 years into their 3 day war against their smaller, poorer next-door neighbour.

Russia is a terrorist shithole state that needs to be dismantled. I wish my country was doing more than providing arms and training.

My car lets you turn off lane assist, it's the collision avoidance that I can't turn off that is trying to kill me. Randomly I'll be driving along when an alarm sounds and it tries to swerve off the road. It's fucking infuriating and dangerous and despite many of us complaining to the manufacturer you can't turn it off.

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Linux is close, but has some core flaws that will forever keep it out of mainstream acceptance by your average user.

It has nothing to do with any flaws within Linux itself. The problem is and has always been that it's nearly impossible to buy a PC with any flavour of Linux pre-installed. Until that changes, Linux (on home user desktops) will never gain mainstream acceptance.

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I'm sure you really care about genocide and this isn't bad faith arguing at all.

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Sentencing is determined based on character, severity of crime, and likelihood to commit another crime

Surely he's fucked then? He commits crimes constantly and character-wise, he's the biggest douchebag in the history of America.

Thinking of his character reminds me of something written by one of my countrymen in 2016:

“Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?”

"A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.

Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.

Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.

There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.

And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down.

So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:

  1. Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.
  2. You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.

This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss.

After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.

And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created?’ If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set." - Nate White

1995: animated gifs, , guest books, site rings!

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Video nasty was slang for graphic horror movies, not porn. Not heard anyone say it since the 80s though.

It's an argument about critical paths in a project. Also, is no-one going to credit "The Mythical Man Month" where this quote comes from?

Try to remember that almost half of us did not vote to leave in the first place and knew it was a mistake. The Brexit vote was won on the tiniest of margins mainly due to a criminal misinformation campaign.

There was no mandate in that vote for the UK leaving the single market - something that those liars campaigning for Brexit said that we would never do. I firmly believe that all of the Brexit campaigners should be rotting in prison for the incalculable damage they did to our nation. Many people were tricked into voting against their best interests because they were told that leaving the EU would mean more money for the NHS, or it would protect their daughters from all the Turkish rapists joining the EU next week, or all the other total fucking nonsense the criminal liars told them through Facebook.

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I'm not American either and I didn't call you a Trump supporter. I accused of you arguing in bad faith.

This is what wikipedia says about bad faith:

Bad faith ( Latin: mala fides) is a sustained form of deception which consists of entertaining or pretending to entertain one set of feelings while acting as if influenced by another. [1] It is associated with hypocrisy, breach of contract, affectation, and lip service. [2]

I thought you were arguing in bad faith because you talked about current US foreign policy in Israel, when this is an article about the Republicans stacking the supreme court to subvert US democracy.

You are now continuing to make the claim that political parties in the US are equally evil, along with some whataboutery regarding gun violence. You are off-topic and it sounds like you are trying to defend the Republicans by complaining "but BoTH SiDeS!" - hence, bad faith.

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How's the future? Things get any better?

Will DeSantis be prosecuted for these crimes? Seems like America struggles with justice when it comes to right-wing, white assholes.

The OpenSSH and OpenBSD lead. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theo_de_Raadt

And sorry, Biden is at a minimum fascist adjacent.

care to back up that assertion?

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Absolute madness, I still don't understand why the right tried to turn a public health crisis into an issue of freedom and "owning the libs" or whatever.

All they had to do was sell MAGA branded masks and they could have made money while protecting their followers! Hell, they could have branded the vaccine the "freedom jab" and made getting it all about "doing your part" and patriotism. Fucking nutbars.

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this wild IPO valuation is indicative of fraud of some kind… probably plain old money laundering…

It wasn't an IPO - it's doubtful they would have fulfilled the regulatory requirements for an IPO.

DJT is a SPAC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special-purpose_acquisition_company

denied without explanation

"That which can be asserted without evidence, can also be dismissed without evidence".

Oh, only 40-50 hours of entertainment for £3 what a scam!

Man, if only we could buy printers online!

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This is a witch hunt, fixed trial

He was convicted by 12 New York jurors, some of which were approved by his own defence.

You know it’s Bidens DoJ

The DoJ is a federal organisation, they don't prosecute state crimes.

I'm not American. How can it be that these Trump supporters are so ignorant of how their own country works?

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Not just that, all these trade deals we cut with other countries means visas for their citizens. Net immigration to the UK has tripled since Brexit from countries like India. I'm sure the racists and xenophobes are really happy with what they voted for.

Justice delayed is justice denied.

wow, posh spice let herself go

I'm sure people have been making "orange is the new black" jokes for a while now.

just a sad reality of our crappy two party system.

As an outsider, it looks like the US only has a one party system now. One party and a group of spiteful, contrarian fascists trying to overthrow its democracy.

Hang on, they said good products

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This happened in the UK with our right wingers too. David Cameron said that his favourite band was The Smiths. Johnny Marr publicly stated that David Cameron did not like The Smiths, because he forbade it. He would however allow it, if David Cameron left office immediately.

Now I think about it, didn't the Village People have beef with Trump over his use of YMCA at campaign rallies as well?

Maybe it’s anticompetitive conduct by the provider (like Microsoft using its market power on Outlook/Exchange to push other services like Teams over its competition)

That's exactly what it is. They leveraged their dominance/monopoly in one market to gain a stranglehold on another market. It's not exactly a new tactic for Microsoft either.

Nuttier than a squirrel turd man.

Are you my brother? I did exactly that!

Great argument.

or even Microsoft in 1998

Microsoft got off with an incredibly light slap on the wrist in 1998 considering what they'd done. I've worked as a software dev for 30 years and I'd say that Microsoft successfully held back progress and the web for a good 10 years.

I heard it called Dances with Smurfs

That's interesting, what's so clever or original about its algorithm?

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