Let me guess, moar tariffs! This one-trick pony administration shoups do everyone a favor and take itself out to the woodshed.

I think you might be romanticising things a little bit. Here is Edward Murrow from 1954, over seventy years ago, making his critique that journalism was DOA.

https://youtu.be/Mc-3v_bEOzI

Billionaire wants to end unions? You don’t say.

You are correct. Don’t listen to all the Warchicken Edge Lords here.

Surely you won’t regret all those maimed children.

Oh yes, bring back landmines so we can have decades of civilians getting their feet blown off.

Computer gaming is going to evolve into something new. The writing is on the wall. Give it a couple more years and a kiddie script coder will be able to recreate pretty much any game from scratch. I think games are going to become more collaborative and the AAA game studios are going to lose their asses because they won’t be able to adapt.

TempleOS enters the chat.

I am really enjoying messing around with self-hosting. I used to resell VPS back in the day, so it is fun to bring that knowledge to my home lab. I have been messing with docker to help streamline deployment.

Interfering with a nations at war is a serious issue and he should definitely be held accountable. He should be acting as a common carrier. Deciding to turn off or slow access during wartime should absolutely have serious consequences with jail time and fines as well as the possibility of his service getting nationalized.

The fact that he has no fear and thinks he can do whatever he wants when Daddy Putin comes calling is ridiculous.

I personally see tact as a separate skill from maturity. I know plenty of grown adults who lack tact. I wouldn’t call them immature myself.

This simple display was not really that disruptive, it really reminds me of when the NFL players were taking a knee. Your argument against this display is very similar to the argument conservatives used to shutdown them down during that controversy.

You seem to be saying that this actor took away from the production by doing this. I don’t think this is accurate. I don’t think this quick display of a flag without even saying a word took away from anything. In fact, the overreaction is more of a problem than what the actor did.

I think you are probably right about bands and other single acts having more leeway to make their politics known, but even then you have artists like the Dixie Chicks who got blackballed for saying an offhand comment many Americans agreed with at the time.

They don’t intercept anything honestly. They either buy it or receive it through PRISM. Saying they intercept it really isn’t the right word when Internet companies literally allow them into their interconnect locations (IXP) to install NSA hardware. I suppose technically you could still call it intercept, but it is more like they just listen to all traffic without any actual clandestine action.

Republican presidents always seem to start some neighborhood NARC program.

See George W Bush and the TIPS program for reference.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_TIPS

I am sure you didn’t mean to say pointing out a genocide is immature.

There is something going on here and it is probably along the lines of discipline or tactifullness. Having the discipline to not bring something political into the play. Having the tact to know when to show it and when not to. These are both judgement calls though.

Actors are human beings with complex emotions, so I don’t really see the problem with his expression. I would have asked him not to display the flag again and if he did then discipline him, but the stakes are apparently much higher probably due to organizational politics.

You are correct, I thought they were brazenly corrupt last time, it really is exponentially worse this time.

Right, all billionaires pardoned!

Alzheimer’s is a hell of a disease. I have worked with people who have Alzheimer’s for decades now. I am always hoping they are going to be able to reverse or even stop the damage. They are closer than ever before, but the reality of all those people I had hope for have already passed.

There are no easy answers here. I knew an elder who always said if he got Alzheimer’s he would take himself out. Guess what? He got Alzheimer’s and forgot to.

Another lady I worked with was pretty far into her dementia. I was sitting with her in the morning and she was drinking coffee. Suddenly she made eye contact and said, “I am scared because my mind is going, things I used to remember are gone and I struggle to realize all the people I have lost.” She lost focus after this and started staring off into space.

They are still in there, I know it. I will never forget this one elder I had been working with for awhile. Their son came to visit and we were all sitting there talking about their care. The elder forgot who their son was and said that I was their son and starting arguing with them. Seeing their actual family member realize their grandmother no longer recognized them sucked so bad.

Young people innovate, old people litigate.

“How about we all come together and say, ‘Let’s stop attacking pedophiles?’”. -Ted Cruz 2025

All these days idiots cheering on violence is pretty pathetic. This is not the youth demonstrating, this is chaos and crime. Anyone who thinks this is a solution is too dumb for their own good.