Food + marmite = not food, for most people.

Butnprops for the vintage Corelleware plate.

Nobody knows how they died, because they’re dead.

Many people know how they’re going to die, at least approximately. When you’re 93 and have cancer, you know.

Wrong group.

I work with a number of developers who don’t know how to find and edit a file on their computer.

Literally.

Yeah, good luck with that.

We don’t want your “authority and influence” any more. The US has proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that they cannot be trusted with the power they’ve got.

Yes.

The amount of harm already done to your country by Trump and Musk is immeasurable, and will take a generation or more to recover from.

The amount of harm done to your standing in the world is equally bad. The world was skeptical after Trump’s first term fucked over the rest of the world, but we were hopeful that maybe the US had learned their lesson?

Nope. They elected a fascist. They RE-elected a known fascist, felon, rapist, idiot-child, psychopath. Worse, they bolstered Musk to get into a seat of unauthorized and unimaginable power.

When Trump announced his idiotic tarrifs, Canada collectively said “that’s it - we’re divorcing.” When he pulled back on the idea for 30 days, Canada said “don’t care, still divorcing.”

Trump is following the exact model of Hitler, and it’s only a matter of time until he actually invades either Greenland or Canada if he’s not stopped. The USA has to collapse into ruin and rebuild from scratch before anyone is going to trust them again.

On review sites in particular, there are kickbacks involved - and free/OSS products can’t pay as much as for-profits.

Well for one thing, you’ll find out how many Canadians are willing to use a gun in defence of their country, despite very few being invested in the American gun culture.

Also, it would likely be the beginning of WWIII.

“What MAGA all agree” is a fool’s errand, like most universal consensus questions.

But here are a few high points:

• Some genuinely believe the rhetoric about how Trans/brown/non-Christian/etc. people are destroying the American way of life, jobs, safety, sports, the economy, and whatever they get pointed to at any given moment.
• Some are outright racists, bullies, and fascists, and absolutely love what Trump is doing right now.
• Many are just frustrated with their lot in life, and are willing to try anything (except personal action) to improve things.
• Many more feel like they’re just a few paycheques or a small windfall away from living the rich life like Musk et al. As about 90% of lottery winners can attest, winning $10M or so doesn’t make you obscenely wealthy, and it’s still pretty easy to piss it all away. They have no concept of the difference between “rich enough to not work” and “rich enough to own multiple superyachts.”

Most importantly, a large subset of this last group overlaps with the others, and believe that they only way for them to get ahead is by climbing over the bodies of others.

What trend? Lying about being noble while trying to destroy everything in their way?

They’ve been doing that for 25 years now. It’s not a trend, it’s a business model.

Don’t drink quite so much.

Seriously, hangovers are a sign of excessive drinking. Last memorable one I had was 16 years ago.

I don’t have a strong opinion on the matter, but it really seems like it would encourage stalking and revenge-downvotes.

Fair warning: it’s likely that your ISP will block attempts at self-hosting a mail server at home.

Working on Sun heavy iron, boot time was excuciating. We’d add RAM to a fully pupulated E3000 and then waiy 40 minutes before the first diagnostics appeared on the terminal.

That wasn’t technically boot time, but the OBP equivalent of POST.

Honestly, OS boot time has never been an issue for me.

• Short attention span.
• Outrage farming.

New Mexico is already part of the US. It’s not really the name, it’s the expansionist intention.

He’s going to annex as much territory as he can without weapons before declaring war.

It doesn’t matter.

It REALLY doesn’t matter.

If he was doing a Nazi salute, the consequences are obvious. If he was doing something “like” a Nazi salute but can plausibly deny it, the result is exactly the same; and that means that the intent is the same, even if it is proven (magically!) that it wasn’t a Nazi salute.

This is the result:

The Nazis of the world all saw it, and took it as a sign of unity. Nothing else matters.

Now Musk may or not may be autistic, but I know several autistic people (plus one with Tourette Syndrome, long ago) and you know what? Not a single one of them has done anything like a Nazi salute.

“Heil Hitler” as a phrase and a salute is fairly unique: It is something that is absolutely burned into the memory of most of humanity, regardless of language, culture, or society. Nobody with Musk’s worldly knowledge and experience would accidentally do something that close to a Nazi salute. Hell, an eight year old from Latvia wouldn’t accidentally do something like that. The knowledge and the taboo are absolutely burned into our collective consciousness.

There is absolutely zero chance whatsoever that Musk didn’t know what he was doing.

And even if that’s true, it honestly doesn’t matter.

Laws are there for the riff raff, not the elite.

This has been true for a very long time, but those in power generally didn’t abuse that fact too much. Until recently.

You are obsessed with this being the norm. I’m not at all convinced it is.

I’m a cis dude in my mid-50s. Don’t think this has ever hapoened to me.