"When you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything.”

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

^But I’m seeing more and more bikes with great tech, don’t get me wrong, but they have a very limited lifespan and almost no longevity in the coming decades.

I honestly think they could be said about most tech nowadays. I always took for granted that newer technology would replace older tech but have even greater longevity… But at least when it comes to consumer-level products, i believe very few things are ‘buy-it-for-life’ anymore. Proprietary tech is ridiculously abundant, seems everything has to have a custom digital brain, wi-fi, bluetooth, DRM, subscriptions, etc. and all that comes with the adoption of cheap tech to make it affordable enough for the average person.

Once that company has moved onto the next thing though, how long will they support their previous products? If proprietary circuitry or a website is involved, it’s a near-guarantee you’ll be unable to use it in a matter of time–whether due to the website/server going dark or the product itself getting borked due to cheap manufacturing/design/etc. If there is to be any long-term support, it may actually come in the form of hobbyist groups willing to design and build their own circuitry, 3D print replacement/upgrade parts…stuff that often requires a very skilled and dedicated group. It’s pretty cool when you can find a bunch of like-minded individuals sharing info and working together to keep something going or take it to the next level, but that’s not a substitute for long-term product support. Companies used to be held to some sort of standard–or at least i was led to think so when i was younger. It’s weird to think back to the days when long-term reliability was a genuine selling point. The Maytag man bored in the shop, lol. Those days are long gone

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But don’t you get it!?! If Harris gets elected there “won’t be anymore elections” according to Trump. The only way we can be assured that we ever get to vote again is to elect Trump – and not become some sort of ‘Day-1 Dictator’ like Harris would absolutely declare herself. I mean look at the dems trying to steal the election, purging voter rolls, getting struck down trying to make new last-minute election rules, all of it. They know they can’t win the popular vote so they’re gonna cheat and try to win the electoral college by some fuckery or simply refuse to certify the results

/^s

Personally, I’m awaiting the hordes of immigrant caravans to magically appear just in time for the election and then magically disappear afterwards. I don’t know how they do it! ✨👀

I wake up earlier than that these days yet i somehow manage to stay far less smug about it. Though i will gladly fuck off, it’s a ridiculous time to be waking up

So vote trump? Stein? Move away? Build a bunker? What other options do you suggest?

This is fucking bananas. We’ve reached a point where our worst citizens are claiming to be literally “hunting FEMA”. From the article:

“FEMA has advised all federal responders Rutherford County, NC, to stand down and evacuate the county immediately. The message stated that National Guard troops 'had come across x2 trucks of armed militia saying they were out hunting FEMA.”

It gets even better–some of these ridiculously dangerous half-wits believe the Democrats are going to send in heavy equipment and bulldoze right over the dead bodies from towns that were destroyed by the hurricanes.

What’s the craziest thing to me is that the people who are taking up arms and all the rest of it are voting for people who are creating these situations by their neglectful if not straight-up evil form of governance.

They won’t even accept the help they are entitled to because propaganda has them convinced the hurricane came from the fucking Democrats. Lost fucking cause, some of these people. How do you convince someone that the Democrats don’t control the weather? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

1. Parties attack either other for having aged candidates.
2. Party ditches aged candidate, since electorate doesn’t want aged candidate–other party doubles down on old/mentally declining candidate and refuses to reconsider
3. Party attacks aged candidate
4. Omg who could have seen that coming

They’re saying the quiet parts out loud and there’s no turning back

I’m just appalled at this behavior, it’s absolutely crazy to me how quickly he somehow normalized the idea of withholding emergency funds in the wake of disaster. Asshole claims to love this country but it couldn’t be further from the truth. The fact that so many people eat this shit up blindly (or worse, with open eyes) is a sobering reminder of how fucked we are. He can’t even speak coherently, yet he’s the best suited to run this country?! He bankrupted casinos ffs, he shouldn’t be in control of anything. This is all old news though, the disappointment never seems to fade ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Thank you for this! They don’t exactly make it easy to find.

FTA: "Similarly, Trump told supporters on Friday night that “there’s something wrong with [Harris]” for using teleprompters.

He added: “I don’t use them that much. The concept I use but I don’t like it.”"

Here we go again with the concept being his lampshade

Hmmmmmm… No 🙂

Once they stop using Twitter.com perhaps I’ll reevaluate my stance

When your emergency disaster relief comes with a $400 price tag, you’ve experienced

⚫Dark MAGA⚫

My favorite claim from Trump is that aid is being withheld from Republican-controlled areas. Couldn’t project any harder if he tried. He demonstrated staggering favoritism toward republican-controlled districts during covid and when disaster relief was needed after hurricanes, fires, etc. Grade-A piece of shit, just all around scum at its lowest. Not to say it’s surprising but wow do his worshippers really eat up every word he says without even a hint of reflection or consideration. Amazing how far people will go to be comfortably racist/misogynist/homophobic/etc

If he’s anything like his new king, he won’t pay a cent to any of the chuds that take him up on this offer

Still won’t stop the others from going and keeping the restaurant afloat. I ditched my account (even though i rarely used it) right around the time it was changing hands. So now I don’t use it but there’s little i can do to convince millions of people who either don’t care or actually admire twats like Leon. There’s a lot of people out there not giving 2 shits about any of this stuff, or just can’t be bothered to change their habits even slightly.

I don’t see Twitter going anywhere, it’s a new more-mainstream parler i guess? Conservatives need a public space that’s more visible and now they have it. They want to be public about their shittiness, they’re tired of hiding their racism/misogyny/homophobia/etc

I was also delighted by the little bonus “a” in that spelling! I’ve been trying to remember to use the æ symbol in those cases though i don’t get to use it nearly as fræquently as I’d like… At least not properlæ 😉

All going according to plan, I’m sure