Could be that Trump is responsible, in the same way that Reagan was in '80.

In other words, it wouldn’t be the first time fascists deliberately delayed hostage negotiations to fuck over non-fascist US politicians, if that is indeed what happened.

It’s almost impossible to be a Federal politician and not be wealthy.

Mine, at 75 downvotes, was:

You know, if you use Linux you don’t have to jump through hoops like this (trivial though they may be). Wouldn’t it be nice to not have an adversarial, abusive relationship with your OS?

This was on a thread about some workaround to remove ads in Windows.

It was still very net positive in terms of upvote/downvote ratio, so Microsoft simps can suck it, LOL.

Profilie -> comments tab -> sort by controversial

It would also be interesting to see which comment is most disliked (which one has the most net negative score), but I don’t think there’s a sort that does that.

that also includes Tim Berners-Lee

You mean that traitorous piece of shit who sold us out to DRM on the Web?

short(-ish) term

That’s optimistic.

Republicans believe they can flout the law with impunity. Democrats refuse to teach the lesson that destroying the Rule of Law harms the Republicans too, by treating them as the literal outlaws they are.

No, it was too respectful towards women.

Welp, I played myself. I was really intending to talk about the AMOC shutting down, but wrote “Gulf Stream” as shorthand instead because I didn’t want to spell out the whole acronym and it’s more famous/less necessary to explain (I was tapping the comment on a phone at the time).

Then, just my luck, you come in citing a source talking (among other things) about how the Gulf Stream specifically won’t shut down totally, because of the component of it that isn’t AMOC. 🤦

FAQ 9.3 | Will the Gulf Stream Shut Down?

…Based on models and theory, scientific studies indicate that, while the AMOC is expected to slow in a warming climate, the Gulf Stream will not change much and would not shut down totally, even if the AMOC did…

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…The Gulf Stream is part of two major circulation patterns, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) and the North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre…

Anyway, that gaffe aside:

I didn’t read through that report to see what it says about the timeline for the AMOC collapse in particular, but I’ve been paying a little bit of attention to the topic for a while now and it seems to me that, as new studies come out, they tend to revise the bounds of the estimate sooner and sooner. I feel like it’s gone from “maybe by the end of the century” in the older studies to “maybe a decade or so from now” in some of the most recent ones. Personally, I think it’s alarmingly possibly imminent. That’s just my impression, though; it’s not as if I did a legitimate literature review.

I’ll be honest, I can’t even really be mad at them. I can’t think of anything they should have done differently.

You’re kidding, right?

Thing #1, in giant flashing marquee letters, would’ve been “pick an AG who would’ve actually gone after the traitorous coup leader instead of sitting on his ass for two years.” Remember, Merrick Garland’s original qualification for his SCOTUS nomination was being so conservative that even Mitch McConnell had no excuse to reject him. It should’ve been blatantly obvious to everyone that that made him the absolute wrong choice for AG.

Things #2 - infinity can basically be summarized as “all the stuff that would actually help the working class, which the Democrats’ major corporate donors would never actually allow them to do.”

If they’re legitimate users, I expected them to continue to exist, occasionally commenting on memes and cat pictures and whatnot like the rest of us.

But they’re entirely gone instead, almost as if they stopped working once they stopped getting paid.

I’ve said many times I would love to see third parties running for these offices that Democrats aren’t concerned about. But they don’t seem to be concerned about those in all but one or two states. And even those are kind of iffy.

Part of why that happens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKgNrshVdMw

I don’t know about the Trump promoters, but a lot of the people vocally supporting Harris are very much still here, commenting about other topics. A few (but only a few) of the third-party supporters are still here too, for that matter (notable example: @givesomefucks).

That’s how you can tell they’re real users, rather than shills being paid to push an agenda: they didn’t go away when the job ended.

This thread is not about people’s appetite for political discussion, or whether they’re misguided enough to only pay attention to the Presidential election instead of building their party from local offices on up. It’s about whether they were ever legitimate at all to begin with.

Okay look, there’s a plan B that’s had one big success already.

And two big failures.

After watching that video I ran across Cardinal, which is apparently a wrapper around VCV Rack that adds back the ability to be run as a plugin that VCV itself locks behind the “Pro” subscription. It can also run straight from your browser, so that’s how I’ve been trying it out so far.

They don’t think of it that way in public, you mean. I’m sure they’re laughing their asses off behind closed doors, though.

It was aimed at the article writer, not you, although I see now that the actual headline was only in imperial and you added the metric conversion, so I understand why it may have seemed otherwise. You actually converted it back with an appropriate amount of precision, so that’s good.

That’s just a fucking cartel with extra steps.

There is no such thing as a town that’s too legitimately big for walking but too small for transit. Any example you think you can give is actually an example of fucked-up priorities and incompetent planning.

All this shit is the main reason I’ve never bought a drone. One of these days I’m going to figure out what parts to buy to build my own open source one, but I haven’t had the time yet.

Multiply that by every other category of electronic product, and avoiding spyware and other enshittification is a fucking full-time job.