“Party of fiscal responsibility” is projection, just like everything else.

“It’s called a reference, sweaty – look it up.”

(Maybe, anyway.)

That’s what it’s supposed to be, but clearly isn’t.

That would mainly be because they can’t easily get to the library, probably because your city is too low-density and car-dependant.

Once again, all problems are zoning problems in disguise.

Tech bosses think nuclear fusion is the solution

No they don’t; this is literally the first thing I’ve ever read claiming that. Tech bosses are perfect happy to power AI with nuclear fission and don’t give the slightest fuck about the waste.

(As well they shouldn’t, TBH, since it really ought to get reprocessed anyway. But that doesn’t excuse them for wanting to waste the power on bullshit.)

Plastic is the new asbestos.

It’s a developing country. You will catch up.

It isn’t and we won’t. The US is a post-developed country backsliding.

Everybody who understands what conservatism is?

There’s a man with a gun over there telling me I got to beware.

Decades of the Republican Party patiently and systematically installing fascist Federalist Society stooges at all levels of the judiciary is what happened. Their goal is autocracy – and always has been – and they are now finally on the cusp of achieving it.

See also: Unitary Executive theory and Trump v. United States (2024).

And the best part is that it’ll all be “legal” from a purely textualist reading of the actions, because the folks interpreting the law are all Trump cronies.

The even “bester” part is that Democrats won’t even be able to vociferously complain about the Republicans real theft of the election because the Republicans have so thoroughly poisoned the well on that issue with their false claims of it. So the Democrats will fail to do what is necessary to stop the fascist takeover and America will be screwed forever.

5 downvotes in 38 minutes, on an innocuous comment in a 9-day-old thread. 🤔

LOL, what did you do to piss off some chud so badly that he’s mass-downvoting you with no less than five sockpuppets?

Red Hats, you mean. They’ve had the uniform for years already.

Every fascist movement requires paramilitary thugs; Trump’s is no different.

“This is extremely dangerous to our democracy” – chorus of Sinclair-owned “local” TV news anchors

I want something like that too, although it’s worth noting that the implementation corner-case details could be horrendous.

On a related note, threads ought to be able to have the default sorting changed at least by a mod, if not by the user who posted them. For example, the recent hurricane megathreads ought to have been defaulting to sorting by new.

Not nearly enough of a backlash.

Yes! They announced the plan before they actually did it; they had plenty of time to realize how pissed off it made everybody.

However, wanting contributions while retaining the exclusive right to distribute the software is anti-collaborative. I’m reluctant to say it might as well be proprietary again

As you describe it, that is proprietary – no “might as well be” qualification necessary. Just because you can read the source code doesn’t make it Open Source; you’ve got to have all Four Freedoms for it to count.