I have one computer in my house that has been running the same installation of Arch for eight years. I occasionally upgrade hardware components as needed, and will eventually take a full disk image and transfer it to an entirely new system once I’ve reached the limit of how much I can ship-of-Theseus it.

Never had a single problem with it in all that time.

Uhh, Hezbollah is unequivocally the bad guys in that potential conflict. Doesn’t make Israel the good guys, mind you…

Of course they did. Scam money for a scam presidential candidate.

I immediately thought of three most likely states, and Utah was tops on the list. (The other two were Mississippi and Florida.)

That’s a good point. I gotta be honest, I’d forgotten that Adobe bought Photoshop.

I remember when Adobe was a cool company that built art tools. Now it seems like the art tools are an afterthought, tacked onto a money-siphoning scheme.

It’s always the people you must suspect. I mean, seriously, the guy legit looks like a sexual abuser.

Anyone who understands how LLM-based “AI” works is laughing at this. If you think polls are bad now, wait until ChatGPT hallucinations are part of the polling data set!

That’s… basically what they’re doing. “ChromeOS” is basically just going to be a desktop-friendly UI on Android.

Would upvote for the news. Will downvote for the picture.

Picture removed. Upvoted.

Maybe so, but at least you guys aren’t Russia or Cuba.

Uh, there are several recent polls that have Biden ahead, while Democrats have been over-performing polls by about 9 points in recent elections.

It’s become so noticable that US News did an article about it.

I think that’s actually the goal. If they can get a single core OS working on all their devices, that cuts down a lot on the difficulty of things like application development and security patches.

Yep. I like to use foods as a metaphor. You see, I hate olives. But I’m physically capable of making the choice to eat them by the handful, with a big grin, and proclaim my love for them to the world.

I can do that… But it wouldn’t change the fact that I hate olives.

Sharing this here because the difference in responses to this guilty verdict couldn’t be more stark. During his time in office, Trump pardoned close associates of various crimes. Out of a sense of integrity, Biden has said he won’t pardon his son.

The charges are absurd, but he was found guilty by a jury of his peers, and Biden won’t put his thumb on the scales.

If it’s personal behavior, there is no line.

Seriously, we need to internalize this: If you support Donald Trump in 2024 at this point, there is no goddamn line. There is nothing too atrocious or puerile or insulting to his own base that he could do or say to lose them at this point. He owns them.

I used to joke that he could literally eat a baby live on stage at one of his rallies and not lose supporters, because he’d insist it was fake news even as the blood dripped down his chin.

It’s not a joke anymore. He really could do it, and far too many of his supporters would believe him over their own lying eyes.

Trump support, at this point, is a mental health crisis in this country.

And Hillary Clinton didn’t push Trump. Prior to Russia making him much more likely to win via a concerted and effective propaganda effort, she was probably happy to be facing him, but that was long over by the time he became the nominee.

The thing we as a planet need to recognize is that Russia is waging a propaganda war against everyone, and it’s currently winning.

But the freakiness is still 100% present in their platforms and ideologies. They’re just dressing nicer now.

…with voters endorsing a plan to break up the country in just a few years…

What the actual fuck! These extremists just… don’t want to be a country anymore? Putin must fucking love them.