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"See everybody? I'm not on drugs!"
  • "Ketamine: Negative" lol.

  • Anon likes trains
  • The only national passenger train service I know of is Amtrak, which shares its tracks with freight carriers. So the current infrastructure isn't designed for high-speed rail and freight carriers usually get priority.

    Also, The US is really big, so everything isn't a short train ride away from everything else. If I wanted to visit the Grand Canyon from where I live, it's over 2,000 miles away. That's 30 hours of driving just by car.

  • Nexus Mods' new owners promise they won't monetise the site to death as users panic at the whiff of venture capital
  • I think the new owners will fark NexusMods to death and you should start looking for a backup site to host your mods.

  • president of peace everybody
  • Congress has been shirking their responsibility to declare wars since the Gulf of Tonkin incident in 1964. They gave Presidents the power to carry out military actions abroad without a formal declaration. By passing the responsibility on to the president, Congress gets to avoid the blame for unpopular wars.

    Even the Vietnam "War" which lasted 10 years, was never declared by Congress.

  • Trump orders ICE vengeance on ‘No Kings’ protest cities
  • ICE doesn't have enough people to intimidate a single blue city, let alone the country. They can't even operate in Los Angeles without the backup of a small number of National Guard and Marines and they're doing that illegal action over the governor's explicit objections.

    ICE are a bunch of cowards, doing safe, comfortable hits in suburbs and on people who are complying with the law. (Immigration hearings and workplaces.)

  • Fuck this ICE mask bullshit
  • If you live in a society where masked gunmen, who are answerable to NO ONE can black-bag and kidnap you off the street, then it's time for folks to have an honest talk with themselves about what kind of society they really live in.

  • Trump orders ICE vengeance on ‘No Kings’ protest cities
  • Trump already left G7 to supposedly "focus on the escalating Israeli-Iran conflict."

    That's not the reason why he left. He's leaving early because he tried to hijack the G7 conference with his usual, personal grievance bullshit and to make the entire conference all about HIM, like he always does. But they weren't having it and they told him to go home and get his f*cking shine box. So now, he's leaving in a huff because they hurt his childish, rodentine feelings.

  • Fuck this ICE mask bullshit
  • No badges, no uniforms, driving unmarked cars and wearing masks? I think any person could successfully argue in court that they thought they were being kidnapped by criminals.

  • US Military never really trained for these types of dog and pony shows
  • During the Vietnam War there was a draft, so you could end up being conscripted and shipped halfway around the world to fight it. One way to avoid getting drafted was a lottery where, if you picked a high enough random number, you could avoid being drafted.

    The thing is, Trump never picked a lottery number. Instead, he got five draft deferments, 1 medical and 4 educational. A lot of rich people at the time were able to avoid military service alltogether by getting a doctor to sign off that you had a sketchy illness. In Trump's case, it was bone spurs, which apparently healed right up after the Vietnam War ended. Trump kept his 1-Y deferments until after 1972, when he was reclassified 4-F (permanently ineligible for service). By claiming he got a "high lottery number" Trump makes it sound like staying out of Vietnam was an amazing stroke of luck. That was just another lie. Trump had powerful friends and family intervene for him. Luck had nothing to do with it.

  • US Military never really trained for these types of dog and pony shows
  • They deliberately half-assed the parade because they don't like the way Trump treats them. Trump calls them "suckers and losers." He cuts their benefits Why would you show any loyalty (or enthusiasm) to someone who treats you like that?

    More Trump quotes: "You fucking generals. Why can't you be more like Hitler's generals?" 2017

    On the burial of US Army private Vanessa Guillén: "It doesn't cost 60,000 bucks to bury a fucking Mexican!" December 4, 2020. Trump has denied having made the remark.

    "We're not going to support that loser's funeral." August, 2018. Trump has denied having made this remark.

    re: John McCain, who was captured and tortured for five years: "He's a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren't captured, okay? I hate to tell you." July 18, 2015.

    "But, you know, during the Vietnam War, I got very lucky. I had a very high lottery number." November 9, 1995.

    On the 1,800 US Marines who died at Belleau Wood in France during World War I "Suckers." November 11, 2018. Trump denies having made this remark.

    On US soldiers in World War I "Who were the good guys in this war?" November 11, 2018. Trump denies having asked this question.

    "I don't get it. What was in it for them?" November 11, 2018. Trump denies having made this remark.

    On disabled veterans "Why do you bring people like that here? No one wants to see that, the wounded." September 30, 2019.

    "Look, I don't want any wounded guys in the parade. This doesn't look good for me." Summer 2017.

  • Trump says a 25% tariff "must be paid by Apple" on iPhones not made in the US, says he told Tim Cook long ago that iPhones sold in the US must be made in the US
  • Once again. Companies do NOT pay tariffs. They pass on those costs of those tariffs to their customers. YOU are gonna pay that extra 25% not Apple.

  • unnecessary expense
  • Company-wide email: "We've had our best year EVER and it's all thanks to YOU"

    Me: "Great. Can I have a raise?"

    "OH. We can't afford THAT."

  • In Response to Amazon preventing to download books you bought: Some DRM free bookstores and publishers
  • Once again, "if buying isn't owning, then piracy isn't stealing."

  • ~~Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges via forced firmware updates, removing older firmware versions from support portals~~ [see comments]
  • I'm only letting my latest Brother printer connect to my computer through the USB cable. No Internet connection at all.

  • Reddit will lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says
  • Reddit is just a bunch of bots, jerking each other purple. They don't have any content worth locking.

  • Modding the Gulf of Mexico Back
  • I also recommend downloading StreetComplete, which lets you contribute to the OpenStreetMaps database.

  • AI chatbots unable to accurately summarise news, BBC finds
  • But AI is the wave of the future! The hot, NEW thing that everyone wants! ** furious jerking off motion **

  • Rubio Says Trump’s Plan to Expel All Palestinians From Gaza Is “Very Generous”
  • Expel them to WHERE? Or were they just planning for all the Gazans to just keel over and die? Rubio is such a tool.

  • Could Trump Force X To Become The Everything App For Government Payments
  • Banks are not willing to shoot themselves in the ass for Trump. They would fight to the end to hold onto that sweet transaction money.

  • Making a Blocklist to Remove Spam from Search Engines
  • This. I think the best way to make the Internet less sh*tty is to get away from Google search.

    I like the SearX search engine. It gives old-school, relevant search results, not google ranked ones.

    https://search.inetol.net/

    It's also spread out over many separate instances, so you can pick the one that best suits your search needs:

    https://searx.space/

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