Have the day you voted for, dumbass.

I would gladly volunteer for the firing squad that inevitably deals with these cunts.

Agreed. I’m pretty embarassed to be Canadian at the moment.

I get that. I just mean that I don’t spend time trying to tailor an answer to try to get the most number of upvotes. I’ll say what i want to say, and if people want to upvote me for it or downvote me for it makes no difference whatsoever.

giving a shit about “upvotes” seems like such a reddit thing to do.

I’m here for replies and conversation and yes…sometimes getting into arguments with dickheads (and…I’ll be honest…sometimes being said dickhead when I’m having a bad day)

I don’t actually care how many internet strangers are giving me made up internet points or not. It’s always just seemed to me to be vacuous and silly as something to “chase”

100%. It’s a matter of where does the technology stop being about “useful for us” and starts being “useful for them”.

A digital whiteboard would be a good feature (not ‘necessary’, but cool). It’s when they decide it needs to be connected to the internet that it becomes “is this technology serving us…or serving them” that’s the problem.

I’m not anti-tech at all. Quite the opposite. But I remember the mid-2000s when all of this tech was getting off the ground and it was being innovated and invented for OUR benefit, not for the corporations. That’s when this kind of stuff was fun.

It’s depressing to notice just how much pop culture from teh 80s onward was trying to warn us about this coming shittorm. It’s like, as soon as Reaganomics came on the scene, there were those who immediately saw it for what it was and started fighting. (Punk Rock, Literature, Movies, etc…) and it wasn’t enough. No one paid any attention and we are now where we are because as a culture we got sucked into chasing more shiny shit at the expense of our own good.

I remember when fridges with screens were first becoming a thing, and one way they tried to sell them was the convenience of being able to leave notes, shopping lists, photos, etc… for other members of the family. And even back then, before the advertising apocalypse, I remember thinking, what in the actual fuck makes this 1000 dollar feature any more useful than a 20 dollar magnetic white board and a dry erase marker?

None of these people seem to realize how the political careers of tyrants almost always end.

And yet ironically it’s staring them in the face every minute in the virginia state seal.

“Sic Semper Tyrannis” – Thus always to Tyrants.

Their stupidity knows no bounds.

I’m very likely wrong, but I’ve been told that that could be low-key sponsorship. Make sure the mic that you are using is prominently in view, etc… etc…

Carl Sagan had a couple of rough marriages and an iffy relationship with his children, but I never heard of him being a “dick” to the public in any way. Similarly Steve Irwin (who I would consider a science educator) was awesome.

I think it’s less that the there’s a correlation between fame and science educator than simple ego and brains. NDT would be an asshole even if he wasn’t famous, because being smart just goes to some people’s heads.

If by “work through”, he means guillotine the billionaires who caused the job losses and redistrubute their wealth to make up for it, I’m all in.

And rightly so!

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50 years old and I can still learn something new. Whodathunkit.

I’d bet real money that most of the “people” threatening to boycott don’t live on the same continent as a Costco store anyway.

Jeez…I know ACAB, but in this case, I’ll allow myself to be stopped and frisked all day long.

I always just end up staying with Breeze or Breeze Dark depending on my wallpaper.

I feel like the answer’s in your question…

I’m hoping that the chain-of-command is so broken because of the bumblefucks in charge at the top that Venezuela actually gets some good licks in ala Ukraine to Russia.

I know its doubtful, but a man can dream.