Someone just finished reading “How Nonviolence Protects the State” by Peter Genderloos.

These people are in charge of the world’s largest economy? The answer is either reduced by half to 72.5%, or reduced by two-thirds to 50%. And I did this in my head on the fly without a business degree from Wharton.

They didn’t surrender, they just changed tact. Now, they get invited in the front door.

I’ve come to believe Trump has a price. I think there is a number that would be acceptable in exchange for his resignation. Let’s just negotiate his departure. What would be a better example of capitalism?

Grand Funk Railroad was my favorite band.

The dumb part of any dispute I’ve had with my wife is thinking I could win.

I would think the Chinese government switching all government PCs and servers to KylinOS by 2026, would be weighing on all US tech companies.

Three cheers for comrade Walter Audisio!

Been running ProtonVPN on Fedora, Debian, and Android for almost a year with no problems.

The OS listing of Mint and Ubuntu is just begging for a distro war. Better off leaving the listing at Linux and BSD.

Such are our times that people are relieved it wasn’t another child sex club.

An accident or testing?

The Democratic Party Gaslighting Tour, featuring Zio Bernard and Lil Miss Sellout, may be coming to a city near you.

The “of America” was added to the name as a means to show that the United States claimed dominion over all the Americas (ex. Monroe Doctrine). USian is my preferred usage.

Lenin’s ghost on his birthday.

US demands the right to poison Europeans as they do their own citizens.

Mastodon is resistant but not immune (some German servers censoring Pro-Pali content). Bluesky is already buckling to authoritarian government pressures (Turkiye), while Twitter has gone full Nazi and Nazi collaborator.

Wait until they have a robot dog walk up and taser you.

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Do they even “write” in space any more? Isn’t it all screens?