nickwitha_k (he/him)

If you don’t know much about Palantir… Well, its founder would definitely side with Sauron, too put it lightly.

Breadlines?.. Have you been paying attention to the actions of the last decades? They even arrest church staff for feeding homeless people.

No. They just want people to die in the gutter.

Lawmakers are calling on the Social Security Administration chief to resign after internal emails revealed that the administration shut Maine off from the late-age insurance program in retaliation for publicly defying the MAGA agenda.

This really seems like it should be more “20-years in prison gen pop, without possibility of early release” territory than “resign and continue life as normal after likely causing unnecessary deaths for revenge”.

That’s the DataHand, one of the few novel text-entry devices in the last few decades. It’s sadly no longer made but ifyou want a modern one, check out the Svalboard.

The Svalboard is made by one guy in California with FOSS firmware based on QMK/Vial. He took it on because his DataHand, which had enabled him to keep working with a wrist injury, broke and no parts were available.

I got one myself after near disabling wrist RSI. I don’t type as fast as I used to (yet) but I am able to work with a lot less pain.

If you want a modern one, check out the Svalboard.

Just add a speaker :)

To be fair, they did allow entry to the vice president of a hostile foreign power.

Hard no.

You mean the Austrian guy who killed the head Nazi?

Coming out of the military with a decent MOS or G.I. Bill is one of the few paths to real class mobility left for a lot of people.

For now. They have already screwed over a huge chunk of people who were enrolled in loan forgiveness for federal service and continually screw vets over with the intentionally horrible VA system. I’d not count on the GI Bill surviving Trump.

Now they’re prompt kiddies

millions will starve in developing nations and 100s of thousands more will die from preventable diseases.

It’s also literally in-line with the faux-left accelerationists’ dogma:

Phase 1 - Make the world worse by helping the far-Right take over governments. This will lead to increased suffering domestically and internationally. Phase 2 - ? Phase 3 - Working class solidarity and uprising resulting in socialist utopia.

(Phase 2, historically, likely involves either a few centuries of oppression, and/or global armed conflict and genocide, but that’s a sacrifice that they’re willing to make.)

Mathematically, that is the case.

They are not smart. They are just pathologically greedy people born to wealth.

Look. I get you. But, it it were up to me, I’d have been gone during the Bush II years and I’m still stuck here.

This place has fucked me up enough already. Despite doing “everything right” in my studies, my first career, in scientific research, died before it began, thanks to the ultra-wealthy causing a global recession. Every day I wonder if it’s going to be the day that I hear that my trans sibling has been taken or died a death of despair. I lost a cousin to cancer because she couldn’t get treatment due to the nazi’s handling of COVID. I’m in therapy because of serious childhood trauma. I’m childless, despite wanting to have children my whole life (have never been in a position to afford them and my spouse is disabled, so, I’ll likely never have the energy to parent anyway). I know that, no matter how much I put into a 401k, it’s never going to be enough for me to retire. The current head of the CDC has suggested putting people like me in forced labor camps.

I spent decades being politically active and trying to get others active, voting, and engaging with reps only to have tankies and centrists actively sabotage any attempt to realistically pull the country Left without the massive amount of death and suffering (especially experienced by vulnerable people) that tankies circlejerk about trying to cause.

Nothing that I do here has any ability to change things in the country for the better within my lifetime, which is likely to be cut short due to living in this country during the ongoing fascist coup that everyone around me is still in denial about. Sure, I help out neighbors and the like as they need it and I’m able. If we meet and you need help, I’ll absolutely help you if I can.

I’m not going to Luigi someone or join the Maquis - I am needed too much by my family. Nor am I going to opt-out - I’m too filled with spite over what was stolen to make things any easier for them. And I’m sorry but, if I can get my family out, I will.

The Founding Fathers are some of the biggest fucking hypocrites of all time.

Slavery abolitionist and Founding Father Thomas Paine would agree with you. He literally called Washington a hypocrite (and incompetent) in an open letter.

One of the few “Founding Fathers” that I tend to like.

Technically, no. However, they are corvids.

As much as it is still heartbreaking, this does make me a bit glad that I don’t have children.

american farmers will go bankrupt and all their land will be bought by corporations.

We’re already past that. Something like 6 companies own the vast majority of US agriculture. And they’re not run by farmers but hedgies and the like, who have been setting up illegal monopolies while the feds do nothing about it on account of extreme bribery.

You can order a “half & half” but, probably will need to explain and get dirty looks for perceived crimes against Guinness (I think it’s a great drink, the Irish tend to be a bit protective of their stout though, in my experience).