In the not-so-distant future:

“This is General Vladimirovich, speaking for the Russian High Command. There has been an incident at the joint Russian-Chinese research station. However everything is under control. We have no need for assistance. Obey treaty stipulations and remain outside the Neutral Zone. This transmission ends now.”

“Do we have any satellite coverage?”

“Yes sir. I have confirmed the location of the joint Russian-Chinese research station, sir, but… I cannot confirm the existence of the joint Russian-Chinese research station.”

Well, the good news is, this is a great place for dumb questions, should you ever have any. Welcome!

All the checks and balances have the loophole that there’s effectively nobody available to enforce them that the executive branch can’t (and hasn’t) already undermined.

The only remaining check and balance that has any possible credibility is the people, the people who threw the tea into Boston harbor, the people for whom the 1st and 2nd amendments exist, the people who conducted a million man march in defense of civil rights. Those people. And those people all seem to be stuck in some combination of: completely asleep at the wheel; too disorganized and busy fighting against each other over petty ideological distinctions; too busy trying to keep their heads down and scrape out a living while hoping this all goes away or somehow won’t affect them; or jumping onboard the bandwagon themselves and cheering all this stuff along.

Bonkers.

Valid point, but maybe a little less unique than it seems, at least if you look at the original Barbra Streisand situation. The photo of her house was originally so obscure and hidden that realistically essentially nobody had ever seen it, until she sued the photographer to have it removed. While it was technically “publicly available” before that it was in such an obscure dataset of coastal erosion examples that it had only been downloaded 6 times, which in terms of being “public on the internet”, effectively rounds down to zero.

The Streisand Effect sends its regards.

That would affect the economy, and profits, which as we know are much more important than morals, so unfortunately, we must allow it.

Let’s just stop caring what celebrities think, please. Unless they have education in science etc…

Mayim Bialik has a PhD in neuroscience and she’s a vaccine skeptic and has a host of other offensively stupid ideas, so clearly not even having an education really counts as qualifications anymore.

When George Carlin died, I knew the future was doomed.

Katee Sackhoff is a great person.

You can also bookmark noai.duckduckgo.com if you don’t want to install an addon

that’s our token Zionist Kushner who we want to blast directly into the sun

sounds like a great plan, when can we start?

We would welcome you and would invite you to grab scary black assault rifle, go inna woods too. There are plenty of woods here for everyone.

Once you get the hang of the basics, the “Articulated” models of various creatures are lots of fun for kids. A lot of them have already seen them at school. Surprisingly easy to print. You may need to use a brim or raft on some of them to make sure the small contact patch on each of the segments gets enough bed adhesion, but other than that, they print-in-place with no assembly required.

You’re welcome to try, if you want to realize why Russia has had such an unfun time so far trying to invade a country whose people already speak your language and are mostly visually indistinguishable from you. The US does not have a good track record of successfully enduring in an occupation against guerilla warfare in the first place. If you thought Vietnam and Afghanistan were bad, or the 9/11 terror attacks were bad, there’s always a way it can get much, much worse and much more widespread. Nukes and strategic bombers and all the other wonderweapons the US has aren’t the “I win” button the US thinks they are. Those can make an army and a government surrender, but they can’t make a people surrender. And it’s the people they’ll have to worry about in the long run. Especially in Canada. Grab SKS, go inna woods. There’s a loooooot of woods up here.

Bubble’s gotta bubble.

Librewolf rocks. I don’t know how many more signs people need that this is the browser they should be using nowadays. The default settings are aggressive, but you can relax them if that bothers you. There’s a reason they’re the default though.

Start getting used to the new future where all your social media and ecommerce shit is going to be pretty broken if you don’t let it abuse you and spy on you. Either decide not to use shitty spyware websites and find alternatives, or learn how to make them work anyway. There usually are ways to make them work, and if you can’t, alternatives do exist, contrary to popular belief (in fact you’re on one right now) they just aren’t quite as complete a replacement as what we’ve gotten used to having at our fingertips. There’s more work involved. You have to be willing to make sacrifices and compromises. That’s the reality that the tech giants are forcing us to accept. The things they were giving away were never free, they came with the price tag of increasing amounts of your privacy. Now that the price is getting too high for anyone to bear, the free lunch is over, and we need to go back to making our own communities outside the tech giants control.

Check out PikaOS, it’s pretty much pure Debian, but for gaming, makes updating drivers and managing games easy

You can give them nicknames in game if that makes it easier. You can also change the pool of names or even the entire dwarven language if you want, it’s all text files (at least in the ascii version, not sure about Steam)

Yeah, no, it’s ridiculously, nonsensically complex. In the most delightful and unexpected ways. Like, it’s not necessarily complex in the ways that you think it is or should be complex. It’s complex in ways that you never even would’ve imagined. For no real reason. Just because.

One of the few games so special that even bugs improve the experience.