He spent $120 million on ads for himself. Imagine what good could have been done with that money instead. 😞

So if I went to see Trump talk in a crowd he’d say that he was resigning then turning himself in for his many crimes and would be issuing a full confession?

It’s tradition:

https://www.vvaw.org/veteran/article/?id=4053

Imagine how they must feel in Iran. 😞

My understanding was that radiation was harmful to wildlife, but less harmful than humans. So not exactly uplifting…

Yeah I think this video confuses some theoretical version of Islam versus the actual version. Like Christians who ignore the actual practice of the faith and point to the parts of the Bible about love and joy.

I’m vegetarian and I often feel like this at a restaurant.

The only time it is a problem is in Italy, when saying “no thanks” to the waiter’s magical special of the day is an insult to his family’s honor. I don’t dare say that I’m a vegetarian in Italy though, or they will decide to skip the delicious pasta or gnocchi or risotto or pizza or whatever and bring me a plate of vegetables. 😅

I am never sure since I am American so know lots of Spanish from osmosis. But of course in any large European city there will be plenty of people who know enough English to help out. So yeah, he probably approached every interaction with stereotypical British arrogance and annoyed the people who would have been happy to help him otherwise. 🙈

Trump doesn’t care about purse strings. Maybe the next Democrat should try just helping the people in spite of the Congress and Supreme Court?

My parents’ house had such a room! I always thought it was weird to dedicate a room as a shrine to some mythical guest who would someday come and honor it with their presence.

I believe it.

I worked with an Englishman who has lived in the Netherlands for more than 20 years without learning Dutch.

We had a work trip to Madrid, and he went the weekend beforehand for a short vacation. I ran into him on Sunday night and asked him how it went. He said it was terrible, because he’s a vegetarian and couldn’t eat anything because nobody spoke English. He didn’t know what to order or how to ask if something was vegetarian. He was outraged that nobody spoke English. In Madrid. The capital of Spain. 🙈

Unproven assertion.

Capitalism happened to be the dominant ideology (due to violent suppression of alternatives) during a period when many people were brought out of poverty.

Some other system or collection of systems might have worked worse, or better, or exactly the same.

Hold it… are all of these government workers being paid to go to a prayer meeting? 🤔

All I do:

• Run updates daily
• Disable password logins
• Run sshguard
• Daily backups to a cloud and off-site host

I think that’s it. I have my host exposed to the Internet. As far as I know, it’s fine.

BTW, sshguard is for the IMAP and SMTP that run on the host, which do allow password logins. But it helps reduce load from brute force attacks on port 22 (which are pointless anyway).

I’m much more worried about my son installing dodgy Minecraft mods, or my wife installing another app that she saw on TikTok. I really should put them each on a separate VLAN…

The 17th Amendement requires the direct election of Senators. Blue state accept red states’ votes for those.

If you’re going to make an argument based on bad faith of states, then the US basically ceases to exist as a republic, regardless of whether you have the compact.

I think maybe you misunderstood the compact.

I’m your example, the states who signed the compact would all put their votes to candidate Y, assuming they had more popular votes in all states.

It’s not “join us or be punished”, it’s “we will implement the will of the majority, not matter what”.

That’s like eliminating private property with extra steps.

I mean, I’m basically okay with that, but none of this “a third of your wealth per year” nonsense.

Supreme Court: “Not like that.”

Nobody gets disenfranchised. Rather this compact enables the radical idea of “one person, one vote”.

https://youtu.be/6pDH66X3ClA right?