Democrats serve corporations. Corporations value stability and laws that benefit them. Democrats want to deliver for them and keep things stable while maximizing corporate donations.

Maga Republicans serve the oligarchs. They want to be able to run scams and prop up a new ruling class. They are doing chaotic things to maximize short term profits for themselves while consuming natural resources as quickly as possible.

They both serve aipac with their seemingly unlimited amount of money.

The root of all evil n politics is money, and also it is what keeps the political machine running.

What, specifically, would you like us to do about it? Talk to our corrupt representatives in Congress? Have a general strike and risk the well-being of our families?

The US might be a giant military base for Israel at this point.

It might start a small controlled fire.

Go away, I’m baitin

I’d like to see it, but I think it’ll be just fine on my TV at home. It’ll probably be streaming in no time.

I love the theater experience, but it’s too expensive right now.

On October 18, 1999, Hammer died in Long Beach from lung cancer at the age of 69

Democrats slam new Trump corruption. We’ll be forming a commission later to consider writing a scathing letter; fingers crossed.

This is why I like it more here.

This isn’t a hack, but I try to do one thing at a time now.

If I’m cleaning the house and I’m tempted to deep clean a drawer or do some side quest that isn’t actually the thing I should be going, I’ll take note, say out loud “damnit focus, that isn’t going to help right now” and regroup.

It’s frustrating, but giving into my impulses is usually what makes shit take forever and never get done.

Also lots of caffeine and THC seems to help (?).

One of these days I’m going to try getting diagnosed for ADHD and get medicated, but making phone calls to do that and talking to someone sounds like a nightmare. That would be a truly unhinged solution for me.

Sigh. I still enjoy my Plex pass that I bought for < $100 but this is another sign to bail on them. I don’t particularly like them trying to further monetize my collection.

I do like the ease of sharing with friends and it does generally just work. But this is bad.

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Are the cabinets level? This whole kitchen looks off.

Caulking around the large cracks and some matching paint would make it look much better.

If this was professionally done I’d call them back and have them fix it. Seems like craigslist level workmanship.

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Start btop in another full screen terminal, and then run apt update. Then you’re fully in the matrix.

No.

It really depends on who defines what hate speech is.

Is questioning the Zionist genocide hate speech? Is being an outspoken socialist hate speech against capitalists? Is stating you want to separate church and state hateful against Christians? Is supporting Palestine hate speech in the UK?

I’m a fan of free speech. Unless it is literally inciting violence or panic.

It’s fucked up innocent people holding Palestine action signs are being arrested in the UK. Attacking free speech is what leads to situations like that.

I have a blu-ray drive that got a lot of action at one point backing up movies. Now it just sits there sad and lifeless. This might be my inspiration to get that guy back in action.

So specifically, how would being aware of the intricacies of the JCPOA change anything?

Your first paragraph makes the assumption that the American people are/were on board with what is happening with Iran. Trump never attempted to get the population to support his actions. It’s deeply unpopular with his base and liberals alike.

With project 2025 they seized all levers of control. Checks and balances, if they ever existed, are all but gone. Seems the courts are the only thing left that produce any pushback and that is an intentionally slow process vs the move fast and break things actions of Trump.

He doesn’t care about his approval ratings, and congress isn’t doing their job. Huge amounts of aipac money are being pumped into all levels of government. Disinformation campaigns from 24/7 news stations keep the normies divided. Bot farms are further manipulating the online narrative using ai.

The whole thing is fucked, but it’s a little more nuanced than the general population not understanding (or frankly wanting to understand) the JCPOA.

Our government has basically been overthrown, and other than protests or violence, there is nothing we can do to stop it until November. We don’t have a viable mechanism to eject Trump in the meantime, and he’s going to continue stacking the deck in his favor with gerrymandering and other sketchy shit until then.

Turns out money and power runs things, and that doesn’t produce the best outcomes.

It feels like relying on GPS while driving around. If you know the roads well and just want some help with live traffic or somewhere you haven’t been before, it’s a decent tool.

If you rely on it because you don’t want to think and just want to press the easy button, you’re going to have a bad time sooner or later.

Back to software, I think there are a lot of people introducing concepts they don’t understand or can’t maintain (either from poor quality slop or it is just too advanced for their current level of understanding). You can do a few turns like this, until you’re stuck burning tokens in a loop without moving forward in a meaningful way.

I try to avoid taking the easy route myself unless I’ve burnt too much time stuck on some small detail. Ultimately I feel it is super important to understand what you are delivering. Whether it is writing it yourself, copying a stack overflow post, or using an LLM. Once you commit and push to prod you’ve got to deal with that crap.