Rusty Shackleford

Culture always reverts to brutalism in times of uncertainty.

Once again, I assume this was part of the deal for serving up Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada to the U.S. authorities.

I assume this was part of the deal for serving up Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada to the U.S. authorities.

It’s tacky. Consider onyx with jade filigree.

Neither were the original Nazis, to be fair. Stupid people tend to admire stupid people who unapologetically flaunt their stupidity.

Stupid people believe stupid shit.

Yes!

Fair point. I’ve only seen the phrase written as, “No masters, no slaves.”

No gods, no masters, no slaves.

After strolling through blogs and forums, I still can’t tell what I’m missing by sticking with SDDM+X11 versus SDDM+Wayland on Kubuntu 24.04 LTS (--minimal-install, so no snap for me).

These are my specs:

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OS: Kubuntu trixie/sid (noble) x86_64
Kernel: 6.8.0-58-generic
Uptime: 1 hour, 12 mins
Packages: 2 (npm), 2550 (dpkg), 28 (flatpak-system)
Shell: bash 5.2.21
Resolution: 1920x1080 @ 164.92Hz
DE: Plasma 5.27.12 [KF5 5.115.0] [Qt 5.15.13] (x11)
WM: KWin
Theme: klassy [KDE/Qt], Breeze [GTK2/3]
Icons: BeautySolar [KDE/Qt/GTK2/3]
Cursor: breeze_cursors [GTK2/3]
Terminal: konsole
Terminal Font: Noto Mono 12
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5950X (32) @ 3.4GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090
Memory: 4.15 GiB / 31.24 GiB (13%)
Network: Wifi
Bluetooth: Intel Corp. AX200
BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. 5.17 (03/18/2024)

Sun Apr 27 13:03:03 2025
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|   0  NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090        Off |   00000000:0A:00.0  On |                  N/A |
|  0%   47C    P0             43W /  350W |     714MiB /  24576MiB |      2%      Default |
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Couldn’t a SPAC buy it out if/once he “comes to Jesus” and steps down as CEO and divests?

Essentially a reformation of the publicly traded company? Granted, these are just my own “pie in the sky” musings.

Ultimately, I think it’s logically consistent to want to have Tesla do well as a company, but also still be against Elon Musk in everything he stands for. Personally, I would also discontinue the cyber truck and refocus towards producing an affordable and reliable EV starting at less than $30K. I don’t think any of this is going to happen, mind you.

Helix, ftw.

It seems that I must repeat this to non-Americans until the heat-death of the universe:

To attempt to overthrow a government by force that has, at its disposal, swathes of 5th generation multirole fighter aircraft, drones with Hellfire missiles, and an army of sycophants more than willing to gun down their brother and sister citizens is a fool’s errand for suicidal rubes.

Wildcat Strikes are de wei.

To attempt to overthrow a government by force that has, at its disposal, 5th generation multirole fighter aircraft, drones with Hellfire missiles, and an army of sycophants more than willing to gun down their brother and sister citizens is a fool’s errand for suicidal rubes.

Wildcat Strikes are de wei.

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thats derogatory

Despite whether it was called for or not, being derogatory is the point.

and misogynistic.

No, it’s not.

For example, my mother is a gambling-addicted, mean-spirited, unapologetic, narcissistic bitch. My brother, my cousins, and I have receipts to prove it.

For what she put my family and I through, I will call her a bitch to her face at every opportunity, until her death. To denigrate her. Because she deserves it.

She is the equivalent of the definition of a bitch, a female dog. In fact, she’s worse because female dogs, in my experience, have been orders of magnitude more loyal, agreeable, and loving.

Do I hate all women? Does equating a woman to a female dog reveal an irrational contempt of every woman?

Absolutely not, and my wife, niece, cousins, and female friends would all agree. People who make claims like yours attempt to infantilize and absolve women of ridicule or accountability in some weird effort to appear to want to “protect” them, and, ironically, are being sexist towards women!

Women are just people; some are wonderful and some are awful, and some are stupid bitches, from the goddess Laxmi right down to my abusive bitch of a mother; let’s not forget one of the worst bitches of all time, “The Bitch of Buchenwald”.

Your banal and platitudinous political correctness on the internet will never change that.

Whenever I hear about fuckery on cruise ships, I always think about this.

Not a lot. Should be zero. But at least it’s below 10.

You being good for people is secondary, less important parameter.

Based on what?

I guess if your country managed to survive for 74 years before collapsing on its own, then we can conclude you were not effective.

What country are you talking about?

It doesn’t mean their cars are good.

Exactly my point.

Basically, if you or a group say “I’m in control forever because I’ve always been in control and my goal is to always be in control forever.”, at the very least, your reasoning on why you have to be in charge has no bearing on whether you being in charge is good for people, effective at the tasks of governance, or even objectively good for yourself.

A similar argument to what you’re saying would be, “Ford makes the best cars because they have been making cars the longest.” It’s demonstrably false, to use your words.