Some people ask “why are you hotboxing a lobster?”

Others ask why not. Others dare to wonder, to dream.

On the other hand, in a sick and twisted way, this all does lend credence to the whole “good guy with a gun” idea. you can’t tell me that microphone in his hand isn’t a weapon, and you sure as shit can’t tell me Charlie Kirk was a good guy.

In other words, this was justifiable self-defense, that sniper protected those college kids from a cognitohazard.

It’s gonna get a whole lot worse before things get better, but they’ll be remembered as some of the first, yes.

personally I’m of the opinion that society goes in cycles, generally, if you know history. We’re either about to have civil war or mass revolt, I’m pretty sure – when the circuses are still going but there is no bread, for millions, and it’s only getting worse – that’s generally when shit gets real. Massive, massive oversimplification, mind you; but more and more people in the US are feeling the economic squeeze that republicans (and by extension also, late-stage capitalism) pile on more every year.

In other words, we’re in the opening paragraphs to a very long chapter in some high schooler’s history class on this period of American history in the future – probably also lumped into an economics class with the 1929 stock market crash and the consequences thereof. How it will be written about I shudder to imagine, but you’ll have a lot of “patron saints of fucking around/finding out/delivering unto thee the finding out”.

I’m paraphrasing his quote on gun violence.

In a way, he’s right – this death? Worth it. Totally. I just wish it didn’t come at the cost of many schoolchildren and other innocents before (and after) him.

Dude literally died for what he believed in. We should be happy for him.

More than that, it’s “worth it to have the cost” of everyone owning guns, so that we can have some fascist pricks die every so often.

He might’ve stopped some of the more dramatic hand movements to keep attention away from the bruising on his wrists.

That’s the face of a dog that’s gonna shit in your shoes later. I’ve heard of cats doing this, and I have no reason to believe (see: the photo.) that dog is not upset enough to consider the prospect.

No Sunlight - Death Cab for Cutie

When I was young
Lying in the grass
I felt so safe
In a warming bath
Of sunlight, of sunlight
The vast open sky
Could do no harm
Like an embrace
Of a mother's arms
In sunlight, in sunlight
In sunlight, in sunlight
With every year
That came to pass
More clouds appeared
'Til the sky went black
And there was no sunlight, no sunlight
And there was no sunlight, no sunlight anymore
And it disappeared at the same speed
As the idealistic things I believed
When the optimist died inside of me
No sunlight, no sunlight
No sunlight, no sunlight
It disappeared at the same speed
As the idealistic things I believed
When the optimist died inside of me
No sunlight, no sunlight
No sunlight, no sunlight
No sunlight, no sunlight
No sunlight, no sunlight
No sunlight anymore

Little slow on the uptake, there, eh Donny boy?

and it’s a multi-billion dollar corporation, that already makes more money than you or I will ever see in our lifetimes, that actively strives to make the user experience worse for people who don’t pay, when they’ve got a practical monopoly in the “free video sharing platform” market. And you’re whiteknighting for them. 🤡

“If you just give them your wallet right away, the mugging isn’t so bad, really. They didn’t even kick my teeth in!” 🤓

Mint “just works” in a way a lot of other distros don’t. The majority of Linux enthusiasts and users enjoy tinkering, and that’s fine – but people who want their stuff to “just work”, generally don’t like Linux because it expects you, the user, to fuck with it until it works. Mint doesn’t, and I adore it for this reason. You have any idea how floored I was the first time I went to print something and it just worked with my network printer, no bullshit involved? Or how my jaw hit the floor when installing a graphics driver was a two click install process, and nothing went wrong?

Yeah, Mint is rad as fuck.

.ml users try not to play the victim challenge: impossible

The universe thinks correctly.

we’ve been in the dumbest timeline for a good, long while now – you’re just now figuring this out?

Here’s a fun thought exercise for you: Now that they’ve built a concentration camp at home, and are seemingly attempting to start yet another war we have no business being in; how long do you think will it take before they use the pretext of being anti-war (with Denmark, Venezuela, whoever) as a reason to round up dissidents and send them to said concentration camp for “subversive activities to the war effort”? Then you don’t even need the victims to be brown or undocumented.

Bonus: Ever notice they built open-air cages in the middle of Florida, where hurricanes regularly sweep through, and also gutted NOAA funding? What do you think will happen when the first hurricane comes through with no warnings?

And the alligators take care of the bodies. Eichmann would call it wonderfully efficient, not to mention having such excellent plausible deniability. “Oops, we didn’t have any warning! Shame about all those people we wanted to be rid of!”

we’re so thoroughly fucked it’s not even funny.

golly gee whiz it sure looks like I’m finally getting around to getting off the stock android on my Pixel, I’ve been lazy and dragging my feet for some time. Thanks, Google, this is just the kick in the pants I needed!

if say, Spotify or YouTube complain about them.

… who owns YouTube?

Yeah, they’re going to block ReVanced.

They always look like they’re jamming to the sickest little tune in their head.

god damnit, I hate it that one of the most milquetoast neoliberals of our time hits upon an A+ strategy. Whatever staffer in his office had that idea deserves a raise. If it was his own idea, I’d be shocked.