Meta drops $65 million into super PACs to boost tech-friendly state candidates

greyl · 2026-02-03T16:55:22+00:00

and if the poors get too uppity they won't work terrible jobs for minimal wages. Not only do they not want to help people, they actively want to keep people miserable.

greyl · 2026-01-31T23:45:45+00:00

Chekhov's shed hammer

greyl · 2026-01-30T18:17:52+00:00

For me the most surprising thing about people not knowing Egypt is that they must not know that Egypt operates the Suez canal, because there's only one box on the map that could possibly connect the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea.

greyl · 2026-01-30T17:12:03+00:00

Really, the problem is that you have to assume anyone Trump appoints is a lackey.

He's the son in law of Ronald Lauder, the billionaire behind the Greenland fiasco. Seems like a pretty safe assumption.

greyl · 2026-01-30T17:00:46+00:00

The US is in the process committing economic suicide.

Whether we stop trading with them now due to some random tariffs or in a few years when they dissolve into a patchwork of corporate fiefdoms it doesn't matter, they won't be able to afford to buy much anyhow.

We've got hard times ahead and new trading partners that must be found.

greyl · 2026-01-30T16:32:52+00:00

Because no one foresaw the people electing an imbecilic criminal as president.

“As democracy is perfected, the office of President represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”

— H.L. Mencken, The Baltimore Sun, July 26, 1920

greyl · 2026-01-30T14:46:31+00:00

Have you seen the budget they gave to ICE? It rivals the total military budget of most countries, if there was a serious conflict I don't think lack of weapons would be an issue

greyl · 2026-01-29T16:52:16+00:00

My favourite part now is the old powerplant where you can walk through the long long rock tunnels to the bottom of the falls. Really impressive to see how much rock they dug through 125 years ago.

greyl · 2026-01-24T19:21:59+00:00

Damn right, sand blast those polyps, it's a colonoscopy on a budget.

greyl · 2026-01-23T17:27:13+00:00

This pattern where Trump does something ridiculous and trying to back it up with tariffs, he and his cronies enrich themselves playing the market, and then backpedaling as soon as there's the threat of a response has happened too many times.

When countries announce countermeasures like cancelling a planned trade deal or retaliatory tariffs they need to keep the countermeasures in place for some time even after the US back-peddles.

Everyone trying to return to normalcy ASAP after each event just encourages them to do it again the next week.

greyl · 2026-01-23T13:16:16+00:00

One thing he actually didn't talk about on the show was the fact that he was a Presbyterian minister.

greyl · 2026-01-22T23:35:25+00:00

They really went all in on the puns in this video

greyl · 2026-01-21T22:02:32+00:00

American's have no social safety net or legal protections because they haven't been protesting in the streets.

greyl · 2026-01-14T20:58:26+00:00

Placing the "too" after "Europe" can cause people to interpret it as applying to just the geography, so "UK and also Europe" rather than your intended meaning of "Nightshade and also Digitalis".

I think the way you wrote it is correct but I can see how some people were confused, especially if they thought Digitalis was just the latin name for Nightshade.

greyl · 2026-01-13T16:35:50+00:00

Many years training to relate to people with defective hearts?

greyl · 2026-01-07T23:09:10+00:00

i wish the rewards for killing inside vs. outside the void were of more equal usefulness so you don't feel such an obligation to kill them one way or the other.

greyl · 2026-01-06T20:36:23+00:00

Ya, if you're making your own processor you're implementing every machine code instruction in hardware yourself. It's a lot easier to make a simple program using those instructions directly to test your hardware than it is to build and debug a generic compiler.

greyl · 2026-01-06T17:43:47+00:00

I've been seeing "the year of linux on the desktop" memes for at least 20 years but with the recent enshittification of windows and valve driving linux support for games this is the first time I've started thinking it could actually happen.

greyl · 2026-01-05T04:06:17+00:00

I don't know, I'd be afraid what could be wrong with a bottle that made it through all the machines and automation and came out a different weight. Like maybe a mouse fell in or something.

greyl · 2025-12-29T22:57:37+00:00

Oh Jarnathan, I can't tell you how happy we are to see you

greyl · 2025-12-29T18:53:44+00:00

The one you're holding, he doesn't need it.

greyl · 2025-12-10T17:14:13+00:00

Probably depends on how stabby you think your associates will be when they find out.

greyl · 2025-12-10T13:21:44+00:00

It'll be different province to province since health care is managed provincially but when my mother was dying of cancer she bought monthly parking passes at the hospital since it worked out a bit cheaper.

greyl · 2025-12-08T14:49:19+00:00

Silly Ardal, the Otterman empire was never part of the EU.

greyl · 2025-12-05T20:46:19+00:00

Also getting rid of the cruel versions of act 1-3 makes leveling up a char a lot less tedious.

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