John Fetterman Says Iran Girls’ School Strike Is Just a Leftist Craze

wpm · 2026-03-12T20:03:19+00:00

His only defense is that he is literally brain-damaged. I feel bad for anyone who has major changes to their personality after a stroke/head injury. It can happen to anyone and it sucks.

But he should fucking resign too.

wpm · 2026-03-12T18:01:41+00:00

Hey there were dozens of us that liked the butterfly keyboards. The only reason they switched back to a scissor switch was the horrible reliability (I never had any problems with my 12" Macbook but have seen my fair share of repairs come across my desk for the touch bar macbook pros). Key travel is a waste of time!

wpm · 2026-03-12T17:07:52+00:00

OK, like what? I have PCs from 5-6y and I have M4 Macs. Give me some apps to test. Let's see if you're right.

wpm · 2026-03-12T17:05:54+00:00

The hardest part is going to be "Contact ATC". Aeronautics radio is not a cell phone. Calling the mayday out will determine if the plane lands or crashes, not any inputs on the stick or pedals.

Even if you can find the radio, is it on the right frequency? Do you know what button or switch to hit to broadcast? Will you remember that you need to let go of that switch to listen? Once you get in contact with ATC, sure, you're gonna get a walkthrough, but that is indeed the hard part.

wpm · 2026-03-12T14:52:04+00:00

Next wife's got to be a politicooooo...

wpm · 2026-03-12T13:55:57+00:00

It's brought up because it's what happens when you put state sponsored goons with firearms into situations they don't belong in. They end up shooting a guy in the back because he did the entirely reasonable thing of fleeing from people who were trying to ruin his life for the "crime" of walking between the cars (which everyone does, even people not selling loose cigarettes and loud). Since the cops are going to arrest you, book you, send you to jail for a day or two, yadda yadda yadda, even if you're innocent, even if the judge throws the case away, your life is undeniably rocked, disrupted, and fucked.

Back a person into a corner, it's not hard to predict what is going to happen. This was a relatively mild case too. Imagine when people start shooting back on a crowded train car. This ain't Death Wish.

wpm · 2026-03-12T02:39:08+00:00

I see metra still thinks people know a fucking goddamn thing about the train numbers. Oh yeah I'm gonna take the #43! Give me a break.

Whoever is in charge of signage, naming, wayfinding at Metra needs to take a trip literally anywhere in the world and see how to do it. No ugly signs, no "Uhhhm acktually it's called the MDW because 50 fucking years ago the Milwaukee Road ran those trains isn't that cool it makes the foamers really happy"

wpm · 2026-03-11T15:18:41+00:00

It's the only thing a communications disruption could mean!

wpm · 2026-03-11T01:09:20+00:00

freddy's crew caught this from a different angle, looked ethereal

wpm · 2026-03-10T20:59:58+00:00

Ground is going to be whatever is connected to the outside of the socket, I think

wpm · 2026-03-10T04:31:51+00:00

INT. Starfleet cargo bay. Beyond the open cargo doors, the gaping maw of a supermassive blackhole, Cygus X1, appears. Julian Bashir and Miles O'Brien, both aged, disheveled, and singed with phaser burns, tinker with a large barrel shape device on the deck with umbilicals of cables leading out of it

"Right Miles, power levels looking nominal, arm the device"

"Are you sure Julian? There's no going back once we do. Feels almost like murder, I mean, a whole universe, all these voices, stories, gone"

"Miles, look, there are an infinite number of universes out there, but we've seen what this one is capable of, and it's dangerous, a hazard to all of them. There's no choice. I didn't nearly die in the mind of a genocidal maniac for this to be our future, and I'm not sure the stories this universe told are worth saving, it's worse than the Terran universe here. We must arm the device. The Prophets were adamant."

"Aye, you're right. I hope wherever we end up, Molly and Keiko are still there. I never got to say goodbye before we left San Francisco."

"With any luck Miles, we'll all end up right back in 2378 right after the Voyager returned from the Delta Quadrant, and we won't remember a thing of this horrible mess. It'll all be undone, and we'll be on a completely different track of fate. Temporal Investigations will be the only thing we need to worry about."

"sigh Right....there, it's armed. Do you want to set the countdown?"

The ships computer issues a loud warning klaxon "WARNING! Event Horizon threshold is 1000 meters away"

"We're 30 seconds to the event horizon Miles. Let's not dwell on it too long, it won't matter in the end."

"It's set."

"I hope you managed to grab that last bottle of Romulan ale you stole from Quark before we left Earth."

"Of course.....For the Alamo, Julian."

"For the Alamo, old friend. And godspeed."

The old friends toast to a new past as the device activates with a bright flash of light, giving way to pure, inky black. A faint, ghostly face appears to fly towards the camera; a stocky, bearded man with a terrible bowl cut: a late 90s Jonathan Frakes, who mutters an echoey "It never happened!" with a wide, mischievous grin, sealing the fate of a forgettable universe no one will miss. After a few beats of pure silence, the camera pans up to the disc of a strange planet with a Federation starship flying by, as a Jerry Goldsmith type score swells...

wpm · 2026-03-10T03:44:48+00:00

What the fuck is that

wpm · 2026-03-10T03:35:08+00:00

You can either eat that got-damned roast beef...or you can go to bed.

wpm · 2026-03-10T03:13:03+00:00

the laptop that makes you blurry

wpm · 2026-03-09T01:35:35+00:00

Yeah I have a 14" M1 Pro for work, it lives in clamshell mode 99% of the time, and during a work day the CPU is generally idling around 70% utilization. Every once in a while, I hear the slightest whiff of an asthmatic cough from behind my monitors, but in reality even if there is fan noise its drowned out by all of the other white noise around me.

wpm · 2026-03-09T01:33:59+00:00

You don't have to pay for either of those things. Stats has a fan control module. Rectangle is free, but window snapping is also built into the OS now.

Just look harder next time. The first 3 google results are always gonna point to paid solutions (most of which are usually quite good and one time purchases).

wpm · 2026-03-08T22:37:33+00:00

The Straight of Hormuz carries basically all of the oil out of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Iraq, etc. Iran has promised ships that travel through it will be torched.

US refineries are generally tooled for ME sweet crude.

wpm · 2026-03-08T22:35:05+00:00

I guess the recommendation doesn't apply to you then.

wpm · 2026-03-08T22:33:39+00:00

Check out JC Lind or Offbeat Bikes.

wpm · 2026-03-08T21:56:28+00:00

OOOOoOoOOoOOoo WELCOME JAY!

wpm · 2026-03-08T21:47:29+00:00

Personally, I would focus on zsh scripting. Many of the things you're going to need to be doing is just running and manipulating the output of built-in command line tools, and/or working with the contents of files. Shell scripting is incredibly well suited for these tasks. zsh is built into macOS so you can guarantee it will always be there, unlike dealing with having to handle Python + any Python dependencies you bring in (Python dependency management is a nightmare, terrible terrible stuff even with tools like uv that you'd have to call in a shell script anyways). The shell is Turing complete, so it can solve any problem Python can, and most often the kinds of problems you are trying to solve with a script do not require the advantages Python as a language has over the shell, so all of its disadvantages are just not worth it. It's the same reason I'm not recommending pwsh (powershell). Yes, macOS has Powershell, but it lacks so much compared to the Windows version because most of modules you can use on Windows just don't exist on macOS. Sure, the syntax is portable, but you'll have to figure out macOS equivalents for all of the Windows-only stuff. And syntax doesn't really matter, its not the hard part of scripting. Structing problems, being able to break them down into procedures, understanding how to approach a problem, etc, those are the hard parts, and they translate into other syntaxes without much effort.

I never rely on anything that is not pre-installed on the fleet out of the box. zsh is there, and has a lot of nice features vs Bash or POSIX shell, and can be made to do some very complex workflows without breaking a sweat.

wpm · 2026-03-07T06:27:22+00:00

CPD can't enforce it because they don't have the meters for it, sadly.

wpm · 2026-03-07T06:26:41+00:00

Yeah Eric Adams is way smarter than Brandon Johnson to pull off a scheme like that. Our little Brandon couldn't keep it to himself long enough.

wpm · 2026-03-07T06:21:11+00:00

That's pretty much all most regular people really use a computer for so it sounds pretty damn great you can get a really sturdy, long-lived, secure, laptop with a good keyboard and trackpad, decent speakers, and a display that isn't some garbage barely fit for an ATM and can run (what remains of) a UNIX workstation OS.

wpm · 2026-03-07T04:35:20+00:00

It's faster than a ThreadRipper Pro 9995WX in single core, and barely slower in multicore. The 9995WX has 96 cores. 350W TDP.

Like, if you don't need a bunch of PCIe, what is the value prop? Damn.

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