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it would be perfectly accurate for democrats to campaign on the message "republicans hate our troops"

the thing about the US is that we have an incredible system of public education that takes morons and turns a lot of those morons into some degree of reasonable

or at least, we had an incredible system of public education 🫠

Callie looks delightful, please give her extra belly rubs (or whichever form of petting she prefers)

a salute to Andre Wiethoff who made Exact Audio Copy as a student because none of the other audio grabbers performed an adequate amount of error correction to account for discs that might be scratched

then he released this software to the public for free and has maintained the software for decades

a screenshot of Exact Audio Copy, a program that's been around for a quarter century which is used to rip CD audio to WAV files in the highest possible quality and then convert those files to MP3 or other audio formats of the user's choice

real ones see this software and say, "hell yeah" and then proceed to listen to their collection of high quality mp3s that they ripped from CDs with the help of Exact Audio Copy

65% of Democrats believe Israel is committing genocide and the Florida Democratic Party has blackballed anyone who say Israel is committing genocide from ever working for the party, even as a volunteer

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com • 18h "Fake moral panic" FIRE pointed problems out where it saw them. Your problem is with the people in office. "You shouldn't say anything that someone with bad intent should misuse even if it's right" is stupid position worth Erp consideration. Me: This reminds me that when Donald Trump spent last fall threatening to imprison people for criticizing the Supreme Court, I couldn't find a word of mention of it from FIRE or any other self-styled free speech organization. Possible I missed something but they sure weren't saying much. Ari Cohn: Who was president when he did that, tell me

If you want to know how actively harmful FIRE is to the public's understanding of threats to free speech, consider that the org's leaders defend its silence when the guy who was leading the presidential race campaigned on imprisoning people for political speech.

yes. chelsea won the club world cup but they only got a replica trophy because trump kept the original

a minor celebrity who hung out here & who didn't get disgraced like the popular fantasy author who used to post here did

RIP steve albini, 2023 bluesky's resident celebrity

YouTube video by Gamers Nexus The Death of Affordable Computing | Tariffs Impact & Investigation

speaking of the small business side, the dems have been talking about wanting to fund a left wing joe rogan but the money would be far better spent funding videos in the vein of this one where a PC gaming channel did a deep dive into all the niche businesses that are getting wrecked by tariffs

The reason the Dems are a failed party is because they have collectively decided that the best policy for any issue is a halfway compromise between a good idea and fascist bigotry, rather than fighting for any sort of coherent ethical framework

it'll be political malpractice if dems aren't trotting out mom and pop business owners by the dozen next year who all had to shutter because trump's tariffs crippled their operations

not looking forward to how scammers will soon (if they aren't already) be using AI to mimic the grandchild's voice when they call grandma to try to get her to send them bail money

a sizable portion of the millennial & gen x cohorts have reached the point in life where they have to babysit their parents' internet usage because of the unending torrent of scams targeting the elderly

it might just be a winning political platform to promise to crush those scammers

an illustration of Jaroslav Hasek's titular character from his novel The Good Soldier Svejk

This is appalling. It's one thing to leave an existing Confederate monument in place. It's a completely different thing to actively install a Confederate monument dedicated to slavery defenders responsible for the deaths of 365,000 U.S. troops.

charles foster kane contributed many thousands times more to the development of arts & culture than elon musk ever has

telling all the debate kids they can only atone for their sins by banding together and destroying the worst debate kid on the continent: rafael edward cruz

it's wild that if you know who TSMC is you know more about the underpinnings of the computer industry—which powers the economy at large—than 90% of the country does

and if you know what ASML does you know more than what? 95%? 99% of people?

the problem with american business in a nutshell—the demands for short-term results inhibit their ability to plan for the long term

tim apple prostrating himself before the king might help his company right now. but choosing to grovel instead of fight back will come back to bite apple in the ass

and he has on office absolutely drowning in garfield merchandise

pence a man who encompasses multitudes (almost all of them bad)

no commercial interruptions

a strong sign that the democratic party is going to lie down and let the GOP build their police state through DHS is the way dems are being too chickenshit to go to DHS detention facilities & exercise their statutory prerogative to conduct inspections and dare DHS to arrest them for doing so

biden is a bitch for expanding DHS even though it was obvious to anyone paying attention that trump was going to turn them into his vanguard of brownshirts

we need to abolish DHS asap

good thread on how trump may well be locking us into a police state by the combination of crashing the economy, paying any yahoo who wants to be a DHS agent extremely well, & creating a constituency of cops + their dependent communities who will fight like hell against efforts to cut the DHS budget

goddamn, she murdered ted cruz right in front of the cameras

looks tasty!

oh for sure, but having known a bunch of people who spent a lot of time in vegas in the '80/'90s i think the ratio of truth to bullshit was relatively high in this instance