Anyone remember A Very Peculiar Practice? I watched again recently, it still holds up.

I guess that’s one way to get me to support bombing Gaza.

There have been mass shootings in churches, they have caused substantial concern, brows were briefly furrowed and thoughts and prayers were solemnly ctrl+v’d.

I know history is full of nasty little dictators and their lackeys but have any of them ever been this fucking childish?

Does their little memo offer protection against bullets?

If ICE agents were smart they would refuse to do this. Sooner or later someone is going to defend their home against these goons, using lethal force. The government is deliberately putting these morons in harm’s way so they can use the death of an agent as political currency; people like Miller care so little about ICE agents that they wish to see them dead.

No, Trump is almost supernaturally stupid but Farage isn’t. He’s a nasty, evil, racist piece of shit but he’s not a moron.

Maybe build something useful that solves a real problem?

That’s the problem. For now at least, we’re at the end of “new tech make line go up”. Crypto wasn’t it, neither were NFTs, LLMs are no different. All the low hanging fruit was picked a while back so they’re stuck trying to make us believe that there’s a Next Big Thing just around the corner when, at best, there’s some fairly niche and difficult to monetize tech requiring vast resources to work.

Corrected, thanks!

We even have small nuclear reactors that can use spent fuel from the larger ones, thus solving in part the disposal of it.

Do we? Last I heard there aren’t any in service.

Furthermore, significant advances have been achieved on fision power.

We’ll need a hell of a lot more advances before fusion is even close to powering a grid.

The C suite and management of these companies want two things - for the stock to go as high as possible, and for them to be able to sell at the top and leave a bunch of bag holders wondering what the fuck just happened.

I love Amber Ruffin:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ZZYsaYdtYgg

Bellingcat does great work.

it is not enshittified … call it anti-consumer

Same difference?

Too expensive, too enshittified for me to consider. All they had to do was not fuck this up and they would’ve had a guaranteed sale but I don’t ever see myself spending a cent on Nintendo ever again.

I heard that police are supposed to be trained not to get their bodies in front of moving vehicles.

Fucking hell. Do they need to be trained not to look down the barrel of a gun to check if it’s loaded or to make sure their dick is in their underwear before they zip their pants?

“In my work with the defendants (at the Nuremberg Trials 1945-1949) I was searching for the nature of evil and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants, a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”

• Captain G. M. Gilbert, the Army psychologist assigned to watching the defendants at the Nuremberg trials

“I don’t care,” one agent is heard saying.

Sadly there seems to be a substantial market for deepfake porn and CSAM.

That’s what happens when gun ownership is a right. It doesn’t matter how fucking stupid, irresponsible, or psychopathic you are, you still get access to firearms and there’s no pressure to learn how to handle them safely.

These are deeply weird, broken people. I don’t think they will ever be satisfied.