Frankly I don’t understand why they didn’t expect anything less by creating random traffic choke points. Mark my words, attitudes on ICE are going to start shifting radically once they start causing more and more collateral damage in pursuit of these capricious arrests.

It’s gonna be something big, like, an ICE agent smearing one of Jeff Bezos’ kids with an SUV while they’re chasing a 75 year old abuelita through a palisade in downtown San Francisco. It’s gonna be random, and whichever unlucky ICE agent ends up doing it is going to get crucified — literally. This kind of high recklessness isn’t even seen in states with sophisticated surveillance or fascism. We are absolutely on some Great Leap Forward bullshit right now.

Let’s see, and who was Hyundai’s main competitor at assembling EV batteries in the US? 🤔

there was. but also, I mean Kirk getting shot was a school shooting in itself. he was shot on a college campus while students were there.

Boomers and older Gen-Xers seem to truly have no concept of how many school shootings that Millennials and Zoomers have lived through.

The response to those was the same every time, and the words they used were similar to those Kirk himself used — “a little random violence is the price we pay for the freedom to own guns.”

Since Uvalde, I have just been straight with it and just refer to it as the Second Amendment God. The Second Amendment God occasionally gets hungry, and must be fed with blood. That’s what we as Americans want. This has happened a thousand times over in 25 years, and each time, we all cast a silent vote that this is what we want.

The Second Amendment God exists because we want Him to exist.

Really cool action movie that just never stops. Highly recommended.

Bad Bunny is outside of my orbit, and I hadn’t heard of him until he was first on SNL, but you can tell that he did SNL once and decided this is what he was all about now. He is very cute that way.

Just check your local Etsy or equivalent for “cat peeking sticker”. Here’s an example: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1770291243/black-cat-sticker-peeker-sticker-cat

I actually have that same design as a vinyl sticker for the back window of my car. Every time I’m at a light, I see someone in the rear-view doubling over laughing and taking photos.

10/10, would recommend for bringing light into peoples’ lives.

Nah, as someone who gave an honest, college try at making use of OneDrive, I maintain its fate vis a vie the rusty hook.

“Windows meme makers, can you go five seconds without revealing your appalling lack of technical curiosity?”

Windows Meme Makers: “The C drive! … How long was that?”

Sure, but, aren’t we on the Fedi? Or, you mean, this specific cat is posted on bsky?

Who the fuck needs to “learn” Linux? it’s an operating system. You just push the damn buttons.

A paycheck is a paycheck. Lots of us exchange our ego for daily bread — we have a club and everything. We meet every day after work at your local bar.

Oh yeah. Don’t you guys also do murder scene remediation?

“Computer, fix this code and don’t make mistakes.”

What’s this about bsky?

Yeah, but if I tax trillionaires, what happens when I myself become a trillionaire?!

This is something that, of all people, Ivanka Trump has kvetched about in private — her infamy, her dad’s infamy, her company’s infamy, her wealth’s infamy, and not to mention, her husband’s infamy — has essentially procluded them from any social circles in NYC. They reportedly left politics because every single one of their friends would refuse to engage with them anymore.

One simple thing that brings me joy in a dark world is that Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump can’t make a single friend.

If I can ask, have you spent any time in the Rust Belt? Because I grew up there, and I can tell you that Americans don’t actually want plastics manufacturing in their backyard, nor will they appreciate the lung cancer and COPD rates skyrocketing because some dipshit has misplaced nostalgia for a time you most likely didn’t even live through.

For a time, I was quite close to manufacturing workforce development in the US. The dirty little secret that nobody who kvetches about American manufacturing will ever acknowledge out loud is that we have plenty of manufacturing in the US, but manufacturers have the plants in places where people cannot affordably travel, nor do natural American workers seem to want to actually do factory work.

They all say they do, by I can tell you from looking at actual jobs data that only 1/10 American workers who start at a factory job actually remain there longer than a month. To fix any of this, we all need to first acknowledge that maybe manufacturing doesn’t exist as much because it’s a shitty job with low pay, low security, and carries a high risk of on-the-job injury. None of y’all are gonna be lining up to be the guy who agitates the molten steel while it’s being transported from the forge to the smelter. Do you know how many people were just encased in molten steel? Do you know how often we just sorta moved on without even compensating the family? Enough so that the American labor union practically began in Pittsburgh.

It’s a real dumb idea but I’ll be honest, I think all of us should have expected that when Chrome switched to an engine that doesn’t allow for ad blockers.

I’m with the rest of the commenters on other threads — I’ll just switch to PostmarketOS and make Linux work for me. Very little of what I do on a phone really requires “apps.”