I would gladly volunteer for the firing squad that inevitably deals with these cunts.

100%. It’s a matter of where does the technology stop being about “useful for us” and starts being “useful for them”.

A digital whiteboard would be a good feature (not ‘necessary’, but cool). It’s when they decide it needs to be connected to the internet that it becomes “is this technology serving us…or serving them” that’s the problem.

I’m not anti-tech at all. Quite the opposite. But I remember the mid-2000s when all of this tech was getting off the ground and it was being innovated and invented for OUR benefit, not for the corporations. That’s when this kind of stuff was fun.

It’s depressing to notice just how much pop culture from teh 80s onward was trying to warn us about this coming shittorm. It’s like, as soon as Reaganomics came on the scene, there were those who immediately saw it for what it was and started fighting. (Punk Rock, Literature, Movies, etc…) and it wasn’t enough. No one paid any attention and we are now where we are because as a culture we got sucked into chasing more shiny shit at the expense of our own good.

I remember when fridges with screens were first becoming a thing, and one way they tried to sell them was the convenience of being able to leave notes, shopping lists, photos, etc… for other members of the family. And even back then, before the advertising apocalypse, I remember thinking, what in the actual fuck makes this 1000 dollar feature any more useful than a 20 dollar magnetic white board and a dry erase marker?

None of these people seem to realize how the political careers of tyrants almost always end.

And yet ironically it’s staring them in the face every minute in the virginia state seal.

“Sic Semper Tyrannis” – Thus always to Tyrants.

Their stupidity knows no bounds.

If by “work through”, he means guillotine the billionaires who caused the job losses and redistrubute their wealth to make up for it, I’m all in.

And rightly so!

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I’d bet real money that most of the “people” threatening to boycott don’t live on the same continent as a Costco store anyway.

I feel like the answer’s in your question…

I’m hoping that the chain-of-command is so broken because of the bumblefucks in charge at the top that Venezuela actually gets some good licks in ala Ukraine to Russia.

I know its doubtful, but a man can dream.

It’s not a colonialist threat. It’s effectively an act of war.

I’d have to go with Virus.

Wipes out enough people to give humanity a chance to at least try something new from the ashes of the old world, but doesn’t leave a lingering threat like Zombies or Aliens or something like that. The survivors (ostensibly those immune to the virus) have struggles, for sure, but at least can rebuild without worrying about a constant existential threat.

I have to believe that the latest bluster and threats and posing from Trump is because economically, culturally and just from sheer manpower alone, Russia is very nearly spent. Trying to force a Russia friendly solution while they still have the “appearance” of superior force.

He preferred “Greg”. Only his wife (now his widow) called him Gregory.

Not to be pedantic, but I’m pretty sure the turkey wasn’t too fond of it.

The “I have nothing to hide” argument is so infuriating to me that it makes me want to scream.

It kind of saddens me that none of my friends in the physical world are technical enough to even understand what all of this means when I try to explain it to them. They just can’t grasp the importance of privacy. It’s super frustrating that the only people who understand what I’m talking about when I talk about the importance of privacy are people who already think the same way.

How are we supposed to take someone seriously when they’re wearing a Wesley Crusher Season 1 sweater?

That’s because Conservatives have no argument other than pedantry when it comes to their villifying of “socialism”.

“They aren’t socialist, they’re Democratic Socialism or Social Democrats, which are totally different from each other and not socialism at all!” (Is their pedantry, in case anyone was wondering)

It’s ALL socialism, just with a few different policies at play. But that would destroy the conservative argument that you can’t have a successful capital economy under socialism. So they play the “They aren’t real socialists” bullshit game.