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I’m the cloud infrastructure business we like to call that the 9mm test. It’s quite effective.

Whoa you gotta put an NSFW tag on images like these.

So long as it’s appropriately branded. If we get a bunch of “Trump bucks” right before midterms, I’m sure that could sway some people to keep him in power.

Good point; I was unaware of the state-level laws. Regardless, I will stand by my statement: it’s better than what we’ve currently got.

America needs mandatory voting to stop this behavior

As much as that seems like a good solution, it’s unlikely to win many supporters. You’d be better off making voting day a federal holiday.

Doing anything while connected to open Wi-Fi networks. All it takes to eavesdrop on an open Wi-Fi network is a laptop and proximity. Although they can’t eavesdrop on your SSL/TLS traffic, they can (and will) pick up on (insecure) DNS requests, which gives them at least the domains of any websites and services that you use (if not the specific pages).

ROFL using (claimed) age as a proxy for maturity. Classic.

Best guess? They’re either truly dedicated satirists, gone off the metamodernist deep end into deep post-irony, or they’ve genuinely decided that modernist Grand Narratives weren’t really all that bad (let’s just ignore all the atrocities they brought about). After all, far-left modernist narratives aren’t at all like those other, far-right modernist narratives! They’re different, just like everybody else who is selling a utopia (that’s only practically attainable through an authoritarian regime).

You do see my username, right? I ain’t afraid of no ghost!

Oooohhh, spooky! 👻

Thanks for disambiguating! :)

They only have little in common if you’re unimaginative.

Or one of them.

Unsure if edgy sarcasm or ML propaganda… Please disambiguate.

Read the article.

Reality eventually catches up to everybody, no matter how strong the cult; the Devil always overplays his hand.

The question is are we willing to buck up and start writing the rules for a game that beats whatever MAGA is playing? Or are we just going to whine cynically that everything is awful and there’s no hope and we’re all doomed?

Taiwan will scuttle their microchip fabs before letting China take over. Unless China have infiltrated and taken over the fabs and secured them from destruction, there’s far less economic value in invading Taiwan.

It looks like China is only a couple years away from building completely in-country fabs competitive with Taiwan. If that’s the case, then Taiwan using the economic value of their microchip fabs as a defense may very soon come to an end.

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/how-china-built-its-manhattan-project-rival-west-ai-chips-2025-12-17/

Imagine accidentally admitting in the subtext of your post that your understanding of leftism is that it’s inherently authoritarian.

You mean that shaping society to fit some narrow, preconceived notion of utopia by any means necessary somehow involves coercion by force? What a shocking surprise! /s

There’s a very good reason why Horseshoe Theory is verboten in those circles.

Trump wants his name to be remembered, so I want a future where we fix the problems that he exposed in our system, and then we do our best to completely forget him.

A miniscule, radically optimistic part of me wants to believe that he’s viscerally aware of his own miserable fate and is intentionally acting as a villain to ultimately unify the country. I’m not holding my breath, but it’s a small source of hope.

I see what you did there…

Are we sure he wasn’t just rigging the coin-toss in the most obvious way possible?