They found a new way to steal from the public. New in that no one cared so little about public perception as to do this outright.

No one could have seen this coming. /s

The real issue is getting money back for consumers who paid these exorbitant taxes. It won’t be solved. If it is, it’ll land on a future admin. They found the cheatcode.

As though acting like assholes wouldn’t hurt us. /s

I saw a headline last night about how building new housing is impacted by a labor shortage. I wonder how that happened. The repercussions are beginning to appear in ways that average people notice. It’s not gonna be pleasant. Got what you voted for, assholes (USA citizen, can’t believe we did this to ourselves again).

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), U.S. Attorney’s Office, and Montgomery County District Attorney all initiated criminal investigations of the matter, which they combined and then closed because they did not find evidence “that would establish beyond a reasonable doubt that anyone involved had criminal intent”.

If I don’t have intent to commit a crime but I break the law, it’s not an excuse that a cop or judge will buy. Holy fuck.

I landed a 666666 on an internal generative thing a few months ago at my job. I felt like I’d won a tiny lottery.

My internal ChatGPT is so advanced that it activates without me prompting it first. It’ll just randomly be like, “I want a sandwich.” How did it know I was hungry?!

Just tell her that her family believes in stupid magic bullshit. No need to sugar-coat anything with these people. Remember that they vote to take away your freedom every chance they get.

Controversies surrounding the fair included a Confederate Flag hanging in the North Carolina booth

Great job, North Carolina. We appreciate you letting us know in no uncertain terms to avoid you when planning to travel. Too bad, cause it’s a beautiful part of the country.

Yeah… and a majority of the country didn’t want war with Iran or genocide in Gaza. What we want doesn’t matter.

Democratic Party leadership has largely downplayed the idea of impeaching the president should they win in the midterms.

And this might be the key to Socialist and Progressive candidates replicating the New York sweep to (finally) retire old-guard center-right Dems. They want the status quo. The people want something new. I can only hope.

Pay for independently-developed software if you care about it continuing to exist. Steal from corporations all you want. But support independent devs (and small teams) to make sure they can keep maintaining the tools you love and rely on. It’s the only way to not get swallowed by the big dogs.

I don’t recall what podcast, but I was listening to something about the first military academy in the USA that admitted women and how horribly they were abused. Fucking shit.

I never heard of this. Not at an age where this affects me anymore, but cool if true. Meanwhile, I will poor shots in shot glasses if we have company and just down my liquor without measuring otherwise.

I have a better example. Someone who didn’t do it to herself. Here’s someone who lost even more and it wasn’t her own fault.

A religious hospital refused critical ectopic pregnancy care. Now the patient is suing.

Fuck that maga piece of shit. I won’t be sad when she dies.

And contributing money to shitbags allows them to keep funding terrible values. See Musk.

At the same time, most U.S. adults say that being an American is “extremely” or “very” important to their identity, highlighting an enduring connection, even as some become increasingly critical of the country’s past or the government’s current actions.

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He has a bald eagle tattooed on his back to represent the United States, its freedoms and “all the things we’re supposed to stand for as a country.”

Most USA citizens are unaware of the degree of propaganda we’re fed starting during childhood. I remember saying the pledge of allegiance (a very weird thing to teach to children) in school every day. It’s like the hitler-youth. And singing the star spangled banner, in first grade, every morning. Very weird thing to make us do.

When I was 18 years old, we rented the animated Transformers movie from the 80s and played it on silent with trippy music while we were on acid. The animation was so cool that we later rewatched it with sound on after we came down and it held up. We thought the GI Joe movie might also remain good and rented that next. It was child-propaganda. My then-gf turned to me and said, “this was Regan’s amerika.” She was right. It was trash.

We were taught how awesome we were since I was a child while the truth is that we brutalize, overthrow, and extract. I read an 800 page history of WWII and came away with the primary thought that the USSR won that war, not the USA. I can’t believe how much we lie to ourselves. But it makes it easier to justify all the horrors. Look at repubs trying to sanitize the teaching of history even further. I wonder why…

Just woke up, not proofing, may have typos, oh well.

True.

Not anymore.

I was a lot in 2020 and leading up to 2024 USA election. Somewhere along the way, I accepted that we’re doomed and started focusing more on the things in my day to day life that make me happy. I can’t stop the lunatic behavior of my government or the destructive behavior of the people with all the wealth. If they don’t light the world on fire right under our feet, I’ll die from the horrible shit in our food and groundwater.

Whatever… just live.

I can’t imagine a person more for the people than a person with hundreds of millions of dollars. Are you worried about the cost of milk? Why didn’t you become a hundred-millionaire if you cared so much about milk?

People are so lazy.

The Supreme Court has already ruled against this. The point is to let this corrupt court reverse that ruling.

Well, I know who’s gonna take a beating when the bubble pops and the market falls out from under them. What a stupid decision.

“Hey guys, this AI thing is gonna be like this forever. We’ll never lack for insane demand ever again.”