harmbugler

This is it for me. I’m tired of swimming upstream for my privacy.

I rather quite like the marshmallow version.

Indeed. Wise decision for everyone else too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authoritarian_capitalism

Authoritarian capitalism, or illiberal capitalism, is an economic system in which a capitalist market economy exists alongside an authoritarian government. Related to and overlapping with state capitalism, a system in which the state undertakes commercial activity, authoritarian capitalism combines private property and the functioning of market forces with restrictions on dissent, complete lack of freedom of speech or significant limits on it, and either a lack of elections or an electoral system with a single dominant political party.

Next stop, elimintion of the Democratic party.

oh, tots and pears

mbin

CSI: Shrewsbury

Sleazy guy at the bar says…

Edit: anyway, your birthday is 1 Jan 1970.

The only reason they are not shooting Democrats in the streets is because they don’t need to. The regime is consolidating power while Democrats go to work, producing wealth that the regime can steal, it’s a win/win. The media on the left is a couple of years behind the right at this point. While the right acknowledges “we are at war”, the left is still trying to make peace while their position is eroded daily. The war has already started and the regime is winning.

This is exactly why I can only laugh and shake my head at the everyday fascists like Connor Estelle who think they will always be in the in-group. Fascism eats society from the outside in until there is nothing left.

It’s the propaganda they have been exposed to. They believe what they are told but have a very difficult time walking through any logic that got them there (hint: there isn’t any) especially in the face of facts. They will usually deny any facts that do not lead to their conclusion.

Ask a Trump supporter what core American values he upholds and you can almost hear their mind grinding gears.

✨MAJESTIC✨

Every time I’ve checked in to see if I can use Apple Music, it won’t do anything without a subscription. Are you using it without one?

The parallels with the Dotcom bust continue. Dreamweaver would barf up copious amounts of horrendous HTML that we would get paid decent amounts to clean up. A huge waste, really, but we have forgotten the lesson.

Yes! You’ve nailed what I’ve been thinking about. The valuable parts of my work are on a whiteboard with boxes and arrows, not typing code. LLMs are great to use like an interactive reference.

Every ray of sunshine has a silver lining, I suppose.

On holiday, I’ll turn on my router’s auto-reboot option to reboot daily.

1. No.
2. Yes.
3. I’ve only used Nicotine+ and it’s fine.