All they have to do is say, ‘Let’s go. Let’s open up our country.’ And everything snaps back into shape.

Except it doesn’t. There’s several cuts that have been made to the budget. While ACA has been the most visible because of the Democrat’s demands. There are cuts that will remove 3 million people from SNAP. $300 Billion removed from Federal education grants to various schools around the country, including rural schools that severe small populations.

The ACA cut has been the one that Democrats have really dug in on, but the OBBBA has tons of cuts that are going to affect everyone. And Democrats have been asking since March to have a seat at the table for shaping what was in OBBBA only to have all their motions to bring to the floor denied.

And that’s the thing. Everyone knew that Senate Democrats were going to be needed for the coming CR. They knew this all the way back in March. By May House Republicans started shutting out Democrats and Senate Democrats told them what was going to happen if the House kept pushing Democrats out of everything. They knew what was coming and they still did it.

Republicans don’t get to do the “my way or the highway thing”, even when the ACA went into effect there were Republican riders that were enacted along with it. Build Back Better included plenty of pork projects for red states. Inflation Reduction Act helped out tons of deep red districts. I’m sure everyone remembers the member of Congress who voted against it but then told constituents how great it was going to be.

Democrats help out Republicans, and the OBBBA completely shutting Democrats out of the process isn’t how Congress does things. So yeah, Republicans are seeing the result of their choices. And they have the opportunity to make different choices.

I always get a laugh from Prisencolinensinainciusol by Adriano Celentano. But that’s “sorta English” so a language I don’t speak is probably J’en ai marre by Alizée.

A glass of water. About an hour later a cup of coffee. For lunch I usually have a slice of bread toasted, with butter and jam followed by a cup of coffee.

This pretty much every day.

That last bit of “This is nothing like what it’s like at night. It’s really bad!”

Oh my god princess. They’re blasting music and dancing in inflated costumes. For fuck sake, talk about snowflakes.

Stephen Miller may have just accidentally confirmed that he, not President Donald Trump, is the one calling the shots in regard to deportation raids and National Guard deployments.

Wait was this an actual question? Yes, Trump’s brains are mush. Dude likely couldn’t recall what’s on a tortilla and beef only taco.

There are zero ways that Trump is actually calling jack shit.

Alternate headline: Pam Bondi proves that she can’t independently think.

LOL. That’s not even a real ask. It’s like if I walked into work tomorrow and asked for a 200% raise.

His handlers are showing him exactly what they need him to see.

Same thing I was saying about Trump leaving in 2020. He might be gone, but the people who found him useful aren’t. Whatever we attribute to Trump, the thing to remember is that Trump is just the outlet. There’s a whole wellspring that is the source of his vitriol.

Lindsey Halligan. She’s an interim AG. When this filling was going down, she had been on the job as a prosecutor for four days.

Her previous experience is an insurance attorney. So, yeah, going to be a lot more of these “oopsies” along the way.

arguing that decided cases are not “the gospel,”

This is correct, but not in the sense that he provides. Society changes, what was okay before may not be okay now. Weighing precedent and modern society is a careful process. Tossing off precedent should have justification for why it’s being shrug and there needs to a preponderance that this is indeed the shift of society.

Walking in and saying, “well we should just outright critical” is absolutely not the way to do it. Overturning previous case law should happen, but that shouldn’t be the fucking default. And when you do overturn previous case law, you really need to bring a fuck ton of support, not, “meh we changed our mind.” Being a contrarian for sake of rocking the boat isn’t how our highest court should operate.

A representation of a binuclear compound of element 10^(56) with an average bond length of 100 quintillion angstroms.

Okay that was funny.

When they bring up Murthy v. Missouri it’s always good to remind them what the Supreme Court said.

To establish standing, the plaintiffs must demonstrate a substantial risk that, in the near future, they will suffer an injury that is traceable to a government defendant and redressable by the injunction they seek. Because no plaintiff has carried that burden, none has standing to seek a preliminary injunction.

Karlyn Borysenko. That’s the “expert” being talked about here.

I think crazy undersells her.

fascism might actually be our only option to actually defeat the left

Now, my political stance aside, I think anyone who is in this mindset is someone who is having issues understanding how a Democracy works. Or Republic or whatever she is feeling like calling it today. She’s really famous for getting hung up on incredibly small details about words and what they mean. So meaningful debate with her is nonexistent.

She’s definitely one of those all bark but if there was an actual outbreak of violence in this nation, be the first one on an airplane out of the country. So, to me at least, her opinion is vanishingly insignificant. Especially in the domain of how to approach any far end political group. Because, anyone who feels violence will solve something is someone who has no real solution.

Also she gets super hung up on education and she should stop trying to be Governor or whatever aspirations she has, and go get on a school board or something. Being a talking head on Fox isn’t any kind of distinction, they have random people yapping all day on there.

But her saying “Hitler went to heaven”, that tracks. It’s just that the color of the sky in her head is that special. Also, if there was a heaven and Hitler’s in it. I’ll be more than happy to take the opposite (which that’s the point of their argument that the opposite doesn’t exist, again special colors of the sky there). But her perspective of Hitler is mostly fueled with incredibly poor understanding of World War II. But there’s no point is discussing that matter with her because, you’d have a better chance convincing a wall that it’s a window.

Again, it’s a lot to do with the whole “what do words actually mean?!” kind of argument with her. It tiring trying to ask her what the fucking weather is at the moment while you are both standing outside. She’s THAT kind of person to debate with. But it’s whatever, takes all kinds to make the world go round. I wouldn’t invest a hay penny in anything she has to say, but everyone is free to do whatever they want.

European e-waste campaigners are calling on EU leadership to force tech vendors to provide 15 years of software updates, using Microsoft’s plan to end Windows 10 support next month — which may make an estimated 400 million PCs obsolete — as a textbook case of avoidable e-waste.

Windows 10 has already had 10 years of support. ESU extends this one extra year. If you have hardware that cannot meet Windows 11’s requirements, there are other OSes available that will happily run on that hardware. Which is what brings us to the real issue.

Microsoft’s near monopoly on consumer grade PCs and Apple’s vendor lock in. This is the core issue.

Companies can do this because there are no regulations to stop them. We call on European Commissioner Jessika Roswall to introduce EU Ecodesign requirements for laptops, guaranteeing at least 15 years of software updates. No more devices designed to break or become obsolete before their time

Ten years is a very long time for support. If you need support past that length, you need a different OS. Apple does good to keep Macs made in the last five to seven years still able to run their newest OS. They are some of the worse offenders on this. But even with a different OS, there’s still a limit to how far you can take hardware. You could put the best optimized software on really old hardware and that won’t change that the underlying CPU is old.

The older hardware gets the harder it is to keep supporting it. Case in point, there reason you can’t get TLS 1.2 that pretty much every site now requires onto Windows 95 era machine is the underlying hardware cannot keep up with the required computational needs to support that encryption. And if you happened to install Windows 95 onto modern hardware, the number of changes to the OS to get access to the underlying hardware is pretty much an upgrade to Windows 7.

Ten year old machines are doing alright for the time being, but we have to move on. TLS 1.3 is here, has been here since 2018. The stricter requirements for security, require more advanced hardware.

And I just mention TLS as a single example of what we’re talking about here. Modern hardware advances and attackers and users get those at the same time. While software security schemes do ensure security long after the hardware has become dated, there’s a point where it won’t matter anymore what software you toss onto the machine. It’s just so out dated it doesn’t matter, no software is securing it. Now that’s usually a lot longer than ten years, but it’s not much longer.

You can take a very lightweight Linux distro and pop it onto a Pentium 3 machine. It will technically run. But you are lacking SSE2 and even if you recompiled to remove SSE2 optimizations and strictly held to 586 ISA, you’re not going to enjoy the performance on the machine. For even the most simple tasks like unpacking a 7-zip. You will fare very unwell to some attacker who has a modern Threadripper machine.

I love old machines but the rest of the world is moving forward. Yes, software could technically cover for more than ten years, but not much more. But it’s silly to think that a Athlon 64 (2003), the oldest CPU you can technically get working on Windows 10 because of the NX bit requirement, would be able to keep pace on today’s multi megabyte sized website. Hell even the X2 models that were the first to be “dual core” would have issues with how modern web browsers handle things because Athlon 64 X2’s model for multiple processors is vastly different than how modern CPUs do it. It wouldn’t take anything for someone to feed it a website that would bring the system to it’s knees.

The thing is 15 years a very long time in the world of technology that’s ever evolving. Software can only go so far. 15 years is absolutely you need a different OS if that’s your requirement territory. But when you start hitting 20 years, your going to see breakage no matter what software you throw at it. It might be very slight at the 20 year mark. but each year after that it’s going to become more pronounced.

Oh absolutely, it’s going to be a slam dunk W for Trump because the Supreme Court is just going to ignore everything Article I of the Constitution says.

If it was me being taking away I would tell the person “take the knowledge, build clean energy on this planet! Trust me, that’s totally worth one person! Especially if that person is my lazy ass!”

Are the voters in the room with us now?

Satan: Holy shit, we’re going to need to make some renovations to match this guy’s punishment. Tell the daemons in Cocytus we need something between Antenora and Ptolomaea.

That is specifically at the request of the president, who understands that in the hot temperatures down here when something is painted black it gets even warmer and it will make it even harder for people to climb. So we are going to be painting the entire southern border wall black to make sure that we encourage individuals to not come into our country illegally

What happens when they have oven mits or you know, just gloves, or just wait until night when the metal is cooler and they have cover of night?

Whatever, I guess I shouldn’t care about that $500+ million that goes to put on a single coat that peels off six months later because they didn’t prime the surface.

The only way he’s halting the elections in 2028 is if he starts a Civil War.