There’s no way it’s that low. There just aren’t that many criminals, and Biden/Obama already deported any who might have been a problem.

I’ve heard there’s a list floating around. I’d like a copy.

For those who aren’t familiar, this is how you read this. Just add up the columns where there are lights.

* 8 * 8 * 8
* 4 4 4 4 4
2 2 2 2 2 2
1 1 1 1 1 1

So the last panel doesn’t have any 8s and is read like this. You add the columns.

- 4 4 - - 4
- - - 2 2 -
1 1 - 1 - 1

And adding those columns gives you:

1 5 4 3 2 5

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It’s to make a nerdy thing more nerdy. But they really shouldn’t have added seconds to a thing that takes more than a second to read.

I mean, they obfuscated it by adding seconds. It’s really not that hard. Just takes a few seconds instead of a glance.

Like a wireless router?

Can your neighborhood communicate when the Internet goes down like Iran?

This comment chain is the evidence of the opposite. Outsiders act like the country was equally fucked in 2023 and 2025. The tankies think we’ve always been equivalent to or worse than Russia and China. There are a number of people who just “don’t pay attention to politics”, which caused our current situation.

She was ordered to leave and she was leaving.

I don’t think it is in this case. The one who kicked over the memorial was federal.

We sure as hell need some allies, and it’d be nice to have state and local authorities on our side.

Placebo can work even if you’re aware it’s a placebo.

Kind of. But who’s going to make this stick? I think there’s a lot of rank and file who won’t comply with this.

Now that’s real GDP.

Shouldn’t it be called Microsoft 250? There are 250 working days in a year. As soon as I’m home I’m using Thunderbird or Libreoffice, certainly not the product formerly known as Microsoft Office.

It’s already happening, in part because of this and in part because of the unstable, unpredictable US government.

Several European countries are looking towards investing in open source as a way to get away from American big tech because they’re suddenly considering US sanctions against them a real possibility, or at least a real threat.

The economy is consistently better under Democrats. Things consistently get better under Democrats.

I get that it’s not as fast as any of us would like, but if you’d loved through it and paid attention, you’d have a better understanding of why. Obama understood he was a centrist, and it’s why he centered his first term strategy on being the most bipartisan president of all time.

McConnell saw that strategy and thought it was more important to defeat Democrats than to improve the country.

The real problem isn’t the Democrats, status quo or not. The problem is that the Republican party exists. The problem is that every so many years the voters get bored with slow, steady improvement and spend the next several years tearing everything down.

And it’s a hell of a lot easier to destroy than to build.

I’d love to be choosing between Democrats and Socialists. I’d love to have two sane choices. I’d love if our dividing issue was whether trans people should be allowed in women’s sports, and not whether trans people should be allowed to live.

On the other hand, you know the Fortran works and you can break it.

The vibe code is already broken.

I’m still pounding the Fortran button as hard as I can.

How is this helpful? It’s important to know about these things.

Or they don’t care and just pay 30% more. Encouraging every other place to pull the same scam.