adhocfungus @ adhocfungus @midwest.social

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I had to look this place up. I was not aware the federal government ran a theater. Is this something the president has any legal control over or is he just doing as he pleases?

I would be interested as well. My family was almost completely meat free for a month and a half. I have no taste for meat anymore, but my spouse craved it even more for a long time.

I really thought that slogan was just a bit in Mad Men. I had no idea that was based on reality.

When I was a kid I would see the magazines with headlines like, "Hillary Clinton gives birth to Bat Boy." I always wondered how they stayed in business; surely even the people buying them for a laugh were a tiny market.

Then I had a lot of jobs that put me at others' homes and I understood very quickly. Fixing computers, painting walls, census taking, even roofing. People that seem normal out in public seem to feel safe revealing their beliefs when they're on their own turf, especially when they have a captive audience.

In the US, at least, it's a frightening amount of people who believe in the really out-there stuff.

Same deal in my house. Better not to bring it up yet. You can use it to know who used the toilet last when something breaks.

Sadly they do not need warrants if they are within 100 miles of a land or sea border, which Newark is definitely in. [https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/border-zone](Border Zone) 2/3s of the US population lives in that zone, meaning we're going to see a lot more of this and absolutely no pushback from officials.

Plus they have two attributes needed to make a great Boogeyman:

1. Very small percentage of the population. You can go your whole life without ever realizing you met one, much less get to know them and start seeing them as human.
2. Not always readily apparent if someone is trans or not. This applied to Jews in Nazi Germany as well. You can really ramp up the paranoia if people start fearing their neighbors and isolate themselves.

First thing I thought of too. This article seems like Schmidt propaganda.

I thought this was the very thing the GOP said the Executive Branch can't do when they blocked student loan forgiveness.

Exactly what I thought of.

I got one of these recently and it works well. Much smoother than whatever my Smart TV is natively running and it doesn't crash constantly.

If it were just me I'd have set up a small HTPC with Kodi, but my family needs something that works without ever needing my intervention, and it needs to run the 100 streaming services we hemorrhage money to. These boxes are super cheap and let me run Jellyfin too.

I think both parts are doable, and I see no reason Republicans wouldn't try. It seems likely that we are going to see Federal election laws over the next couple years to strengthen GOP control, in addition to the local and state level laws we are already dealing with. This is all going to further strengthen their hold and I think we could see 2/3 majority in both houses in 2026.

Honestly I think the 3/4 would be the easier part. Since it's done by state instead of electorates he just needs 38 states, and he got 31 to vote for him. We're also talking about state legislatures, not voters, which means the shenanigans above will also be effective here.

I don't think this is going to be Trump's first step; this is going to be the capstone on a campaign to secure power for the party forever.

I am sincerely hoping I'm wrong, but the last decade has shown me I am not nearly pessimistic enough.

I admire your optimism. It would take a constitutional amendment, which I don't think he would have any issues getting past the GOP Congress. After that it's less likely, but still possible with his shenanigans. I think the only reason it wouldn't happen is he croaks first.

Yeah, my work has an anti-union section of the employee handbook. It says they are proud to provide such good benefits that a union isn't needed (definitely not true). And how we need to talk to HR first if we ever feel like our working conditions would warrant one. I suspect you wouldn't be allowed back to your desk if you did that.

Gotta lean hard in the other direction to flip the gaslighting onto him. If he says he paid for your college then start insisting you never went to college. If he says you owe him for keeping your car running during X-Y years then tell him you didn't even own a car.

More seriously, though, my mom was the same way. Hers was due to being extremely manipulative instead of memory issues. Either way you aren't going to get through. Better to start distancing yourself now until you've reached a level of contact that isn't detrimental to you. If that eventually means no contact then so be it; they bring it on themselves and you owe them nothing.

Rural and suburban areas often only get one ISP in the US. Comcast specifically is infamous for using scummy practices to get (and then legally enforce) local monopolies. So the odds are not in OPs favor.

Up until this article I legitimately assumed that's what was happening in the image. I don't understand what message the suspect was trying to send, but the investigators seem confident it was intentional, I guess.

You may like the show Dark, if you haven't already seen it.

The reason time depends on speed is because you are always moving at the speed of light, but the vast majority of that is going in the 4th dimension: time. If you speed up in a given direction you're losing speed through time to make up for it.

Agreed. There are really only two reasons managers do that. Either they want to deny raises or they want to fire you. Both need a paper trail, and neither is affected by what they say to coworkers. Either way it's time to interview with other companies.