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My respect for him tanked in 2014 when I first met someone who worked for him, and heard what working for him is like. Abusive managerial style sounds.. too gentle. Somewhere during the Trump administration I lost my last ounce of respect for him, and somewhere in the last few years I started losing respect for people who still think positively of him.

Between his sense of humor that reads as '15 year old on 4chan', his aggressive bigotry, and abject lack of redeeming qualities, I'm not sure what he could do to change my mind at this point. If he gave a billion to the Trevor project and apologized for the bigotry, I'd be skeptical about his angle.

The best part is if the question goes up to SCOTUS, it might well get consolidated with Cannon's dismissal, and they're considering one legal question in cases against a Trump and a Biden.

If you parked in their lot, the waitstaff will yell profanities at your driver?

I don't think anyone intends public funds to be quite that sticky; public education is itself a public good, and having once attended a public school really has nothing to do with developing a product 20 years down the road.

Also, writing open source code can support a viable business. Not every example has been successful, and some have been sold to hypercapitalist owners who wanted to extract more profit, others have failed to keep up, but Canonical is doing alright with it, Red Hat did for a long time, among others. Plenty of bigger tech companies also employ people to write open source software, despite it not being the company's main business, React, PyTorch, TensorFlow, and so many other projects. Those engineers definitely aren't working for free.

I don't think it changes anyone's mind, but it could affect who shows up to vote.

It's not evidence that this was staged, but it does seem rather like evidence that he had a plan in the event someone tried this.

There's a lot of time, a lot can happen, but this just justified a lot of the nonsense narratives the right wing has been trying to push.

I really hope you're wrong, but it certainly helps him.

Yeah the truth is we don't know. There are lots of possible causes we can't rule out at this point, it seems dangerous for a publicity stunt, but it's possible. Someone afraid and somewhat unhinged, among other possibilities.

The very few artists who do, and have the creative freedom to so do are probably the only ones who could get away with this. Convention Centers don't seem to have the same density of existing Ticketmaster relationships, and while they'd have to pay to bring in seating at some, I bet they could do it for something similar to Ticketmaster's middleman fees.

I'm not sure the difference between costs for concert venues and convention centers, but if it's anywhere near comparable, it could be feasible.

Even if he didn't directly participate, did he witness it? Turn a blind eye? I hope future reporting is clear what it is and is not evidence of, but I also hope people ask the very reasonable questions that follow from what we do know now.

It's very easy to make digital copies of physical media. The resulting copy is likely to be as high quality as you can find, and as portable as any digital copy can be. Pop it in a folder and point Jellyfin at it, and it's available anywhere.

It's also the easiest legal way to get a good digital copy.

I haven't had this happen personally, but are you allowed to edit your hosts file? I'm assuming those IP addresses are coming from DNS resolution, and if you hardcode those DNS entries to resolve to 127.0.0.1, it'll stop the ads.

nslookup <ip address> should give you the domain names, if not there's DNS logs in Event Viewer that should tell you.

Why are the women doing it? Power imbalance is probably a big factor.

Intent isn't the same as what will happen, the law does prescribe what he must do, and if that violates his intent, so be it.

But it does mean he'll presumably be on the lenient side of what he's allowed to do, which means it's very unlikely Trump's going to jail as a result of this conviction. Unless he ends up with a negative recommendation from the probation officer, which seems unlikely from what has been said publicly. But I wouldn't say "absolutely not" yet.

To me, multiplayer video games should be about having fun with friends. Couch co-op, LAN parties, online multiplayer work for different genres and depending where your friends are. I don't care if they're older games, newer games, as long as it's fun and interesting.

Anarchist? Monarchist? Georgist?

A noun, a verb, and 9/11

Given the scope of destruction they've caused, I find it harder to believe, but I hope you're right and they will follow through.

I'm similar except I use Debian, and I just bought a cheap SSD for my gaming computer, knowing that Windows 10 will be well out of service before I retire it. I've done a couple of OS transitions before, and I figure not dealing with partition editing or losing files is worth what a 256GB SSD costs in 2024.

I started with Ubuntu, and left because I don't like how they run things; I think it's worth trying a few more distros if you haven't already, to find one you vibe with. Unless you want a project (which some do), finding one that works with your hardware, supports a DE you like, etc is a good time investment imo.

Cults often keep people very busy so they don't have time to think critically about their situation, and letting the flow of propaganda disconnect can start their victims down the journey of leaving.

On the other hand, there are a lot of propagandists out there, and people are still flooded with them. Even if they aren't quite as far out there as he is, maybe they'll just migrate to a new flavor of unhinged.