Republicans are the DARVO party.

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

Maga:

meh. This is fine.

edit - no, they are celebrating it. You know where to look. I wonder how bad it will get before that place finally realizes he's not just hurting the people they want him to hurt.

That's essentially what I expect is happening, and it's going to be difficult to convince me otherwise.

Thank you for the reminder to rewatch Easy Rider!

Look at them overachieving when they only need to worry about memories like goldfish.

I feel like most of the objections could be satisfied by having non-essential holodeck stuff in rooms only.

So you have a bed and lighting and core furnishings without it. But you get to use the holodeck to adjust all that to your taste, decorate the room, and othewise make the space yours. Maybe you get a virtual companion if you are lonely.

OTOH, I think replicators are already capable of doing most of what would be done by the in-room holodeck in that case.

To me the energy needs don't really matter since energy consumption only matters in emergencies in Star Trek usually. If the first things you lose when there are power issues are your decorations and your virtual companion, I think that's OK...

Edit - and in the limited space available to a personal cabin even in the Trek universe - it would be cool for your kitchen to be able to become your movie room with a simple voice command, or a personal gym, or an extension to your main living area during a party, etc...

Unless they release verifiably unredacted/unedited documents (and I'm not sure whether/if verifably unredacted/unedited documents are possible in this circumstance) I'm not going to believe they aren't holding things back out of self preservation anyhow.

The worst possible time for anything like this to be released is during the Trump admin, because now I have to apply an extra layer of skepticism.

I don't even have to go to a conservative sub to know they are or will handwave away his presence on the flight logs, and I know nothing worse is going to be released about Trump or any Trump ally, so what's even the point aside from a witch hunt for all Trump's enemies who somehow will be on the list?

To be clear, I'm sure that Democrats and a disappointingly long list of non-politicians are on that list too, and they should all see the light of day.

Yeah, I peeked at your moderation history after posting, it's OK, I see now this is the best I could have expected in answer. Good day to you!

Remember 2023? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

Egg Producers Accused of Price Gouging After 718% Profit Revealed

Bullshit.

If you want to use the browser despite those controversies then that's your choice, but be honest enough to admit they exist.

I don't use brave and haven't for a long time, but these things are well documented.

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/brave-browser-under-fire-for-alleged-sale-of-copyrighted-data/491854/

https://www.zdnet.com/article/brave-browser-the-bad-and-the-ugly/

https://www.tomsguide.com/news/brave-affiliate-links-autocomplete

https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/browsing/brave-browser-is-installing-a-vpn-without-your-permission

Please Lord, let this debate actually happen.

I'd say it's a good thing we have antitrust laws, but we all know how much laws mean to the group of mobsters currently in control.

I can't find a good summary and am not in any way an expert in this field. But I think these generations are technically based on defining events in the world and likely common experiences more than a close tie to biological generations. If you look at the page for the Silent Generation wiki page there is some explanation of that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Generation#Terminology

TL;DR it's all very loosey goosey.

I'm just one person wondering why it seems like bats are involved so often in stories like this.

An actual list of the "problems everyone hopes they never have" category of our various problems is pretty long right now, and many of them are more personal than I want to share.

Shit's not the worst it's ever been for us currently, but financially it's closer than my wife realizes it is (because she's got enough to deal with right now), and (gestures around at everything Trump related) I'm figuring several of our problems are going to get worse before they get better.

I've got long and medium term plans to sort most of it out, but like all such plans they depend on the short term stuff going at least more or less as I hope, and on the complete collapse of US society not actually happening.

Glib sounding yet serious response in meme-form because this really is how it's looking so far in my mid-late 50s:

OP sounds like a nice person for posting such a thread, and I hope you are doing well sir or madam. 🙂

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When they do, I'll come back to acknowledge I was wrong. In the meantime, I'm not holding my breath. 4 years of that was enough.

You’re missing the point.

No, you are missing mine.

My point is that nothing that happened with Trump over the course of four years that gives me ANY confidence regarding how the system will work now. (see 34 felonies case)

Your "well okay, Trump is above the law, but the folks below him might not be" is not the confidence builder you seem to think it is. When folks start going to jail (and staying there) I'll share your enthusiasm.

Edit: And it doesn't count if they are going to jail after we've reached the "rebuilding our nation from rubble" stage.

A judge finds you guilty of a crime, your are arrested and go to jail.

DOGE employee: jail and frozen assets

Local Podunk Texas cop who refuses to enforce: jail and frozen assets.

Former President Convicted of 34 Felonies: No Restrictions

Justice Juan Merchan followed through on a promise made one week ago to give Trump a sentence of unconditional discharge, which includes neither jail time nor any other restriction that might impede Trump after his inauguration on Jan. 20.

THIS is what we're all screaming at you while you ask if we ever took a civics class.

TRUMP IS ABOVE THE LAW and he was above the law before he even took office this time around.

We're all handwaving away your assurances because they are all about things that CAN happen in a world where people are following the rules and things work like they should. A world that no longer exists.

Democratic Rep. Gerry Connolly, the highest-ranking Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, said government workers should comply with an Elon Musk order that is being disputed by others. Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency sent out an email...

Thank you Nancy Pelosi!