profdc9 @ profdc9 @lemmy.world

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It could be worse. Think of spending your years on a futile effort, one which you sacrificed your youth and health to try to achieve, and having to look back on that.

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.

When you're rich enough, you can fight and settle all of the slander cases you want.

It's quite ominous that retired senior military officers need to say this. It suggests that if Trump is reelected, we could see widespread mutiny, because officers would refuse to accept orders for which they might be criminally liable. Even if SCOTUS makes Trump immune, it does not necessarily make anyone following his orders immune. Choosing between a committing a crime like murder, and another like insubordination, an officer might well choose insubordination.

It's because the very wealthy would rather risk anarchy and societal collapse by promoting the causes of violent thugs rather than be taxed and contribute to the well-being of the people who maintain the civilization they rely on.

More like a human centipede.

It used to be that all votes were not completely along party lines and the members of a legislative body would actually... deliberate. Every issue and vote now has only one dimension that matters.

Maybe the bond company needs to get a bond for itself.

Every year California is becoming more like Night City. Cyperpunk is supposed to be a dystopia, not an aspiration.

You can now sell out your country on the NASDAQ. Now that's an efficient market.

We can't do better because many voters are racists, gerrymandering, unlimited money in politics, media wants to sell eyeballs to have you view pharm, insurance, and car ads, We truly live in the best of all possible worlds.

I made a multi-effects guitar pedal that is open source hardware and software

https://www.github.com/profdc9/GuitarPico

Why should I care about this? Do any of these people care about producing better entertainment that is not pandering or exploitative?

The Soviets had COMINTERN. The CCP wants to rely on shared Chinese identity.

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/17/1170571626/fbi-arrests-2-on-charges-tied-to-chinese-outpost-in-new-york-city

It's not stupid. Perpetual despondence can kill you as surely as a bullet.

How could this man bring the republic so close to ruin? Our democracy must be in a perilous state indeed.

We'll now need AIs to spot AI fakes. AI wins!

Memento mori.

I hope they blow up the Trump Tower symbol.

https://youtu.be/1CYTcQUKTVY

If Trump wins the election this year, it's going to be the last election for President we ever have.

What operating system defines you as a person?