But you didn’t make sense, by your own admission.

at the time I didn’t make sense.

Drowning Pool’s Bodies done by Psychostick.

The power games are for the people at the top, the ones with money. For the rest of the sheep its [religion, racism, nationalism, patriotism, whatever bogeymen that can be made up]. Just like in the US today. There’s no shortage of complete fundy nutcases wishfully cheering trump’s war in the Middle East as a path to Armageddon when in reality it’s nothing more than trump desperately trying to control the petro energy market as a power and money grab. Except he’s an idiot.

Surprised they didn’t shoot him to kill the witness.

Just a bra with lace cups. Nothing unusual.

Example, NSFW.

Idiots listening to CEOs telling them the great things AI can do, like buying AI stock will make you money and AI will be your chat bestie never telling you anything you don’t want to hear. But the leopards are waiting to eat their faces.

Subscriptions for AI access, AI inserted into everything, wrong answers, humans being laid off, water resources being consumed rapidly, higher energy prices… and people will be unhappy, forced to pay their AI access fee to ask AI why things suck. And AI will lie.

Biden didn’t do anything to affect global pricing. It was just the surge in demand caused by economies coming back to life. The world did it to itself.

Trump, OTOH, directly and deliberately started a war that resulted in destruction of oil refining capacity as well as holding petroleum and energy transport hostage, affecting the entire world.

But that distinction is far too difficult for republicans.

I’ve seen a few that were removed. The conservatives are way less tolerant of their Donvict being shown poorly.

A child is doing this. A child surrounded by people who all kick his commands down the ladder, each person down the rung knowing even less how to do their job right than the Orange Twitler at the top. So by the time it gets to the last person who sends it it’s just: use some leftover blue paint they found in some warehouse from the 1980s and pay some trump crony contractor a crapload of money to hire another contractor who will be lucky to be paid to do the shitty painting job.

X1C. The new version looks even better. Pretty happy with the XIC’s performance, though. Way better than my old Lulzbot.

I don’t even know if that’s a thought. This country has little hope of a third party without radical changes to how we vote.

But keeping loud progressives in the party where they can be seen and heard is good to keep progressive voters engaged. Note that Bernie, AOC, and the more outspoken libs are given more airtime come election years whereas they only get minor sporadic coverage the rest of the time. So the Dems attract the progressives by amplifying convenient voices when it suits them, but otherwise progressive policy is essentially nullified by neo-lib willful failure to block shitty conservative policy.

ND are people, too.

Knowing it and choosing not to mask is definitely a thing. I’m sure plenty of us are “normal” and just have a hard time filtering information in and out when it comes to social settings - IOW we’re not assholes by nature. ND people can also be just like anyone else in that being an asshole is their normal state and also choosing not to filter it.

Weather, my hobby groups some of which I admin, email, looking up various parts and how-to’s for a car I’m working on, messaging, and occasional housecleaning of the phone itself - getting rid of unnecessary photos, email, SMS and all that.

Every time I see this image of his mother I can’t help getting the vibe that she was exceptionally cruel and manipulative.

All your power and water are belong to us

Climate change.

Literally.

Time to lay off some of those consumers and cut wages so we can claim to be positioned better for profits from the very people we’re cutting.

Just because “union” doesn’t automatically mean dem or liberal. It’s entirely possible to be union and be totally conservative.

Combine people who bitch about dues, union politics and problems, along with right wing blue collar attitudes and constantly looking to game the system for better or worse and you probably get what they’re saying is “miserable”.

My job is pretty much white collar and unionized, but a huge chunk are right wing, essentially racist but indirectly so, and vote for the very people who are anti-union and very much for profiting at the expense of employees. They’re such myopic douches they bitch about work problems being caused by any other group attempting to unionize or slowdown during contract negotiations.

Hate to say it but I know more than a few who are on the spectrum and are assholes. One of my parents, for instance. Perfectly happy to hate on public works or social programs, and that “direct communication” made sure you knew it. Just because someone’s ASD doesn’t automatically make them want to better society for everyone else.

My favorite tech buy is a good 3D printer.

The ability to imagine something, model it in 3D, and then send it to a box and have it “magically” become real via 3D printing will never not amaze me or stop being cool.

Plenty of other useful tech toys like a jellyfin PC or a 3D scanner, but the printer is the thing I enjoy the most.