[-] TipRing@lemmy.world 38 points 1 day ago

Well this is an unfortunate reminder that Dick Cheney is still alive.

[-] TipRing@lemmy.world 315 points 2 days ago

So his son was being investigated for making threats to shoot up the school and he decided that the best gift was a gun that could allow his son to act on those threats.

Charging him in connection with the shooting seems appropriate.

[-] TipRing@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

It's funny because i went to a DoDD school and I never took it. I think only the ROTC kids did.

[-] TipRing@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

It definitely started with Reagan.

While he didn't originate the expression he did go on TV to quip “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’”

Which is such a deeply stupid thing to say, but it perfectly characterized Reagan's animosity towards the bureaucracy that makes our country function. He did immense damage to that bureaucracy in his tenure, politicizing department heads that had previously been professionals, crippling useful programs like welfare and greenlighting wasteful ones like Star Wars. Conservatives are eager to make the government as ineffective as they claim it to be.

Project 2025 will be this and so much worse, but this trend really took off with Reagan.

Just add it to the pile of reasons why that man's grave should be spit upon.

[-] TipRing@lemmy.world 45 points 3 days ago

"There is nothing we can do to stop this!" says only country where this happens.

[-] TipRing@lemmy.world 48 points 4 days ago

My dad has said since I was a kid that the secret to US political stability was the professional bureaucracy keeping everything running no matter who was in charge.

The really bad part is that once it's fucked it is exceptionally hard to un-fuck it. The people who leave find other work or retire and there is no private sector equivalent so you just lose all the expertise. This plan will cripple our country for a generation if it's allowed to come to fruition.

[-] TipRing@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

It's unfortunate because I just want a place where I can ask where to find comfortable walking shoes that don't have leather.

[-] TipRing@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Garuda Linux is a great job to help you get your business in the world marveled and followed

[-] TipRing@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago

The gate here is really cool, I remember from my optical classes all the different ways to encode bits on a photon over fiber, I am curious which properties are more and less suitable for this application.

[-] TipRing@lemmy.world 224 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The reputational damage that team of lawyers did to the company massively outweighs the cost of a settlement. I personally will never do business with a company who thinks the EULA or TOS of one service indemnifies them from egregious negligence in a completely different line of business. This was simply beyond the pale.

Edit to note: Despite the title, they aren't actually reversing course, they still claim they have the right to force arbitration, they are just choosing to waive it in this instance. If you do business with Disney, you are a fool.

[-] TipRing@lemmy.world 387 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

He doesn't have trauma, he is watching because that was the moment everyone told him he won the election. It was his glory moment and he wants to relive it because he fears it slipping away. Spare me this disingenuous sympathy plea.

[-] TipRing@lemmy.world 164 points 11 months ago

To clarify, the material is engineered at Rice University, it's not made from grain.

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