I saw on the news last night that here in Philly, there were almost 70 arrests by city police of a group of union demonstrators doing an organized sit-in. When they were hauling one middle-aged black lady away, the news shoved a microphone in her face and asked if it was worth it. She just replied, "solidarity forever." ✊🏻

Yup. I hope she stays safe. She seems especially sane.

Y'know, every day, I think I realize more and more that the guys doing generative AI search optimization are the real geniuses. If you can bake a biased statement into a gigantic model, I guess it's pretty difficult to ever get it out specifically.

All the anti-2a people have accomplished is to help the fascists into power and render themselves helpless against them.

Fascism is here, and the Second Amendment has never once been restricted in any practical fashion. That means that fascism rose to power while everyone was fuckin strapped. Nobody has done shit so far except that one kid in Butler who was a bad shot.

What do you still need so that you'd have been a genuine threat to the world's global military hedgemon? A personal F-15 Eagle?

My understanding is that he never actually paid out any of that money he promised to voters.

Sadly, the "concept of a plan" line was from last year. :/

I have to admit, if Trump changed opinions about him via destroying the economy, I have yet to see it. All the dipshits in my world are crowing about how they had been preparing for this for decades.

It's never too late to enter carpentry. I know quite a few programmers who do carpentry as their main hobby. Something about the math and the amount of careful planning is highly transferrable, I guess.

Me, Local Fact Checker (who is also very tired and lazy): "seems fine"

Honestly, I know a lot of companies that would be absolutely fucked if Backblaze went under in a dramatic fashion.

Eugh. I am not sure how comfortable I am with a world where Xi Jingping is considered the more trustworthy party.