Quite a few, starting with, “how is that relevant?”

Just because someone is the moral equivalent of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch does not inherently mean that they are also the intellectual equivalent of the same.

“Feature Phone” suggests that this was from the late 1900s, or early 2000. Storage limits at the time were impractical.

True enough. Used to be, we were the only game in town, and we knew it.

Our smarter presidents tried to make sure we remained the best option, or at least a good option. Trump, as you have noted, makes is the worst option.

Does anyone in Washington understand that a “deal” generally includes giving the other guy something they want, not just demanding things that you want?

I mean, anyone looking at Win11 is gonna be skeptical about anything Microsoft is putting out.

That’s kind of what I mean by “sane leadership.” Leaders that know they are there to serve the people, and that they will be removed if they don’t.

Of course, that requires sane voters, too.

I knew of this place from Master and Commander. Nice to see the images, though.

We can do that after we get rid of Trump. If we let Trump do it now, he will turn it into a circus, gain some political cover from it, and we will never know for sure who actually did what.

Once we have sane leadership again, then we can do it properly.

Started up Honorverse again, with On Basilisk Station.

It’s a comfort series for me. Oddly enough.

Where do I sign?

No-one is every gonna call it anything but the Epstein ballroom.

Isn’t the after sex cigarette kind of a trope?

They are helping, yes, but windows 11 is a driving force like I’ve never seen.

Possible. I’d hardly call that role playing, but I could see it.

OP should take the chance to clear that up for us.

If you’re not talking about furries, then you’re gonna need to use more words to ask your question. Who is role playing animals, under what circumstances. Are you talking about a game? Are you making political commentary? Street Theater? Help us help you.

I’m tired of pretending their opinion matters.

Are you aware that their vote counts as much as yours? And many of them are in Congress, so their vote counts for a lot more than yours?

Don’t get me wrong, I would love to simply excise people without basic empathy from any role of leadership or influence. But until we do that, we have to deal with them.

According to Wikipedia, 1,500 people work there. We could have just given each of those people 100,000 a year for six years, and had a few thousand dollars left over. We could have given 3,000 homeless people $25,000 a year for six years, and made them productive members of society.

Instead, we made a rich Nazi richer.

You aren’t wrong, but you need to remember that a lot of people don’t give a shit about helping other people. Any argument that uses “good for people” as the basis of argument is going to fail with them.

This collapse didn’t start in January.

Comes from all the nonsense I talk.