I wonder if there’s such a thing as collapsible caltrops: something that you can keep flat in a pocket, then pop it open and drop it. Just asking for a friend…

Also, when the brownshirts come for someone in your community, remember to:

The new version of “swatting”: “Magatting”. Just tell ICE/Secret Service etc someone you don’t like said something mean about Trump.

It is the single best demonstration of the damage cocaine does to people. Before there was “this is your brain on drugs”, there was the Star Wars Holiday Special.

Watch it with your children so that they think “Holy crap, if this is what people come up with on coke, I never want to even try the stuff!”

Ctrl+f: “holiday special” - Phrase not found.

This thread epic fail.

And wasting children’s lives.

Nearly 500 tons of high-energy biscuits in Dubai are set to expire in July, one former USAID official told Reuters. They could have fed 27,000 acutely malnourished children for a month.

“If a child’s in an inpatient stabilization center and they’re no longer able to access treatment,” said Jeanette Bailey from the International Rescue Committee, “more than 60 percent of those children are at risk of dying very quickly.”

8647?

Plausible deniability for when it’s discovered her accounts are controlled from Moscow?

“Oh, I must have been hacked cuz weak passwords. That’s why my account sent our classified war plans to Putin.”

Re the proposed “National Garden of American Heroes”, you may submit applications to make statues of a selection from the list provided here:

• https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/01/22/2021-01643/building-the-national-garden-of-american-heroes

From just a quick look:

• Muhammad Ali - avoided fighting in Vietnam by standing up for his woke principles of DEI, not claiming bone spurs
• Louis Armstrong, Neil Armstrong - both included, presumably in case Donald gets the two confused
• John James Audubon - immigrant from Haiti, and we all know what that means!
• Alexander Graham Bell - Scots and Canadian and worked with people with disabilities; we all know how much that Venn diagram loves Trump
• Ingrid Bergman - Swedish actress. I mean, 100% Swedish. Are you even trying to pick American heroes?
• Johnny Cash - the man who wore black out of empathy for the poor and incarcerated. Probably wouldn’t even piss on Trump if he was on fire.
• Christopher Columbus - I thought Trump was one of those who insisted on “America” meaning only the United States of America. Which Columbus was not born in, naturalized in, lived in or ever even visited. Or does Trump think that in 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue and landed in Palm Beach to be welcomed by Paul Bunyan and George Washington saying “50% off all mattresses all weekend!”?

“If you repeat a lie, you know, […] enough times, some people actually believe it, […]"

What an interesting perspective, Elon. Who came up with it originally? Oh, yeah, the fucking Nazis!

Crewed by transgenic mice!

Just off the top of my head:

1. Pressuring the Fed to cut interest rates and other actions to reduce the US dollar’s value
4. Massive payouts to agribusiness, especially maize and sugar producers.
5. Try bringing in some fruit or a salami into the US. I dare you.
7. OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic, xAI etc ripping off the entire world’s entire content.

Maybe someone else can fill in the rest.

Yeah, I too remember there was some anger but not the reason for it. Licensing issues, maybe? Anyway, with the kerfuffle, bloat, and Java requirement, it didn’t have enough to keep me from µTorrent.

Also been using qBittorrent for the last few years, on Windows and the last two years on Linux. With search plugins for key sites, so I can avoid the popups that even uBlock Origin can’t prevent.

(Due to an unpatched security vulnerability in the repo version of qB, currently using AppImages of latest versions of both qB and qB-enhanced. Only difference I personally notice is that qB-enhanced follows my system theme, dark.)

You’re welcome :)

re OT question: I remember trying out Azureus a bit back in the day, and with its “legit content distribution” section getting to watch this video:

YouTube - Benny Benassi - Satisfaction

But I didn’t stick with it, mainly used µTorrent and eMule.

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So sad this is necessary now.

Or hosted in a way that is itself P2P? Like IPFS or ZeroNet?

Dudek had been a mid-level IT staffer at Social Security before being put on administrative leave for helping Elon Musk’s DOGE team access sensitive databases inside the agency. The Trump administration tapped him to lead the agency after more senior officials refused to cooperate with Musk’s team.

The most fanatically loyal to the Dear Leader, the most contemptuous of both the law and the people, are plucked from mediocrity and placed at the top.

This is America now.

And then the Sturmtrumper gives a masterclass in petulance and childishness.