HarkMahlberg

Might be a great excuse to visit Denmark… I hear it’s wonderful there.

The papers we hold up and say “this will be the foundation of our government, society, and economy” can say anything we want, but none of the words on the page matter once the people in the system abdicate their responsibilities to point at something wrong, refuse to participate, and work against it.

SOX controls are the result of the Enron fraud, but those are also just words on a page. The US Constitution is just words on a page. SCOTUS may very well rule this year that the US government cannot deport native-born, tax-paying, passport-holding, lived-here-all-their-lives US citizens.

Watch as the Trump administration does it anyway. It’s all just words to them.

Well there’s the disaster that was hexbear…

The Baltics catching strays: “and I took that personally”

This is why I would have crossed behind but, did he make eye contact with you? A Pillars are so fucking thick nowadays cars have blindspots forward of the driver. And frankly some people should have never passed their driving tests and we would have public transit to get them where they need to be.

Had a guy pulling out of a parking lot while I was walking on the sidewalk, with him waiting on the sidewalk to pull into traffic. He actually bothered to back up a bit so I didn’t have to walk in front or behind him. It wasn’t necessary but a cool gesture. We could all do a little more of that in the world.

You gotta actively try to reach that kinda score, it’s almost impressive. You have to go out of your way to be a jackass.

Yesss, go bankrupt to own the libs!

I’m with you. I used to build maps, models, and textures for Battlefront 2 and share the files for free on Filefront. I got into programming for the joy of creating things that make people happy, or solve some little problems they have. I still make mods, the communities are out there and I’m glad I found them.

But tech evangelists and bro culture ruined the idea of programming as a career for me. The greed of late stage capitalism infected our industry the moment Facebook hit the scene, crypto accelerated it, and AI may as well be the final nail in the coffin. It’s no longer a worthy or noble profession.

Yeah that about sums up how I view the rest of my life playing out.

If it helps you sleep at night…

Me too friend, me too.

I mean they literally called their campaign “the revenge tour.” There’s nothing they want to build because a fascist regime like this already has everything they need: huge amounts of capital, channels to pipe out propaganda, and hoards of mindless hate-filled followers, all of them armed to the teeth.

“What else is on the agenda” is getting rid of anything and anyone that can stand up to them.

Hot take: Walz/Harris might have won, but Harris/Walz just never stood a chance.

They’ll just fill the place with known loyalists, party officials, and MAGA social media influencers, denying access to actual republican voters.

They’ll be quiet and listen to their master like good little boys and girls, and then they’ll go on social media and say “see? our town hall was full of republicans and it was peaceful! your town hall must have been infiltrated by socialists!”

The town hall outrage will just become another charade, if it hasn’t already, very very soon.