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Yep, but it’s even more than that.

American Christian Zionism is not a pro-Jewish policy. It is about (a) getting rid of the Jews by getting them to all go back to the Holy Land, and more importantly, (b) triggering the “End Times,” for which the Jews returning to the Holy Land is a prerequisite. American Christian Zionists do not give a flying fuck about Jews; they’re just delusional racist death-cultists who think they’re gonna get “Raptured.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Way

It’s the newspaper doing an “allegedly” thing. He was sentenced to life for these crimes that the prosecutor says he did. That way if it turns out he didn’t actually do it and later goes free, the newspaper will be less likely to get sued for libel.

I don’t think you’re wrong, but I think we should stop to consider how fucking absurd that is on the newspaper’s part. The entire fucking point of a criminal conviction is supposed to be that it’s been proven beyond reasonable doubt that the perp did, in fact, do the thing he was convicted for. Libel is, by definition, no longer a valid consideration.

A reporter continuing to use “allgedly” or other reported speech after that point isn’t covering its ass; it’s editorializing in favor of the perp or even sowing doubt about the validity of the rule of law.

Lock focus because auto focus for this kind of thing will almost always result in blurry photos

I feel like people should do that a lot more often than they do, just in general. Especially when using a DSLR to make a video of a subject that isn’t moving around much.

(This is really just venting because I watch too many Youtube videos where they complain about the autofocus not working well.)

Almost none of this is unique to the gaming industry; it’s all symptoms of under-regulated capitalism.

He had to ditch the deal then in order to manufacture an excuse to attack them now. This is what he wants.

Credulous media excusing his warmongering by pretending it’s some kind of mistake can fuck all the way off!

Alligator Auschwitz. Not Alcatraz. Don’t let them control the narrative on this.

This is why the Fediverse and VPNs/Tor etc. are so important.

How is this not illegal in the EU?

My newest computer (custom mini-ITX with an AMD 5700X3D, 64 GB RAM, Radeon 9070XT, 4 TB NVME, etc.) is still compatible with the keyboard from my first computer (a Tandy 1000 RLX HD with an Intel 80286, 1 MB RAM, VGA graphics, 20 MB HDD). Manufactured three decades apart, but they both have PS/2 ports!

I still have that Tandy keyboard; I should dust it off and plug it in.

It depends what they’re tweaking and why. For example, a lot of stuff is tweaked to become “Roundup ready,” and facilitating the mass use of glyphosate is dangerous.

You’re right: plastic is just as recyclable now as it was before.

Which is to say, it continues to largely fail to be recyclable.

It really is looking like “ecoterrorism” is the only remaining viable strategy to save human civilization.

Only thing it didn’t have like the Basilisk was BT functionality, which in my use case wasn’t a deal breaker.

Batteries are kind of a deal-breaker for me anyway. If I were to get a wireless mouse, it would have to be the kind that’s powered by induction from the mouse pad.

I also like my Redragon mouse, a “Griffin M602A-RGB”. I picked it entirely because (a) the shape fits my hand well, with well-sculpted indentations for my thumb, ring, and pinky fingers, and (b) it’s cheap, but not so cheap it isn’t still decent.

Yet again, low-density exclusionary zoning causing car-dependency (which is why the “third spaces” you’re talking about have all-but disappeared) is revealed as the root cause of almost every problem we have.

I’ll be honest: I haven’t made it past (or even to the end of) that episode either. I’ve tried a couple of times, but end up stopping after a few minutes just from the sheer cringe.

And I really like the rest of the show, to the point where I don’t want to skip any episodes, but that one I really ought to skip.

They’re not shutting it down because they don’t want to pay for it. They’re shutting it down because it’s created the longest-running record of atmospheric CO₂ levels, and climate facts hurt oligarchs’ feelings.

They’re not gonna let anybody else operate it either, regardless of funding.

Never mind the bird; everything else about this is fucking ridiculous! I’m talking about both the concept of sending the waste to be composted that far to begin with, and doing do in a truck instead of a train. It’s stupidity².