Dems know exactly how they could get a massive landslide in the midterms, and are choosing not to do it.

This is very true. I’ve got business past and present in many countries, and the US is by far the one we have to be the most careful to cover ourselves when dealing with.

What they’ve done is move all the stuff that a lot of countries’ governments would handle impartially through regulation or legislation, made them private civil matters, and called it “Freedom”. This incentivises people to file suits for anything they can think of, and those on the receiving end can end up bankrupted even when the courts rule in their favour.

Imagine being 18 years old and this kind of insanity is all you’ve ever known.

Looking at how the clock in Windows defaults based on region, it seems to be mostly the Whiter of the former British colonies plus a few South American countries that use 12h (for computing, at least). The rest of the world are all 24h.

Does she refer to it as “hora militar” though?

An AI trained on Facebook comments would be stupider than an AI trained on nothing at all

Stuff for classroom walls

If you want to make a big poster by printing smaller sheets of printer paper, all the first page of Google results is sites that let you upload your image and then make you sign up for an account. So here’s https://bigspread.niy.ai/ instead

It wasn’t until this current administration that I discovered the DoJ weren’t actually part of the judiciary, and were actually just the President’s personal attack dogs

Funny thing, every now and then someone makes these questionnaire websites where you answer questions about policy and it tells you which party is most in alignment. Pretty much universally most people turn out to be more to the left than their voting history and intentions would suggest.

One thing I don’t think has got enough attention is the fact that it does a fetch from Truth Social as well, which means Trump personally gets at least some indirect data on the app’s users on a server that isn’t even slightly controlled or contracted by the government.

This is like criticizing a sports team: “Wait, so it’s good for YOU to get the ball in the basket, but it’s bad for THEM to get the ball in the basket?”.

This is an extremely Trump-like view, that foreign policy is a zero-sum game with a winner and a loser, and the object is to win.

Fun fact, Mercator would in principle be even more distorted than it is, but almost every map that uses it crops at least the top and bottom 5 degrees to hide it. Mercator’s original cropped to 66°S - 80°N, which shifts Europe towards the middle.

Nice. What did you use for that one?

https://niy.ai/worldmap lets you reproject Mercator to put any landmass you want in the middle by clicking on it, but it doesn’t have that overlay thing.

Remember CDs? Actually owning stuff?

I went back to Winamp last year and don’t regret it at all.

The fact that he’s both willing and able to do this, is the one single biggest argument in favour of abolishing billionaires.

There’s a sequel novel to the UK time-travel sitcom Goodnight Sweetheart on kickstarter, where all the future pop culture references that Gary Sparrow used to make start to catch up with him as he gets older.

Posts like this are proof positive of Dead Internet Theory, because surely no human could be this oblivious to an obvious joke

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