That’s an impressive display of marketing prowess. You’ll never forget it, regardless of how stupid it was.

You can do the same thing with an optical mouse.

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He knows, but does he care? Does it actually matter to him? I have been watching and meeting all too many people who have no idea just how dangerous the world can be when there’s no rule of law and institutions protecting us. They want through life focusing on little personal gains and never truly understand how bad the world gets once Conservatives start showing their fascist foundations and the mask comes off.

The extra fun part is that all post industrial revolution countries have flat or falling populations. This includes Europe, Russia, China, Japan, South Korea, North America and parts of South America, and parts of the South Pacific. All of these regions need to import people if they want to keep using the same productivity and economic systems. The sheep lack of people is going to start causing major issues on all fronts.

This is going to put nations in a position to compete for immigrants with each other. It’s going to be a buyer’s market for young adults. Collectively, they need to make their labor more dear and nations need to treat people better to get and keep them in the future.

There’s plenty of material on the stages of population change in developing nations: https://youtu.be/Ufmu1WD2TSk

The demographic transition model continues to be reasonable on track around the world: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_transition

That is a gute Idee.

I’ll make a note and see if I can convince someone to tag along for our appointment.

So far my German immigration process has been hazy at every step. It’s more like the information isn’t clear and the process requires careful reading of shifting rules all the time. Not so much antagonism, more like underfunded infrastructure.

This doesn’t include the horses, mules, and camels people are seeing the filming the Russians using to move around the front.

Pride wasn’t a parade. Pride was a riot. The parades are the compromise to stop lighting things on fire until people were treated as people.

The US administration did disband/downsize (who can tell anymore since they’re being illegally secret about government doings) the agency who develops the annual GDP numbers. In the future it will all be made up numbers to suit their immediate goals.

1984 here we go.

We’re now talking big about 200% tariffs! Soon we’ll keep upping them to 400 and 1000% to make us feel bigly.

Truly the dumbest timeline.

She is the best representative Georgia chooses to send. They like being just this fucking dumb. Send her once, you got tricked. Send her twice? You’re just stupid and obviously angry enough to hurt everyone else just because you’re in pain.

I hadn’t seen that latest wave of polls.

I know Die Linke saw an uptick, but damn that’s wonderful. If the Nazi Party AfD can get down under 15% in the next week and Die Linke could get up over 10%, that would be much appreciated, Germany.

“Nach Ampel, Links!”

When they have a coalition government in Germany’s parliament that is made of parties who use the red, yellow, and green colors, it seems to track that the next election ends up going Left, especially to the Die Linke party. Unfortunately, it’s not drawing a lot of support out of the near-Nazi Musk-backed AfD party, but it’s pulling from CDU, which is a center right party. Hopefully it’ll help push the national Overton Window to a more leftist/progressive field in the next few elections.

He started doing this in his first term. What has changed since then? He’s still Putin’s stooge so leaving NATO is on the docket to help undermine Europe so Russia can invade.

Poppies. They’d love for you to have a fe poppies on hand. They earned those the hardest way possible.

Reduced quality of life? Greater danger of being shot in a school? Shorter life expectancy? Lower quality food? And imperial president instead of a democratic one?

I’m not seeing the upsides for Canada.

The rate we can be building electricy-based transit infrastructure and biking infrastructure should be turned up big time alongside any other research projects. A well paced metro line takes many thousands of cars off the road and we know it works.

My city is getting a $500 million freeway interchange, but we’re also barely able to setup a single fast bus route. Our civilizations priorities are completely out of whack.

We had a similar issue back in 2004 or so. Downloading a browser (Mozilla) was a bout 40MB. Normally it took about 30 seconds to pull it down on our University Internet. Then one day we were setting up systems and every time we clicked the download button nothing seemed to happen.

Further inspection showed that it had many successful download in under 1 second each. Our IT network team got us linked up to Internet2. It was able to download so fast that the bottleneck was the IDE bus of about 40MB/s. The file was coming from Intel over I2 so we couldn’t even see it download before it was done.

I had a three year bender with OpenBSD back in 2001-2003 or so. I even started building my own kernels and doing a tiny bit of hacking on the code. There’s all kinds of interesting tools and systems out there if you start exploring.

… For now. It won’t be long, though. I have friends who will have their marriages annulled by these fascists all too soon.

Derp. The firehouse of shit coming down my US feed got me not catching this one is in India.

I’d just read a prior one about cases moving the US to strike our marriage equality rulings. That’ll be coming by for us very soon.