I don’t know why they can’t single-handedly win a war against a country 10x their size using only our obsolete overpriced leftovers

I mean, ask Afghanistan, Vietnam, or Korea.

But also ask why these wars popped off to begin with and why they dragged on long after any foreign country had a material interest in continuing the fight.

Also maybe look into the UON and question why the Canadian Parliament was applauding an elderly SS Officer who described WW2 as the best years of his life.

Tons of profit in war mongering.

Sometimes it’s hard to do a task and you deserve a treat

And in another five years, I’m sure he’ll look even worse. But will he still be breathing out that noxious brew of smarm and bigotry?

Well if we’re not going to bother helping them win

We’ve been happy to lard them up with debt and sell them overpriced military surplus. Idk if that counts as “helping them win” but we’ve made a handsome profit off it.

Fuck Ukraine, not our problem

Hey now. Don’t look at Ukraine as a problem. Look at Ukraine as a big play for recently vacated real estate. Jared Kushner is going to make so much fucking money leasing Ukraine’s land back to its residents.

Now Ukrainians? They’re going to get fucked.

I remember back during the NFT hype cycle how people were claiming they’d patented particular shades of color and were selling rights to them on the blockchain.

I gotta wonder who even enforces this shit. Where do you go to register a font-type you claim you own that looks shockingly similar to a font people have been using since the printing press was invented? So much of this just feels like vexatious litigation. “Ah, yes, that’s actually my ‘a’ and you need to pay me $20k to use it”.

I’ve got a Mint box that I use for file sharing and it gets by just fine. Set that up a year ago and the worst problem I had with the conversion was my old hard drive crapping out in the middle of it.

But I’m waiting for a nice long weekend to back everything up and do a proper upgrade. My computer doubles as a home theater and I know I’m going to have at least a day or two of “Why doesn’t thing thing that used to work do what its supposed to anymore?” while I juggle a grumpy wife who just wants to watch movies and a sneaky toddler who just wants to steal my keyboard.

Kissinger looked like this in his 80s and made it another 20 years.

Don’t hold your breath.

If I had a dollar every time I heard “Politician I hate definitely has late stage physical/mental illness and will be going away shortly”, I’d be rich enough to blow millions bankrolling corrupt NYC mayoral candidates who promised to keep my taxes low.

Trump appears healthier than Cheney and Cheney lasted five years longer than Trump is right now. So don’t hold your breath.

Oh boy, strap in. Can’t wait to hear how many keyboard commandos think Ukrainians should get shoved into the meat grinder for another year.

Fifty shades of Tan

Do I want someone to look over my shoulder and say “BTOP? That shit’s badass”? Yes.

Do I want to give up my nice, simple GUI heuristics and get a tattoo of all the esoteric commands down my forearms? Sadly, I am not actually cool enough for that shit.

No. I will accept my fate, install Mint, diminish, and go into the West.

I mean, I’m definitely at the end of my rope on Windows. Going to have to take the plunge sooner or later.

My cat won’t talk to the police.

My dog won’t shut up about how he’s a free canine on the land and the postman refused to make joinder.

In my generation, we lived on Mountain Dew and Cheetos, and look at the Sim Cities we built.

Hey! Sometimes it mostly works, and that’s all I can reasonably ask for anymore.

Every Silicon Valley company has to deal with this on a weekly basis.

over half of my fellow Americans are morons who overrode my vote

“How about we try voting”

“This doesn’t count, I voted but then other people voted the opposite way”

Maybe the problem is that people on Lemmy don’t understand what an election is.

But the key here is that voting worked one of those times

Oh yeah. Famously, all the fascism in America stopped existing on January 6th, 2021.

That’s why everyone was at the US Capital celebrating.

Deleting Roblox and installing Factorio

You’ll thank me when you’re older, kid.