Foreign adversaries already had Trump installed. Why would they need to go through extra work.

Hell - the new Director of Intelligence is a Russian asset.

He’s about to have the authority to effectively ban vaccines.

They should harness the crazy for good. Make conspiracy theory-sounding stories, but make them factual and get people to take positive action.

“They created chemicals you can inject into the bloodstream that keeps them from getting the Measels.”

“The overlords in their golden towers want to tell you who you are and aren’t allowed to love.”

I have advanced degrees in climatology and geographic modeling, so I feel like I’m allowed to say that yes, anthropogenic climate change is a well-researched and understood process AND that you don’t know shit about what expertise other people in this thread have.

Just because your opinion is uneducated doesn’t mean mine is.

He’s essentially promised to cancel sessions to allow for recess appointments, which don’t have to be confirmed by the Senate.

How the fuck did they let motherfucking Zoom take over. The video-call equivalent of “Googling” something was to “Skype.” When Covid hit, Microsoft screwed the pooch horribly.

My sister is super high ranking at Microsoft, and when she calls the family, she uses Zoom.

My biggest complaint is that you can’t save chat logs.

I work in government, and we do a LOT of stuff on Teams, and I’m just waiting for us to get sued because we can’t turn over Teams chat logs in Open Records requests.

Black powder weapons aren’t legally firearms, yeah.

You know that, even in the US, you can’t just sell a gun online and ship it to their house, right?

In fact, someone without a federal firearms dealer’s license can’t transfer a handgun to ANYONE who lives in a different state at all.

Yep: but they can’t force you to give them the password because of 5th Amendment protections from self-incrimination.

And even if they did have the right to tell you to give them the password, they don’t have access if you simply refuse to cooperate. They can get your fingerprints, face ID, or retina scan by force. They cannot extract information from your brain.

BTW: Lots if phones also have a “lockout mode” that can be enabled that will give you the option to lock it down to password-only without turning it off. It can be good for recording police interactions, because it will continue to record them while they can’t access the contents of the phone if they swipe it from you.

It’s almost like a member of Trump’s cabinet was sentenced to prison for doing that exact thing between Trump’s 2016 election and taking office.

I remember my great-grandma talking about picking cotton in the field one day, and being scared out of her mind when an airplane flew over her head. She’d come to Texas from California on a covered wagon, had never lived in a home with electricity, and hadn’t heard about the flying machine being invented.

I helped her set up an email account about a year before she died.

Pseudoephedrine can’t legally be sold in the aisles, and requires you to get out from the pharmacist’s counter and provide an ID.

That’s why they push the aid that doesn’t work. It can be sold at a gas station and after hours.

Instead, we’re in the Coda of Democracy.

Trump is gonna triple-down on the Palestinian genocide and pull all support from Ukraine and probably pull out of NATO to let Putin do whatever he wants to Europe.

He’s also promised violence against Americans who oppose him.

I swear to God swearing makes it work better. I think they may legitimately have swearing filters to gauge customer frustration.

I haste them for so many reasons.

Not least of which is the 5 phone-book-sized catalogs they mail me every week despite me never, ever using their services.

They’d make a bunch more money by just cutting back on their junk mail than through illegal voter intimidation.

I’m Christian and believe strongly in the separation of church and state because it makes better governments and better churches. I also believe that any entity paying taxes should have some level of input on the political process. Between that and the legitimate non-profit status of most churches, I strongly support legitimate religious institutions being exempt from taxes in the same way I support the food bank and non-profit cultural centers being tax exempt.

But churches that choose to participate directly in the political process are not holding up their end of the bargain. They’re making church and politics both worse, and their tax-exempt status should absolutely be revoked.

There’s a whole community for 3d printing shoe charms and Crocs feature prominently.

Makerworld recently had a contest for it.

https://makerworld.com/en/contests/33?name=Shoe Charms#tab-Winner

Tony Stark first appeared in Marvel comics 8 years before Musk was born.