This is a whole paradigm shift, and it’s not new.

Got me confused. Are you saying these tactics are new or not? I vote for new, mostly, kinda, but both at once. Sorta.

It’s a joke about a guy landing a Cessna in Red Square.

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

Reminds me of Code of the Lifemaker, where mechanical life evolves on Titan. Seemed oddly plausible when I read it, but it’s been 20+ years. LOL, maybe it was stupid.

I only have two ideas:

They’re seeing what they can get away with. Or, and more likely, normalizing more and more aggression in pursuit of seeing what they can get away with.

So why can’t Israel support itself after decades of the US pumping weapons and money?

I’m 100% done with Israel, and that’s coming from a middle-aged guy who was always a supporter. At this point, I honestly don’t care if the Arab world stomps them flat. Who could I possibly give a shit any longer?!

So thanks for bringing the plight of the Palestinians into my worldview and trashing the country’s reputation. I get it now. Clearly.

The flexible hours and paid childcare are probably the biggest part of the solution. Throwing money at people doesn’t necessarily make them happier, and in fact may demotivate them, but those two items are big.

(If you don’t believe the “demotivate” part, this is one of the most eye-opening videos I’ve seen on any subject.)

Capitalism working as it should for once, even on a megacorp.

We tech support folks used to be able to discern a legit US Robotics 56K over a software modem. By listening to our customers connect.

LMAO at the hate on this comment.

We can talk about immigration drivers, all night long, but the fact is that the host country is always resentful of immigrants. It doesn’t matter if that resentment is fair or true or justified, it exists.

Buncha children in here crying, “Racism bad!” Yeah. We know. Some of us grew up on Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers. That doesn’t change countries seeing a bunch of poor people flooding in and taking their resources. And whether they’re actually sucking resources doesn’t fucking matter. It looks like they are.

And for all the whiners, how about you take in a poor immigrant family and take care of them yourself? Put your money where your mouth is?

“Uh no. The government should do that for free, somehow, and I don’t want to actually see or deal with it. Or I’ll leave a stern downvote!”

(And for the inbound haters, my wife is a brown immigrant, not even a citizen. Trying to get her youngest moved here.)

Windows opens RAR files right out the box. Just tested.

And if you need a separate unzipper for whatever reason, 7-Zip opens all the things.

But he still won’t even fucking say it…

He just did. In diplomatic terms, he screamed it to the heavens.

International messaging isn’t played at the level of you and I shooting the shit between ourselves. Netanyahu likely shit himself in rage and fear over this.

Lot of people loved Marcos Sr., my wife grew up under him. She says he accomplished much. She goes off about the infrastructure improvements she saw as a kid and later as an adult. Roads, hospitals, education, the very things that make society work.

Anecdotal, but high temps certainly stared early around here. 92 in May FFS.

Remember all the fruitcakes saying a secret cabal of Jews runs the world? Israel is surely pumping them up and their outside influence on our politicians is making it look even worse.

Around here you can leave it on the curb and someone will take it for metal. At worst you can find a guy on FB marketplace, Thrifty Nickel or some such that will pick up stuff for free.

U.S. gun shops and smugglers tied to 78,000 firearms recovered south of the border

Oh shit! Wild reveal coming up!

The top 6 (see chart in the article) account for 1,102 total guns, 1.4%. 942 from Academy and Cabela’s, 1.2%.

So, uh, what’s the story here? That a tiny fraction of guns recovered were from 2 of America’s top gun retail outlets?

This is a non-story, nothing to see here except a couple of small timers profiteering.

TIL that quote didn’t originate from The Crow. Gods I feel dumb.

Poor guy had a permit and still had to spend the night in jail.

“Joey, have you ever been in a Turkish Prison…”

I would think that’s a world record! Mind blown. 1lb, 1oz is hard to imagine. My ex and I are small and our 2 babies were 6-7x that size.

And this is why America shows abysmal rates of “babies not surviving”. We try to save every one, even if hopeless, and those numbers count against us. (I’m so dumb, what’s the word I’m looking for here?)

“Not Modified”?

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