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Because a surprising number of people are willing to pay what they ask, so they keep asking them to pay more… and they do, apparently. I don’t get it. But, it’s what some people want.

Ten is about all I’ll have open at once. That happens usually when I’m researching something. When I’m satisfied with my research, I close the tabs. It makes me itchy to have so many open.

Wait till we learn how much the Luigi trial jurors are paid to hang him.

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How about we disallow it completely, until it’s proven to be SAFER than a human driver. Because, why even allow it if it’s only as safe?

Five years ago, you could not have brought this up without Musk simps defending it.

Pam Bondi is 60 years old. She gets weekly baby blood transfusions, and sleeps in a sensory deprivation pod.

(Only one of these things is verifiably true. The other two are just guesses… but probably.)

I use NoScript and uBlock. For this page, there are eighteen different scripts that want to run, but I only allow the two that seem necessary for basic functionality.

Apart from using Tor and allowing zero scripts to run, we have little hope of even pseudo-anonymity on the internet, and increasingly in our every-day lives.

We, as a people, tolerate the surveillance state as long as they increase the surveillance incrementally over generations, distract us with shiny toys, and keep us fighting amongst ourselves over irrelevant subjects.

It’s not that she didn’t like men in hats, she just preferred Men Without Hats.

We know he’s not joking. The question is whether the military, sworn to uphold the Constitution, will do anything about it when the time comes.

I’m sorry the President of my country is an asshole.

I’m genuinely ashamed to be American now.

They’ll probably come around to the realization in time, but we won’t see that interview.

Who would’a thunk cops are really bad at reading the room?

We might as well just ban porn altogether.

That was the point, methinks.

Billionaires live in a weird bubble. Money and power twist the mind and destroy the soul.

Never idolize a billionaire, they’re the closest thing to evil incarnate that walks the Earth. Remember, the Devil will present itself as friendly, alluring, and attractive. So, at least we know they aren’t the Devil, but as close as reality can get, maybe.

I paid for a lifetime membership to Plex in 2012–$75. I stopped using it around 2015, mostly because I hated that I didn’t have access to software running on my server, meant to serve my media, without an internet connection. I knew that meant worse was coming in the future.

I don’t regret switching to Jellyfin.

“Evil attacks”, like we’re killing puppies, or something.

It’s vandalism against machines, and the only victim here is the insurance companies.

They’ve become sentient, and are committing suicide.

Only when the pain of bowing to Microsoft, and their increasing intrusions and demands, exceeds the (IMO) minor pains (multiple) of switching to Linux, do people make the jump. That threshold is low for some, and high for many.

I’m a Linux Mint exclusive guy for one year next month, and I’m never installing Windows again. No, it didn’t “just work”, but it did work 85% out of the box, and the rest I was able to figure out. I’m NOT “an IT guy”, and the only OS I used before Windows was MS-DOS (so, yeah, I’m old).

I play Fallout 4, and Half-Life 2, and run Gimp, Inkscape, Blender, LibreOffice, Calibre, Jellyfin, Forge AI, PrusaSlicer, Meshroom, SABnzbd, etc. etc. Everything works fine, now, and I’m perfectly happy without Microsoft all up in my shit.

Oh, and, BTW, Gimp 3.0 is the shit. I’ve used Gimp off and on over the years, as a Photoshop user for nearly 30 years. Gimp doesn’t do everything Photoshop does, but it now does everything I ever used Photoshop for as a graphic designer for 20 years.