Bonne nuit!

What we need is for people who try to drag out protestors to get jumped and dragged out themselves.

Well, yeah.

But also maternity leave isn’t even in the law here in the US anyway (maybe some states have it for all I know, but even if so I doubt Texas is among them), so it’s equal-opportunity shittiness and the clause I cited doesn’t really apply.

This is sexist against fathers and therefore unconstitutional.

Bill text:

Sec. 545.429. USE OF HIGH OCCUPANCY VEHICLE LANE BY CERTAIN OPERATORS. (a) Subject to Subsection (b), a female operator of a motor vehicle who is pregnant or is a parent or legal guardian of another person is entitled to use any high occupancy vehicle lane in this state regardless of the number of occupants in the motor vehicle.

Texas Constitution:

ARTICLE 1. BILL OF RIGHTS

Sec. 3a. EQUALITY UNDER THE LAW. Equality under the law shall not be denied or abridged because of sex, race, color, creed, or national origin. This amendment is self-operative.

What this would actually do (once the test case ruled that it would have to apply to fathers too) is destroy HOV lanes entirely by making everybody able to use them, since the state would have the burden of proof to show that the driver has never had children.

Son, I was using Emacs before Notepad++ even existed.

until Aileen Cannon starts getting orders from Domino’s.

Exactly: judges won’t start standing up against Trump until they start getting more threatening pizzas from non-MAGAs than they do from MAGAs.

If you’re targeted for kidnapping/rendition, your choice is to either die in an El Salvadoran prison or to die in a hail of bullets with the hope of at least taking a few Nazi thugs with you. Due process is not an option. That’s what’s happening now. It’s not a hypothetical.

Nah, not a rowboat; go for a sailboat.

Also, regarding the FOSS part: https://opencpn.org/

(You’re trying to shitpost, but I’ve actually been considering the issue seriously, LOL.)

☝️Case in point, LOL.

It isn’t hard at all to say whether Bill Gates is an “overall net ‘good’ person” or not. He became a billionaire (which is an inherently exploitative act), and no amount of trying to whitewash his legacy with philanthropy after the fact can change that.

He didn’t and still doesn’t, but he absolutely cares about rewriting history to support his Big Lie.

Okay, “F”

Followed by “U C K I N G G O O D R I D D A N C E”

But it paid for itself many times over in that I never had to pay US taxes for income I generated outside the US

Did it really? I was under the impression that foreign taxes paid reduced US taxes owed, so (unless you were in some low-tax country, which doesn’t seem likely given that you’re talking about countries with better government services than the US) wouldn’t your US taxes have been minimal, if not zero? I also understand that filing each year to claim that exemption could be a hassle, but it doesn’t seem like enough of one to be worth the “racket” of renunciation over.

I’m open to the idea that renunciation could be better than maintaining dual citizenship, but you haven’t convinced me yet. What other pros/cons are there?

That is genuinely stupid enough to be plausible.

Kubuntu, because when I got my Vega 56 GPU on release day (August 14, 2017), I had to download the proprietary driver straight from AMD to get it working, and Ubuntu was the only distro supported by both it and Steam at the time. (Otherwise, I would’ve picked Debian or Mint.)

I don’t love Ubuntu (especially how they push Snap), but I can’t be bothered with the hassle of reinstalling my OS.