Riskable

Oh man, the parallels with history here are strong…

Back in the day companies would use government to crack down on things like union strikes. So the unions started working with the Mafia for protection.

This didn’t work out well for the companies (executives getting carried off, tortured, and executed… That sort of stuff) so the government came up with a compromise: Strong labor laws.

Now we have the government itself violating it’s own laws (Bill of Rights), kidnapping harmless people, sending them to faraway prisons to become slaves. Hooking up with organized crime seems like a logical path 🤷

…as in: WTF did you think was going to happen‽

Auschwitz started as “just a concentration camp” too.

Eventually countries will stop accepting our deportees and then what will they do? The answer is simple:

They’ll come up with a final solution.

Noem told reporters alongside Trump on July 1 as they toured a new detention center in the Florida Everglades known as “Alligator Alcatraz.” “Alligator Auschwitz.”

That’s the correct name.

MAGA likes to call the immigrants, “rats” but the truth is far more sinister! They’re transgender mice! Too dangerous to even study in a lab!

The crops stood no chance!

Our only hope is to get rid of accurate hurricane forecasting and health care for the poor and elderly! If by some miracle a few billionaires get a tax break then maybe we’ll make it through this crisis!

Not just peanuts: They could exploit undocumented immigrants by paying them less than minimum wage and abuse them without having to worry about getting sued or deal with paying unemployment insurance.

I think you mean Rust, old timer 😁

These folks are all giving great advice but also let us know when you’re ready to really fuck around and have fun with your Linux superpowers 😀

You, in practically no time at all: “Nearly everything is working great! Now I want to make my desktop change it’s background to NASA’s picture of the day while also putting all my PC’s status monitors on there. Oh! And I want my PC to back itself up every hour over the network automatically with the ability to restore files I deleted last week. I’ve got KDE Connect on my phone and it’s awesome!”

Then, later: “I bought a Raspberry Pi and I want to turn it into a home theater streaming system and emulation station.”

…and later: “What docker images do you guys recommend? I want to setup some home automation. What do you guys think of Pi-hole?”

“I’ve got four Raspberry Pis doing various things in my home and I’m thinking about getting Banana Pi board to be my router. OpenWRT or full Linux on it? What do you guys think?”

…and even later: “I taught myself Python…” 🤣

I can understand the appeal of the Ten Commandments to conservatives. Each commandment has its own prescribed punishment and for Texans, especially, I’m sure they all sound fantastic:

1. Death.
2. Death.
3. Death.
4. Death.
5. Death.
6. Death.
7. Death.
8. Death.
9. Death.
10. Feces on their faces.

Actually I believe the correct term is, “fascism”

Ah yes. I’m actually impressed that they were able to determine that he was “Verified BS” so quickly.

When that happens it will derail their entire argument. These people are the opposite of trained professionals.

Even if you bring it up they’ll try to change the subject, “this conversation is getting off-track.”

Who knows, maybe we might even let them come back to US soil they might leave CECOT alive—some day.

FTFY.

When you kidnap people without due process on the regular you’re encouraging people to fight back. When you send them to foreign gulags known for literally torturing and killing people and forcing them into slave labor you’re encouraging them to fight back with deadly force.

Dying—fighting for your life—sure sounds better than just giving up and letting ICE take you away. At this point the Trump Administration and ICE cannot be trusted to execute due process. They’re operating outside of the law. They are the lawless ones.

They’re hoping for deadly conflict and I fear they’re going to get it. Though, on the plus side I’m 100% certain they will be unhappy with the outcome. In both the short and long term.

This assumes the people in the Trump administration are capable of feeling embarrassment or shame.

Well, I was on my phone at the time and that’s what ChatGPT generated. Here’s what FLUX Dev generated (locally on my PC):

portrait of a cartoon man squinting his eyes skeptically at the camera. Text at the top that says, "NOT SURE IF AI MEMES ARE A THING"

Make no mistake: This is the world conservatives want! This is the desired outcome. This is their law. They were warned things like this would happen. They didn’t care.

No. It ran… Linux.

The worm in his brain is just trying to reproduce 🤷

That’s why he brought his children.

She accuses it of admitting students who are contemptuous of America,

OK. So what?

Let’s logic out that statement:

• Educational institution accepts students that are “contemptuous of America” -> When the student graduates are they still “contemptuous”? Did they become moreso? No change? Less? None at all?
• Educational institution actively seeks to deny students who are “contemptuous of America” -> Did they produce “contempt for America” in their graduates? Same problem.

I wonder what would produce “contempt for America”? Maybe deporting people without due process? Or not recognizing human rights?

Maybe we should agree, then: Harvard shouldn’t accept students that hate the Bill of Rights. Reject conservative ideology that suggests that due process shouldn’t be followed. Reject conservative ideology that actively seeks to undermine the US Constitution.

Let’s get keep those people (conservatives) with “contempt for America” away from places like Harvard 👍