Bernie will be 87 in 2028.

On the stream of the debate I was watching, when they took a break they showed clips from previous debates and the difference was kind of mind-blowing.

I honestly kind of think that even a mid-level candidate who didn’t make it like Romney or Kerry probably could have mopped the floor with either one of them.

Also as a side note, how lucky is Donald Trump? Just a whole life of being handed infinite money no matter how many times he fucked up a business, a bewildering assortment of crimes with essentially no hard consequences, and two presidential runs against pretty much the only two people he has any chance of beating in a debate.

He’s had a life of almost non-stop softballs. It’s kind of wild really.

Including George W. Bush’s grandad:

Bush was a founder and one of seven directors (including W. Averell Harriman) of the Union Banking Corporation (holding a single share out of 4,000 as a director), an investment bank that operated as a clearing house for many assets and enterprises held by German steel magnate Fritz Thyssen, an early supporter and financier of the Nazi Party. In July 1942, the bank was suspected of holding gold on behalf of Nazi leaders. A subsequent government investigation disproved those allegations but confirmed the Thyssens’ control, and in October 1942 the United States seized the bank under the Trading with the Enemy Act and held the assets for the duration of World War II.

Well he was about 60 years old at the time, so he’d probably know.

“Twice impeached convicted felon and known sexual abuser Donald Trump”

I think in a sane world, after the “grab 'em by the pussy” tape came out we’d have never heard from him again.

The thing I worry about is him somehow pulling a Kissenger and living to be 100 years old, as evil people seem to have this weird habit of doing. I mean, you hear of some proper villains dying young(ish) because they get murdered, or take themselves out to avoid justice, but you don’t hear of a lot of them dying in their 50s from natural causes for some reason.

Ah I remember that one! Classic. I also remember a story about someone who lost an entire PC in their apartment. It was running and connected to the network, they could ping it, but couldn’t physically find it lol.

I have two, one is actually complicated and one was so obtuse that I never would have figured it out in a million years:

Actually complicated: I still don’t know how it happened, but somehow an update on Arch filled the boot partition with junk files, which then caused the kernel update to fail because of no disk space, which then kind of tanked the whole system. It took ages, but with a boot disk and chroot-ing back into the boot partition I eventually managed to untangle it all. I was determined to see it through and not reinstall.

Ridiculous: One day when using Ubuntu, the entire system went upside-down. As in, everything was working perfectly fine, but literally the screen was upside-down. After much Googling I had no luck figuring it out, then I accidentally found the solution - I’d plugged a PS4 controller into the USB on the laptop to charge it, and for some reason Ubuntu interpreted the gyroscope on the controller as “rotate the screen display” so when I moved it, the screen spun round. I only figured it out by accident when I plugged it back it and it spun back to normal lol.

Unlimited scams and Jesus stuff for everyone!

Or… hear me out… we use AI to make social media even more insufferable than it was before.

Mitch McConnell would happily sell his country into fascism for literally no good reason at all. He’s retiring soon and is rich enough to want for nothing for the rest of his life - he gains nothing of lasting value from this.

Few people in history have been granted the amount of power and opportunity he’s had to improve people’s lives, and he’s chosen make them immeasurably worse at every turn.

A wasted life, a wasted career and all he’ll leave behind is a broken world that would have been better off if he’d never been in it.

And ironically when we do get to the point where an AI can string together a semi-coherent narrative, the first things it’ll start to produce will probably be exactly the sort of mid-level dross that Tyler Perry likes to make.

Mull is a good one for Android.

Hmm, I have a soldering iron and a 3D printer. You might be right. Thanks for the link!

I had a go on a VR helmet and thought it was kind of fun, but at the moment the options seem to be an affordable one that’s infested with Facebook nonsense, or the Valve/Apple ones which are presumably less intrusive but cost a fortune. So I’m fine to just do without until someone figures out how to do it in a cheap, open-source kind of way, like the raspberry pi of VR helmets.

That might not even be possible, but in that case I’m also fine to just do without TBH.

Yeah same here. Don’t have TPM, not buying a new CPU just to enable Microsoft’s bullshit, so we are at an empasse.

As does being warned of technological oligarchs monopolizing AI by someone who works for fucking Meta.

I assume like every other country’s big climate plans they’ll announce it, do nothing and then back pedal on it 2 years from now.

Credit for goals hit, not just stated.

I mean honestly I think the dems being in power is kind of like sticking a band-aid on a gunshot wound at this point, but the Republicans in power is like treating it with… more gunshots or something lol. I think the US needs pretty fundamental change to actually fix anything substantial, but I don’t think that’s realistically going to happen anytime soon. Not trying to “lesser of two evils” it or anything, I just meant that the first step is to probably to shut the nazis down.