Possibly, we should start by investigating the President who was in charge at the time.

I’ll be more stunned if McConnell or other Republicans don’t cave and just go along with it.

RIP Bob

(he’s just taking a nap)

X will likely merge with TruthSocial as the defacto Conservative/Right-wing social media site (named something dumb like “XTruthXSocialX”), while BlueSky will become the defacto Liberal social media site.

If they could just make it like the ⌘ command key on macOS it wouldn’t be so bad, but of course, they’re going to make it just like the goddamn Windows key, yet another key that if you press, it will screw up your workflow and have some dumb pop-up thing come up. Another modifier key wouldn’t be so bad (or just turning the Windows key into a modifier key that doesn’t automatically pull up a dumb menu if accidentally pressed by itself). They really like beating people over the head with their useless features.

Although he’s just as trashy and detestable as Trump, I think the bigger “crime” in the eyes of the media is that DeSantis just really doesn’t have any charisma. He apes Trump’s heartlessness and bravado, but there’s just some sort of element that doesn’t endear him to people, whatever the hell that thing is that makes GOP voters pee all over themselves wanting to install Trump as Dictator-for-life, DeSantis just doesn’t have it. Which is also why the media just doesn’t give a shit about him and doesn’t give him the same sort of platform they give Trump. He’s not spontaneous and he doesn’t draw anyone’s attention.

We just need to rip the band-aid off and do it now before the election while we still have somebody semi-sensible in the Whitehouse, rather than wait for things to play out during the election. It’s already going to be a chaotic time then, with everything being up in the air. Just push it now so we know what to expect walking into that shit. Otherwise we’re going to be sleepwalking into that election potentially on the cusp of turning into a dictatorship virtually overnight.

From my cold, dead, well-lubricated hands! Suddenly all this porn hoarding I’ve been doing all these years doesn’t seem so crazy after all. Well, maybe a little.

What I find interesting is that supposedly, not everybody actually has an internal monologue, I just can’t even imagine what that must be like. But then I start to wonder, do I even have an internal monologue, is what I experience an actual “internal monologue”? I assume that I have an internal monologue, I definitely talk to myself and I have thoughts running around my head all the time, but I don’t know that I “hear” an internal monologue or what having an internal monologue is supposed to be like. Is what I experience the same thing as what everybody else is experiencing?

It really seems like we’re headed for a Civil War 2: Electric Boogaloo scenario, where a chunk of states just won’t even recognize the winner of an election and will ignore the law. I can see Texas and Florida leading the charge on that, regardless of whether a case exists or not, they’ll just make up whatever reasons they want and say they don’t recognize the results of the election, that’s not our President, then SCOTUS will either back them up or not strike it down. All for that fat, orange, incontinent turd.

The filings say that his lawyers hope during the trial to point to people in the federal government he suspects are biased toward him, to foreign influence, and to election disinformation that led him to believe the 2020 contest was stolen.

That’s a large-screen projection if I’ve ever seen one.

And there will be attempts in Republican states with Republican officials to remove Biden from their ballots as a sort of “Well, if you do that to us then we’ll do the same thing to you.” They’re trying to discredit the idea that Trump did anything wrong and make it all seem like this is all just political games. I’m kind of curious where it goes in situations like that, I’d assume all the way up to the Supreme Court if necessary. There’s the one issue of whether Colorado and other states can bar Trump from the ballot, but then I imagine there may be separate cases brought by Republicans about whether they can manufacture reasons to bar Biden from the ballot.

Yeah, or we could just hold lawyers to higher standards and expect them to do their due diligence like they should anytime they submit court documents. The one time I had to go through a lawyer for something involving a court case, they sent a PDF document of a court filing they were going to submit on my behalf for me to review and sign. I noticed multiple errors and made a detailed list of pg# and paragraph where each correction was needed, sent it back to them. A day or two later I got a “revised” copy of the document back that not only missed some of the errors I had called out, but introduced additional errors. At that point, given what I was paying per hour for their “services”, I said fuck it, opened up the PDF and made the corrections myself, then signed it and sent it on.

I’m sure it was just being handled by a paralegal or an intern or whatever, but it was aggravating that I basically had to do the lawyer’s job for them, since going through multiple rounds of corrections would’ve likely cost me more than just doing it myself.

Yeah, I was like, “Did this attack happen at the circus?”

… but he does.

I’m not even colorblind and I’m pretty sure I’m seeing it right, I struggled a bit to see what the wrong way to see it was.

Can we go back to 2014? That was a good year for me.

Oddly specific playlist. I looked it up and went through the songs, kind of a weird mix that swings wildly between genres. They were definitely just going after song titles to match the theme. On one extreme, there’s a soft Dolly Parton song and some other kind of very calm relaxing songs, next to death metal and punk on the other end, it’s very much all over the place.

It’s basically a set of IRL crossover episodes. I’m assuming in at least some cases it’s manufactured for the views.

Jesus fuck. I have been looking for something like Kavita for so long now, specifically because of the issues you outlined with Calibre wanting to duplicate my library. I have thousands to tens of thousands of PDFs I’ve needed to get organized for so long and duplicating it all is not feasible (plus Calibre’s interface just looks 20 years out of date). I just got Kavita loaded and scanning my library and my initial impression is that this will do everything I’ve been wanting for so long. Thanks for the tip!