This should be considered an act of war by…everyone, really. Everyone should pull their stuff out of the US market, be they ordinary Americans, Norweigian oil bonds, or German gold.

Trump will pull this shit again, he has a pattern of pulling the rug, and will keep doing so long after there is no more rug.

If the wealthy’s heads end up in baskets, the Buffets won’t be among them.

I would like that ceiling to give him a knocking.

Sounds like his casinos. I would like to bet against the house.

Ketamine.

I like AI, but we are still in the biplane era of development. It will take a long time before it can handle most things, let alone unsupervised.

If Shopify goes follows through with imitating Musk’s stupidity, I expect the company to end up as a case study.

I expect Musk to become the first trillionaire from all of this. Thing is, that trillion will be worth $100 Euros or any other form of currency that isn’t attached to America.

May the money pit that Musk stands on, suck him in like a bog.

I think AI will be useful, but like any nascent technology, it will have to be accessible for the public before the everyman would adopt it. IMO, we are currently at the 2nd or 3rd stage in the picture below.

I am looking forward to the “Trump Firing Range” activity center at the Nuremburg Museum. With an airsoft gun, you get to shoot wax dummies of Trump, Vance, Thiel, Musk, and other conservative critters. If you are a good marksman, you win prizes, such as a Golden Visa that is worth $10 bucks as a curio of a fallen nation.

If the EU is allowed to employ guards in MS’s buildings and to roll their own secured version of Windows, I wouldn’t mind sticking to Windows 11 EU. On the other paw, if DOGE is given access to Microsoft, I shall flee to Linux. Hopefully, SteamOS Desktop will be a thing if the latter happens.

Unfortunately, any app that needs a GPU would be difficult to work with in a VM. You have to manually set up GPU-passthru, which requires figuring out the PCI addresses and whatnot of your card, along with using a terminal. As I understand it, this process also prevents you from using that GPU outside of the VM, which is cruddy.

I was hoping to have a Linux Mint + Windows 11 VM back in January, but that didn’t work out. I am hoping that the upcoming SteamOS Desktop would make Linux friendly enough for games that aren’t native to Steam, such as my GOG collection, Window 3.1 stuff like Stars!, modding, and assorted Japanese locale games.

At the moment, California is taking signatures for studying a “CALexit” plan. It is about 500,000 signatures by July for a successful petition. After that, California starts to study the costs, opportunities, logistics, and other aspects of leaving the union.

Smoothbrain criminals. “America has been hit by…struck by a smoothbrain criminal!”

[Chorus]

America, are you okay? (I don’t know)

Will you tell us that you’re okay? (I don’t know)

There’s a felon at the window (I don’t know)

Then Trump struck you, a crescendo America? (I don’t know)

Trump came onto your apartment (I don’t know)

Left white stains on the carpet (I don’t know why, baby)

And then she ran into the bedroom (Help me)

She were struck down

It was your doom America (Dag gone it)

That flag comes from a videogame series, called Fallout. The premise is that America or China began a nuclear war, with horrific results for the world as a whole. At least a couple hundred years later, the player is released from the confines of a fallout shelter. These vaults housed the remnants of humanity as we knew them, and they are now emerging to recolonize the earth.

Thing is, some critters had children, despite the excessive radiation. New California’s national animal, the bear, tends to have an extra pair of heads.

If the premise of the series interests you, I recommend New Vegas as your starting point. It has the most narrative strength in the series and is user friendly in comparison to the original games. Fallout 4 is approachable, but lost writing and player choice, unfortunately.

Fallout trailers, all of them.

Good. There is no point in being part of a government that doesn’t believe in governance. Here’s hoping that other Blue States join a compact with California.

If nothing else, their sheer inability to understand reality would make it much easier to put Dogey America to sleep. Animals use language, however primitive, to warn of danger. Trumpkins fundamentally fails at this, and will start to die in record numbers when they eat RFK Burgers with rat diarrhea as the sauce.

Not even sure if I am kidding there. They are tearing down the institutions that protect everyone from everything.

So they aren’t idiots. Far as I can tell with MAGATs, they do stupid things even if it catches themselves on fire.

I think if they need an extra income stream, it should be physical manuals, discs/disks, boxes, and feelies. Say that GOG has System Shock, Ultima VII, Thief Gold, and TIE Fighter planned for a limited edition boxed edition, but needs pre-orders. Plonk down $20-40, get those things when the funding goal is reached.

I hope a traffic controller guides Elon’s jet into the tarmac.