Take a boomer with you to cosign a shit ton of loans. Go to college, get your cancer treated, whatever; then flee the country to a less shitty part of the world. You get a better quality of life, and the debt goes back to the ones that fucked us! Win win!

(normally I can’t stand using the /s, but just in case it needs to actually be said, this is not a serious comment)

Huh. Well I’m intrigued more than anything else… I’d try it.

…are penguin eggs any good? Like, I’m guessing chicken eggs are as popular as they are mostly because chickens are easy to handle as livestock; not because their eggs or meat is anything special relative to other birds.

Like, the absolute best eggs and drumsticks and such might be some Chilean parrot or something, but we don’t and will never know because they’re squirrelly little fuckers and bite the shit out of anyone who gets close, so we just dismiss them as not worth the effort.

People say it’s the greatest!

“great depression”

Well… at least we know now what he meant by make America “great” again.

He’s a narcissistic idiot and a baby enemy of the United States. He deserves to be mocked mercilessly tactically engaged by our military the same way they do to the leaders of our other enemies like ISIS or Al Quaeda.

Whether or not he’s truly an idiot, he should be treated as though the damage he’s doing is 100% intentional. He isn’t trying to cut government waste and failing at it, he’s destabilizing our country and the rest of the planet.

He is a hostile enemy combatant.

Just chuck him in a dumpster, where he can rot with all the dignity he deserves.

*pokes other lifeform with a stick*

…naw, it’s dead. Turns out they’re susceptible to heatstroke, too.

We face legal justice. They face vigilante justice.

All we need is someone willing to pull the trigger and skilled enough to hit their target.

Finally!

Leave your cellphones at home, mask up, wear gloves, cover your tattoos / apply temporary fake tattoos, park WAY off site / don’t take any route to or from that exposes your license plate to cameras (like turnpike’s, etc).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VTBMznLrWs

I keep seeing Hillary’s server brought up to highlight the red team’s hypocrisy, but there’s some introspection to be had for us as well on that topic.

Hillary’s email server was one of many stepping stones on the path of increasingly fucked infosec. Now, the vast majority of neanderthals foaming at the mouth over her emails only gave a damn about it because of the (D) next to her name, but those idiots getting angry at it for the wrong reasons doesn’t mean it wasn’t a big deal.

My perspective on all that when the story was first breaking: I was fairly new e-nothing junior enlisted medic in the USAF. The closest thing to classified info I ever dealt with was ‘confidential’ medical shit covered by HIPAA, and like people’s social security numbers. That’s it. But even with zero-access to military secrets, at the absolute rock-bottom of the chain of command, I still had to take lengthy infosec courses every year (or every quarter? idr) to ensure I knew how to identify and properly handle classified information. Fuckups in infosec are NOT tolerated: like if I took a single page of classified info home without authorization, that’d be a court martial / potential jail time / stripped of rank / dishonorable discharge level offense. Then we have a fucking Secretary of State - someone who handles classified info all the time and should be a subject matter expert on the do’s and don’ts of it - running her own shady-ass server away from the prying eyes of FOIA, claiming to not recognize classified indicators?? Then before anything could be done about it, we got the whole bleach-bit and hammer-to-harddrives scene, so some nice destruction of evidence as the cherry on top.

100% we should have crucified her.

Just like we should have crucified the dipshits before her using private email platforms like gmail or some shit to send or receive official / classified communication. Every one of those fuckers knew better.

Then Trump happens and makes everything prior, Hillary and all, look like fucking j-walking compared to the scale and blatancy of his crimes. ‘Crucified’ doesn’t even begin to describe what needs to happen to that fucking traitor.

…but the dismissiveness regarding the email server does kinda strike a nerve for me - she fucked up BAD, and we dropped the ball by not holding her accountable, as that left the door open for dipshits like Trump to continue the trend of worse and worse infosec.

Again, it’s peanuts compared to Trump - I hate writing shit like this for even the flicker of a possibility of drawing a false equivalence. There is no equivalence here. But I really wish we’d collectively change our tone about handwaving the ‘buttery males!’ shit because it is hypocritical to do that and then get pissy about the red team’s conceptually-similar-albeit-orders-of-magnitude-more-severe fuckups.

At the end of the day, we should expect our leaders to do their job and do it correctly. If they don’t, then get angry - it’s your security they’re playing with. None of them get the benefit of the doubt, regardless of which color their campaign stickers are.

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Good to hear.

I’ve had 4 - the 1st was around 2012 I think, and it was fucking amazing.

The second was around 2016, and even before plugging it in, it felt cheap. Actually using it, problems started popping up like measles in a red state - one of the side buttons stopped working, scroll wheel was janky.

The 3rd was around 2016, after exchanging the second via RMA. The L-click button was super fucked up right out of the box - it’d do this annoying thing where you push it down once, and like multiple clicks would register (the internet called it the ‘double click issue’ but was was WAY more than double… happened when I was using some art software and I’d have to ctrl+z like 10 times to clear all the actions it registered from a single click).

4th was around 2016, after exchanging the third via RMA >_< it made it a couple weeks without incident, but just when I thought I was in the clear, the cursor started jumping upwards a shit-ton randomly, which was hell trying to click-and-drag on anything. Then the internal LEDs went out (oh well, don’t really care if it’s pretty, but did like being able to see it in the dark). Then the double click thing started again.

Dealt with that for a while cuz I couldn’t afford to replace it and was tired of dealing with Razer’s customer service.

Then I joined the Air Force and didn’t have any time at all to game, so kinda fall out of the scene for a bit.

Separated around 2020, got myself a Corsair Scimitar, and lived happily ever after. Doesn’t come in lefty though. :-/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit_of_the_poisonous_tree

There are exceptions, though. It’ll be a question of whether or not the prosecution can make an argument that it falls into one of those.

…well, it’ll be a question of who’s at the judge’s bench. The actual law doesn’t mean shit in this country.

If this is a long term thing, you might consider a left handed gaming mouse with programmable side keys.

I hate to recommend Razer cuz their build quality has taken an absolute nose dive, but the only one I know of is the Razer Naga: https://www.razer.com/gaming-mice/razer-naga-left-handed-edition/rz01-03410100-r3m1

Setting some of the side keys as WASD and the usual surrounding support keys (Q, E, R F, G, X, C) and you can play almost any game one-handed.

The learning curve to get your brain to accept mouse movement and clicks with your left hand is annoying as fuck though.

Gotcha! Best of luck to Canada if push comes to shove. As a 'murican I’d like to think my countrymen and especially our military whose loyalty is sworn to the constitution, not to the president, would resist the fuck out of an order to invade Canada, but so far we don’t seem to have much of a spine.

Idk what all I can do to help from inside the dumpster fire, but I’ll throw a wrench in the gears on this side whenever the opportunity presents.

…this is all just so fucking stupid >_<

People have been saying that about Trump’s ostensibly incoming justice for almost a decade.

We are way past the point of being able to explain this as a slow justice system; we don’t have a justice system.