Those who think political theater has no value have no understanding of politics. If it had no value, they wouldn’t do it because it would be a waste of time. It’s not that Dems don’t do it, it’s that they’re amateurs at it, especially compared to the GOP.

Congress will be overturning those rules in three, two…

For sure, but the cartoon specified a wrench.

You’re a Bible salesman, aren’t you!?

Wait, is this the one Facebook said God saved? Did he change his mind?

Tackling the real issues right here!

I’d imagine you could get a decent bludgeoning wrench for around that at a pawn shop. Doesn’t need to be super functional. A pipe wrench in need of some rehabilitation would work nicely.

Yeah me too. It goes back to your threat level. How likely is it that someone is going to break into my home to steal my desktop all James Bond-like? The answer is, “not very.” Anything mobile has a significantly higher probability of falling into the wrong hands. These things are encrypted. Even the very old laptop that never leaves my house is encrypted because it could.

“I mean, not me. I only just got this job. Still finding my way. But someone should definitely do something. Gonna be a lot of work figuring out what should be done. It’s just so complicated. We’re going to have to invent some way to make sure everyone can access competent and affordable healthcare. How do you do that? Where do you even start? What a monumental task. But think of the accomplishment if we could do that. Think of the example we’d be setting for so many other nations. We’d be pretty great. I mean we already are pretty great, but we’d be better. Man, we’d be awesome.” At this point he’s gone, like a poor person dreaming about what they’d do if they won the lottery.

Sometimes it’s like, when they’re coming up with headlines, there’s an editor who asks the important question, “Is this meme-able enough? Can we make it more meme-able without being obvious? I mean we don’t want to make it too easy. “

Feels like this could be helped immensely by a blurb at the top of his GitHub page pointing to a gofundme to help pay for a lawyer. If the case has legs, settle and move forward. If not, it should be trivial for an IP lawyer to get dismissed.

… will go to jail and be forced to carry the pregnancy to term, be billed for delivery services, and raise the kid on her own. Nothing screams “stable childhood” like the government forcing your kid on you as punishment for getting pregnant.

Unfortunately way too many Us “Christians” mistake what he’s doing as good.

… As in protecting financial institutions from consumers?

Yeah, I got a little confused there!

I keep using Facebook to keep up with family and friends I don’t see all the time. I also use marketplace. I maintain a group of family members where I post jpgs of raw family photo scans I host (moving the raws to Immich at the moment). Other than that I occasionally post a funny thing from Lemmy as a “still alive” post.

Messenger can be replaced by signal, discord, or any other messaging type app.

… Messenger can be replaced by what the person you’re trying to communicate with is willing to use. I’ve resisted using WhatsApp on my personal phone for years because I just don’t trust Meta products, but you have to have it in Costa Rica. It’s just a fact of life. Same with messenger in a lot of ways.

On iOS, I uninstalled the app and use Brave for YT & if I need to get on Reddit.

Oh make no mistake, his goal is to be the world’s first trillionaire within the next 4-years. Why else would he so publicly be going full fascist unless he was ready to fully embrace the concept of “fuck everyone and everything ever to be” money.

Ahh, his administration hasn’t even officially begun and already we have the Memberberry shadow president. I think someone should have t-shirts made up.

The next 4-years are going to be… I honestly have NFC.