PretentiousDouche

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

This is beautiful.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Zag and the Ferengi Five

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Off the top of my head: replacing ink or paper, navigating the on-device menu, or troubleshooting bad prints.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's an interesting article, but I have the same concerns about this strange "Stop Population Decline" organization. Who is funding this?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It looks like something from the PS1

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I unironically shout "Let's go, Brandon! Let's fucking go!" whenever I encounter it in the wild. Take it back!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

He wants to play the martyr, thinking it will help his candidacy. It helps him in the primary, as it pumps his narrow base up, but how many people can be undecided about Trump at this point? I'm hopeful this circus will turn off anyone not wearing a red cap already.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Where are you seeing this on Lemmy? Doesn't seem the the US government gets a pass here at all, I mostly see justified skepticism at best.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Currently reading "The Last Watch" because I wanted some fun sci-fi, but the liberties the author is taking on physics and the universe makes it very hard to suspend my disbelief.

Looking at starting a re-read of "All Systems Red" in anticipation of the new Murderbot book coming out. I can't recommend this series enough

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I love this. I tuned in to a little Sean Hannity on the radio on my drive home Friday and heard him rail against the selection of Weiss multiple times, while throwing out vague bullet points about why he's unacceptable.

My first reaction was that they're laying the groundwork for when this investigation comes up with nothing, or some really boring crimes (like firearms charges? The Republicans are about gun control now?) and they have to lay the blame on someone so the conspiracy machine can keep pumping out outrage.

Knowing this is a guy they wanted for the job until he started doing it makes it even more delicious, but as we know when Republican's beliefs come up against reality it's the reality that gives, so they'll have no problem ignoring that this was even ever a thing.

 

Reuters found cyber-espionage teams linked to the North Korean government, which security researchers call ScarCruft and Lazarus, secretly installed stealthy digital backdoors into systems at NPO Mashinostroyeniya, a rocket design bureau based in Reutov, a small town on the outskirts of Moscow.

 

A report from The New York Times details yet another luxury obtained by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas using funds from a wealthy associate. In this instance, it's been revealed that he purchased a Prevost Marathon RV in 1999, using $267,230 received from Anthony Welters, a former executive at UnitedHealthCare who worked alongside Thomas in the Reagan administration, per the outlet. In a statement on the matter, Welters said that the funds were considered a loan and that it has since been "satisfied," avoiding the phrasing "paid off," which means it could have been a gift that would have then needed to be disclosed

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Have you ever heard a large firecracker pop? It's very similar.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This is the only answer

 

...Initial evidence suggests that, in a rematch between Biden and Trump, a No Labels and/or West campaign could pull marginal support from Biden and subtly shift the election toward Trump. Whether this would actually make for a potential spoiler, though, is a different question: History — and common sense — suggest that these possible third-party candidates would be most likely to affect the outcome if the overall race were close. But in our deeply divided political era, close elections have been the norm, which makes a spoiler candidacy a live possibility...

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