Are we sure the reporter heard Putin right?
Maybe he was saying “Give up, dumbass.” to Trump…

This device is now mandated to watch TV or browse the internet in Germany:

But these sham community engagement exercises piss me off

That’s Google for you: they’ve been doing self-serving open-source for decades.

For instance: they open-sourced Android. That helped Android become the dominant platform and Google capture the cellphone market. Since then, Google has been slowly moving their stuff away from the open-source AOSP and into their proprietary stack, introduced proprietary features that are almost compulsory for a practical, working Android system like Play Protect, and are actively killing deGoogled ROMs.

There’s only one thing to keep in mind with Google: if they do something, it’s not in your interest, and they know how to play long games. Anything they do will be used against you some day.

I’m a good 15 years younger than Steve Wozniak, but Steve Wozniak has always been a person I’ve aspired to become more like. He’s one of my personal heroes, and I hope to die a man as close to what the man he’s always been.

I heard the Rock speak and he’s actually an intelligent, articulate person. I definitely would vote for him.

I wonder if he asked the Norwegian minister if Kristiania was nice in the summer…

I’ll take “kind of meh” over Trump anyday.

Hell, a stinking turd floating down the Potomac river would make a better POTUS than Trump…

This has to be an Onion piece. Surely…

The “DPR” lol

Take your Russian propaganda elsewhere dude…

I honestly thought there was no line for MAGA at this point

Don’t assume there is a line. Most of those MAGA numbskulls are armed to the teeth, yet neither Trump nor any of his less-well-protected henchmen are dead yet. So I guess kiddie stuff is mildly okay for the MAGA dumdums - or at least not really anything to get truly worked up over…

part of the “Domestic Civil Disturbance Quick Reaction Force,” troops would be equipped with weapons and riot gear

So let’s see, a sort of protection squadron with weapons… Hmm, I wonder what we could call it…

How about we use fancy German?

“Schutzstaffel” sounds spiffy. And “Waffen” for the weapons.

We could even shorten it to the even spiffier “Waffen SS”.

Coristine’s ass-kicking is just an excuse to send troops into DC. It’s a modern-day Reichstag fire.

And the troops into DC are themselves a distraction from the real question Trump desperately wants to push off the radar: where are the Epstein files?

And finally, my personal believe is that nothing at all happened to Coristine. This is all a show. Because think about it: what are the odd that this high-profile DOGE dude in particular tried to come to the rescue of anybody at all and got beat up for it?

I say he got paid to get punched hard enough to splatter some blood on his clothes and make it public, so Trump could act on it. I might have believed it had it been anybody else. But him? This has “staged” written all over it.

If you buy Apple products for some reason I can’t fathom, remember this: some of your money will have paid for a golden statue for Donald Trump.

I wouldn’t feel good holding that iPhone in my hand knowing that…

the people running the show are *also* bumbling fucking morons.

The morons in and around the White House aren’t the ones running the show. They’re puppets, and the puppetmasters are the Heritage Foundation. And THEY are anything but morons.

descent into a kind of fusion of tech and fascism

This isn’t new.

One of the defining traits of fascism is that the private sector is in cahoots with the government. In fact, that’s the root of the words fascism: fasces in Latin means bundle - the bundling of state and private interests.

Corporations have no principles and no morals: whatever will make them more money, they’ll ro-ro with. When it takes colluding with an authoritatian regime, they have no problems getting onboard.

The danger today compared to IBM helping the Nazis is of course that today’s computers are vastly more powerful than mechanical tabulators. This is going to turbocharge the dystopia orders of magnitudes.

And finally, people have been lulled into a false sense of security and convinced to give away a lot more personal information than they should’ve for the past 25 years - the “I have nothing to hide, why do I need privacy?” fallacy. Now they’re going to find out why they should have been careful. I almost want to say “I told you so” every day, having been called a paranoid crackpot for the past 25 years, but it’s so sad and so too late that it isn’t even anything to gloat about…

I look forward to not installing it.

If US liberals can’t see the difference between Tesla cars and any old EVs, fuck US liberals quite frankly.

But I doubt it. If anybody is killing EVs in the US, it’s Donald “What Epstein files?” Trump.

Oh yeah true, how could I forget that psycho!

Indeed, I think the Americans’ only recourse left at this point is the fourth box of liberty. The problem is, the powers that be have understood that they need to outgun the citizenry if they want to stay in power forcibly. So they’ve militarized the police to the point that it’s simply impossible to overpower it. And all of them surround themselves with multiple layers of bodyguards, so they’re impossible to approach.

Trump is so transparent, his evil henchmen even look evil! I mean look at that gormless, single-digit IQ pig Tom Homan, the Cruella-looking Tulsi Gabbard, the worm-for-brains RFK Jr. with the tombstone voice, and now this children-scaring motherfucker: they’re so caricatural they could have been cast as Dr. Evil’s henchmen.

I guess all that’s missing is a cat called Mr. Bigglesworth sitting on Trump’s lap.