If your first thought after "please download the specified file and complete the assigned task" isn't "Hahahahaha - no," then you're either a fool, or very desperate. And if you're desperate, I'm sorry for you, man. Shit's fkd up. I hope things turn out better for you.

Which is this, though? Sure, the man on the street who thinks Biden controls gas prices while Trump is president is stupid, but what do we call the person who still supports Trump, but *isn't* stupid? They're smart people, but they support this craziness. Is it fascist? Is it evil? What's the correct term for this?

In our day, we got some older guy to buy booze for us, and gave him a buck or two for his trouble. What's to stop some enterprising kids from having an adult register as them, so they appear "of age," thereafter?

Well, Trump *did* say gas prices would be lower, and wars would end on "day one." So, there's at least the flimsiest of promises; the whiff of pretense.

Incoming doublethink: You hate constant surveillance? Why do you hate America? Don't you know we're at war? Constant surveillance - ConSev - is the only thing keeping us safe from Eastasia! Freedom!!

If Republicans - in whatever denomination they bore throughout history - weren't such hateful, violent assholes, with barely a shred of self-control, we'd be much better off.

How do those boots taste?

Years ago, there was a man hunt in my area, and the cops had all the main roads blocked for spot checks. I was on a motorcycle, wearing a backpack too small to contain another person, and rolled up to the stop. The cop said,

"Where are you coming from?"
"That way," pointing behind me
"Where are you going?"
"That way," pointing in front of me

He got all butt hurt because I wouldn't play his stupid fkn game. I'm not fkn around with you jack-booted low life thugs. Either I'm the guy you're looking for, or I'm not, and since I'm driving a motorcycle, it should be pretty damned easy to tell. If I'm not the guy, go fk yourselves, and let me pass. Cops are *not* our friends. Ever. They will never be anything but the enemy of any honest citizen.

Coming from the party that loudly boasts "freedom!," it's kinda weird - among other things - that they hate freedom of speech like this. Government is specifically *not* allowed to impinge on our rights to speak our thoughts. This is a clear First Amendment violation thinly wrapped in bureaucratic rules. If Republicans had any sense of shame, they'd die of embarrassment about now.

Does Fox "News" give equal time?

What meds finally brought you relief? My wife's in chronic pain, and it kills me to see her suffer. She's against the idea of medication, in general - I swear, she's a Puritan trapped in a modern body - but I could probably convince her to take some, if it actually worked.

developer.apple sent out a "Making your app ready for Duo" notice - I didn't really read it - so there's at least *some* differentiation for apps that run on a Duo. It remains to be seen what level that is.

Oh, they knew, because they're the biggest abusers of it: just look for stories of cops using Flock to follow their girlfriends and exes. This is just CYA now that there's some backlash. Standard operating procedure.

And how is that any different from America, today? Our own government is abducting citizens and locking them in concentration camps, or deporting them to countries that aren't their own. That's if they're not murdering them for protesting against such actions. America is no fkn paragon of virtue.

But, honestly, the bigger issue is that China doesn't have to sell anything in America to overpower us, in the mid-term. They just have to sit by and watch as we destroy ourselves from within. We'd rather fight pointless culture wars, and direct money toward already rich people, than put resources toward new R&D, or infrastructure. Because of the critical mass of MAGA, our downfall is inevitable.

As an American, my experience with American cars - Ford, Chevy - has been crap. The only cars I'd buy again are Hyundai and Toyota. I've never had a Honda, so I can't say much about it. Oh, though I do drive a Ford Transit 250 commercial delivery van, and aside from wear and tear, it's running solidly at 228k miles.

They don't have to get into a war with us: they just wait us out, and let us die under the weight of our own fkn stupidity. Culture wars over R&D, anyone? We're too busy punching ourselves in the face; they don't have to lift a finger.