Who could have foreseen that the guy who said “I’d love to be a dictator” is doing dictator things? Certainly not the 77 million people who voted for him.

Also, the actual usage manuals for these things state that… you are not to fire them directly at someone closer than approximately 200-400 feet, what you are supposed to do is fire them at the ground at a shallow angle, such that they bounce or ricochet upward at a shallow angle…

This is incorrect, but a very widespread misunderstanding.

Guidelines from the Geneva Human Rights Platform suggest that rubber bullets should be directed at the lower body (the guidelines actually caution against “skip-firing” or shooting at the ground first, because it makes them too unpredictable). The potential for a rubber bullet to ricochet, Heisler explains, makes for a dangerous situation. https://www.inverse.com/mind-body/rubber-bullets-cannot-be-used-safely

Never heard of Zed, trying it out now… I"m not sure I’ve ever seen such a responsive GUI app. Crazy.

That’s awful - Colombia seemed to be finally turning things around.

You really like metaphors.

It’s actually true. 56% of Americans are “partially illiterate”, which explains a lot about the state of affairs in that country.

In 2023, 28% of adults scored at or below Level 1, 29% at Level 2, and 44% at Level 3 or above. Anything below Level 3 is considered “partially illiterate”

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

I’m guessing you use Firefox? It’s much better at evading that tracking.

corporate

I have yet to hear a compelling reason why corporate lobbying should be legal.

Linux is a better alternative to windows than, e.g., LineageOS is to android?

It’s true. Camera apps for example are much, much worse than the OEM version.

It’s Arch with a few tweaks. For something very similar, try CachyOS.

FWIW I use Fastmail and it works great.

Oh good one but that’s a trick question, because nobody has actually read it in full.

Wow, I’d love to know how they encoded the messages in there.

What?? The only books that exist are:

• Harry Potter
• 1984
• AO3 fanfics

At least Luckey went with the name of the good guy’s sword rather than the bad guy’s surveillance device, like Peter Thiel.

No, I pretty much only look at the number of contributors (more is better)

77 million Americans voted for the monster. This is far from over even with him gone.

Hello vegan, I’m dad.

Then pardons should at minimum be the purview of the Senate or House, instead of a single person.