Ala cart disease control. It’s about letting people opt out of vaccines individually. The net result will be people failing to get a patchwork of shots (who wants five in a single go? - I’ll remember to come back later). So, we lose our herd immunity because the CDC has made it harder to get everything the community needs.

No one who survived the attempt to require others to use it.

Show me an ad in my own kitchen and that screen is going to be broken.

I moved to Germany. It’s been an experience because the tech status dialed back about 15 years. One area I don’t miss is the ever pervasive drive to have screens with ads on every surface.

Having a spending based service economy that relies heavily upon the top wealth to survive sounds like a truly horrible situation to be in. All it takes is a handful of people to sway whether there’s even an economy at all.

The Linux Mint GUI updater is an interesting bit of code, or at least it was about 5 years ago. I looked at updating it a bit with a status bar for a stage I thought could use it.

I opened up the code…Python that just uses a shell call to apt. No muss, no library calls. Okay, that’ll do.

It was a functional wrapper on the command line calls, exactly as you’d hope for a tool.

These are the same people ranting about falling birthrates and demanding women become baby making machines. Wasn’t all of that in aid of having more humans around, which is exactly the opposite of this effort to murder people?

These are psychos in nice clothes.

It was just about a asinine as you would assume.

I’m on a Discworld kick. Finished The Truth and am now in Going Postal.

Any time I’m reading Discworld it’s because I’m stressed and tired. It’s my penultimate easy reading choice.

The Democrats are nearly ready to follow that letter up with a serious committee to appoint a subcommittee to decide what kind of paper to use in the next angry letter.

Awesome follow through. Thank you.

You’re suggesting a system of anything less than fascism and that’s not going to work for this administration. Please report to the nearest ICE center for deportation.

Got a source on how they hid the body? It’s very not cool if that’s what was done. I know the Nazis are trying to turn him into a martyr, and having the body both to hide from the investigation and to make it mysterious so they can tell any lies they like is classic.

It’s from the Q Anon cult in the US. It’s the crew who push a ton of antisemitic and conspiracy theories designed to push it’s followers into Nazism.

Multiple government leaders found out they’d been fired via Twitter in the first round of this administration. TACO is a coward and really doesn’t give a fuck about people so he just does whatever is easiest, including destroying careers/lives by randomly shitting things out on the Web.

That’s a reason our family fled the US. Once the Conservatives really started going mask off of just how little empathy they had for anyone, it was time to go. In the end, they’re okay with my family dying for their twisted vision of reality and they have held power in the US too long.

They’re running the French monarchy’s playbook of 1830 that led to the 3rd French Revolution. That once ended relatively peacefully, but history doesn’t repeat, it only rhymes.

MILES (often a small edit leaves it MILFS) is everywhere in Berlin. Cars share with some vans if you truly need a big trip.

My salary was not covering the cost of living and raising a family. Bailed on the US ed system for greener pastures.

I moved to a major European city. Seeing people (and now doing it myself) bringing home furniture on the bus or train is great. I don’t own a car anymore. Between a small wheelie cart and larger stuff coming via delivery with the order, we’ve been furnishing our apartment without trouble.

The percentage of days we needed a big vehicle was always low. Buying and maintaining a car when there’s actual modern public transit is only for extreme edge cases.

American society is 99% in on it, but many other places are trying to go there too.

Classic: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0dKrUE_O0VE

The Katy cost a mere $7 billion and it’s still often a glorified parking lot. It’s got less throughput than a single train for moving people, but I’m sure adding another lane will fix it. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/o-F-7Yc-A8U