I definitely shed my last vestiges of liberalism by the end of the Mueller investigation, when they decided after all that time that they weren’t going to prosecute him anyway because he was the president.

Biden isn’t giving Netanyahu nothing, he’s arming that fascist balloon knot.

That’s like reforming the Nazi party, by the time you’ve fixed the Democratic party you’ll have changed everything about it.

Protest votes are supposed to hurt. The point is to motivate candidates to do better through the threat of loss of power.

I use ~/w for “Work” and less typing

Someone’s gonna die. I’m gonna get injured and go broke with medical bills. Heights. Crosswalks. Riding a bike in traffic. Driving in the city. I’m gonna go blind. I’m gonna get dementia and alzheimers. Shit times will happen again. Our country will go full fascist. My fiance will leave me or be assaulted or be sick. A recession catches us at a bad time. Climate change is worse than we expected. A lone star tick will make me allergic to meat. My asshole will never heal. AI is going to replace me.

Oh OK if they’re making money from product placement then it’s fine to pirate it.

Wishful thinking is free, I suppose.

Hard but not impossible. It’s been done. XZ Utils, phpmyadmin, OpenBSD’s IPSEC stack

NSA in Amerikkka has been targeting the tor browser and flagging tor traffic for a long time. They will toss intercepts to law enforcement occasionally to be used through parallel construction. They’re fond of backdooring security software and hardware and sneaking it into the supply chain.

Skeptical of Isntreal’s incarceration rate

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it’s y’all not ya’ll

Taxes aren’t necessary in a socialist system. DPRK has no income tax. It would be the money that would have bought their boss his third lambo, that pays for keeping people off the streets instead.

So anything that’s psychoactive is banned? How about caffeine? That’s got a higher effective dose to lethal dose ratio than substances you’ll ban me for mentioning. Will you ban people for mentioning therapeutic applications of these substances? This is an ignorant proposition.

Headline says Reuters, link is RT. They’re not the same.

The same people who ruled it today, the immensely wealthy.

I think drug abuse is a consequence of societal problems

I’d say the same, but replace “think” with “know” as research bears this out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Park

Oregon has shown that drug legalization that comes before building a functional health care system doesn’t produce the same results as Portugal. Legalization works in Portugal because they have that. Drugs must be treated as a medical issue, not a criminal issue, but they must be treated. Sure we can legalize before we have health care, but it’s gonna be a little fucked up.

Ideally, there’s free rehab. Most drugs are legal but in some cases only permitted in a supervised matter, with tested product. Some drugs are just too dangerous for recreational use and will remain banned, with laws against import, manufacturing and sales but not possession.

115,000 songs. Mostly FLAC. Comes out to 3.5TB

another 18tb of video on the NAS