To the folks who are keeping up on the story, did the McDonalds snitch ever get that bounty? Because if nothing else, it will feel like justice if that person gets nothing for selling out Mangione to the fucking pigs.

I’m appreciating the silence while it lasts.

I’ve got a Malamute mix, and yeah, it just never ends. There are definitely times where it’s worse, but you eventually lose the strength to keep fighting the inexorable tide of shed fur and you just accept that your house will never be a clean or sterile environment. Then you stop even noticing it until you wear fancy clothes or someone points out to you that you are covered in it. The roller brushes provide temporary succor, but does nothing in the long term. The Roomba will contemplate suicide. The undercoat rakes will never brush all of it out even if your dog behaves well enough to let you do it for the time it would take to give them a proper brush out every single day.

The nemesis system patents and Namco’s loading screen mini game patent are two examples of why game mechanics and features should never be granted an exclusive patent.

Of course Namco’s patents expired in 2015 at a time when seamless load screens had become the industry standard.

Who knows what the gaming landscape will look like when people are finally able to get their hands on the nemesis system again?

“Good soldier. Now, here are your next set of orders: Stand right there on those gallows and put that noose around your neck.”

That’s what I hope they’ll say to anyone who tries to use the Nuremberg Defense when they get prosecuted for blowing up civilian boats in international waters.

I’ve said this before in other threads, but we know that Donald Trump verifiably tried to cheat to stay in power in 2020, and when it was apparent that his cheating wasn’t working, he incited a mob to storm congress and interrupt the peaceful transition of power.

Why do people think that someone like that, who in 2024 had even less to lose by cheating and was faced with the prospect of real prison time if he did not win, would not attempt to cheat again? Especially when he was never punished for it the first time?

It blew my mind that the Democrats just accepted Harris’ loss without a fight.

It was only after Trump took office again and I observed the behavior of establishment Democrats that I realized they didn’t actually care and are on the same team. I saw those who would decry Trump at the top of the highest mountain but refuse to lift a finger to actually oppose him when they had the power to do so. Now I know they are complicit, and that a Trump presidency doesn’t hurt them, it benefits them. The opposition is just for show.

So, the Democrats probably knew Trump cheated and just let him. He would provide the perfect cover for them to conduct whatever kind of shady business they wanted while Trump makes headlines every single day for 4 years.

I don’t care much for metroidvanias but Dust: An Elysian Tail was fun for a playthrough or two.

He has to get the to point where he thinks MAGA are too leftist before he ratchets over to the other extreme and suggests maybe a communist dictatorship ain’t so bad. So I’d say he’s at least 1 more brain injury and/or lead exposure away from that point.

One of the only things the Trump admin is doing that I actually agree with and have since I was a child. Fuck coins in general but getting rid of the most dead weight coin of them all is a step in the right direction.

It’s an imaginary wrench, because it’s still going to pass.

Boy, if only the spineless wimp dems didn’t cave, Trump would be in a fucking panic right now with the ATC situation. Instead, they delivered him a win right before he would have felt the most squeeze.

Yeah, this is giving me “disbanding the watchdog organization in Wuhan, China to save taxpayer dollars” vibes.

If the sole reason you have a Costco membership is for the hotdogs, then I would agree, but for the vast majority of people the reason they shop at Costco is to buy items in bulk and save money compared to buying the same amount at the local chain grocery store.

It’s not even because the hotdog itself is particularly good. It’s your standard beef frankfurter and a fountain soda. There’s no magic with the item from a culinary standpoint. It’s the fact that they still haven’t raised the price on it when they almost certainly could have done so silently a long time ago and nobody would have noticed or cared. It’s the one act of upper management bothering to think about their customers for a change rather than just gouging every single cent they can get out of their members because some math formula told them that it was possible.

Can the UN even do anything to the United States if they have a unilateral security council veto? I would think that the USA would successfully find a way to argue that sanctioning them for crimes against humanity is not considered a “procedural” decision.

With a pit stop at a cafe on the way for a coffee and a cigarette (breakfast).

There likely wouldn’t be enough IRS agents to audit that many people at once. There aren’t enough to go after tax cheats when people abide by the system en masse, so if there were a concerted effort to stop paying, they would probably have trouble with enforcement.

Now, I’m 100% certain that the Trump admin would push the IRS to “make examples” of a few unlucky people, and I’m not expecting a large enough pool of people participating in the new viral meme “just don’t pay your taxes, they can’t arrest us all” for it to matter.

ICE is full of DEI hires. Or as I like to call them, DUI hires.

You should have received your ballot by now, if you opted for mail-in. Call your local registrar of voters to make sure that they sent it, or else just go in on election day to do it.

All of them?

All of them.

Does demolishing a 120+ year old historical building to replace it with a gold-plated ballroom sound like the actions of a man who intends to leave office in 3 years time?

That was his exact strategy during his first term and he executed it to great effect. Millions of taxpayer dollars got funneled right back into the Trump family coffers.