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I hadn’t heard about that, but upon reading your comment my immediate thought is that Trump is going to manufacture a pretext to arrest (i.e. kidnap) Governor Walz.

In reality, Visa would be forced not to sanction the judges and the US would balk at banning them from the US market. Regardless of how insane and vindictive Trump is, his handlers would force him to back down because punishing a few judges just isn’t worth it.

But France has to play hardball to make that happen.

Sounds like France should ban those payment processors entirely within the country. Swift and brutal retaliation is the only tactic that will curb the Trump-sucking fascists’ fuckery.

Visa should be forced to choose between implementing Trump’s whim and being able to continue to do business at all.

The mayor needs to be ordering the local police to conduct a manhunt for the murderer, raiding and arresting any ICE who try to harbor him.

Would you happen to have a source for that? Admittedly this is based on nothing more than my anecdotal experience living through it, but I owned a PocketPC back then and I distinctly remember feeling like I was in the minority compared to Palm or Blackberry.

Wouldn’t raising a Russian flag make it more legitimate to seize, not less?

What the Hell could it possibly ever even need a firmware update for?! The vast majority of headsets aren’t even physically capable of having firmware (because they connect using 3.5mm analog audio jacks), let alone receiving an update for it!

I use a mouse that doesn’t require anything beyond the generic USB HID driver that comes with Linux in the first place.

(Okay, okay, I could also use OpenRGB if I wanted to control the lights. But still, it uses fuck-all software provided by the manufacturer.)

What does that have to do with water pressure? In that system, the energy comes from the heat.

And yet Harris was so fucking unpopular that people refused to vote for her in states other Democrats won.

Either that or there was election fraud in the Presidential race that was absent in the down-ballot races.

I’m not saying I think that’s what happened, but I do think there were enough statistical anomalies to warrant an investigation.

When was that? I only remember Palm having a lead, and then Blackberry, and then iOS and Android. Windows CE and Windows Mobile were never more than also-rans.

Windows 95 on CD-ROM included three music videos, presumably to show off the capabilities of the format.

Fuck that, streets are for people. Walking in the street is good, actually, and the motherfucking cars are the interlopers.

And that’s before even considering the context of it being a protest!

Horror level sci fi

Or comedy-level sci-fi.

https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Ameglian_Major_Cow

The creature offers Zaphod and his party his shoulder, braised in a white wine sauce, then goes on to offer other parts of its body, having worked hard to fatten itself up through force-feeding itself for months. Eventually, after Arthur and Trillian have expressed their shock and Ford has expressed his disinterest, Zaphod requests four rare steaks and the Dish of the Day goes off to shoot himself, telling Arthur not to worry, as he says “I’ll be very humane.”

Youð meanð likeð thisð?

Venezuela has over 28 million people. Greenland has 56 thousand. Even if you assumed the latter could punch above its weight because it’s a rich first-world country – and even if you included the whole 6 million population of Denmark in your assessment too – the idea of working up to it from Venezuela seems backwards to me.

Subnautica. There wasn’t really anything left to do, story-wise, but I wasn’t ready to go.

Won’t someone rid us of these snitching clinic workers violating medical ethics?

It’s intentionally ambiguous so that the officials administering it always have an excuse to fail you if they don’t like the look of you (i.e. you’re not white).