The South is also the birthplace of the Civil Rights Movement and the part of the country with the highest percentage of black population.

It’s easy for folks in places like Minnesota to pretend they aren’t racist when they barely ever interact with people of other races to begin with.

Make no mistake: it’s rural people in all states who are bigots, not southerners. The only reason states in the south are still “red” is that they tend to have slightly higher percentages of rural populations than blue states do.

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The oil execs are saying it’s “uninvestable” precisely because they know how incompetent Trump is.

Note that the world’s top 1% is 83 million people, which includes way more than 1% of the population of places like the US and western Europe.

If you’re a “middle class” homeowner in a high cost-of-living area, you’re part of this statistic.

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Good list, but I think there are a few things to add/modify:

• Trump hasn’t just discussed bribing Greenlanders, he’s also repeatedly floated the idea of taking it by force.
• the US is recalling non-essential staff from its embassies in Israel and Lebanon, fueling speculation that Israel is about to attack Iran. (IMO this might unfortunately put a damper on that revolution you mentioned.)
• In Minnesota, ICE murdered a white woman who was a citizen and bystander (not protestor) and who was just trying to obey ICE’s instruction to leave. This has caused not only massive protests but also relatively strong condemnation of ICE by the state government, bringing the US even closer to civil war.

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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.