ExtremeDullard

I watched the trailer, and it looks like a right ole shite action movie. However, I will say this:

President Down

Why is fiction always better than reality?

You don't become a billionaire by playing by the rules.

Actually you're wrong about that.

These guys do play by the rule: they obey the law to a tee. But... they obey the LETTER of the law, not the spirit. That's why nobody can't stop them and throw them in the slammer for tax evasion.

What you need to be a billionaire is to be psychopathic enough to think you're the only person whose interests matter, and have enough money to pay for equally psychopathic tax lawyers to establish some legal constructs for you that enable you to pay almost zero taxes legally. Once you're rich enough to pay the lawyers, you get exponentially richer.

It's legal, but they're still psychopathic sonsabitches.

And that's news?

I'm old enough to remember spotting Michael Jackson's first album in an obscure record store in SF and wondering if this guy was any good, and I've always knows rich people pay less taxes than working stiffs. In fact, I'm almost certain that's where the idiom to get stiffed comes from.

I also don't remember a time when I haven't thought the next time I come across a rich prick, if he's enough of a prick, I might just slit his throat for the sheer satisfaction of doing it.

I'm tempted to try Ubuntu Touch. But I want to buy a second-hand Fairphone 4 to try it on, and other OSes possibly - because I don't want to waste the CalyxOS install that's running fine on mine right now - and I haven't found a good second-hand one yet.

If you went through school without learning anything, it means you're a normal person.

Don't worry too much. What you need from your school is a degree, not an education. You do your own education. The degree doesn't mean you know anything: it only tells your employer you were patient and dogged enough to sit through boring classes and terrible teachers all the way through.

That's the real value for your future boss: they like someone who can withstand and survive the idiocy of the workplace. You getting your degree is reasonable proof that you won't be a snowflake and leave them hanging when the going gets a little tough.

But make no mistake: you know nothing out of school. Nobody does. All employers know that. The best you can hope to get out of school is the ability to learn all the rest quickly after you're hired.

The way Google is actively on the war path against deGoogled ROMs and sideloading lately, I expect to have to install some sort of mobile Linux OS on my Fairphone at some point to do my regular smartphoning while preserving my privacy, while having to buy an ultra-cheap, small smartphone on the side with vanilla Google spyware just for my banking apps. In other words, carry two cellphones for nothing. Because Google.

I guess now that fascism rules the land, Google isn't worried about being getting broken up for being a monopoly anymore. That emboldens then to finally do what they've always wanted to do: lock down the Android ecosystem.

Fuck Google.

Intel has ties with a fascist regime.

Don't support fascism. Don't buy Intel.

The future is now the present and it is both kinds of dystopias: as in all fascist regimes, the private sector is in cahoots with the regime. The US is no different.

Everything Trump and his henchmen do seems to have a degree of built-in cruelty. Kilmar Abrego Garcia, being one of the few real thorns in Trump's backside, probably earned himself an extra helping or two.

Lincicome lists a number of problems with this transaction, including (but not limited to!):

• Intel making decisions for political rather than commercial considerations
• Intel’s board prioritizing government interests over their fiduciary duties
• Other companies being pressured to purchase Intel products, weakening their long-term position.
• Disadvantaging the competitive position of other companies
• Incentivizing the misallocation of private capital

Here's my biggest problem with the US stake in Intel, that's not in the list: whenever Intel turns a profit, 10% of it directly finances the fascist Trump regime.

People who want to fight fascism in the US absolutely need to boycott Intel from now on. That mean no Intel processors, but also no daughterboards or laptops with integrated Intel chipsets, or anything Intel-branded.