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A lot of people like to speculate about the future, but usually, it's meant to be a reassurance: "It couldn't happen here!"

It's often that we see that such speculation was horrendously naive. All of it was built on assumptions like "people can't be that stupid" or "people wouldn't just let that happen". Yeah. About that.

This may be basic stuff, but people tend to forget the basic stuff.

Some poor sod at the US government: "Hold on! HOLD ON! We're getting hundreds of payments a minute. We need some time to verify all of the new vote orders. It's very complicated. All votes will happen in due time!"

I mean... Good? We nowadays have these things called "societal norms", which means everyone needs to think before they open their big stupid mouths.

You know what real pros do? They were already aware of this, and were already doing this.

If you have to be taught these lessons now, well, take it as a learning opportunity. Expand your horizons. Enhance your compassion.

Once again, they're calling for the government to stop messing with things, when the actual problem is the private sector messing with things.

The governments of the world do not have secret weather fuckuppery cannons. And if they did, it'd be pee in the wind compared to the literally industrial scale weather fuckuppery cannons the industrial sector runs all day every day very publicly.

Schuko (Type F) of course. The British plug (Type G) is a truly worthy adversary.

My parents live in a fairly small town. I tried to go looking for my late father in the Streetview pics. There were a few more Streetview photos from the last few years, after his death, but before that, there was just one set from over 10 years ago, and nothing beyond that. Couldn't see him on Streetview, but saw his car in front of the place where he worked in his spare time.

Maybe they should also make it mandatory for pedestrians to carry rocket-propelled grenade launchers, and be trained in their operation.

This would hopefully make car drivers to exercise more caution.

/sarcasm that has an unfortunate chance of becoming reality in a few decades, you just watch

Yup, Scrivener saves data locally. Ironically, you should never use it on a cloud drive, because apparently it can lead to data corruption. I sync my Scrivener projects across multiple computers with Git instead, because that at least ensures the files are at a consistent state.

Martin: Organized crime?
Cosmo: Hah. Don't kid yourself. It's not that organized.

– Sneakers (1992)

Twitter is absolutely going to say "well, we're definitely not an organised hate group. Sometimes people just hate stuff. We're just a social media platform, helping people organise. Oh shit"

Yeah, I take zillions of screenshots. My day is ruined if notice too late I was supposed to screenshot something. Spend way too much time contemplating screenshot software and screenshot strategies. Hardly a day passes me cursing Android because the Volume Down + Power doesn't register correctly and it does either power or volume down and it sucks. Argue that Firefox screenshot feature is why everyone should switch to it. Just found myself thinking that Steam has clear advantage over Xbox in that it just saves the screenshots locally instead of the whole incredibly convoluted OneDrive ring around the rosey. And so on. This is a serious matter.

When was the last time I looked at a screenshot from long ago? ...um, some time late spring maybe???

There's also Léon the URL Cleaner.

Instead of using this new pathetic armoured golf cart, maybe Trump should use one of these cars as a golf cart.

It'd sink in a water hazard.

But he has multiple of them. So just use a spare!

It'd get graffitied, set on fire by protestors, and then sunk into a water hazard.

But luckily there's many more of them available! So pick another spare.

And would you look at that, now he has the strongest golf cart money can buy!