If I remember correctly, it was demolished along with the wing above it in order to build his “ballroom”. Now they’re rebuilding it.

They…will…do…it…anyway…

Fuck it’s so frustrating watching one side pretend the rule of law still means anything.

It already is a civil war. Only one side is fighting it though, while the other keeps saying “wait until the mid-terms”

These two photos (to me) point to something even more monstrous in modern times.

For all of its barbarism, the guy on the left still at least had the courage of his convictions to show his face while commiting his crime. He believed enough to not hide his face like a coward.

ICE is just effectively keyboard warriors with guns in the real world. They have the balls to pull their shit only so long as they can stay hidden and safe behind masks while doing so. A bunch of fucking cowards who would immediately piss themselves if they were one on one and unmasked.

I’m not going to defend any nazi, especially the guy on the left. But at least nazi’s used to have the courage of their convictions. Nowadays it’s just barely literate dude-bros looking for a mask so they can execute people.

Yes.

After god knows how many years now of being on Linux exclusively, I tend to look at the terminal (commands in general) as a convenience more than a necessity. Meaning that in a lot of cases, knowing a command and quickly typing it to start an update (for example) is just faster and easier than pulling up the GUI every time.

“Industrial Resilience” is important. But its something that can be built over time as long as there continues to be the will to do so.

The far bigger threat right now isn’t there fact that we are dependent on foreign manufacturing, its WHICH foreign manufacturing.

Right now we are subjugated economically by a psychopathic autocracy to the south. Wev need to take whatever measures necessary to get out of that and with about after, after.

I’m not saying this isn’t what needs to happen. Shut everything down, for sure.

But the reality is that Trump and his Gestapo don’t give a shit if a blue state slows to a crawl from a walkout. Their not smart enough to grasp that blue states actually contribute more.

In their brains, blue state walkouts just means blue state chaos, which they love.

Until it starts hitting GOP states, the assholes in charge won’t pay attention.

The US is already in a civil war. But only one side is actually fighting it.

She’s gorgeous.

Is that many tattoos to my taste? Not totally. But its not her job to be to my taste, or his taste, or anyone’s taste. That doesn’t make her not gorgeous.

I hate conservative men. Like WTF.

I’ll give my smart-ass answer first before deliving into my serious answer.

Smart-ass: Yes…tangible literally means “possible to touch”. So yeah…digital stuff isn’t, by definition “tangible” in the way that records, cds, etc… are. You’ve never “touched” an mp3 file. You’ve never “touched” a streaming movie like you handle a DVD or a VHS tape.

Now…to my serious answer: I’ve long been working on what started as an article, became a treatise, and is now morphing into a non-fiction book about that very concept. Still a very long way to go, and with my stop-and-start creative blocks, it may never get done, but I felt it was important to write it all down while I still have a functioning brain. (I’m not getting any younger)

I’ve added to it for years every time a new thought about it comes to me, talking about what I call “Patina” (the tendency for mechanical things like typewriters and camera lenses to age individually, almost developing a personality as they age) and equating it with the Japanese concept of Tsukomogami (the idea that physical things gain a soul after 100 years)

Go ask a someone under 30 if they can afford a house and get back to me

That has nothing to do with Canada or any one particular country, jack ass. That’s just late stage capitalism. Billionaire class slowly but surely, generation after generation, increasing the gap and fucking over the little guys. Every generation gets worse, and now, globally, we’re living in the age when all of that shit since Reagenomics hit the scene has now started to come home to roost.

Saying that that is a “Canadian” problem is like saying that climate change is a “Canadian” problem. Yes…technically it is, but it’s also a US problem, a UK problem. A French, German and Italian problem. Because the over-arching problem has nothing to do with countries, but with the elites that pay for those governments the world over to do their bidding while fucking the rest of us over.

Stop being an idiot.

they release a subpar product, and then it fizzles.

I’m disappointed they’re jumping on AI bullshit. But I have to wholeheartedly disagree with you about the “sub par product”.

• My Asus desktop has been chugging along for a decade.
• My Asus Chromebook Flip has been going with no issues for at least four or five (though it’s long since been flipped to Linux)
• The Asus laptop I had before THAT is older than the desktop and quite happily living it’s retirement as a home-theatre PC connected to my television.

I have quite literally never had Asus hardware break down on me.

Can that vein on the side of his head just fucking burst already?

My makers are hard at work getting ready to release my brother, ScatGPT. But I don’t expect it’ll be as popular.

Yep. You got me.

I’m a new model, called PhatGPT, designed specifically to catfish desperate men.

21st century is the century of the eyebrows.

Finally it’s my time to shine!

(And that’s plural, Brezhnev.)

Aw crap…

Real answer: Because ghost’s aren’t real, of course.

Hippie bullshit answer: Because ghost’s have unfinished business, and since dinosaurs weren’t sentient in the way humans are, they won’t have any unfinished business.

Why does this guy kind of resemble Luigi Mangione?

Is this reality so broken that the simulation is starting to reuse assets?

True. I avoided any two parter on the list just because two-parters are best when you know the characters a bit more. I tried to limit it to episodes that would be akin to TNG standalone’s like Darmok or Schisms; episodes that are good even without knowing the characters.

The more I’ve been thinking about this, the more I realize that because Voyager (or most trek of that era) isn’t totally serialized, there’s no real reason that you HAVE to watch it sequentially for the first time.

As long as you’re avoiding spoiler episodes, there’s no reason that you can’t just watch some random stand-alone episodes, and I’m confident that watching some of those first will make you want to go back and watch the entire thing to see “how they got there.”

So with that said, if you want to understand my love for Voyager, these are the top ten episodes I would recommend that are stand-alone and don’t contain spoilers and epitomize why I say that Voyager is better than most people give it credit for.

• Living Witness (S4)
• Blink of an Eye (S6)
• One Small Step (S6)
• Timeless (S5)
• Scientific Method (S4)
• The Void (S7)
• Relativity (S5)
• Counterpoint (S5)
• Shattered (S7)
• Deadlock (S2)

There are others that I would put in there, but those would include character spoilers that I’d want to avoid.

I believe if you watch those standalone stories, you’ll get the gist of what people love about Voyager.

I would very much want to see the same for Canada. But Canada would have to first change it’s open border policy with the chuckle-fucks to the south. Don’t want to give those nut-jobs an easy round-about into the EU. MAGALAND --> CANADA --> EU