That’s a feature with poetry all over: twisting grammar to make the content fit the line. “Some of those that work on the police forces” just doesn’t fit as well. It gets the point across anyway, so what’s the issue?

That makes me nervous, but I’m not allowed to tell you why

Security by obscurity may work in delaying exploits, but once someone breaks the obscurity, they have a headstart on exploiting it over those hoping to fix it.

Oh no, I recently saw someone shitting on it still. They exist!

Most have just wisened up and moved to a systemd-less sphere, I assume, rather than fighting a lost battle on a niche hill.

Right? Let others more willing to suffer than us do the diving, we’ll just skim their gains off the top.

LifeProTip: exploit the hard work of others for your own profit!

(That’s a joke)

They exist! Drowning in a sea of shit, there are nuggets of gold. Have fun digging for them though.

“Could’ve been worse. Not sure how, but it could’ve.”

Ten years later…

There should be an open communication standard that all robots use to communicate with each other.

Yes!

And it will only be used for good and nothing nefarious.

Oh no

Ads is from advertisement, not adds

One thing Europe can lay claim to is the steam engine, because the British had deforested so hard they needed to mine for coal and a machine that could power a pump with coal to drain the accumulating water from the mines was actually useful enough to find support.

But once we get into the further progress of the industrialisation, I’m pretty sure gunpowder enters the equation (jog my mind, I dimly remember some synergy between developing better artillery and developing the methods to create smoother cylinders, which helped with creating better steam engines).

Aren’t they fractions rather than floating point decimals?

Ooh I’ll take the history of the crossbow.

Sure, I could look it up myself, or I could let a fellow nerd indulge and share in their delight.

if you dont do exactly what I say the way I say it then you are basically voting for trump

Welcome to a world where FPTP has managed to create a binary choice, and one option is clearly worse. It’s not even “do what I say” or “voting for trump”, it’s failing to oppose him. Everyone that advocated against voting for Harris is complicit in the damage Trump will do that Harris wouldn’t have. Trans kids, abused spouses, victims of labour safety violations, all their blood will be on the hands of those that said “I don’t care”.

Like you.

I dont play those dumb centrist hostage games

So you’re going to let the hostages die? How noble and enlightened.

I didn’t set it up. I don’t agree with all of Harris’ views. But the General Election isn’t the place to make that point. Local elections, primaries, protests - great! But for all that it sucks, the General Election is a hostage situation. And unfortunately for the hostages, it’s not a “game”, it’s fucking life-or-death and you found “death” acceptable. Their death, namely.

No anger for them eh?

I’ve been plenty angry at them, as I am at all enablers of this fucked-up dilemma. But I can be mad at multiple people for different reasons.

Just for the slaves who didnt mind the whip and support the genocide?

Right, and who was the anti-genocide candidate?

Oh right. Neither. Because this election wasn’t about supporting or opposing genocide.

It was about all the points in which Trump and Harris are different, all the things you don’t care about, those “hostages”, which you’ll gladly let die for the sake of feeling good about doing nothing.

You let people die in the name of pretending to save people. That’s the hypocrisy.

So you thought Trump was the better option.

I dont vote for war criminals.

You don’t vote against openly bigoted felons seeking to destroy what’s left of democracy either?

Nicht wirklich. Die Chefin von dem Stall hält da wohl jedes Jahr Nachtwache, aber letztlich kannst du halt gegen den Fluchtreflex von Fluchttieren nicht viel machen wenn es kracht und bunt blitzt.
Hilft halt auch nicht wenn du selbst besorgt bist, ob irgend ein Genie “zum Spaß” Böller ins Stroh- oder Heulager wirft oder auch nur ne Rakete unglücklich abstürzt. Ist zwar unwahrscheinlich, so weit draußen, aber Menschen kommen manchmal auf echt beschissene Ideen und selbst ein mal ist ein mal zu viel.

Äußerst passend zum Bild: wir haben ein Pferd (in einem Offenstall mit einigen anderen). Da kannst du am 1. Januar vergessen irgendwas mit zu machen. Wenn das Adrenalin dann irgendwann nachlässt sind sie fix und fertig. Da legt sich mittags oder so dann die ganze Herde zum schlafen hin weil sie die ganze Nacht voller Panik auf und ab gerannt sind.

In fact, just right-to-repair the whole car. In fact, the whole everything!

Boy, that escalated quickly

But yes, please.

With respect to Israel? Sure.
With respect to international policy otherwise? No.
With respect to domestic policy? Hell no.

By focusing on one issue - a horrible issue, don’t get me wrong, but one this election wouldn’t influence - to the detriment of all others, you pretend that everything else doesn’t matter. Fuck transgender kids, fuck immigrants, fuck labor laws, fuck economic exploitation, fuck the Ukraine too while we’re at it, fuck everyone and everything, but at least you didn’t vote for one genocide supporter (but got the other, so you achieved nothing anyway and never were going to).

Instead of directing that frustration at a more precise channel like protests, pestering your representatives, more severe forms of activism specifically messaging your discontent about that one issue, you used the vaguest possible opportunity with the most side effects. The US democracy may be broken, mutilated and in dire need of a fundamental overhaul, but it still has some democratic elements. Pretending it doesn’t is disingenuous.

If that changed your view after all, then I’ll take back everything else I’m about to say, but if you genuinely think nothing but making a show of caring about Palestine matters, this is where my charity and civility ends.

You’re a transphobia, racism and christofascism enabler, and a hollow gesture of caring about Palestinian lives that was never going to do anything for those lives except put a bunch of other lives in jeopardy doesn’t weigh that up. In a word:

You’re a hypocrite.

An impossible choice between…?

The persistent myth that both parties are equally bad is patently bullshit propaganda by those fostering that disengagement. Pretending that all the other issues don’t matter in the face of the decision between “not going to stop genocide” and “going to make it worse” is narrow-minded. Again, if someone thinks “I’m not going to vote for genocide” is a justification for “I’m not going to vote against the fascists”, they’re trying to show their virtue with respect to genocide, while not actually caring about anything else except that signalling of virtue. That’s the hypocrisy.