But everything I said was a fact. If that makes you uncomfortable what the hell does that say about you?

So apparently Jeffrey Epstein wrote that Donald Trump sucked Bill Clinton's dick and Vladimir Putin has the pictures.

Stop, read that again, Google it, and just Jesus fucking Christ what the hell is wrong with our world?

Anyway, I doubt Trump sucked Clinton's dick. Although given some of the freaky shit guys at ivy League schools do in those gentlemen's clubs who the hell knows? The point of something like that would be to have pictures so that both sides could use them for mutually assured destruction...

I think it's much more likely though that Epstein was exaggerating for effect but that Putin really does have some extremely damning compromat on Donald Trump.

MAGA could watch Donald Trump rape their own babies and they would somehow blame Obama.

When we say it's a cult that's what we mean.

They wouldn't have made very many of these so they could advertise they sold out.

The purpose of this is to get you angry at excess spending by idiots. Then you engage and become aware.

This is a marketing campaign and I'm participating in it and if you're reading this you're participating in it too.

Think critically and Google competently

So very much this. We have a TV with a Netflix app that can't watch Netflix. We have another TV with a SteamLink app that I can't play games with because a firmware update was rolled out that bound left stick up and down to the volume control on the TV making it impossible to play games using SteamLink. That was incidentally the last firmware update released.

For companies which largely have no problem supporting mobile phones for years on end they fucking suck at this TV thing.

Not so much ate the lunch, but invited people over for brunch beforehand leaving them full and uninterested for a second meal. We're talking about a feature being pushed only in the last 10ish years. The interesting part about that is that by this time everyone already had a phone.

And to whomever said this comment is overrated I suggest you do a bit of research into human failure analysis. You'll find the 1 in 10 year mistake of any given repetitive task to be widely used not just in science literature, but in industry hazard analysis as well. You may think this doesn't apply to you but all you're really trying to convince us of is that you're not a normal human being.

Yeah, for once the complaining about the decline of Slashdot isn't just a bunch of old man shouting at clouds. It's actually by design. The site is dying.

I'm going to tell you right now there is no way this passes a background check unless the companies wanted it to.

It's just like how anytime we want to put a stop to illegal immigration you just throw a few businesses that hire them in jail.

But instead we brutalize the immigrants and look the other way 99% of the time when the businesses commit the crime.

Every now and then some small business owner gets raked over the coals but never any of the big ones. It's usually some shitty little Mexican restaurant somewhere.

Meanwhile it's impossible to have sensible immigration policies, like you know we get to have H1B doctors in rural towns where nobody will work but we don't bring in a limitless supply of JavaScript programmers...

That is way too much nuance for the American voter. Let alone having a discussion of taking the increased GDP from immigration and giving it to all citizens instead of shunting it up to the top as fast as we can.

In the last 40 years the top 1% have taken about 60 trillion with a t dollars out of the economy.

The guy running from our drug wars cutting your grass isn't the problem.

Oh yeah I agree that Putin is more dangerous than Kamala but it doesn't matter how dangerous he is as an individual if we just give Ukraine enough weapons then it's over for Russia they're going to have to back out.

However more and more it's looking like Putin has dirt on Trump involving the Epstein files and underaged girls. I don't mean girls who are like 17 and a half years old we're talking 12 and 13 year olds...

It's also extremely likely that Putin has pictures of trump in a variety of bizarre compromising positions because it's not uncommon for ultra-wealthy people to take those kind of pictures with other ultra wealthy people as a kind of dead man's switch in order to make sure nobody betrays anyone.

A while back one of the ivy League colleges had a bunch of it leak.

Russia would be finished. Jeffrey Epstein apparently expressed concern that Vladimir Putin might have a picture of Donald Trump giving Bill Clinton a blowjob.

Now I suspect that's an amusing exaggeration but the implication is that Putin absolutely has black male material on the US president. Probably pictures of him raping one of the eight women who have credibly accused him of it when they were under the age of 14.

Now with the supreme Court basically making Trump God that's not really going to change much I don't think. The Republican party is never going to remove him from office after all and the current Senate map favors the Republican party so the Democrats don't have a prayer in hell of getting a supermajority there.

still one thing I think this is going to do, Trump is absolutely going to do everything he can to remain in office after 2028. It's going to be painfully obvious that he committed very heinous acts that can be prosecuted. And there's going to be no shortage of people that want to prosecute him for it. As president he's basically immune but is a private citizen?

The problem with the stable coin is they aren't stable. It's basically a bank but without regulation.

You give them your money and they agree that they will hold on to it. That's a bank.

Multiple stable coin providers have been caught giving out the underlying assets when they're not supposed to. Often by taking extremely high risk bets with the money.

Because they aren't Banks you don't have any recourse when they do that and because they aren't Banks you aren't insured and because they aren't Banks there are reams and reams of regulations and paperwork they do not have to file with anyone so they can hide things on their books a bank can only dream of.

It's something that a functional civilization would nip in the bud by applying the same banking regulations but more and more we are a failed state.

Sports packages get really expensive really fast and often don't have all the games you want to watch. I'm not a sports fan but for those that are sometimes if you want to watch certain games the aren't in your area especially you're just going to have to pay for a package.

Sports streaming can be a bit of a mess and can often cost as much or more than cable.

Yeah so are the people who applied it. Died in a car accident easily preventable by advanced intelligent driving systems.

I'm all for an anti-tracking rant, but the reality is simple cars are the most dangerous. There's a reason it's effectively mandatory to have forward facing range finding systems in all cars in Europe these days along with the computers that are able to process that data.

Uah, that sounds needlessly complex. You have a gearbox? Why not just have a motor spin the wheels directly like a modern Hyundai? Next you're going to tell me your car has an engine with 2000 parts instead of a simple rotating coil sitting withing a couple of magnets.

Err ... no. 6-8% since Brexit isn't some unrealistic booming in the slightest. It's a fraction of a percentage higher than what it currently is year on year, and well within the margin of error for variance between countries on any given year. It's also far smaller than the actual predicted impact Brexit would have.

There's a reason why the UK's economic growth started trailing the rest of the EU right around 2016, and I wouldn't call the EU "booming". The point is that it had a negative impact, reversing those numbers don't make something booming.