Comment I have never wanted a consumer device less. (Score -1) 21
Comment Re:So, what is the MAGA position on alcohol? (Score 0) 90
Comment Drugs "and alcohol" (Score 0) 90
Comment Re:So, what is the MAGA position on alcohol? (Score 1, Interesting) 90
Comment Re: The long-term impact of this on the US (Score -1) 195
It was a pretty ignorant comment
No, it was an ignorant assumption. Everyone assumed I was wanting more money for my relatives. What I'm complaining about is the pathetic attempt just sucking air out of the room. "Nobody needs to help those people. The government does it." The point is the government doesn't really. They do a piss poor job.
And one can say, well, Republicans deliberately try to cause this, because they don't want government to work for people
That might be true, but it looks an awful lot like "The government is a bunch of gangsters fleecing folks and delivering shit value and putting on a partisan drama for the plebs to argue over" The government delivers worse results even in areas that socialists say work well: roads, healthcare, schools. All of those are better and higher quality when delivered by private entities.
Comment Re: The long-term impact of this on the US (Score -1) 195
Comment Re:Just typical Partisan bullshit (Score 1, Insightful) 224
Libertarians are just republicans that don't want to pay taxes.
Thanks for illustrating my point. Besides being ignorant fools, partisans would rather lie than be correct.
Comment Just typical Partisan bullshit (Score 1, Interesting) 224
Conservatives aren't any better since they want to control your bedroom and spy on you constantly "To stop the terrorists" or "protect the children" nor is the Left any more attractive, since they have have to protect their bad ideas from anyone uttering "Cultural Revolution", "Soviets", or "Pol Pot" then having to explain why their great ideas went straight into a murderous ditch whenever they were challenged. The Left is also now just as bad about warmongering (Ukraine) and war cheerleading. You know who didn't kill millions in a murderous rise to power? Yep. Libertarians and Anarchists. There are many instances where Socialists, Communists, and Fascists found it expedient to kill dissidents and censor debate. So all you partisans get to wear that. You're censors. You're warmongers. You're useful idiots. However, I bet you all think voting matters (hahaha!) and that your team matters, too, and makes a difference if you "win" an "election". When, in fact, there's barely any difference at all once you examine what they do rather than what they say (which is the part most Slashdotters seem to be stuck arguing about).
Comment Re: The long-term impact of this on the US (Score -1) 195
Comment Re: The long-term impact of this on the US (Score -1) 195
So, you're concerned about Trans folks or whatever (you came outta the woodwork to "defend women" I guess), but you don't give enough of a shit about people really suffering worse than just about anyone else. Being "trans" is a two-step-cakewalk compared to hearing scary or violent voices 24/7 in terms of a challenging life of misery and a burden to your family. Until folks like you can learn to stop using clinical psychiatric terms to insult their political enemies, it's pretty tough to take you seriously with your "I'm a good person, I'm sticking up for the Trans!" routine. You definitely do not sound to me like a good person.
Comment Re: No headset jack no deal. (Score -1) 91
Comment No headset jack no deal. (Score -1) 91
Comment Re:Yeah, pretty much this. (Score -1) 194
in Europe you usually can't be made to work
You cannot be made to, cannot be cajoled to, and cannot be induced by much of anything to work in Europe. I'm American. I worked in Europe for 14 months. Saw a lot of drunken two-hour lunches, holidays, and reasons to quit or leave early. I didn't see much in the way of hard work except in Eastern Europe by some pretty poor and desperate folks (Serbia & Estonia you get a pass). They don't work very hard nor do their productivity numbers impress anyone. They do work hard at making up rules for others and creating gangster-style extortion rackets over any economic activity. They are pros at the latter. That and censorship.