Voting doesn't matter - it never did

Bullshit. By repeating this you're among the worst offenders. You're encouraging other people not to participate in their democracy. You guys have steeped yourselves in propaganda for your entire history and an active corruption and anti-education campaign for at least the last fifty years but you're not that far gone. Yet.

Plus my votes potentially won't count in the next election.

Yeah, voter suppression is bad hey? Stop doing it. Encourage people to think about their vote, cast it, and protect it, because it does matter.

hey will deliberately put their military forces in or near schools and hospitals.

Like these ones? The US department of defence operates more than a hundred schools, many of them on military bases. They pretty much all have hospitals too.

Are you American and eligible to vote? If so, then you are. That's what the very first line of your constitution, "We the people" means. It's a declaration of popular sovereignty, the idea that political power originates with the citizens.

If you voted for the president or representatives who placed Hegseth in power then you're extra responsible. Ditto if you didn't try to recall for those representatives or if you don't vote in the next election for the candidate most likely to ship off anyone involved to be tried for war crimes.

I remember looking it up at the time and I'm pretty sure Google Maps had it listed as an elementary school. It certainly is now:

https://www.google.com/maps/pl...

basic incompetence and a complete disregard for human life.

The first bit of this sentence is absolutely wrong.

I don't know, that sentence seems to describe Hegseth pretty well, along with the people who put him in his current job. Unless you're arguing that his incompetence is more advanced than "basic."

I'm with you, I'm baffled how it can be hard to find stuff. From stainless steel screws I recently needed to .1% smd resistors to spline tools for screens, to specialized brass shutoff valves, to misters I just don't seem to have a problem finding sources and getting stuff. And that was just last week. And generally I avoid amazon. There have been a few things I've never found. There is some stuff that just doesn't exist. Market too small I imagine.

From what I've read it seems the AI co's are under-reporting cap ex numbers by stretching depreciation schedules. If that 3 year old GPU is worth zilch and you've binned it, but your depreciation schedule has it at 7, it will still be an expense from years 4-7 when there is zero value coming from it. Those finance guys have always been just as creative as AI.

Someone needs to mod this up. Wasn't it google that just bought some bankrupt companies chats, voice recordings, ... for peanuts. In bankruptcy court, there just doesn't seem to be any restriction on privacy rape.

I was surprised too, but its been years since it was revealed his like for fish. I was also pretty amazed when he invited I think a BBall team or maybe a football team to the WH and he served McD's and included the fish sandwiches. He thought McD's was a treat for the players. The man is as dumb as a rock. I'm thinking Ruth's Chris would have been a better option.

I thought it was widely known donnie likes the filet o fish at mcd's. Here is just one reference. https://www.yahoo.com/entertai... His only complaint is not enough tartar sauce.

I'm still hoping for gagging on a McD's fish sandwich and all the aids are trumpers who don't know how to do the Heimlich. Another possibility and unfortunately a real one is a resurgence of COVID. RFK jr has cut back on vaccines. Who knew, measles is making a comeback without vaccinations. Polio could be next!

Great line about the car keys. Made me laugh. And I need all of that I can get these days.

True that. Paxton has been running ads about trans heavily. I did note in the ad it said something about father, AG, ... Oddly it was missing husband. Oh how could I forget, he cheated on his wife, used state funds to cover it up and she divorced the creep. Funny, none of that was in the ad.

I think I saw somewhere he uses AI. I'd always assumed he used it to stroke his narcosis. From what little I've seen about AI, it does stroke the user incessantly.

Which fortunately looks like is happening. When TX and FL stop supporting them, they are toast. It appears to be neither the left or the right is happy with the surveillance. Just a few here on /. seem to be supportive of the invasive tracking.