Don't wait for Dems to do the work. First, because they probably won't - the best analogy I've seen is Republicans are school shooters, Democrats are Uvalde cops. The bulk of them are useless, with a few traitors and a few clueful folks who can't do anything about the rest.

But you don't need permission to make your own choices about who you surround yourself with. Many of us are collecting names and sharing with like-minded souls as we research. Start your own! LinkedIn is a fucking gold mine of people telling on themselves.

These are people I will have nothing to do with because they've demonstrated that they are unfit to live in a modern free society. I will never hire them, I won't rent to them, if I owned a store I would ban them. ICE on a resume should be look at the same as "professional rapist".

Going fascist is a choice. I choose to have fascists nowhere near me.

(Do ensure you are familiar with local discrimination law. But you are also free to simply say nothing about your reasons. It was just a bad culture fit is all.)

There are other things happening in this space, like labelers on Bluesky. But I expect any big, centralized source of traitor listings would be attacked, both legally and by other means. Which is why I don't share with people I don't know, and why you should make your own. Let a thousand flowers, etc.

Having a long memory is how we will get another 100 years before people forget that fascists are evil, negative-sum shitbags again. Th ethnic cleansing-curious need to remember how Grannie Fascist died of lingering cirrhosis in a Florida trailer without air conditioning because everyone hated that nasty old bat so much she had to get her vodka money cleaning the local churches, and how Timmy the ICE 'Roid-rager killed himself in frustration because the local cops can't afford another lawsuit magnet and guarding backhoes overnight just doesn't cover child support.

I spent the better part of a year ripping my CD collection, circa 1998 or so. It just made sense at the time. It was like 800-ish CDs.

That has served as a sort of gravitational center of my music; everything I would seek out to listen to, I already own, so that only leaves "discovery". And I don't have mainstream tastes, so consent-manufacturers like Spotify are useless for that. I'm also older and less in to random new music, so I tend to be old-school there, too, and depend on friends for new music.

I still buy CDs sometimes, mainly at shows when I know the money goes directly to the artists. Then I rip it.

I have no reason to subscribe to a streaming service.

Your gaslighting would be more convincing if the Trump regime were not offering to stop the intimidation campaign if Minnesota hands over their voter rolls.

Because that makes the game rather obvious, does it not? Submit and help throw the election or the pain continues.

Sorry dude, you are so full of shit simple googling refutes you and your fucked up projection about what you think happened.

Many of us are making sure there is ample documentation of this period. The Good Germans of this period are not going to be able to slink away.

Everybody knows it goes from 8 to 10 (Apple), 2 to 7 (Sun), 4 to 6 (Netscape), or 12 to 14 (Microsoft, Suse, a bunch of others).

Highly successful self-published author on Amazon.

Oh fuck off. You're perpetually offended because Americans have things like big houses and big yards, and this grinds your gears. We won't eat the bug and we won't live in the pod. You want Canadians to live in Soviet worker housing pitched 30 stories high? That's your business. Stay out of ours.

A fundamental law of the entertainment industry is that entertainment takes time to consume. It isn't like food or cars, where people buy to waste.

So no matter how quickly you can make a movie, it still takes an 80-100 or whatever minutes to watch it.

So they need more consumers. This is where agents come in.

They just need to convince people to want to own a series of robots to be entertained for them. I'm sure they could come up with a "vibe-viewing" UI to managing your little virtual popcorn-eaters - maybe Nintendo could help, they're good at that sort of thing.

And then kids could humiliate each other over how much media their peers are wasting without experiencing.

That's the smell of innovation.

I guess it is in the eye of the beholder, but "severe" seems overstated. I actually prefer some of the "restrictions" - no more Facetime spammers.

They should have known the proper way to do this is to create a Pinboard of photos of the sacked employees.

I'm convinced Google is run by idiots. Look at ChromeOS Flex. With just a few tweaks, with the allowance of just a few desktop apps, Google would have a wide-open opportunity to make a serious run at Microsoft's home PC dominance because of the whole Windows 11 requirements issue. There are millions upon millions of perfectly good computers that are now going to landfills because of that, and they could all have Flex running on them if it wasn't for Google's short-sighted strategy. You can't even watch a DVD on Flex after Google shitcanned VideoLan from their approved apps list. They insist you use only Google stuff via the cloud. Such a damn wasted opportunity since Flex is easy to install and use otherwise, and a fairly pleasant user experience.

Remember "I will replace you with a very small shell script"?

We're essentially replacing people with a very big script now. But they are being replaced. The inevitable has arrived.

or I want to stop hearing the term.

Nope.

One of the problems we have though is that women won't do these kinds of physically demanding and dirty outdoor jobs (how many women do you see paving roads or picking up garbage or working at oil derricks?), so that automatically halves the labor supply for these jobs, and of the able bodied young men, most won't work at these jobs because they were raised to expect a comfortable indoor environment. Everyone wants a desk/cubicle. Most of these infrastructure jobs have solid pay. Or even better pay. Doesn't matter. Most young men now would rather live with less money than take such jobs. Raise the pay to 80 grand on these if you like. Won't matter. Most young men won't work a job where they're out digging in hot weather.

LOL, the first thing a gal's friends ask her about her new man is "What's he do for a living?". Every man on a date is asked about and judged by his career choices. There's great demand for eligible bachelors in medicine, finance, law, etc. The evening shift manager at Burger King isn't fairing as well on the dating apps, I assure you.

That really doesn't mean anything. Starbucks is one of those companies that likes social liberalism... because it's a great way to appeal to their prime customer base, which are urban and suburban women between 18-45. Think of it as virtue signaling used for marketing.

BUT... they don't like economic/labor liberalism. This is where companies like Starbucks and Target are free market to the core. In their view, they get the best of both worlds: the growing single female customer market (which is overwhelmingly Left-Liberal), and the Ayn Randian max-capitalism operating model internally.