On their own dime by continuously making things worse for everyone in the entire country until people are struggling so hard they will work 100 hours a week struggling to get access to one of those few senior developer positions that grant them the bare minimum necessities we have been taking for granted the last 60 years.

It's like that old meme poster about the pyramids. Never underestimate what you can accomplish with an endless supply of cheap disposable labor.

Throw up a cursive CAPTCHA.

But nobody here is buying it. His friends and family were all maga and they all said he was a good kid meeting he was maga too.

All of the memes he shared were right-wing memes and that Trump costume was a reference to Nick Fuentes' memes.

Facts don't care about your feelings. The right wing encourages violence and when you encourage violence it's random and can pop off anytime at anyone.

The left wing figured that out ages ago and figured out that violence is useless if you want to do anything worthwhile so we stopped.

Violence is explicitly the domain of the right wing. This makes sense because effective violence requires command structures and the right wing is obsessed with command structures.

Your side prefers taking orders

Extremist right-wing men and women wanted to kill Muslims and dipshit liberals reacted to that by defending Islam accidentally because it's difficult for a lot of people distinguish between Muslims and Islam.

On the other hand the same extremists depend Islam when it comes to religious apologetics.

Doesn't matter what the religion is and nobody will ever attack the religion on the merits of the religion because as soon as start handing out to do that it's going to get used against your religion too.

So we don't attack the truth claims of Islam rather we focus on its use in the promotion of violence. We also conveniently forget the Christianity did the exact same thing for thousands of years before we stopped letting Christians do that.

Sure you can. It's pretty easy actually. You just use common signal tracking tools to find where it's coming from and kill anyone you find.

Once you give your country over to religious lunatics who are willing and able and happy to use violence anything becomes possible.

It would be nice if America had figured that out last year. Sometime before November.

Proven by the fact that a few have hacked Windows 11 to run fine on machines that supposedly can't run it.

I wouldn't trust those hacks in production, but they prove the possibility. Of course, I don't trust ANY Windows in production.

Means graphics from 2012 with a handful of new lighting effects and sub 60 FPS on $4,000 worth of hardware...

I mean Jesus Randy just use UE 4 and call it a day. We didn't need realistic sunlight in borderlands.

Why would I pay somebody to work fewer hours if I don't have to?

Plus anyone who is still working 996 is going to be super pissed off at anyone working three days a week.

Americans do engage in class warfare only it's just the lower classes to do it and they only fight each other.

I don't see us getting over the deep cultural conditioning that tells you the moment you see somebody happier than you that you're supposed to get angry at that person for being happy instead of upset at the system keeping you miserable.

Of people who aren't experts complaining about experts doing their thing. You know damn well us nerds would have a fit if somebody went off on one of our little interests.

The data is consistent. That's what matters. You use data to make predictions. If the data is off but off at a consistent and predictable amount then you can predict that and take action accordingly.

This thing where everybody thinks they can just will their preferred universe into existence and ignore reality is something dictators and fascists have been pushing for pretty much forever.

It doesn't work. Sooner or later reality always wins in the end and reality has a well-known liberal bias.

I was 100% C=64 before I transitioned to Apple ][ before I went IBM-PC DOS, briefly Windows/OS2 Warp, then MacOS, then 100% linux, and added Android later.

(sprinkle in some brief CP/M, BeOS, and NetBSD sidequests)

I'll deal with the shift to the next phone platform OK, I think.

I should probably dust off my Pine64 and try the latest builds again. It's been a few years since they were unusable as a daily driver.

Folks, this might be a huge opportunity if you correctly pick the successor and are the first developers.

He was killed by maga. The kid wasn't attacked by Charlie Kirk. The kid was radicalized by right wingers in right-wing spaces. The memes of the kids shared are pipeline memes. Their little bits of nastiness that look apolitical but are designed to lure disaffected young men into right-wing extremism.

It's part of a cult called gryoper and for the sake of your own mental stability I recommend you don't look that up.

What we have with Charlie Kirk is something called stochastic terrorism. It's terrorism created by throwing out a constant stream of undirected incitement to violence.

You never actually call for violence with stochastic terrorism you just constantly hint at it.

There is usually a Target but because you never directly go after the target what can and in the case of Charlie Kirk did happen is that when one of the mentally ill people you are trying to trigger into terrorism pops off that person can go after anyone.

The right wing normally would let this go once they figure it out that the kid wasn't a minority they could attack but they are hoping to trigger more stochastic terrorism so they can do a crackdown and maybe install Trump as president for Life after suspending elections.

The problem the right wing is having is the centrists and left wing just won't do violence. It's just not in us anymore if it ever was.

So what they are doing is trying to get their own side to commit random acts of violence because we won't.

For anyone who doesn't have hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars to buy security that is of course incredibly dangerous because by covering this shooter so much they are encouraging copycats and those copycats are likely to go after right wing personalities because that's where the attention is. But these people get paid a lot of money to create violence so they're willing to take the risk.

The Republican party has consistently cut enforcement on elite ultra rich people but made it a point to make sure there was still enforcement for regular slobs like you and me.

It's like the old saying goes, fascism requires an in group that the law protects but does not bind and in out group that the law binds but does not protect.

Lots of people who are in the out group seem to be under the mistaken impression that they are in the in group

They have basically gutted the SEC and virtually all regulation enforcement.

Remember it doesn't matter if something is a crime if there's nobody enforcing the law.

Instead of going after a scam artists JD Vance and Donald Trump are now openly attacking left wing organizations full force of the Department of justice. Their words not mine.

Under those circumstances scam artists know they can get away with all sorts of crap.

If you have elderly relatives get ready to have them moving in with you after they have their retirement stolen from them.

Now idiots who don't know any better can lose money even faster!

Venture capitalists can afford to lose lots and lots of money and make it all back on one big hit. Small retail investors can't do that.

Furthermore small retail investors generally aren't sophisticated enough to tell the difference between scam artists and actual businesses. Hell we just had a run of Chinese scam artists covered by the greatest rap channel on YouTube. One of them managed to pump their value up 60,000% before cashing out with everybody's money.

Once again this is a chesterton's fence moment. Don't take down the fence if you don't know why it was put up.

But with the current administration Jesus fucking Christ it's open season. If you're a scam artist it's like shooting fish in a barrel. As long as you keep a few million around for a pardon and make sure you do your crimes in a red state so there's a governor to bribe on the top of the president you are probably okay.

Edward Snowden accomplished Jack and shit.

He didn't tell us anything anyone didn't already know. He just found some documents that confirmed things and we all just ignored them anyway.

Meanwhile the Democrats had been slowly chipping away at the government powers seized during the wake of 9/11 when guys like you were shitting bricks demanding protection from the big bad scary terrorists.

In the wake of 9/11 the Democrats could do basically fuck and all to prevent people panicking so much they handed away their liberties. A couple of them tried and immediately lost their seats and their political careers.

As things calmed down the Democrats began to run committee hearings and work towards eliminating all that surveillance crap.

And every time they started to get somewhere with it you start to freak out and they started to lose elections and they had the back off.

It's the difference between people representing you and people ruling you. The Democrats represent you. And that's for good and for bad. If you want them to do something balls to the walls incredibly stupid then they're going to let you do it. They will tell you the back off is best they can they will try to limit the damage you're going to do is best they can but they will still let you do it.

Basically when you as an American have a hold my beer moment the Democrats hold your beer instead of telling you to shut the fuck up and stop acting like an idiot Cletus.

They have tried in the past doing that and you still do to dumb shit you just do even more dumb shit because there's that Republican who not only will hold your beer but will tell you to do something even stupider and more dangerous and you'll do it.