@redenigma @Museek: Yeah. Alas. When the news broke, I immediately figured GovCo. would go after it for private companies and that they'd do it for national security, the economy (Wall Street only), and energy independence.

@badkoukla: Because they keep their heads so far up their own asses, they can actually see out of their own mouths from the inside.

: I think this a lot and have done since I was in my early twenties.

@Museek: What are the odds they have something lines up for private companies to go and take that huge lithium deposit in the PNW?

: Since Thursday I've ben seeing per day a few more dipshits who "sat out" the POTUS portion of the General Election because they "couldn't in good conscience vote for Harris because of her position in re: Israel and the Palestinians" but are now noticing that Trump & Co. are way less to their liking that Harris'. They're also noticing that they helped open the doors to the house for the Actual Bad Guys to have the run of the place.

They cut their noses off to spite their faces.

: That nearly every company/merchant that gets your email address sends you email every morning is absurd.

Bought a new front axle for you car? Well, how about a new engine? They're on sale this week! How about instructions on how to change a tire today? How about buying a gross of windshield wipers today for only $1,899.99? Check out this week's sale! Check out these today-only bargains!

Why TF do they do that? Does that crap work?

: This'un still cracks me up.

: It's nearly midnight EST, and I tried to go to sleep earlier but failed. Brain's still got the zoomies, for all the productive I was today.

@th3j35t3r: I remember working on one of those when I worked in the Academic Computing Center as an undergrad.

@ecksmc: A lot of folks will buy it, especially the dumbass alt-white, because it's a chick what looks like a Fox News spokesthing delivering it.

@ecksmc: Two friends, one of whom is CCNP Security and another who's trying to get her CCIE Data Center, both posted about it earlier today, and both said that was total batshit.

They also said more than a few colleagues and coworkers peddle that shit, too.

@ianthealy: My paternal grandparents openly fought the Klan in South Carolina in the '40s, '50s, and '60s. She was an English teacher and guidance counselor, and he was a lawyer, magistrate, and later a circuit court judge. Papa was in the Navy in WW2 in the Pacific, but one of his prized possessions was a German soldier's Mauser a friend of his took off a Nazi he killed during the Battle of the Bulge.

They'd be fighting mad if they were alive today.

@th3j35t3r: He posted that on Threads and Bluesky as well, I saw.

#alas #cycles #history #people #memory

#LOL @awnaves @process

#LOL #CoSoSuperheroes

: I have lost some acquaintances and even a friend of five over my making this observation.

Paging Dr. Adler.

#behavior #people #culture #society

#LOL #CoSoDoggo