That’s cool, except that the LEGO kit it goes with is apparently designed for education (as in, marketed to schools) and therefore expensive and hard to find.

INB4 they need to update the headline with “Former.”

Orwell got that part wrong, at least: the real-world Party “intellectuals[sic]” can’t argue for shit, are thoroughly unsubtle, and even a rando like Winston could demolish them easily in a good-faith debate. The issue is that the Party faithful doesn’t fucking care about that, so they traffic exclusively in fallacies and bad-faith tactics.

Some traditional Republican viewpoints are valid. NOTE - I said valid, not correct or best.

And every single one of them is part of the Democratic Party platform, at this point.

Edit: I see I’ve collected some downvotes. I would love for one of the folks who thinks I’m wrong to cite a counterexample of a traditional Republican viewpoint that is simultaneously (a) valid and (b) not shared by Democrats.

He left out the “paper” part: “wet paper bag.” MTG is as intelligent as a wet paper bag is at holding stuff without tearing.

She’s specifically against trying to fix man-made climate change. Humanity is in a car careening towards a cliff, and her bill is a brick on the gas pedal.

I could be wrong, but I’m pretty sure MTG’s bill is specifically written to exclude heinous polluters. It is only persecuting people trying to fix the problem, specifically.

As a DS9 fan, to me that sounds way meaner than you probably intended.

Oh look, it’s yet another one of those socialist <-> Trump “anything but the status quo” crossover voters that neoliberal Democrats deny exist. Tell me again about how Bernie couldn’t have won and it was essential to laser-focus on the “moderates.”

(It’s not just the greenhouse gas emissions from all the combustion engines, BTW. It’s also the greenhouse gas emissions from manufacturing the asphalt, the destruction of vegetation to make room for pavement, etc. Electric cars can help treat the symptoms, but cannot cure the disease.)

The point is, just because the party prefers a certain candidate does not mean the public as a whole prefers that candidate. The assumption that the winner of the primary is that party’s most electable option for the general is false.

The entire concept of having political parties that hold primary elections is fundamentally bad.

First one, and Firefox.

Version of the meme without the rule-breaking T-shirt spam at the bottom:

They are gonna hand the election to the GOP because they refuse to fucking retire are beholden to and allied with the 1%

FTFY.

It is good that they are generally nice folks.

It really isn’t, though. There’s nothing I hate worse than polite, evil people who make tone arguments and value appearance over substance. The way they condescend to you just adds insult to injury.

The other day I found one that I’m pretty sure somehow removed the earlier entries from the back button list.

IMO, pfsense is for if you want to use an x86 PC as a router, while OpenWRT is for if you want your ARM-based commodity home router to run open source firmware.

As far as I know, I’ve only installed Flatpaks using the terminal. The most annoying thing about them for me is having to type out the fully-qualified name of the software (e.g. org.mozilla.firefox instead of just firefox), which is a very terminal-specific issue, LOL!

War with who? I’m posting this from Kubuntu and I’d happily agree with you that Snap should fuck off and die. (In particular, the backend being controlled by Canonical makes it objectively bad compared to Flatpak.) Even among people like me who tolerate Snap (for now…), I really don’t think you’re gonna find anybody who actually likes it, let alone enough to champion it.

Can’t start a war when there’s a consensus!

The tax cuts for the 1% are real; it’s just the ones for everybody else that are fake.