Nintendo announcing another Year of Luigi.

Meta literally changed the rules specifically so you can call LGBTQ people mentally ill without repercussions.

Trying to convince anyone these changes are not far-right is just telling on yourself.

Because they’re both standing behind their DEI programs when much of Corporate America is rushing to dismantle theirs.

Perhaps that’s when it was officially codified, but it certainly has been at least an unofficial policy since way before then. I used to know people back in the day that would literally spend all day at Starbucks, sitting on their laptop using the wifi.

They are wrong. The Republicans lie constantly about being crooks. They literally call themselves the “law and order” party all the time.

It’s bullshit motivated reasoning by someone who doesn’t want to admit the real reasons they went for Trump.

The one saving grace is that Trump’s whole thing has been a cult of personality, and nobody else in the MAGA movement has been nearly on his level in that regard. There’s a good chance the whole thing falls apart without him.

Gotta admit, by the end, it starts to sound like Ferrari is a cult.

Yes. And Biden has been complicit with that.

He’s not the only one, of course, and he’s far from the worst. But he should have done something long ago and, honestly, I feel like the fact that he didn’t is one of the reasons voter enthusiasm for both him and Harris was so low.

I mean, this is hardly a new situation. This is not the first person murdered in their own home by police.

Frankly, we should have seen something done, at the very least, after the BLM protests back in 2020, if not sooner.

I mean, have you ridden Amtrak?

Can’t be worse than the US’s.

I don’t know if “Bozos” was intentional or not, but it makes sense.

EDIT: And of course, an autocorrect-induced typo in my reply. The future sucks.

A guy like Thiel leaves nothing to chance.

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy’s entire existence is a privilege.

Apparently she got involved in a big crypto scam or something too. Not sure if that makes her explicitly right wing though.

Interesting. I’ll have to see if I can get that in the US. I do miss having the headphone jack.

The A71 came out in 2020, which was about when Samsung was phasing the jacks out. And they took them out of the S line first, which I always thought was weird - for a while, you had this feature that was present in their mid range phones, but completely absent in the more expensive flagships. They’re not the only ones that did that, of course, but it does seem kinda backwards.

My Moto also does per-app volume, and I agree, it’s pretty rad.

Most recent Androids don’t have an audio jack either. Samsung dropped it from their flagship products back in 2020, and that change made it slowly throughout their line. The Google Pixels don’t have headphone jacks, the Moto Edge I use doesn’t have a headphone jack, etc.

Honestly, if you have a a phone made in the last few years that does have a headphone jack, I’m curious to know what kind.

Somebody call Nintendo, we’re about to have a Year of Luigi.