End of the line yes. This is no longer something that is recoverable within a single generation. There’s some hope that our grandchildren or thereabouts can put things right, but I’m halfway through (40’s) and I fully expect every year after this to get objectively worse until I die.

In their defense, they killed more terrible emperors than good ones.

Pertinax though… I’ll never forgive them for that. Who knows how the entire world would look now if he’d been emperor for a decade or more…

My prediction: he croaks at around 3 years in, Vance takes over temporarily while one of his sons or Jared is prepared to be a “candidate” for a rigged vote after that.

However it goes, USA is never getting rid of this parasite again, even if he dies. Too many critical organs have been fatally infected.

I was mulling moving everything from Google to Proton. Guess I’ll keep my money for now.

Matt & Trey are gonna have a hard time with the new season as well. Almost anything they can come up with will be overshadowed by reality within the week.

We’re right back to fucking feudalism really. The local lords and ladies all kissing the new emperor’s ring, while he’s wearing no clothes…

Must’ve been a long time ago, since hardly anyone seems to remember…

I feel like Smith at least tried while he had his hands tied by the people who were supposed to make his job easier. History will not be kind to any of them though, circumstances be damned. I hope at least some of them have to live with the consequences of their own actions, but I feel very sorry indeed for the millions who had no hand in the decision.

I would continue Luigi’s legacy by trying to fit as many names of c-suite personnel of evil corporations on it, font size 1.

I have like 3K, if you come up with the other 19997000 we’re golden.

The wifi naturally accumulates in underground spots.

Or was that radon? Always get those confused.

This is a game of whack-a-mole with dire ramifications.

Musk needs to die. He’s the single most dangerous person on the planet, moreso than Trump himself or even Putin.

I hope some brave schmuck close to him is prepared to sacrifice everything. I would do it myself if there was any realistic chance of success.

And before this disappears due to “advocating violence” - he and his ilk don’t just advocate violence but actually visit it upon us, on a daily basis. Fuck off with your righteousness. Tyrants should never be suffered.

Yes, but that was very explicitly the goal. After all, why help people if you can crush them instead?

I was under the impression that takes an act of congress. Which means without a majority there, you’ll never get it.

I only ever visit the webversion now. There’s no way in hell I’m downloading the app. I also don’t have an account anymore and refuse to make one. But when I do visit, I often wonder why I bothered. The quality has gone so far downhill it’s almost comical.

Started back on therapy. Trying to build something from the ground up. Hope to be able to afford some teeth in 2025.

Google speedrunning irrelevancy I see. Their search results are already garbage. Things like this just make me (and others) that much less likely to use them at all anymore.

Can’t bribe physics. Just ask Nancy Pelosi.

Absolutely! I’m 100% for privacy and security where necessary. My point was just that if you have a partner you can trust, it removes the necessity for secrecy which in turn will do wonders for your ease of mind.