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For the same reason that all criminals are given due process; justice.

ICEs victims would deserve due process too, if they were actually accused of anything.

Nope. Wrong. They all need to arrest, prosecuted, given due process and imprisoned.

I hope Vance’s life ends up being just as “tragic”. That little orange dick slurping piece of shit subhuman politician scumbag.

This is pure madness and these fucking guys need to be stopped. Like, are the systems truly so fucking broken that we have to take up arms to stop this shit? Can we not just have fucking justice and due process? Is that too much to ask?

• AI bubble pops as investors begin to realize that nobody is willing to pay for this stuff that they’re sinking their money into.
• China invades Taiwan. It’s brutal and bloody. The US destroys TSMC and other key technologically significany global infrastructure.
• As a result, the global economy again collapses as the bottom drops out of the stock market and multiple high profile companies go bankrupt. Executives get golden parachute on the way out.
• Venezuela is going to turn ugly as a power struggle ramps up among rival entities.
• The US will invade Columbia and Panama, but not Greenland.
• Ukraine will continue fighting against Russia, the stalemate will continue.
• Interest rates are going to be ramped up too fast in a effort to juice the economy before the midterm elections. Only to make inflation worse. We will continue to see prices increase.
• Trump and the Republicans are going to hype up another racist fear tactic as red meat for their base.
• Trump’s mental and physical health problems get worse, his deterioration is very obvious but nobody will say or do anything about it.
• ICEs violence will increase, as will anger of protestors. We will see riots and mass unrest.
• The Republicans lose the midterm in a landslide, Trump whines about it on truth social, calling it rigged.
• Wildfires in the west, hurricanes in the east.
• The internet gets even more dead and useless as more and more AI slop fills up every nook and cranny of all mainstream sites. Subculture sites and the Fediverse remain mostly fine.

Notice how directly he’s being treated to the guy who killed Charlie Kirk or Luigi Mangione?

Arrest his ass. Perp walk. Holding Cell. Jury. Jury. And then prison for life.

Kash Patel’s FBI? That one? Yeah… no thanks.

Can we get a serious person to do a real investigation instead of a bullshit self-assessment by the Trump administration. A woman was murdered in broad daylight you fucks.

Red-liiiiiiine, red-liiiiiiine, directed by Takeshi Koike wiki-wikiwiki-wiki.

Technically a movie and not a show, but also one of my all-time favorites. :)

I love Trigun, and I think the characters and world-building hold up today, but the show definitely gets a little shoddy just before the end. Tsuneo Imahori’s soundtrack for Trigun is incredible.

I think Gurren Lagann also holds up. There’s a couple lulls in the show for sure, but overall it’s got great action and drama and some amazing animation set-pieces. (I never liked Kill La KIll that much.)

Going back to Outlaw Star is tough, imo, it’s waaaay cheesier than I remembered it being.

One of my all time favorites.

I verge on calling it my favorite, but I feel like Bebop or Eva could also take that spot pretty easily.

(edit: I hate to feel the need to clarify that I mean the ORIGINAL 6-episode show FLCL, and not the 4 extra seasons of tacked-on bullshit that Adult Swim cooked up.)

You got me! 😅 Well… Was there really a better time for anime?

I am quite fond of some of the 80s (Gunbuster and Z Gundam are cool!) and 70s (Lupin the 3rd and Galaxy Express 999) shows.

Other honorable mentions from my favorites: Ghost in the Shell SAC+2nd gig, Diebuster, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, Tatami Galaxy, Ping Pong, Kaiba, Trigun, Trava First Planet, Space Patrol Luluco… too many more to name.

Last year was pretty great too, with GQuuuuuuX, New Panty and Stocking, and CITY!

In no particular order, I think…

• Cowboy Bebop
• FLCL
• Neon Genesis Evangelion
• Paranoia Agent
• Samurai Champloo

Trump says a lot of things…

Didn’t realize they could just leave after murdering someone. Maybe fucking arrest them all?

They should all be arrested and tried for murder. They are all accomplices and co-conspirators in a serious crime, and should have the fucking book thrown at them.

Otherwise I see no reason why the US citizens shouldn’t take matters into their own hands.

My phone is a Samsung Galaxy S7 from a decade ago, so not often. A few years back I had to replace the battery, but it’s still going.

Since it doesn’t have an open bootloader I’d like to use it until it dies, as otherwise it’ll probably just become ewaste.

I assume it’s not very secure anymore, so I don’t really do anything important with it.

If I cared as much about my phone as I care about my PCs I would have almost certainly replaced it with something better by now.

Trick question. A good standalone movie doesn’t need or want a sequel.

I feel like too often people end up making sequels to good and popular things that never needed to be expanded upon, and they end up really bad.

Whether it’s hardware or software, I like technology that enables me to do things. Playing fun and impressive games, painting, animating, sculpting, making music, making my own video games, and so on…

One of the simple reasons I really dislike AI slop is that it removes humanity from the process. In fact, there isn’t much of a process at all. It’s all about plopping out an end product and there’s no “art” to it. As someone who values my own creativity, loves the process of making things, and doesn’t believe in exploiting others for my own gain, generative AI is the last thing I want out of technology.

Of course, a lot of technology is “fascinating”:

The complex and intricate boards with even more complex and intricate chips and parts on them.

Storing data with electrons in RAM cells or on magnetic, optical and audio media.

How chips are basically printed on to wafers.

How we turn high level ideas into source code, compile it down to machine code, which is then interpreted as a series of numerical CPU instructions.

And even though I hate how AI is being used and humans are being abused, how “machine learning” works by essentially biasing a data structute a certain way is also fascinating.

How fast and small all of this has become over the last 100 years.

How we power all of this stuff by harnessing river currents and the sun, and by splitting the atom, is also fascinating.

There’s a lot about technology to enjoy and find interesting. We just have to remember that it should be there to make life better, not worse.

Entering my room: all the time.

Entering my closet: all the time. (My mom would do my laundry, even as I started getting older and asking her not to. 😂 That would involve sometimes opening drawers, and it wasn’t very private, but it wasn’t what I would consider a search.)

Searching my drawers: practically never, to my knowledge. (Usually only if they had an actual reason to. They weren’t doing monthly random searches like a drill sergeant or anything like that.)

Backpack: Rarely. Only if I got in trouble at school when I was younger.

Electronics: never, to my knowledge. Having said that, today’s younger parents are probably more aware of the internet and technology risks.

First and foremost, I recommend follow topic #hashtags and using that as a springboard to find interesting people to follow.

Follow your hobbies and interests. Follow your favorite shows and games. And so on.

Weak and cowardly.

The current UK labor party doesn’t seem to have any concrete values or plans beyond censoring internet pornography.