“when I was your age I made -half- what they’re paying at mcdonalds now, and I paid for a car, a house, college, and and supported my wife and three kids with it!”

me: blood pressure increases

100% they enshittified.

The shape is one of the give aways - dome-shaped nipple with that sand-paper texture. The new ones are concave and textured via cast or something, but don’t have that sand-paper feel. Along with that change, I suspect you’re right in that the sensor went to hell with em, cuz the new ones SUCK.

That’s the point. OP is chasing a unicorn.

unoccupied

…sigh… fiiiiiiiiine.

-> more than profit

Literally none. Where they vary is in how maliciously they’ll engage with consumers for a quick buck, and within that spectrum some are definitely better than others, but every single one of them draws the line at profit.

The ideal way to deliver, uh, …cocktails.

But an arrest and trial would

be an absolute pony show ending with no conviction.

We only have a criminal justice system for the poors. If you want justice for people like Musk, vigilante is the only option.

Leave your cellphones at home, mask up, wear gloves, cover your tattoos / apply temporary fake tattoos, park WAY off site / don’t take any route to or from that exposes your license plate to cameras (like turnpike’s, etc).

I keep seeing Hillary’s server brought up to highlight the red team’s hypocrisy, but there’s some introspection to be had for us as well on that topic.

Hillary’s email server was one of many stepping stones on the path of increasingly fucked infosec. Now, the vast majority of neanderthals foaming at the mouth over her emails only gave a damn about it because of the (D) next to her name, but those idiots getting angry at it for the wrong reasons doesn’t mean it wasn’t a big deal.

My perspective on all that when the story was first breaking: I was fairly new e-nothing junior enlisted medic in the USAF. The closest thing to classified info I ever dealt with was ‘confidential’ medical shit covered by HIPAA, and like people’s social security numbers. That’s it. But even with zero-access to military secrets, at the absolute rock-bottom of the chain of command, I still had to take lengthy infosec courses every year (or every quarter? idr) to ensure I knew how to identify and properly handle classified information. Fuckups in infosec are NOT tolerated: like if I took a single page of classified info home without authorization, that’d be a court martial / potential jail time / stripped of rank / dishonorable discharge level offense. Then we have a fucking Secretary of State - someone who handles classified info all the time and should be a subject matter expert on the do’s and don’ts of it - running her own shady-ass server away from the prying eyes of FOIA, claiming to not recognize classified indicators?? Then before anything could be done about it, we got the whole bleach-bit and hammer-to-harddrives scene, so some nice destruction of evidence as the cherry on top.

100% we should have crucified her.

Just like we should have crucified the dipshits before her using private email platforms like gmail or some shit to send or receive official / classified communication. Every one of those fuckers knew better.

Then Trump happens and makes everything prior, Hillary and all, look like fucking j-walking compared to the scale and blatancy of his crimes. ‘Crucified’ doesn’t even begin to describe what needs to happen to that fucking traitor.

…but the dismissiveness regarding the email server does kinda strike a nerve for me - she fucked up BAD, and we dropped the ball by not holding her accountable, as that left the door open for dipshits like Trump to continue the trend of worse and worse infosec.

Again, it’s peanuts compared to Trump - I hate writing shit like this for even the flicker of a possibility of drawing a false equivalence. There is no equivalence here. But I really wish we’d collectively change our tone about handwaving the ‘buttery males!’ shit because it is hypocritical to do that and then get pissy about the red team’s conceptually-similar-albeit-orders-of-magnitude-more-severe fuckups.

At the end of the day, we should expect our leaders to do their job and do it correctly. If they don’t, then get angry - it’s your security they’re playing with. None of them get the benefit of the doubt, regardless of which color their campaign stickers are.

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lol. This was the only glitch?

Remember when your dumb asses fired the people who maintain the nuclear stock pile?

That was all intentional. Everything he’s done to fuck up the US, the economy, and our relationship with our allies has all gone according to plan, because he’s an enemy to the United States and a domestic threat to our Constitution.

Depends on the context. There’s a long list of things I would rather have happen to an evil person than death. Best case scenario they develop some self awareness and empathy and become disgusted with their own behavior, and start using their influence for actual good. Failing that, at least the voting population could recognize aforementioned evil and choose not to fucking support it. Failing that, an actually functional system of checks and balances that prevents aforementioned evil dipshit from abusing their authority even if they try. Failing that, an actually functional legal system and prosecutes people (even rich and powerful people) for breaking the law; and laws that aren’t malicious in nature. Failing that… a well placed meteor strike, car accident, heart attack, bear attack, vigilante: don’t care, so long as it removes them from power.

What bugs me is how often we hang out at the edge of that last ‘failing that’ and a horde of apologists feel like they’re holding some kind of moral high ground and drawing the line there, in opposition to any further intervention, and instead just bending over and taking the oppression. And in that case, yes, not wishing death on the supervillian who’s proven to be immune to everything else is synonymous with wishing suffering upon the millions of people under that villain’s influence.

…but, that’s a lot of words, so… you can see why ^that doesn’t make the greatest conversation starter.

To the contrary:

• Nazi lives don’t matter.

• Nazi cars don’t matter.

This ‘all’ shit lumps villains in with people/things worth preserving. Same energy as when folks say shit like “I wouldn’t wish death on anyone” …like bitch, get off your high horse take half a second to understand that defending evil people is damning everyone else.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit_of_the_poisonous_tree

There are exceptions, though. It’ll be a question of whether or not the prosecution can make an argument that it falls into one of those.

…well, it’ll be a question of who’s at the judge’s bench. The actual law doesn’t mean shit in this country.

Skin makeup over existing tattoos, then get one of those temporary water-decal-thing tattoos of some random tribal design on the forearm or something.

Bam. Evidence that the person in whatever photos/videos that were captured isn’t you.

There’s nothing elite about those leeches. We’ve allowed them to rob us of our blood for so long that they’ve swelled to a ridiculous size, but that’s nothing a blade and some fire can’t fix.

Kinda, but for different reasons. I’ve suffered from insomnia for ages, and one of my absolute least favorite things about that is going to bed, then lying there for hours waiting to fall asleep.

So, usually I don’t even bother. I’ll stay up and do something productive or entertaining until I’m about to drop, then finally go to bed and enjoy a relatively small amount of time between my head hitting the pillow and actually falling asleep.

…downside being I gotta wake up for work like 3 hours later, so I’m kinda just chronically tired all the time, but that’s nothing a fuck-ton of caffeine can’t… slightly mitigate.

…all I want is a President who can assume the duties of a President. Starting to feel like a unicorn.

I mean, no amount of torture will ever be proportional to the amount of suffering he’s caused, so, if the opportunity presents to make his death excruciating, then by all means: my point is simply that all that takes the back burner to stopping him from damaging our country/planet.

Stop him at any cost; use him as an opportunity to send a warning to other oligarchs if able.

While he certainly deserves to suffer proportional to the suffering he’s causing, top priority is stop him from causing more - if that means he ends up taking a bullet in a manner that renders him incapable of processing what’s happening, I’ll still count that as a good start.