Carl

Exactly. It already reached the conservative eyes that it needed to reach, to stoke conservative fear and anger. They don’t care if liberals get upset about their posting, because the posts weren’t meant for liberal audiences.

I don’t know their specific situation, but Walmart is often the only viable option for many lower population areas or late-night needs. A large part of Walmart’s expansion strategy is moving into a small town, then under-pricing all of their stuff at a loss. They keep selling things at a loss until all of the other local shops close, because they can’t compete with Walmart’s lower prices. Then once all of the local competition is run out of town, Walmart jacks their prices up because they’re the only option in town.

They’re also often one of the only grocers that stays open late. This means they’re often the only viable option for third-shift workers, because the alternative would be waking up at their equivalent of 2AM to go grocery shopping.

These are the only bans in your mod log:

And of those three, one has already expired. Maybe stop using slurs? Because you have a lot of removed comments.

Well tenders are breast meat, so I’d certainly hope nobody is mislabeling them as wings. But I guess that’s the point of the entire conversation, because fake boneless wings (or wyngz, or whatever the fuck companies call them to avoid being sued) can contain whatever is cheapest and easiest for the company.

I mean, you could have your retirement shift towards long-term bonds instead of stocks. Normally I’d suggest index funds too, but those are all tied up in the bubble right now. You don’t need to just sit there and watch your money evaporate.

Too little, too late. An actual punitive measure would be to force the people responsible to spend 10x as much money on ads debunking their previous claims, targeting the same demographics. But those ads have already been run, they have already cemented opinions in peoples’ minds, and the election is on the horizon so there isn’t enough time to actually counter any of it.

It’s good that the judge slapped them down, but at this point nothing will undo the damage they have already done.

There are already supply contracts all the way through 2027, ‘28, and most of ‘29. Even if it pops today, new supply wouldn’t start to become available until closer to 2029 at the earliest. And the price floor has permanently been raised, because the manufacturers have seen what consumers are willing to pay.

Also, it’s funny that he touts logged-out access while a large percentage of the site is walled off. They also block VPNs if you’re logged out, because they want to be able to tie your tracking data to a specific account. They can do that easily if you’re not on a VPN, so they let you browse without an account.

But if you’re behind a VPN and blocking all of their background trackers, they can’t easily tie your browsing history back to a specific user. So they force you to log in, so they can track everything your account does.

Lots of Linux users are focused on reducing resource usage, and Transmission is extremely lightweight compared to other torrent programs. It also comes bundled directly with some distros, so lots of Linux users don’t even need to install it manually.

You can lock qBT to a specific network adapter in the settings. I think it’s somewhere in the advanced settings. Lock it to using your VPN interface, and it will only be able to connect when your VPN is active. By default, it will attempt to use any active network to connect, and things like split tunnel or kill switches can still allow leaks in the few moments between a disconnect and the software killing other connections. But by locking qBT to a specific network adapter, you ensure it won’t even attempt to use alternative connections when your VPN is disconnected.

This also means you can run multiple instances very easily. I personally run one instance for public trackers, then an entirely separate instance for private trackers. It makes managing private seeding rules much easier, and helps avoid accidental hit-and-runs because of a dumb misconfiguration.

Exactly this. It’s amazing how we start seeing the “both parties” rhetoric right around election seasons. But then they vanish afterwards, when they help get the vile fucks elected. It’s honestly astounding how people see clear evidence of the orange slimeball hurting children, and go “oh but the other side is just better at hiding it, so I might as well keep voting for the orange slimeball instead.” It’s the most asinine, cretinous, sophomoric line of reasoning imaginable.

Also worth noting that Japan has seen a rise in far-right politics in recent years. Japan has always been extremely conservative, but the recent political push has politicians rumbling about amending their constitution to allow for a standing army. Part of the reason why the US is close military allies with Japan is because Japan’s constitution was rewritten after WW2, to prevent them from having a standing army. They’re only allowed a small self-defense force.

But incidents like this have consistently strained relations, to the point that most Japanese people actively distrust the US service members. The US has historically handled their own criminal charges via the UCMJ, but the American legal system is notably much more lax than the Japanese legal system. Japanese prisons are brutal and sentences tend to be harsh. The courts also have a near 100% conviction rate, so the public assumption is that if you get arrested, you definitely did it. There have been several instances of military members committing crimes outside the base, then essentially fleeing back to the base where they know the Japanese authorities can’t reach them. So even when service members are found guilty, Japanese people still feel like the American got off too easy.

And incidents like this inevitably end up being fuel for the far-right politicians who want to kick out the foreigners and reinstate their own standing army.

Exactly. They know that if they lose, they’re completely and utterly fucked. They’ll all have escape plans and offshore accounts ready to go.

Damn, beat me to it. The Fast & The Furious truck hijacking is one of my “what part of a movie hasn’t aged well” go-to responses. They were stealing shipments full of millions of dollars of ultra high-end, top-of-the-line, super high-tech… DVD players? The same DVD players that are like $5 for an entire pallet on eBay now?

While I agree, Libertarians are a very specific breed of conservative.

No, you don’t understand! The company said we were designing our robots to be able to hold a gun, so that it could use seed cannons to autonomously plant trees! So that it could use squirtguns to fight fires! So that it could play laser tag with children! Why would they lie about something like that?

Oh, that’s just Nanners Georg. He does that sometimes. Okay, most of the time… Okay, basically constantly. If you ask him about it, he usually just mumbles something about lizard people. We’re not even sure where he keeps getting the bananas, because nobody ever sees him near a grocery store.

Donald was mentioned in the files more times than Jesus was mentioned in the Bible. Yeah, I’m not surprised that they managed to find testimony from 11 different women.

The last one I can remember was the Obama/McCain election in ‘08. There was plenty of mudslinging from the media, (and by extension, the rabble who gets all of their news from a single source), but their actual debates were extremely respectful by today’s standards.

Notably, that was also the last presidential election to happen before the infamous Citizens United SCOTUS decision in 2010, which allowed corporations to spend tons of money on political campaigns.