Exactly. If Democrats had taken more than 2/3rds of the house and senate opening up the possibility to ignore vetos and actually get a conviction on impeachment, then it would have been a sweep. This was definitely a Democrat victory as they got a majority of both chambers of congress, but it was not an overwhelming victory. It’s a sign that there’s some hope left, but there is still a lot that can go wrong and there’s a ton that’s going to be need to be done over the next couple years and it will still be an uphill battle the whole way.

While it would be hilarious to watch the conservatives tie themselves into knots trying to figure out a way to make it illegal for Obama to do that while also making it fine for Trump that would ultimately be a very bad thing.

First it would add legitimacy to Trumps run, not that a lack of that would stop him, but why hand him free ammunition.

Second it would massively energize the Republican base, because while some may be tired of Trump, they absolutely loath Obama and would vote in large numbers for Trump just to deny Obama any possible chance of winning.

Third, Obama burned a lot of bridges during his two terms and is very much a figure head of the old guard Democrats that are just now losing their grip on the DNC to the actual progressives in the party. Bringing Obama back would be a blow to the progressive wing of the party that we most desperately need in power. Further a lot of Democrat voters soured somewhat on Obama, particularly in his second term, I’m not convinced having him on a ballot would bring more Democrats to the polls than the Republicans it almost certainly would.

Even if he died he should still be tried posthumously, if only to give his victims closure, claw back some of the money he’s stolen for those victims, and to insure his legacy as the most criminal president of the US is properly recorded. It will also be important for the cases against his collaborators.

Counter offer, nationalize Starlink and/or force Muskrat to sell it off to somebody who isn’t a complete piece of shit and then let them buy Boost Mobile. The last thing anyone needs is Musk any more deeply involved with telecoms or satellites, owning the launch platform should be enough.

Article linked elsewhere seems to indicate it didn’t go to German users because the German QA team found the issue before it was sent, but due to an internal communication breakdown the issue didn’t make it back to the international team before the emails had already been sent. GOG immediately apologized for the mistake and changed their internal processes to catch these types of mistakes sooner.

It very much reads like an honest mistake, and even then it only impacted a subset of GOG users because it’s entirely dependent on the font used to render the email subject. The actual Unicode character used was a curved S (a letter from the Greek character set), but certain fonts render it looking more like the infamous SS symbol.

This seems like a good thing if he can siphon the worst of the crazies from the Republican party. The real test will be if his kook party will have any staying power or if he’ll just pop up for one election cycle and then disappear.

I’ve been very happy with Bitwarden for password management. Their hosted service is pretty good and if you want to retain complete control you can self host.

Nvidia will be fine, they’re the shovel seller in this gold rush scenario. The ones that are going to be up a creek are the corporations that are borrowing significant chunks of their revenue to buy up hardware and attempt to recoup that loss without any actual plan for how that’s going to work. The small to medium companies that are rushing to get anything AI on the market are going to be toast. The big corporations will feel the pinch, probably do some layoffs, but they’ll survive.

Probably about the same amount as is used around the Gulf of Mexico.

The most charitable interpretation is that they’re banking on taking at least one chamber of Congress and actually being able to remove him from office this time. That it simply wasn’t worth releasing any of this stuff before because they knew the GOP had control of everything and would kill any attempt to hold Trump accountable.

The less charitable interpretation is that this is just an attempt to swing the midterms more in their favor and no matter the outcome nothing meaningful will come of this.

I’m hoping for the more charitable interpretation, but even of it’s the other case if it moves the needle even a bit away from MAGA I’ll take it.

Not how it works. Claiming you’re a church is a get out of jail, or in this case taxes, free card. Just like with the “church” of Scientology, if those scam artists haven’t lost tax free status there’s no way in hell the Catholic church is in any danger.

Besides, the Cathoilic church (and most other churches in the US) have been neck deep in politics here for many decades if not a century at this point.

Edit: also to clarify churches in the US are not non-profit, they’re just tax exempt.

Trumps DOJ is too busy protecting the perpetrators to worry about protecting the victims.