Clearly, not.

Scam is still a scam. Maybe masochists are taking part in it but it’s still a scam.

The Deja Vu on B Street?

That normally implies cordial relations between heads of departments. No one in the administration likes anyone else, they like themselves and sucking up to Trump to benefit themselves.

Kash would need to get Trump to get someone else to cooperate and you can’t go running to the boss to clean up your mess when you’re supposed to be cleaning up his!

The XPS 13 I bought like eight years ago will eventually turn to dust just… Watching YouTube videos on my desk.

The battery died five years back so I replaced it.

Dell emailed me to tell me that Windows 10 was out of support, I’ve had Linux on it for years now.

I also have an EeePC.

I will take Palantir’s money and do my best to be the worst I can be at the job they hired me for. I’ll have to donate a sizable portion of the money though…

Frank’s Little Beauties already made a song about that, though I’m willing to bet they could license it for a fee. I hear the guy who made the song invests in gun stores.

Wooting and Razer had a macro function that allowed Counterstrike players to setup a function to always get counter strafe. Valve decided that was a bridge too far and banned “Hardware level” exploits.

So, Valve once banned a keyboard.

The US (and international coalition) very openly arms the Kurds in Northern Iraq, and through the SDF (YPG and YPJ are DTOs so they can’t technically send to them) in Syria while Turkey shells the aid workers responding to earthquakes. To assume they stop arming the Kurds at the border implies Iran has excellent border security.

An armed Kurdish population gives Turkey something to play strongman against. They know it’s happening.

I don’t know that they’re as evil as can be but certainly not anywhere near neutral or good.

Never been to prison, huh?

State department can’t always evacuate everyone. Can’t spend the big bucks doing an extraction on every American because one building got hit. When the region was getting hot in 2021, state department had like five five-seater jump planes in the area to do everything.

Now you’ve got hundreds of people getting squirrelly and demanding a flight now when the airspace is not looking great.

Okay, rephrasing it then “What are Americans doing in near proximity to a place that has been a war zone for more than 20 years due to US intervention in the region?” and the answer is “Either profiting off of US oil interests or propping up the tourism industry of US interested parties.”

To track when you’re falling asleep or texting or are vaguely Asian looking.

“I was talking with my Dad about how I was planning to vote for Trump after seeing all the good he was doing for this country. He was so excited he handed me a firearm, as is tradition in our family, but he failed to inform me it was loaded and it tragically went off. Since we don’t let liberals handle guns in this household, Dad never taught me proper gun handling. Now that I’m a future and forever Trump voter though, I’m sure this won’t happen again.”

Checkmate, Sheriff.

I can’t tell you how many times I emailed someone last week asking that they don’t send me any sensitive information over insecure channels.

Although Melee was the first big ‘hardcore’ Smash community I was aware of, there are quite a few of its contemporaries in the Counter Strike community that also stuck with CRTs…

From experience, artic warfare is more about wearing snow shoes than walking on ice. The rubber boots and thick socks don’t do much for ice but they make walking back to Wheeler Sacks more comfortable after a week of sleeping in a snow drift.

Firefox… I mean, regular old from the app store Firefox… Not even Waterfox or anything, just Firefox.

How did you end up at Brave without knowing Firefox could do all that?

The Latitudes are balls in the worst way. Including the new “Pro” models. I’ve had i7 and i9 Latitudes that are slower than my i5 XPS 13, and yeah that thing sucks too but at least it sucks predictably.