Genuinely surprised they didn’t try to frame the victim for something. I can only assume it’s because the bad cop broke into a house in the jurisdiction where he lived, not the one where he worked, and so the cops who first responded to the scene didn’t recognize him and instigate a cover-up.

Linux is not a real-time OS*. For a car ECU, something like Speeduino would be a more appropriate choice.

(* Or wasn’t until a week or so ago, at least. https://www.zdnet.com/article/20-years-later-real-time-linux-makes-it-to-the-kernel-really/)

Ironically, my cars don’t run Linux for the same reason my computers do: I’m militant about protecting my property rights and privacy, so I refuse to have any car new enough to have “infotainment” because it’s all closed-source and Tivoized. It’s effectively hostile, despite the Linux kernel at the bottom of it.

I’ll buy a car made after the mid-2000s when I can re-flash the whole thing with non-DRM’d community-supported software, and not a minute before.

Even in her incoherent nonsense she somehow manages to engage in projection, with the bullshit notion that Democrats (instead of Republicans) would want to suppress voter turnout.

You don’t “shame” criminals, you prosecute them. Fucking get it right!

We need to be ready to march in the streets if entities like local precinct offices or the Georgia Election Board try to pull some fuckery too, long before the fuckery even makes it to the MAGA SCOTUS.

The thing I almost hate most about all this is how asymmetric the tactics are. I mean, us non-fascists could do the same thing, but it wouldn’t help us, and would only hurt us and help them instead. And this is just one of a dozen different things they’ve been doing that selectively play only to their advantage (obstructing Congress, spreading FUD about election integrity, using bad-faith rhetorical tactics, etc.). It’s like they have a structural advantage that I, at least, don’t know how to negate or overcome.

I was playing D&D (for the first time) and my party were a group of exterminators killing giant spiders on city rooftops. The first thing I did when we got up there was tie myself off to a chimney. Later, we were fighting a really big spider that was right at the edge of the roof:

Me: “I hurl myself at the spider.”

DM: “You mean you try to hit the spider, or try to grapple the spider…?”

Me: “IDK, I just throw all my body weight at it.”

The spider ended up splatted dead on the ground (traumatizing some unfortunate passerby), I ended up dangling off the side of the building, and one of my party members had to make a saving throw to dodge the rope as it swung through his square, LOL!

Looking at the etymology of “equities” everything claims it comes from “aequitas,” the Latin word for “justice, equality, conformity, fairness,” but I find myself wondering if it’s also related to the “Equites” or “equestrian” class (the class just below the aristocratic “patrician” class, basically being defined as mechants/businesspeople wealthy enough to own horses). Frankly, it would fit just as well.

My greatest fear is that anti-gun liberals don’t have the guts to actually resist fascism when push comes to shove.

and at least one of AZ/NC/GA by numbers which do not warrant a recount

That’s the thing: there are no numbers which do not warrant a recount here in Georgia anymore. The MAGA elections board has passed rules that force them to do hand counts (which they can easily fudge to be slightly off), then use that manufactured discrepancy as an excuse to refuse to certify. Even if there are a fucking million more votes for Harris, ratfucking it so that one hand count comes out 1,000,001 and another comes out 1,000,000 will cause them to say “welp, something went wrong and the vote is invalid” and send fucking Trump electors anyway.

No. That’s a way better option than a fascist dictator actually gaining power.

I hope the American public has the will to make it ugly for them, if necessary.

Last time I went to Costco, my the second most expensive thing on the receipt was tax.

That just means you bought a whole bunch of cheap things.

No it isn’t.

Anybody else misread that exclamation point as excited at first? A little horrifying, NGL.

Saudi Arabia likely views the US as having a left wing and a far left wing party.

[X] doubt

They wouldn’t have given Jared Kushner 2 billion dollars or financed Musk’s takeover of Twitter if they weren’t ideologically aligned.

Then it’s a mistake.

Source: I literally have a degree in this shit.

I’m a traffic engineer and I’ve literally never heard of such a thing (except on freeways).

It’s absolutely wild that the brunt of the impact was clear on the opposite end of the state from the coast.