Seems rather bulky for a ring also. I wonder if it snags on a lot of things while using your hands normally.

A “good” thing from a bad thing: my 6 year old computer monitor decided to croak today. As it’s currently black friday deals, I managed to order a new one fairly cheap-o.

Man, mandatory voting in my country was never popular, but am I glad we have it. We still elect right wing nutjobs, but compared to their American counterparts they’re positively benign.

Slow, buggy, annoying interface, hogs extreme amounts of resources locally, can be used to spy on its users.

What’s not to like? It’s basically how Elon envisions X, an “everything app” that is actually good at nothing specific.

I hope you’re right, but AFAIK there hasn’t ever been a candidate who quite literally said he’d end democracy if they voted for him the way Trump did.

Bold of you to assume you’re going to get to vote in 2028, or that there will be any oppositional candidates left by then.

Trump has made it crysal clear he intends to establish a dictatorship, and dictators aren’t known for voluntarily stepping away from power.

Not to mention all the extralegal ways Trump and his cronies could muster to make his life miserable. Guy likely wants his pets and kids to stay alive. Can’t really fault him for that.

Never thought I’d see the end of US military hegemony in my lifetime. But this makes it that much more likely.

Money equals speech.

Elon just has a whole lot of it.

I don’t want to live on a planet where these are the kind of people who decide, well, everything.

Doesn’t look like I’ll have much choice though.

He already said he wants to divy up all protected lands and sell them to the highest bidder. All your national parks will become playgrounds of the 1% and off limits to vile proles such as us.

I’m guessing no since that judge probably wants to stay alive and out of jail.

Looks at the heap of empty cans on the desk

Wabi-Sabi it is!

Your kind words are appreciated. I will take them into consideration!

Something tells me this day will eventually live in greater infamy than 9/11.

Like in 2230, provided there is still something resembling the human race, “9/11” will be just another boring date to memorize together with shit like the Alamo w/e.

The day the republic fell, however, will be a lot more recognizable and memorable.

248 years. Empires “always” last around ~250 (Let’s ignore the Romans for now) so we’re exactly on time.

I’ve been struggling with my mental health for a long time and I need some type of “win” or “hope”, but I currently have none sadly.

I had a coworker I was somewhat close to and could vent to. She just got fired (budget cuts).

I mustered the courage to finally set up therapy again after many years, after a few very negative experiences with “caregivers”. First meeting was pretty awesome, second was cancelled by them due to illness. It happens, no judgment there. But they would call back before last weekend for a new appointment, and never did. I just got shadowdumped again, didn’t I? What the hell is so offputting about me that even people who get paid to help me won’t give me the light of day?

As for a future, that just got robbed from us. 20 years plus if you’re 40, more if you’re younger. We will never get those years back.

On top of that a myriad of mental and physical aillents, medical debt and no sight for any realistic kind of relief in the near future and… yeah, it’s really hard to keep finding reasons to keep going when life is really firing those melon-sized lemons at ya with the speed of a vulcan cannon.

Wanna bet he’ll put up one of his kids (hell perhaps even Barron?) and bend the whole sycophantic side of the GOP into endlesdly propping them up?

In 4 years, you may simply get Trump III. I want to say this notion seems absurd, except that it absolutely isn’t.

Let me put it this way: we will see the true beginning of WW3 in the Baltics. Trump will predictably not act upon that and the response will be 100% up to Europe itself.

That response better be an armed one, and quick too, or we all better start practicing cyrillic here in W-europe.

Regardless if we are lucky, “only” tens of thousands will die. More likely it will be millions.

So yeah, Trump kinda bedazzled us there, no way around it. Won’t be until the people who voted him in will start hurting personally that they’ll finally realize they’ve been conned. But too little too late.

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It’s going to impact an enormous amount of people who didn’t vote for him either though.