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California has a lot of rural areas that are deeply red. I imagine Coachella must be one of those or he wouldn’t waste his time, right?

Terrorism.

Try to think of something for which you are grateful every day. I have a reminder on all my devices for this daily and I think of three things.

I hope he’s (orange bad) sweating bullets (no pun intended) about appearing in public at rallies.

Automattic, the company behind web content management system WordPress, told HKFP on October 7 2024 that it had received a take-down demand from Hong Kong authorities relating to the website of Flow HK. The company said it had not complied with the order and had notified the site owner.

Maybe their lunatic ceo will travel there and get arrested and end his bs battle against WP Engine. Sorry, the nerd in me latched onto this bit.

It’s really cool how countries (including China, plus my own, USA) meddle with people outside their borders. /s

Imagine the good that could be done caring for USA citizens with all the money we send to Israel to make war.

The goal is to weaken public infrastructure to the point of collapse so that fascism / christian-nationalism is (tolerated as) the only way to right the ship.

“If Democrats keep the Senate, Republicans take it, the majority is going to be slim regardless,” said Republican West Virginia state Del. Elias Coop-Gonzalez. “That means that a lot of those votes are going to really depend on him having to be there every single time. And my personal opinion is I don’t really have a lot of faith that he will be there for that.”

Let’s hope he misses lots of important votes.

Hooray for Charlotte!

Rosenberg pointed to a New York Times autopsy on the 2022 midterm elections: “The ‘Red Wave’ Washout: How Skewed Polls Fed a False Election Narrative.”

They had a pretty nice washout, compared to expectations, in 2022. I really hope it happens again.

Investors jeered the design and the lack of financial detail, with Tesla stocks tumbling 9% on Wall Street on Friday.

I didn’t realize this stupid vehicle was a two-seater. What a dumbass move.

Boeing, which is currently facing a machinist strike, spent an estimated $68 billion on executive-enriching share repurchases and dividends between 2010 and 2019—spending that critics say refutes the company’s claim that layoffs and inadequate worker compensation are necessary.

We can’t afford to pay our workers a living wage because we’re greedy.

Of course they did.

I remember this day. I thought my Mac was borked. I couldn’t launch apps. They just bounced in the Dock. Learning that this was a software error because of an outage at Apple was frustrating. That they’ve backtracked on fixing this limitation is frustrating. A lot of things about Apple under Cook’s leadership has been frustrating.

I still prefer their ecosystem, but I’m hopeful for major changes when Tim retires. Put a computer-guy (or lady) in charge so we can have thoughtful, attentive software again. I doubt it’ll happen. We’ll see.

Capitalism leads to bad outcomes for typical people.

Details of nearly 80 settlements provided to The Associated Press through public records requests allege brutal beatings, medical neglect and cruelty at CoreCivic’s four prisons and two jails in Tennessee.

In one case, a Trousdale inmate who feared for his life beat his cellmate, Terry Childress, to death to get transferred to a different prison, the federal lawsuit says. No guards came to Childress’ aid at the chronically understaffed facility, the suit claims. Childress’ family received a $135,000 settlement.

Holy shit. Imagine killing someone, a person who was randomly assigned to share your cell and who didn’t do anything to you (presumably), just to save yourself from a threat. I can actually understand how this might work in the mind of a killer when usually I can’t. That says a lot.

Prison workers are not immune from the violence. At Trousdale in 2019, a counselor lost an eye and suffered other permanent injuries when an inmate attacked her with a homemade knife and raped her. Officials had withheld the inmate’s antipsychotic medication as punishment for illegal drug use.

Wtf. We’re gonna punish you by withholding medical treatment, thereby making you more dangerous to everyone around you. What the hell is this?!

As I’ve said many times, were I fated to go to prison in the South, I’d kill myself. No question.

I’ve spent a lot of time hating life and wanting to die but not being in a place to make it happen. I tried once, in a manic state and, thankfully, it didn’t work out. I was genuinely mad that I woke up in a hospital ER. When you’re down, it seems like you’ll never be able to enjoy anything again. It can, and does, shift. It seems like it’s never-ending, but it will swing upward again if you can just hold on. I’m sorry that you’re having a bad time. It’s terrible when that happens. Please just keep putting one foot in front of the other. You don’t know what might happen in the future that you wouldn’t want to miss.

So, it’s a super power?

At 78, Trump is now the oldest presidential candidate in American history. If elected, he would be 82 years old when he leaves the White House.

I’m sorry, did Biden’s campaign not happen? I mean, he was in the race four months ago.