Maybe your America.

I actually do what I can to take care of my neighbors, and I don’t vote Democrat or Republican.

And now the press are calling us ‘device hoarders’ for taking good care of our shit and not wanting to upgrade to new devices too.

Also, if anyone reads my comment above and has suggestions for books or articles or tidbits that could benefit from reading, I’d love to hear them.

I’ll give them this much.

They did a brilliant job integrating Windows into every significant sphere of the globe. I had never even heard of LibreOffice until a couple of years ago when they rolled out Windows Recall and I got serious about learning and using Linux and open-source software more in order to protect my privacy.

It’s wild to me that they have made a product that basically worked so incredibly buggy in the span of a few short years. It’s actually a running joke at my work how basic things, that functioned for decades, no longer work as expected. We all just assume that Microsoft is passing along LLM-generated code into prod without any human verification, as a company may be wont to do when they’ve laid off tens of thousands of actual humans.

And now I haven’t touched Windows except where I have to, usually for work.

It always bugs me a little when Labor Day rolls around and people just kind of ignore how workers’ rights were literally fought and died for, but as you said, they don’t teach us about Blair Mountain or Haymarket Square on purpose.

And who was basically always on the wrong side?

The US military.

The teaching of history in US public schools very specifically focuses on peaceful protest and little else.

They want to delegitimize the use of force and downplay state violence, which is why you probably weren’t required to read ‘Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee’ or taught about the Tulsa Massacre or the Battle of Blair Mountain. It’s why Malcolm X and Nat Turner are mostly ignored while all you hear about in your black history segments is MLK and Harriet Tubman. It’s why we’re taught about the euphemistically-named ‘Reservation’ system, when in fact, these were shitty, oppressive concentration camps for indigenous people and they were required to go there or be killed while their ancestral lands were stolen. (Which is not too dissimilar from what’s happening in Gaza right now with the support of both American ruling parties.)

In hindsight, it’s rather shocking to me that in my fifth grade class we were taught about conquistadors and no one batted an eye when I had dead bodies in my diorama about Francisco Pizarro. There’s probably no way that would fly today.

I’m still learning shit in my 40’s, reading history for my own enjoyment, that I should have been taught in school. Here’s another tidbit you probably never learned about: An executed slave named Mark whose body was used as a landmark after his execution, even by Paul Revere: https://www.paulreverehouse.org/mark-hung-in-chains-slavery-paul-reveres-midnight-ride/

They don’t. That is why regulation is necessary.

Just like how expecting people to recycle was bad policy.

Though I wouldn’t be opposed to there being statutory regulations against parents whose kids get addicted to these applications and end up self-deleting or causing harm to others, not unlike how we’re seeing the state start to go after parents who fail to secure their guns. But just trusting parents to parent isn’t an option anymore. There’s simply too much evidence of the harm these applications cause.

Fascinating read, and also exceedingly pathetic.

Imagine having the wealth and power that Dolan possesses and you use it to be a big, giant, limpdick troll instead of doing tangible good in the world.

Donald and his collaborators would be in a public gibbet to be spat upon (or worse) if there were any justice in the world.

But it’s important to remember that none of this is new, it’s just more convenient. Under Bush, we saw it with Halliburton and others. Under Obama the military insider trading likely continued too, because the perma-wars were so profitable for the Epstein Class. Under Donald and Biden, lawmakers were outed for using their classified briefings to make stock trades weeks ahead of public announcements about COVID. And anyone running a political campaign can profit by loaning their campaigns cash at 20% interest and paying themselves back.

It’s all one giant-ass grift. The only difference is that it’s easier now, and when Democrats take over in November, it will continue unabated even if we elect a Dem president in 2028.

Not just some.

There’s a reason why Donald’s candidates have lost nearly every election in 2025 and 2026, regardless of district, regardless of state. People are pissed on both teams, unsurprisingly. Donald ran on affordability and thought he had a mandate to institute rule by fiat and a homegrown Gestapo, and he’s letting people get even more impoverished while he and his family insider trade to benefit themselves while running an illegal war.

Consider this. The Republicans didn’t stop their gerrymandering push out of good will or good sense. They stopped because it was working against them, because they’ve fractured their 2024 coalition to such an extent that they can’t accurately project which districts will support them anymore.

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People keep repeating these platitudes as if digital products aren’t literally harmful to kids. (And purposefully designed that way.)

But okay.

They’re both wrong.

And they’re both assholes. Fuck the Pope and his international child trafficking ring.

I’d love to see it someday.

It shouldn’t be possible. Full stop.

Billionaires are a scourge on everything good in this world.

1000000%

Just like we should punish corrupt cops way more than we punish petty criminals.

But our species sucks and that isn’t really the world we live in.

Yup.

And then someone infers something about your character because you prefer not to waste your time having a fruitless discussion.

I hope we see juries acquitting these people when their cases come before the court.

I always get a chuckle when I’m listening to 2Pac on the train to work, because I am a nerdy white dude, and if people knew what I was listening to they’d laugh.

Only rich people say stupid shit like this.