The OMB was really behind the firings, and Russell Vought is still there and still in charge.

And he’s a Christo-fascist from childhood.

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/articles/who-is-russel-vought

Looks like a sailing ship to me…

I went with the middle dish washer and it has tuned out to be a series of planned obsolescence repairs. I’m handy enough to do them all, but I know it’s just a matter of time.

We’re on year six (it had a 5 year warranty). I’m determined to make it last until 10 at least.

Yeah but the decent thing is that they show you how long before you can skip. So you know how long you have.

It killed lots of them, but it had weakened by the time it spread to the rural states so it didn’t kill as quickly as the first wave in the big cities.

I have an older MacBook with standard hdmi, but there are some creators I really like on YouTube and we have an ancient Roku stick that still works. The remote is convenient and I usually go pee during the ads.

And yet just before looking at Lemmy I got an ad for the Dell AI laptop on YouTube (on my TV, still need to get a piHole up and running).

I thought she did it to get his attention to the matter (task failed successfully I guess).

The problem is that it’s a lot like asking the mob for protection. Yeah they might get rid of your enemy, but then they take your shit for themselves, for as long as they can.

“Slop rot”

Thought of it when listening to npr mentioning the last two year’s Webster dictionary words of the year. Brainrot (2024) and Slop (2025).

For Linux maybe, MS is part of the data center funding circle jerk and doesn’t want you to compute anywhere they can’t scrape it for training data.

Dumbest OS launch event music ever. That whole era was cringy as fuck even at the time.

I wonder how age affects the LD50?

Regular crypto pump scams before that too.

I’m sure most mutual funds are invested in musk companies, but unless they’re terrible hedge funds or something none of them should have more than a few percent in them. I was more speaking of the lenders who enable Musk’s bullshit like buying Twitter or fucking around with our elections.

And yeah, I guess I should have said finish off our space industry, but yeah it’s been screwed since the shuttle era I guess.

Give them a gallon of grape juice and tell them it’s a glass of sprint wine.

Yeah, thanks for clarifying my intent. I’m pretty sure he’s going to ride whatever is left of this AI bubble in finance to get his $1T number. He’ll never ever be able to cash out, but I don’t think he cares about that, he wants the power that comes with the number. It’d be nice to see the lending market smarten up and tell him to pound sand. I guess he has to fail for them to stop though. Money talks louder then Nazi salutes.

I worry he’s going to fuck out space industry in the process of fleecing NASA though. Hopefully there are enough adults in charge to stop that, but until the midterms (if they happen) I don’t think congress will be doing anything but infighting about the speaker position and hand wringing over the expected red losses.

Like having space x buy thousands of cyber cucks?

Or donating those shitty dangerous trucks to the Vegas police?

Or when his Canadian dealerships sold themselves hundreds of cars on the last week of government subsidies?

He’s gonna cheat to get his trillion, brag about having the biggest number, and try and fuck the country even more to keep him powerful. These robber barons need to be stopped and imprisoned bodies they can harm the rest of us any more.

There could be a teapot in there somewhere though.

I think most of the contributors aren’t going to get wife to it, because they have no idea what they are doing is wrong.

That’s probably my next move, but I also have some legacy apps I don’t want to lose access to.