“We’ve investigated ourselves and found nothing.”

Dude for real. Seeing Utah and school lunches in the same sentence had me worried.

Bro just crashed the market with a printed out excel sheet.

Honestly, I hope Musk throws a temper tantrum and just starts leaking shit like crazy. He’s unstable and unhinged enough that I wouldn’t put it past him, especially since he basically paid for this election.

That’s not a bug, it’s a feature.

Kinda on topic, but imma give you some perspective into what it’s like to be a liberal leaning person in a deeply red county. Half my friends are independent or republican, all my coworkers and my boss are republicans, and even my dad is straight up MAGA. I’ve always voted third party because I hated that Democrats never get anything done, but I did vote heavily democrat this past election because I knew how fucked everything would be.

I would say 99% of people do not care or don’t think it’s a big deal. The ravenous Trump supporters you see on the internet and in videos are more of a minority than the norm. There are definitely some hardcore MAGA here but most everyone is just regular everyday people that are just carrying on like nothing is different. Most of them don’t spend much time on the internet and they hardly watch the news. I was talking about the tariff situation to a cashier at a gas station just this morning and it was the first time they were hearing it. And with the news not even covering half the shit that’s going on they probably never will. My roommate works downtown and he didn’t even know about the protests at the Capitol until I mentioned it to him 3 days later.

I guess my point is that the average person isn’t even informed. Not everyone spends a lot of time on the internet so they don’t even see what’s going on. They decide to vote specifically because the candidate says “Republican” and that’s the furthest thought that goes into it. Everyone talks about “this is what they voted for” as if any more thought went into their vote for Romney or McCain than their vote for Trump. And I don’t blame them for it because as far as they know, this was just like any other election. They’ve been bamboozled by local news to think everything is still exactly the same as they slowly pushed the Trump agenda onto them. The hardcore MAGA are definitely fascists in every sense of the word, but these regular everyday people are not fascists. They were just voting for the party they always voted for and were just expecting the same kinda shit from Trump’s first term, and the local news didn’t tell them anything different.

We got a new kid around 19 working at our office for processing data and I hate how true this is. The amount of times I’ve had to say “No, you have to double click to open folders” is entirely too many. Either that or “You have to actually right click on the icon you want to copy you can’t just click anywhere on the screen.”

If only you had fucking done something about it instead of going on a power trip. This is literally your fault.

Of course they are. And everyone in the military should feel this way because this whole thing just shows that potentially every single order or piece of intel they have gotten for the last 2 months has been through Signal at some point. And what this also shows is that the people that are in charge of these departments do not even give a fuck about the safety of anyone in the military. I know there has always been certain degrees of separation between those in charge and those doing the actual work, but they’d risk national security and the lives of our military in order to avoid record keeping laws and are now lying to everyone that it’s not a big deal.

I’m running out of healthy and productive ways in which to express my anger and I don’t like it. Humor is keeping me grounded.

I am also curious. Not necessarily the multi window thing, I’m just looking for something else that is at least actively being developed.

The big take away I’m getting from this whole situation is that the powers in charge give so little fucks about the lives of our military that they would risk all of their safety and throw them under the bus just to avoid consequences and avoid record keeping. If you or someone you know is currently in the military, you should be worried.

And Airbnb. Fuck that company and the people that buy houses and use them for this. My parents live in the mountains in a popular spot for vacations and camping. Nowadays they are the only house on their entire street that isn’t an Airbnb.

I haven’t seen something go this viral in this administration since the Nazi salute. Some have gotten close, but too many are just slipping through into obscurity. This one has been literally on the front page of every social media platform all day.

My philosophy is that Civ 5 and Civ 6 are just fine. My friend was going to buy 7 on release and I was like “yeah, but you can just go play Civ 6. It’s not like it’s a bad game just because the new one is out.” And I’m glad I convinced him otherwise because of how “okay” Civ 7 has been so far. Nothing against the game, I just already have the last three Civ games with all DLC and there is still a mountain of content that we already have to play with each other.

Guess i went too big for something that could fail incredibly easily.

Less than a week after he said “Why are we upset at Canada? This is so stupid.”

Either he’s incredibly dumb (highly likely) or someone paid him to say that (also highly likely)

So then, hypothetically, if they do this and we get hit with an EMP or a huge solar flare we will literally have nothing? I know it’s a little “tin foil hat” on my part, but I like to live by the rule of not putting all your eggs in one basket. I know this is an excuse for them to do a whole bunch of shady shit and destroy shit from the inside, but a random Internet stranger shouldn’t have a better grasp of national security than the president. Like, if this doesn’t set off red flags for you, you are either incredibly stupid or you think this will pay you out in some way. (Spoiler: it won’t)

Even my 70 year old mom knows this is a stupid idea and she doesn’t even know how to reset a router.

As someone that loves Stellaris and has over 300 hours in it, just get one or two of the DLCs that catch your interest. And that goes for other Paradox games like Cities: Skylines. The base games are amazing in their own right and 75% of the DLC is a waste of money while the other 25% is decent but barely adds anything at all and are overpriced.

Well what the fuck are you doing about besides bitching on the internet? I’m genuinely asking because it seems like you’re doing nothing as well. We are way past the time to sit around and expect shit to get done without doing something ourselves.