BSD is freer for programmers (or frequently their corporate overlords), but not for people using the software.

Thank goodness we’re firing all those wasteful government bureaucrats, who were adding red tape and keeping businesses from innovating. Soon things will be great again, like in the 1850…

Yeah man.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/feds-unmarked-vans-portland/

Maybe you don’t fill wine glasses all the way… 😉

Lawns are a curse.

Sarcasm is a type of irony.

I always look on itch.io and GoG first!

Yeah how’s being broadly appealing working out?

I don’t think that they were being ironic…

The amount of religious Americans does keep falling. That is probably the biggest hurdle to getting rid of state involvement in marriage. But you’re looking at probably 50 or 100 years before enough people stop believing in Christianity for this to be possible.

Well, assuming any kind of democratic government. If some authoritarian takes over, then what the people want won’t matter. Although it’s looking more like a Christo-Fascist state than anything else…

Traditionally marriage is about property rights, for the spouses and children. As such it was effectively a contract, and this is very much in what the government is for, since they will be the ones enforcing the contract if the parties disagree.

In the modern USA especially, a whole package of benefits is tied to being married, from health care to pensions and so on. Again, the government literally must be involved.

All of this is probably the main reason that people pushed so hard for gay marriage. Not having access to all of that was real discrimination.

I would love for marriage to move from being a special thing to being like any other contract, but it would take decades of work to begin to untangle it from the current model.

Yes the article says to leave your phone if you can, and to use a burner phone otherwise.

My understanding is that Obama encouraged frank expression of different opinions in the Cabinet. Not every leader values blind obedience.

The text in the upper right says “The Prince of Orange did milk the cow” or something to that effect. I assume that’s the guy under the cow.

FWIW the Prince of Orange was the guy in charge in Holland, and I think that the guy riding the cow was the Spanish Emperor, which was either the ruler of the Netherlands or at war with them at the time of this political cartoon.

Simply not true. Many organizations gave warning before bombing.

The Israeli military does that now, for example.

Looking to history, the IRA usually gave warning when they planted a bomb.

$1 $2 per month is expensive? 🤣

[edit: I can’t do simple math]

The claim was “Email server owners don’t look at the content”. This is untrue since possibly the largest owner of email servers looks at the content to monetize the service. That’s all.

Yeah, the largest email company is probably Google (maybe Microsoft). Google definitely looks at every email they receive for users!

America had elections in 1944. It has no exception in its Constitution for war.

Yeah this is what the Republicans failed to understand is that elections are there to convince the losers to step aside… without a bloody civil war. All of Trump’s election denialism basically ensures bloodshed. 😔