And they opened the door for the world to humiliate them on their behavior. Lucky for them the USA was nice enough to return the favor and give China this unprecedented opportunity to look like the good guys on the world stage.

I think he is right to worry about defending the status quo in this moment. Trump returned to power in a large part because he offered an alternative and Kamala painted herself as a defender of the status quo. Now I don’t think as many people in Europe are chomping at the bit for change as they were in November in the USA - but I also don’t think people are exactly pleased either.

There are real concerning global changes occuring at a greater and greater pace and people want to hear that leadership is willing to act on it, and sometimes that means talking with passion and offering real change instead of just a limp-wristed defense of what we already have.

Yeah the subscription might have been the icing on the cake but their anticompetitive practices have been pissing people off for much longer.

I gotta be honest too, I’d be a lot happier paying Adobe a monthly fee if they seemed more serious about actual updates and bug fixes instead of just jamming more AI ‘features’ down our throats.

There are two bugs in Illustrator alone that have been following me around for years, unfixed.

‘What’s normal at 3am but not at 3pm’ is an even more interesting brain experiment

Nah old man Blackery is just behind the times

20 cigars seems a bit much

Seriously it’s the perfect time for the EU to invest in FOSS

Hoefully Europe realizes its important place as a cultural and economic counterpoint to US and China. There has never been a better time to invest heavily in the continent so they can seriously compete in the world.

I tried it a while back and was left wanting but that’s been a couple years. I’ll give it another try.

Still haven’t found a good replacement for InDesign and let me tell you how much I’m hankering to move on

Pure idiotic fuckery is what’s going on and the idea of a market rebound is hilarious to me because even without global tariffs there are plenty of other things he can do and IS doing to create instability in the USA. He’s gotta go, the sooner the better.

Absolutely and it’s just getting more and more urgent

So yeah if that’s the case then we need to seriously explore ways to remove him from office

The more I look at that room the less it makes sense

I don’t really remember much outrage over Part 1. All I heard them complaining about was from part 2 - a woman with some muscles and a trans character, the latter being so subtly introduced that you could have blinked and missed it.

Absolutley insane that a bill limiting Presidential power is subject to a veto

It’s sort of a crazy strategy in Blackjack too. Lose 7-8 times in a row and you’re already betting 100x your starting bet.

So not even Tesla will buy a Cybertruck

What would Elon know about a guy butting his entitled ass into something he doesn’t truly understand?

Over the last few decades the GOP gradually dropped any pretense of morality taking the easiest path possible for coalition building: assembling the stupid, bigoted, gullible and conspiratorial, the least empathetic, the overworked and underinformed. They left conservative ideology back in the 80s and have won only by preying on these people’s weaknesses.

Until this year however, they managed to have enough ‘adults in the room’ to keep big business on their side so you gotta think big business this week is shitting their pants with the realization that the base has now fully overrun the party.