Can someone ELI5 what happened? I knew about the civil war but it had been effectively at a stalemate for a couple of years. How did the rebels suddenly surge like they did?

No one can argue that 64gb of storage holds more music than 4gb of storage but 4gb still holds hundreds of songs.

I’m in Louisiana. We have inspections but I don’t believe the actually matter. Take a quick walk through any parking lot and you’ll find tons of cars that have both valid stickers and glaringly obvious problems that should keep them off the road.

The elevator at my work is lifted by a big piston and not cables. Check and mate.

Biden didn’t weaponize the DoJ. At no point did he use it to attack opponents who hadn’t committed crimes as decided by grand juries. During Trump’s trials he was, at least publicly, hands off and let the AG do his thing.

Don’t confuse Biden giving his son a pardon after conviction with Nixon firing multiple AGs until he got to one that was fine with him being a literal criminal and Trump trying to find one (and succeeding) that wouldn’t release a report on how Trump is corrupt.

This is not a both sides thing.

The Attorney General leads the DoJ and is a member of the president’s cabinet. The DoJ is also part of the executive branch. While it is “bad form” for the president to order the AG to do something, the president can fire the AG. Look up what Nixon did to find out more.

Biden is in charge of the person in charge of the DoJ.

It seemingly has little impact. I’ve attempted to use LLMs a couple of times to ask very specific technical questions (on this specific model, running this specific OS version, how do I do this very specific thing) to try and cut down on the amount of research I would have to do to find a solution. The answer every time has been wrong. Once it was close enough to the answer I was able to figure it out but “close enough” doesn’t seem worth bothering with most of the time.

When I search for things I always slip the AI summary at the top of the page.

And when people get or almost killed by an animal it is the animal’s fault instead of the idiot who created the situation.

Yep. This is weird. I can see your comment in my messages but if I go to the actual post it shows that there is a message but I can’t expand it to see it.

I don’t know how to check but the comment is gone for me now.

I think rich people can get ripped off but I also can’t argue that $35B isn’t still insanely rich.

…definitely shows its age now…

What I’m hearing is we need someone to make Fallout 4Vegas.

I’m blocking a lot of communities (all sports related) but I’m not blocking any users or instances.

That makes sense. I don’t usually use the web client.

I don’t think I’m blocking anyone specifically. I might be blocking an instance. I’ll have to look into that.

You’re thinking to small. Start up store that only sells ivermectin and sell it straight to the government for insane markups. That’s what happened during COVID with regular medical supplies! Heck one of the reasons why they were in short supply is becaue Kuchner gave the federal government’s supply to his buddy’s companies who then sold them to hospital systems for a profit. Some of it even just got sold back to federal government.

#58 was so long ago…

Who in their right mind would ever think that any publicly traded company is consumer first? Their only goals are short term profit followed long term profits. Everything else is in pursuit of those two things.

You’re not wrong and the sky is the limit as long as we keep adding symbols!