HelixDab2

If I had known when I was rather younger, I probably could have done much better in school, and would likely have been a bit more successful--in many ways--than I have been.

But what if I don't want credit in the Play store? What if I want to use the Graphene OS, and side load everything?

This is such an amazingly dumb take. There's no way that ANY of this is in good faith.

Trump did the easiest thing the Democrats & Harris couldn’t: he welcomed some Arabs & Muslims to share the stage with him. He embraced them

The guy that tried to ban Muslims from entering the country starting in 2017, and now you think he's "embracing" them? You think that they guy that tells Israel they need to 'get the job done' is on the side of Muslims? That's either deeply delusional, or intentionally lying with the goal of accelerating the timeline for the "revolution" (which is actually going to be an extermination of anyone that's marginalized already, and the entire left, since y'all haven't been willing to get strapped and trained).

I have considered getting a burner phone that I pay for in cash only, having it utterly unconnected from my real life, and turned off and stored in a Faraday wallet when not in use just so I can use the 'digital coupons' that food retailers keep pushing. I use a loyalty card because all they get from that is my buying habits--groceries--plus an address. But access to my phone? Absolutely not.

I would suggest reading some Ian Banks.

Really? They read pretty straightforward to me. THe only real issue I have is that I can't hear a distinction between a thorn and an eth, so the usage seems arbitrary to me. I know that Icelandic people say there's a difference, and at least one has tried to explain it, but I can't hear it.

Verhoeven's Starship Troopers specifically, not Heinlein's.

That I have moderately severe to severely severe ADHD and I'm on the autism spectrum.

Makes functioning as an adult quite difficult.

Depends. When I was in art school, I regularly worked for 36 hours straight, and at least once for 72 hours straight. But it's studio work, where you're actually making a <>; it never would have worked to have been trying to read Marx/Engels or Hegel and expect to have any kind of comprehension.

On Sunday at MSG, Donald Trump engineered what will be seen by political analysts and later by historians as the coup de grâce that killed forever his prospects of being president and may well have set him on a post-election course on which he finally may be held accountable for his actions.

That is wishful thinking.

Yeah, I want this to be the end of Trump and his cult. But I don't think that it will be.

Like Emperor Palpatine, I don't think he'll actually die or stay dead..

They signed up to be the lowest of the overly-entitled rentacops out there. that’s on them.

Exactly my point.

The FCC (FAA? I may have that wrong)

I'm pretty sure that the TSA falls under the Dept. of Homeland Security, as does Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

realize they aren’t pasty-whites and then it’s mean to minorities.

You see that makes it worse, right? You've got a lot of non-white people signing up for the job of a rent-a-cop so that they can abuse the same kind of authority that is leveled against the populations that the job attracts. It's like a black kid on the south side of Chicago looking at the ways that CPD abuses suspects and say, goddamn, how do I get into that gig?

And this just reminds you that if they could get other jobs then they will.

Eh. Maybe some of them. Maybe. But policing attracts a specific kind of person that wants that job; sometimes it's people that are genuinely white knights, but they generally get run out pretty fast. More often it's people that want authority. Given that TSA pay ain't great, and that we're in an era--temporarily, if Trump wins--of historic high employment, I don't think that too many of the people in the TSA are really stuck there.

Honestly, he wants to return Russia to it's 'glory days', which means back when it was an imperial power, and they could send tanks into Hungary to crush people protesting for democracy. When Ukrainians threw out their pro-Russian president, he saw that influence he wanted slipping away.