NutWrench

The only national passenger train service I know of is Amtrak, which shares its tracks with freight carriers. So the current infrastructure isn’t designed for high-speed rail and freight carriers usually get priority.

Also, The US is really big, so everything isn’t a short train ride away from everything else. If I wanted to visit the Grand Canyon from where I live, it’s over 2,000 miles away. That’s 30 hours of driving just by car.

During the Vietnam War there was a draft, so you could end up being conscripted and shipped halfway around the world to fight it. One way to avoid getting drafted was a lottery where, if you picked a high enough random number, you could avoid being drafted.

The thing is, Trump never picked a lottery number. Instead, he got five draft deferments, 1 medical and 4 educational. A lot of rich people at the time were able to avoid military service alltogether by getting a doctor to sign off that you had a sketchy illness. In Trump’s case, it was bone spurs, which apparently healed right up after the Vietnam War ended. Trump kept his 1-Y deferments until after 1972, when he was reclassified 4-F (permanently ineligible for service). By claiming he got a “high lottery number” Trump makes it sound like staying out of Vietnam was an amazing stroke of luck. That was just another lie. Trump had powerful friends and family intervene for him. Luck had nothing to do with it.

They deliberately half-assed the parade because they don’t like the way Trump treats them. Trump calls them “suckers and losers.” He cuts their benefits Why would you show any loyalty (or enthusiasm) to someone who treats you like that?

More Trump quotes: “You fucking generals. Why can’t you be more like Hitler’s generals?” 2017

On the burial of US Army private Vanessa Guillén: “It doesn’t cost 60,000 bucks to bury a fucking Mexican!” December 4, 2020. Trump has denied having made the remark.

“We’re not going to support that loser’s funeral.” August, 2018. Trump has denied having made this remark.

re: John McCain, who was captured and tortured for five years: “He’s a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren’t captured, okay? I hate to tell you.” July 18, 2015.

“But, you know, during the Vietnam War, I got very lucky. I had a very high lottery number.” November 9, 1995.

On the 1,800 US Marines who died at Belleau Wood in France during World War I “Suckers.” November 11, 2018. Trump denies having made this remark.

On US soldiers in World War I “Who were the good guys in this war?” November 11, 2018. Trump denies having asked this question.

“I don’t get it. What was in it for them?” November 11, 2018. Trump denies having made this remark.

On disabled veterans “Why do you bring people like that here? No one wants to see that, the wounded.” September 30, 2019.

“Look, I don’t want any wounded guys in the parade. This doesn’t look good for me.” Summer 2017.

Once again, “if buying isn’t owning, then piracy isn’t stealing.”

I’m only letting my latest Brother printer connect to my computer through the USB cable. No Internet connection at all.

Reddit is just a bunch of bots, jerking each other purple. They don’t have any content worth locking.

I also recommend downloading StreetComplete, which lets you contribute to the OpenStreetMaps database.

But AI is the wave of the future! The hot, NEW thing that everyone wants! ** furious jerking off motion **

You can store eggs forever! Their value will only go up!

Expel them to WHERE? Or were they just planning for all the Gazans to just keel over and die? Rubio is such a tool.

Banks are not willing to shoot themselves in the ass for Trump. They would fight to the end to hold onto that sweet transaction money.

This. I think the best way to make the Internet less sh*tty is to get away from Google search.

I like the SearX search engine. It gives old-school, relevant search results, not google ranked ones.

https://search.inetol.net/

It’s also spread out over many separate instances, so you can pick the one that best suits your search needs:

https://searx.space/

I think the best way to make the Internet less sh*tty is to get away from Google search.

I like the SearX search engine. It gives old-school, relevant search results, not google ranked ones.

https://search.inetol.net/

It’s also spread out over many separate instances, so you can pick the one that best suits your search needs:

https://searx.space/

“Jesus didn’t have electricity.”

Jesus didn’t live in Vermont in the middle of winter, either, you idiot.

When a writer copies someone else’s work without cites or compensation, it’s called “plagiarism.” But when an AI does it, it’s called “LLM training.”

“The government shouldn’t be complicit in harming students or impeding parents’ ability to decide what their kids see by subsidizing unsupervised access to inappropriate content,”

Like Fox News or OAN.

This. Eventually, some billionaire will buy up BlueSky and make it shitty. It’s much harder for one person to take over a defederated platform, spread out over hundreds of instances in several countries.

The ADL’s job used to be to protect Jewish people from discrimination. Now, it’s pretty obvious they exist to protect the policies of the Israeli government.

So if your government is current engaged in a slaughter, who would rather have on your side in the U.S. government? An apartheid-loving fascist or someone who might actually criticize your actions?

Yup. If your employer uses the, “we’re all one big family” then you’re in for a real bad time.

Because sooner or later, they’re going to make you choose between their fake “family” and your real one.

The AI hardware isn’t for us. It’s for Google and Microsoft, so they can steal your computer’s CPU time and hard drive space so they can build their own personal Skynets. (Same thing with CoPilot, which requires 50gigs of your hard drive space. You’re also paying for the privilege of being spied on, which is nice for them, I guess.)