Anyone with more than sawdust between their ears knew he was going to do this. It’s his modus operandi: cause chaos and watch the markets plummet - then buy cheap and reverse course. Markets recover, and he (and his cronies) profit!

Poor Texans. They keep electing climate-change-denying GOP goons because… God, guns, and gays.

I guess they’re in the FO part of FAFO now.

Tragic. /s

I know you’re being sarcastic, but if does point out the fact that capitalism is only held in check by government. RockStar obviously waited until they knew they could get away with it given the current attitudes in all branches of the US government.

Trump and Co. are gambling that they can achieve dictatorship before the violence and other shit starts.

Putin smiles in Moscow. Chaos and violence in America is his win. It’s also his win if the US slides into dictatorship and the US population shrugs and goes along quietly.

Exactly! It’s going to be a flying wiretap with every enemy of the US scrambling to get their electronics in before Qatar closes the deal with Trump. I wouldn’t be surprised if there were eavesdropping circuits baked into the silicon of every system in the plane.

What a fucking nightmare - but on brand for this kleptocracy of an administration.

Anything to diminish California. Trump and MAGA can’t abide California functioning well because it contradicts their message that liberal-run states are implicitly worse off than conservative-run states.

I was there in the 90s for a bachelor party. I can assure you it was skeevy then too. I think I got black lung from the amount of cigarette smoke in the air inside.

Yes. If we ever get another administration that isn’t bat shit crazy they will want to restore the old name. However, they’ll be reluctant because that’ll mean trampling on a little girl’s legacy.

The massive amount of cognitive dissonance is infuriating.

This has the same energy as the Russian cannon fodder in Ukraine who film those videos appealing directly to Putin about their situation. They refuse to believe that he would allow it. If only he knew - he would fix it.

Cult!

The existential dread from the past is the same existential dread of today. We also do not know how things might turn out.

100%

His behavior during the NABJ interview was classic Donny: a narcissist doing everything he could to deflect and avoid been held to account for his prior words/behavior.

Just happened that he let his racism shine through as he tried to worm his way out. Which shows how cognitively impaired he is.

I love AntennnaPod - except when I’m in the car. It doesn’t have Android Auto support.

My parents adopted a quirky cat that seems to have had some past trauma. She’s finally getting more friendly and less skiddish - AFTER FOUR YEARS.

Sometimes it’s just love and time that helps them get over past trauma.

It’s definitely possible to convert in both directions. I’ve never done it though. The technical hurdles made it unpalatable. My main method of moving back and forth was to keep my personal data on a separate disk from the OS disk. That way I could always take my data with me when I changed OSes or VMs.

I think it’s far less invasive to setup a Linux VM that can be thrown away vs. setting up dual booting.

With Hyper-V or Virtualbox the OP can have a Linux distribution installed and booting very quickly without fear of disrupting his current Windows installation.

16+ years. Learned about it from Joel Spolsky’s blog.

I pretty much agree 100% with your characterization of the decline and your overall experience.

I also hadn’t realized how dysfunctional Reddit had become or how much I’d tried to adapt to that dysfunction.