With actions like this China at this point likely believes that the worst possible course it could take is one where it intervenes in its chief rival beheading itself for a generation.
— psychosomatica (@Xenoimpulse) June 27, 2025
Indeed. As I pointed out earlier, we are taking ourselves out. There is no reason to intervene when your enemy is making a mistake. That might wake them up to the peril. China has won; the century of American decline and humiliation has begun.
GOP governors stay silent amid plans to slash Medicaid spending in their states.
This is going to be disastrous and end up costing us all more money as medical conditions go untreated and worsen over time.
“Saving” $1 trillion will end up costing us all $2-$3 trillion. The MAGAts just despise poor people. That’s all this is.
Is there a place in the modern world for a man who just doesn't enjoy short form video?
— Noah Smith ๐ (@Noahpinion) July 3, 2025
I hope so because I fucking hate, hate, hate short-form mind-rot video. Will never watch it.
The Big Beautiful Bill is the worst legislation to pass in my lifetime and will make the country enormously poorer and the world worse off overall. However, it will make some billionaires and centimillionaires quite a lot richer. Which is, you know, the whole point.
The “smash and grab” phase of kleptocracy is in full swing.
TARP and the Patriot Act were also horrid, but nothing compared to this theft from the future and from the American people.
China has won the future ineluctably now. And didn’t even have to fire a shot; Sun Tzu would be proud.
Women getting rejected for having tattoos by men they desire is often the first time women have experienced rejection similar to what men constantly receive.
And they do not take it well. The myth was that women handle rejection gracefully. But many really, really do not.
I don’t think I will ever understand the desire to turn systems and security people like me into shitty developers.
It’s happening because devs dominate all now. There is nothing wrong with automation, but development is a completely different skill. And I’ve never met a dev who was even remotely as good as at systems, design, security or networking as even an average systems type. And rarely have I met a systems person who was a good dev.
Again: completely different skills. Though most devs cannot see that — they think because they’ve heard of an IP address and know what a SIEM is, they know all there is to know in that space.
Nice groove from a small artist. And as hinted at by the name, there is significant nudity in this video. Very much NSFW. Though not nearly as much as her other video.
Microsoft Is Erasing Your Passwords Next Month.
Fuck this. I only use Microsoft Authenticator where I have to so it won’t affect me much. But passkeys are such a scam. I will avoid them at all costs for as long as I can anywhere I can.
Passkeys is all about forcing vendor lock-in. Evil, evil stuff.
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MAGA Will Devastate Rural America.
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Microsoft is laying off as many as 9,000 employees.
A-10 Warthog Already Has The Capability To Use Laser-Guided Rockets To Shoot-Down Drones.
The Jobs Market Is Starting to Fall Apart.