One way to avoid it is to prioritize GOG copies if they’re available. Since GOG has no DRM they tend to generally be untouched.

Jokes on you I’m using it to be disappointed in myself.

I have all my devices set to reboot once weekly a few hours after daily scheduled updates. I probably don’t need to do this, but I do. It’s a habit I got in with scheduling router reboots, and then started extending it to other devices. It’s nice to have some solid uptime, but I have three unbound DNS servers in sequence so they update and reboot on a staggered schedule so it’s like they never go down.

You never know when the odd cosmic ray is gonna hit and flip yer bits.

I literally had a friend breaking down over it and I suggested Fediverse alternatives and they looked at me like I had sprouted an extra head.

I even explained that US companies aren’t doing anything materially different than Tiktok (propaganda and spying on people), and they’re all bad. Still looking at me like I’m some kind of maniac.

Everyone bitches about corporations but so few want to actually stop sucking on their fucking teat.

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This is just a reminder, the parallels between Trump and Hitler are many.

Trump hates drinking and smoking while Hitler also hated drinking and smoking.

If they represent what “sober” is, I’ll take any and all drugs mainlined into my veins till the end of time please and thank you.

Yep, it’s Germany all over again, everyone’s just gonna roll over and let it happen, thinking “it won’t get that bad, I’ve got to get to work anyway.”

o7

It is, but uhhhh, unfortunately the US is looking pretty toast, looks like it’s about to start fucking with Europe for Russia, and China is already clearly making plans to follow Russia’s lead and re-take what they consider to be their territories, simply because they know Trump will let it happen.

With Europe literally having to cope with managing the US becoming an antagonist along with Russia, I’m not really sure we have a choice in the matter my friend.

lmao broligarchs is a new one to me and its fucking gold

Exactly, every time you turn around these guys were always ignoring evidence-based-anything. What they mean about “Law and order” is beating the shit out of innocent people and pinning charges on them. What they mean about “national security” is bombing the fuck out of wherever they can steal resources from. It’s why Trump brought up Greenland and Panama Canal, strategic resource allocation.

The only thing they know to utilize is violence and domination. They’re not clever fucking people, they’re just ruthless.

and whether we like it or not, China or India are bound to take its place. It was years ago now that a meme went around that said “The average human is a Chinese man with a cell phone and no bank account” alluding to the significance of their staggering population. India outpaced China in population since then.

Like it or not our time as a global economic, political and cultural powerhouse is quickly coming to a close.

The GOP Is No Longer the Party of National Security

Oh for fucks sake they never were! Talking about it like this is letting Republicans re-write fucking history!! Talking about it like this is letting them dictate what taking security seriously means which is how we got in this fucking mess to begin with!

Was starting two forever wars in the middle east good for the US’s security or Europe’s for that matter?

Not to mention 9/11 literally fucking happened because the Bush admin ignored clear warnings. (What’s that called, a security lapse? Rumsfeld called it a failure of imagination. I call it a failure to fucking read.)

The Afghanistan/Iraq wars in particular are an inflection point in the overall change in wider public opinion about the US government, especially worldwide. It’s when the US’s soft power began to falter and we became known as Team America World Police. It spearheaded disillusionment in the populace which has allowed right wing demagoguery take over in USA and Europe.

Was the TSA ever even really about security? At this point if a terrorist wanted to cause mass havoc and kill many people, they’d just have to set off a bomb while standing in line waiting for security. There’s been two decades of research into the TSA that shows it is all security theater and a stealth jobs program for the Bush administration.

They were never the party of national security, back to Reagan trading weapons for hostages.

EDIT: I remember computer scientists worried about the vote being insecure in 2004 and they were dismissed by “the party of national security.” While the CEO of Diebold was quoted as “We’re dedicated to bringing the President the vote in November.”

So fucking sick of these anti-research anti-science fucks being treated as competent about fucking anything.

I knew billywitchdoctor.com would come through for me.

Writing these kind of pieces is really important because these thin skinned bitches love to get angry about people speaking truth to power to them, and that’s when they let their guard down the most because they’re busy trying to cover up how much of a little bitch they are.

I’ll do my best but considering I have cancer and can’t afford my meds without the ACA, I’m probably one of the ones who is pretty fucking cooked.

…and yet there won’t be thousands of people protesting his inauguration or anything the fuck else.

The people in this country have been broken, and now they’re just gonna lay over and take it.

We’re a long way from February 15th, 2003.

Face it, American citizens, we’re fucking cooked.

So glad they can get groceries for a month.

Now that’s an answer I can get behind.

Woosh. We’re decentralizing everything except the hardware and everyone’s like bUt iTs dEcEnTrALiZeD!

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