No statistics provided by any part of any government in the USA are reliable, and should not be believed in any context.

Everything.

Yes, that’s correct. If you cherrypick data and extrapolate your preferred assumptions about it you can make it say the thing you want.

This should serve as a powerful reminder that nobody in the world, under any circumstances, should ever assist USA troops.

I just clicked the first installer script in Lutris and two minutes later was playing.

I’m not.

Yep. Anything that needs to connect to the internet to function is never entering my home.

USA health “care” is so profoundly fucked up.

A strike would be fascinating. You can’t just stop a chip fab. There could be huge batch losses.

They have already thrown out the results of a primary because they don’t like them. They’re redistricting like crazy to their own benefit right now. They’ve already clawed back decades of voter equality laws.

The midterms are already completely compromised and their outcome is already absolute bullshit.

No, it’s dead.

Who fucking cares at this point? No deal with that moron is worth anything. Give him nothing. Because he’s going to slap whatever imaginary bullshit on whomever he pleases no matter what they do. Let his stupid threats be what they are - a syphyllitic old man pissing into the wind.

There are two kind of wages they can pay us. Living wages, and killing wages.

Yeah, it’s the surging gas prices. Sure, CEO man.

These idiots are so out of touch. $40 more a month in gas compared to 3 years ago isn’t what’s breaking me. It’s the $800/mo more in rent. It’s the $300/month more in groceries. It’s my electrical bill doubling because of a new AI slopcenter in my backyard. It’s being told by my boss that this quarter’s record profits weren’t record enough to fund a measly 2% raise for me.

But sure, my dude Mr. Kraft CEO. Blame the gas boogeyman.

I wonder how marbled Mr. Cahillaine’s sirloin is? Maybe it would be good with some Heinz 57 sauce.

I’m absolutely certain they will comply immediately.

This is what the end of an empire looks like. Nations that used to line up to kiss the ring are just politely declining your requests now. In a few months they’ll just send the call to voicemail.

Good job, idiots.

Yep, nothing at all will happen to counter the continuing rise of USA fascism. MAGA will do whatever it wants and those opposed will do nothing more than write eloquent articles about which laws are being violated. They’ll be sitting in the gas chamber saying “Well actually, gas chamber mass executions like this one are unconstitutional because blah blah blah,” having never lifted a finger to oppose it in any practical way.

Anyone who still thinks democracy is still even slightly alive in the USA is delusional.

When this is all over Iran is going to have way more, and way more formalized, control over that strait than it ever did before this Epstein-distraction war ever started.

The USA is really good at losing wars, but this loss is going to be epic.

And you can flash 3rd party firmware too.

The opportunity for future enshitification is the main reason I’ll never connect mine to the internet. It’s a great printer, but I don’t trust any tech companies for basically the reasons you described.