Once again, Linux is late with a feature that Microsoft not only has had for years, but is famous for.

“Cracker Barrel” refers to 19th century rations. The Cracker was a shelf stable hard-tack biscuit and they were packed into barrels or boxes for transport. You would have encountered hard tack in the military or as a poverty food.

There is a story about General Lee and Jackson meeting before Chancellorsville while sat on these boxes called the “Crackerbox Meeting”

I don’t think the name is related to the anti-white pejorative.

Spitfire of Theseus.

Headline: US officials admit that TickTock ban intended to censor Gaza news.

Article: Romney and Blinken blame Israel’s disastrous PR on social media and opine that this is a good reason to ban platforms like TickTock.

DAE remember that the OceanGate CEO bragged that Boeing helped them manufacture the sub?

At the time Boeing disavowed, but who you gonna believe?

Just going to point out the irony that modern Europeans are descended from migrants that infiltrated the Continent and interbred with the locals until their genes and culture were dominant.

Waland is the British half of the mega corp Waland-Yutani. Sometimes called Wa-Yu, or simply “the company”

Founded by Charles Bishop Wayland, the totally not evil billionaire industrialist, Wayland LLC was known for energy production, computer technology, and planetary terraforming before it was acquired in a hostile takeover by the Japanese Yutani corp in 2099.

Articles like this are madding to me. The author painstakingly catalogues why policing doesn’t work now, and never worked in the past. What’s the problem: Incompetence laziness. (personal moral failings) What’s the solution: reform. (of course)

Implied is the idea that policing is necessary. That society will just fall apart if we don’t pay salaries to armed, unaccountable, and violent street thugs. What could undermine this childish faith more than the fact that pigs, in fact, don’t do the core service we “require” them for?

The answer is that pigs do a great job, it’s just that protecting the public isn’t part of it. They’re job is to uphold the social order and protect the property of the ownership class.

Why is it that the States that’d force you to have a child are the same ones who make it harder to raise one?

The amount of government intervention in parent’s lives is crazy. It’s easier to take your kid than to take your gun.

Back in the 60s, People used to criticize the American Civil Rights movement because the Soviets supported it. Bad faith then, bad faith now.

Neat. Put the embassy in Jerusalem.

This is a bad take. Software updates that fix life threatening defects are as serious as any recall.

It’s motivated reasoning. Either the people making this argument are Tesla owners, simps, or shareholders and are trying to protect the phantasmagorical value of the company.

Saying “my car’s drive-by-wire software gets more firmware updates than my printer” is not a flex.

OJ’s trial goes beyond his innocence or guilt. His trial was racially charged and cannot be understood outside this context. I don’t think those who celebrated his acquittal believed in his innocence as much as they saw it a victory that a black man used his privilege and resources to escape justice the way so many white criminals had in the past. Not justice, but equality, American style.

For white America, it came as quite a shock that a rich black celebrity could leverage race tensions to escape accountability. This was such a singular event it resonates 30years later. If you’re black, you don’t need a long memory to see justice betrayed behind some racist bullshit.

So, mishandling classified material, even by a President is wrong?

So investors will buy the chain, take out huge loans to pay themselves, and bring in management to cut jobs, close locations, and skimp quality all to make that payment.

Capitalism is much efficient, so economy, and many value.

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For context, Bebop was a popular style of Jazz, that like so many other American styles of music emanated from black musicians. So being “degenerate”, “going to the bad part of town”, and listening to bebop would have been understood at the time as explicit racial coding.

That’s right, “black” music can turn white kids bad, even when it doesn’t have lyrics.

Pakistan’s government took our money, promised to fight terrorism, denied it in public, all while their military (who actually ran the country) supported the Taliban as a proxy force.

The only thing Trump ever did that I agreed with was suspending “aid” to Pakistan.

Whether it’s Christofascists, Hindu nationalists, or Jewish supremacists that shit always sounds exactly the same.