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The music is the delicious scent of tacos

Ideologies are invented, not discovered.

Though to be fair, I am pretty sure Edison wasn’t a fascist, because fascism hadn’t been invented yet

So I admit I used to feel the horror you’re describing, but seeing them refuse to reciprocate for my entire voting life has made me a damn sight more jaded these days. And I have precisely zero sympathy for places and people who vote against their own interests.

Idk why the Japanese government doesn’t just become a stakeholder in Nissan

Honestly, a better analogy is Henry Ford.

Jesus fucking christ the interns who have neither seen nor heard of COBOL have also not encountered the concept of a sentinel value used as a fallback/default.

American here: hard agree. This is all insane, but it’s predictable, and they told us about it ahead of time, and people still fucking voted for it. We shat the bed, now we must lie in it.

I’m probably gonna try to leave the country and renounce my citizenship at some point, particularly if the next few months are as catastrophic as I think they’ll be.

Yeah… they tried something similar here in MA, and every single service person I talked to about it, at every level, from dishwasher to chef to server to maitre’d to manager to owner was opposed to it. It was a tortuously and deceptively constructed piece of legislature that “guaranteed” a thing that was already actually guaranteed. It did nothing helpful, and it just increased bureaucracy and put another layer in the wages equation unnecessarily. We voted it down, thankfully.

From glass onion lol. Great movie, btw.

We are 100% going to be at war with Mexico before the year is out

I would fucking love for the Feds to try this with any blue state that is a net contributor (which is like, basically all of them). And then set up a (federally illegal, but we don’t care about that anymore apparently) interstate commerce and trade pact between blue states for mutual aid and economic assistance, since the federal government is currently busy destroying the federal government.