I’ll piggyback onto this comment and advocate for FUTO. I have it installed on my Pixel 7 running Graphene and also an old LG G7 ThinQ running LineageOS. Works like a charm, has every feature I could want, and it has support for every language I speak (English, Dutch, Spanish, Japanese, haven’t looked to see if it has Hindi support, however).

He is the commander-in-chief of the world’s most advanced military and second largest nuclear stockpile on Earth. Despite the United States’ economic woes, he also wields great influence over a massive trade partner with the EU.

Until the Europeans can successfully deleverage most of their integration with the United States military and economy, the pragmatic thing to do is only pick fights where it’s absolutely necessary.

Personally, for what it’s worth, I wouldn’t want to cede one millimeter of proberbial ground to what is clearly the worst president of all time. However, I understand the tactical decision being made.

“One can give you a great recipe. You can still fuck it up.”

The Abrahamic Religions (Islam, Christianity, and Judaism) aren’t “religions of peace”.

Socialist economic systems are also easily corruptible.

People are perfectly fine with letting strangers suffer so long as it doesn’t inconvenience them.

“How you do anything is how you do everything.”

or

“Life in every breath.”

Lincoln’s refusal to execute the principal Confederate traitors publicly and exile the rest was a mistake that has cost the world dearly.

I say this as an admirer of Abraham Lincoln.

On the fourth date we watch π

I don’t know why, but this headline made me remember the lyrics to the Radiohead song, Talk Show Host:

I want to

I want to be someone else or I’ll explode

Floating upon this surface for the birds

The birds

You want me?

Fuckin’ well come and find me

I’ll be waiting

With a gun and a pack of sandwiches

And nothing

Nothing

You want me?

Well, come on and break the door down

You want me?

Fuckin’ come on and break the door down

I’m ready

Ready

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I agree with that…? People should be allowed to transition but with parental/guardian permission or are legal adults (18, in the US). Is that considered right-wing take? I thought I was a moderate!

I am an American “person of color” (gods, what stupid phrase… fuck this newspeak) who owns firearms (at home; I live abroad currently).

Here’s the exact verbiage of the 2nd Amendment:

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

Interpret that as thou wilt; we’ve been arguing about it since about 1791.

For what it’s worth, I’d amend the amendment to include this snippet from Marx, just to confuse us all even more:

Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary.

Watched his videos sequentially in order, I’m honestly in a little bit of awe. The Stephen Crowder and Schaub ones were soooooooooo good.

Daimler-Benz AG (which included the Mercedes-Benz brand) merged with the Chrysler Corporation in 1998 to form DaimlerChrysler.

I remember it vividly as a teenager. It’s been in an utter shit show since then, in my opinion.

The caveat is that I’m highly biased towards Japanese manufacturers. My family owned two Chryslers. After they both had tremendous drive train issues, my father said never again and bought Japanese from then on, aside from a 2004 Volvo S40. The Toyotas and Hondas were extremely reliable, fuel efficient, and very easy to perform maintenance on comparatively.

If I were to buy German in this era, my two preferences would be Porsche and Audi.

However, your individual experience is valid as cars’ reliability is largely individualistic to the specific vehicle and its owner.

Classic well-kept Mercedes-Benz are a joy to behold and I suspect to drive as well.

If I had the knowledge, I would love to start an ETF to short publicly traded companies run by assholes and douchebags. Similar to inverse REITs for real estate. It would probably lose money spectacularly, I admit, but I would still run it out of pure spite.

Mercedes-Benz has been trash for many years now, so this tracks.

I don’t know if it’s the root reason, but one gets scoffed at harshly by the average Tom, Dick, and Harry when suggesting that a Monarchy is an archaic and, frankly, insulting form of governance in spite of protestations that the role of the sovereign is purely ceremonial.

Simply put, they (mostly) seem to prefer political masochism, and are ruled by sadists. Sadly, in 2025, aren’t we all?

The Simulacrum

Computer vision models can read/parse pixel geometry.

An opinion you’re seeking validation of? :)

No, I don’t need validation of my opinions, but depending on who it’s from, it’s nice to have when I recieve it. But, touché, nonetheless. 😉

Everybody thinks they’re so damn important, and they don’t matter at all.

On macro-scale, we/they don’t.

I think what hits close to home is that too many people just aren’t fulfilled by only mattering to the people who really do care about them.

Mattering to friends and family just ain’t enough to fill the hole inside, and their either unaware of it, they don’t care, or they’re ashamed of themselves, and the guilt of their need for public congratulation for their shallow desires feeds their nihilistic consumption. Perhaps, vice versa, or even a pathological ouroboros.