Well, he was smart enough to convince a critical majority of Americans to elect him POTUS. I know it’s not a high bar these days, but it’s still more smarts than the average member of the animal kingdom.

Also, note that I’m talking about smart, not intelligent. There’s a difference.

More like a certain sheep and certain birds have some explaining to do.

Apes and monkeys can be really smart. Case in point, there’s an orange utan in the White House.

The triangular blades come with two straight edges and one angled, serrated edges. The two straight edges work equally well front and back. The serrated edge only work as intended, like a chisel.

In fairness, there is one valid reason why the company would have chosen to make it impossible to reverse the blade: to avoid support calls and warranty claims from people trying to use the serrated edge the wrong way around.

Because if you think about it, they went out of their way to make the socket one-way: it would actually be cheaper to manufacture the notch on both sides than the way they made it on one side only. So they really did intend to ensure the blade can only be mounted one way.

But here’s the thing: you have to be really, REALLY dumb to use the serrated edge in reverse and not realize it. It’s completely obvious that the tool isn’t working right, and there’s something sharp sticking up instead of down on the glass. So I don’t buy the idiot-proof anti-warranty-claims argument: I’m totally certain it is done to limit the life of the blades.

Although mind you, it’s rather academic: when an edge is spent, I simply sharpen it with a fine belt on the belt sander and it’s good for another few months anyway 🙂 But of course, you need a belt sander if you want to do that.

I reckon the White House should contract The Boring Company to drill a tunnel between the Oval Office and the toilet in Mar-a-Lago.

And possibly install a Neuralink chip in cheeto’s brain too.

I mean since the White House is not a Musk showroom, why not go all the way…

My parents have a small bussiness here, and like, we can’t just thanos snap and move everything.

Remember that many jews said the same thing in Germany before the war, until they realized it really was time to get out of Dodge and they couldn’t.

Curious, what country did you go to

I lived in many countries. The one I went to when I left the US was the UK. But it was in Europe back then. I would never move there now.

Because AFIAK, there only a few ways

You missed mine 🙂 I had dual citizenship. I simply gave one up. I had to pay the extortion racket but other than that, that’s all I had to do.

Also, if you’re trans or not male or female (some people are born with extra X and Y chromosomes, which flies in the face of the administration’s idiotic male / female classification), you’ve basically become a non-person in the US. As such, I’m fairly sure you could make a convincing case for asylum in many European countries.

If I was still an American (I gave up my citizenship after Dubya shat the USA Patriot Act) and part of an at-risk group - and there are many - I would seriously consider emigrating at this point.

Don’t do like the jews who stayed in Germany after 1933 thinking it can’t get any worse: it will get worse and you don’t want to be stuck in the US when it’s too late to leave.

The morale of the store is, read the release notes to see what’s changing.

You do that, I do that, but most people just click Update. And that’s if whatever wants to update itself lets you even opt out: Windows for example will nag you into submission at best, and more likely simply apply the update without asking your permission, and while you’re in the middle of important work if it wants to.

Same here. But I avoid saying it too often because I always get jumped by a bunch of forced-upgrade lemmings who insult me and tell me I’m a dumbass because I expose myself to immediate and terrible danger from evil hackers in the next 30 seconds. Which of course isn’t true, but most people have been so drilled into blindly updating anything anytime an update is available without even checking what they’re installing that they’ll aggressively confront you if you don’t.

The instance I use (SDF) has stopped fetching Youtube video titles and thumbnails weeks ago. I just add them manually now.
The SDF instance runs 0.19.8.

Elderly patients can deteriorate hourly in the ER. This team works against the clock to get them out

In the US, DOGE comes in and pushes all the beds on the curb, so the patients’ health immediately stops deteriorating on the cheap.

Trump should be glad: he’s uniquely special because his special is the short bus kind.

Define ambition.

My ambition is to do right by my family, my friends and my community, work and live decently and going to my grave being reasonably proud of the life I lead.

If you mean ambition as in rising in the ranks of an organization and earning more money, yes, I believe the higher / richer you go, the worse human being you are, for one simple reason: to rise to the top in our society, you have to trample someone further down, and decent human beings don’t do that. And if you want to rise without doing that, someone will trample you and beat you to the top.

In society the way it’s structured, I believe the more “successful” you are, the more despicable you probably are too.

The thing is, eat less and move more is the correct answer. That’s just the harsh reality of physics: if your body doesn’t get enough food energy for what it needs, it’s going to go for its own energy reserves - i.e.fat.

It’s factually true. But if it worked, we would know by now and obesity would be uncommon.

Available for a few euros per shot, or thousands of US dollars per shot.

I try to learn the following sentences in the language of a country I go to if I don’t know anything at all about that language:

• Hello, as polite as possible
• Goodbye, as polite as possible
• A beer please
• I’m sorry I don’t speak <language>: do you speak English?

I find this quite enough to strike up a conversation in most of the world. When people don’t automatically switch to English - perhaps because they don’t know it well enough - then I try another “universal” language like Spanish or French (universal mostly because of past colonialism, sadly). That implies speaking those languages of course.

If the locals won’t speak English because of a prejudice against English (mostly French-speaking regions) I don’t even bother with the “I’m sorry…” bit. I just let them figure out by themselves that conversation is going to be difficult.

If the locals are anti-Americans - very common, and getting more and more common - I affect a British accent. I wouldn’t fool a Brit for a New York minute but I’m convincing enough for a non-native English speaker to avoid being associated with the US.

That must be the mentally challenged MAGA vaccination method.

I’m from yesterday. When I was a kid in the 70’s, my tomorrow was the triumph of science, an evermore interconnected world of evermore educated people, the rule of individual rights and freedoms, the retreat of religion and magical thinking, fewer and fewer wars and the gradual end of poverty.

I’m very bitter today because somebody stole my future. But you can also argue that I, a man of yesterday, failed to shape the world of today too. We all failed, those of my generation.

If you’re a person of today, you need to work towards a better tomorrow right now. Because if you don’t, you’ll end up regretting not doing it later in life like I do.

Because the American culture has indocrinated Americans to put themselves first. Whoever has “me first” hard-coded in their personality tends to view everybody else as inferior, and tends to have an unwavering confidence in their own greatness.