2100: "You're gonna have dictatorships and you're gonna love it?"

With someone peeling a carrot on half of the screen.

This actually made me a little angry, to my surprise. :-D

I thought film student was almost like a holy calling, an opportunity that passed me by. Clearly, it's just the equivalent to another biz management course to some of these students.

If you have that passion, you should study film - it's never too late, and your passion will take you much further than the people just taking courses. You won't regret it.

It's like people in IT who went to some technical degree factory and got a certification, compared to those who took apart their parent's computer, figured out how to install Linux, hacked their own drivers and apps, etc.

Have we seen any signs of any limits to erratic behaviour?

Ever heard of the acronym 'TACO'?

Can't all that be solved by posting ICE guards around all polling stations?

There's no law of nature that proves democracy can't be overthrown, but ICE is currently struggling against popular resistance to merely enforce immigration law in a single medium-sized city. Right now there's not much indication they have either the desire or operational capacity to pull off nationwide voter suppression. (And a number of special elections over the past year have defeated regime-backed candidates without ICE involvement.)

If they tried to merely immigration law, they would had no issue.

They were successful at creating fear and making conflict avoidant people stay home. Despite large amount of protesters, that is real effect.

And it would create real vote suppression. You would had people not voting out of fear. And the opposing side having less votes (even if they win, they win less)

You, I, and regime officials know that they're trying to do more than merely enforce immigration law. But that's not the story they're telling the staff. Your average immigration enforcement officer still believes they're doing nothing more than executing warrants on people who are unlawfully present in the country - indeed, even with all the chaos and murders, there may not even be a majority of officers who've personally performed any misconduct. I'm not saying they're "good apples", but neither will they necessarily go along with an election subversion scheme that has no plausible fig leaf.

Equally importantly, this is not an operation that could be planned in secret or at the drop of the hat. If the Trump regime tries to do something like this, we'll know weeks or months in advance, and there will be plenty of time to make it clear that anyone who participates will face swift and severe justice.

It's so confusing. Maybe they should have just put it all on a torrent.

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But it's often the first meal of the day. :)

Bravo.

It's not often I find myself quoting Gwar, but this reminds me of "Bone meal! Better than no meal at all!"

... 8-bit microprocessor launched by Motorola in 1978

...reached a playing strength on par with GNU Go

MC6809 was actually launched in 1979, like MC68000, about one year after the launch of 8086 in 1978 by Intel.

What Motorola did in 1978 was to publish some articles in the specialized magazines, announcing MC6809 as the future better replacement for their existing MC6800 derivatives. This is the same like Intel describing during last year how great will be their Panther Lake CPU, but Panther Lake has really been launched only a couple of days ago.

Achtung, you will draw the ire of the systemd downvote zealots.

Edit: Haha, withing a handful of seconds I got a downvote. :-D