The Dirty One.

I don’t believe that. Anyone dumb enough to vote for trump thinking he would drain the swamp is way too dumb to ever realize he’s been duped.

Yeah. Good point. I been a cockeyed optimist all my life. Sigh…

Gerrymandering is wrong. The only way to stop it is for democrats to gerrymander the living fuck out of every blue state. The supreme court would find a way to outlaw it in a New York minute.

I like Codeberg better anyways.

Sounds like he deserves 29 billion in stock grants.

It ain’t.

Again. It’s not saying there’s nobody else involved in the chain. It’s saying tech bro enshitification doesn’t have a way in. That’s the only problem it’s claiming to solve.

For instance, you don’t open up a paper book and have an AI window pop up on the page and offer to generate a summary of the book. You don’t take an ordinary pen to a sheet of paper and after two paragraphs have the pen say, “Subscribe to ink services to continue writing, start your free trial today?”

They’re not defining “middleman” in the traditional sense of an intermediary in an economic exchange. The first panel introduces a new definition of the term as a tech bro attempting to insinuate himself into the process of communicating with others. The remedies offered would indeed seem to preclude this type of middleman from interfering with the process.

It’s not all that crazy since they had a carefully designed scheme all planned out in Project 2025. People acted like that was some kind of conspiracy theory, but they literally printed it up. 🤬

Right, right. Came here to say this. Although of course it’s not the correct word. 🤣

Plot twist: he’s not leaving office. Don’t tell me about the 22nd amendment. He’s already in office in violation of the 14th. He’s not dying anytime soon either. Rotten fucks like him always live well into their 90s, fueled by hate. Just look at Rupert Murdoch.

Unless it’s motorsports. Then the necessities of life are the rounding error. 🤣

Fair enough. It’s not for everyone. I’ve heard it described as, “Suffering, surrounded by great beauty.”

I spent $50 on boots at the REI garage sale and went hiking every weekend. YMMV

Classical music is even a better deal. I was in the 2nd row to see Augustin Hadelich play Mozart and the tickets were less than $30. Lucky for me I’d rather see that than any pop music.

Wonder how much that thing cost us.

The white guy test: spell dog.

The black guy test: prove the Riemann Hypothesis.

See the problem yet?

Or they might have broken their back working long hours for 20 years sacrificing to live below their means and build up a big enough stash to be able to vibe for a while and maybe even find something to do that would be meaningful for them and possibly help others. I don’t presume to know anyone else’s history, struggles, or circumstances, and it seems a bit unkind to make assumptions.

But, probably, yeah. In most cases. I just felt personally attacked because I just left a job I hated, moved to a low cost of living area, massively downsized on housing, and realized I can exist for quite a while without having a job, and can finally try finishing some side projects I never had time for. So, I still work, it’s just that nobody is paying me.

I got my MBA a couple months before the dot com bubble burst. Tell me about it.