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There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.

The big three cell phone providers are required to lease their towers out to third parties at competitive rates, which is why smaller providers like Mint and Boost and Cricket are able to exist. The same should happen with the cable lines.

My point is that the public absolutely would not, as MEDdMI suggested, be as blasé about an assassination as they are toward mass shootings. In fact, the attempt on Reagan's life was exactly what prompted one of the biggest waves of gun control laws in US history. Am I saying the solution to...

I dunno, when was the last time a major US political figure was straight-up assassinated? I can't even recall any in my lifetime.

So far they seem to be mostly going in the opposite direction. Third time's the charm?

Yeah. It was either that or a completely custom OS that doesn't natively support anything. And at least this way it has the side effect of making regular Linux an almost-viable gaming platform, albeit at the expense of basically turning it into a glorified Windows emulator.

Eventually it'll be the government who's doing the mass killings. Getting people used to an existence where life is cheap is a necessary first step towards that.

On the subject of emulators, are you able to get RetroArch working? Specifically the one from the Steam store where the actual cores are packaged as DLC for some reason. I tried it on desktop Linux when it first launched, and it wouldn't actually install the cores, and according to the Steam...

I used to think the 10th amendment's wording only granted rights to the states that hadn't been explicitly taken away from the federal government—I swear I was actually taught that in school—but I reread it the other day and apparently I'd been misreading it all along. That's what inspired my...

I remember way back when Brexit was still being run up the flagpole, people were saying they likely wouldn't acknowledge Scotland's independence if they seceded because something something Spain.

And of course it was under his policies that the banks that nearly started a second Great Depression—and broke several laws in the process—were given a free ride and the rest of us got squat. And for that he was handed a Nobel Prize and unanimous praise from the media outside of Fox News, which...

I think we owe Paladin an apology. All his doomsaying turned out to be right after all.

Man, our Constitution really is garbage. No wonder Jefferson thought it should be thrown out and rewritten every 20 years.

Also, remember when somebody linked to that one webpage listing off all the evidence for Trump being the Antichrist? I try not to be superstitious about this sort of thing, but I have to admit my heart did a weird maneuver when they referred to Trump's SUV as "the Beast". Does anyone know if...

Bonus episode of the hearing today. Somehow, the revelations continue to surprise me. The biopic on this is going to make Hitler in Downfall look calm and composed by comparison.

Godspeed, Scotland. Crossing my fingers that the EU will have a change of heart about keeping you out, or at least caves to pressure. It'd be pretty damn hypocritical to let Ukraine join but not you.

Reminder that Rita Skeeter was inspired by the London Times. Even J. K. Rowling in the 2000s knew about the British media's habit of downplaying the threat of fascism.

I might have mentioned before that I haven't watched Atop the Fourth Wall in ages, but this got my attention because it was the starting point of the DC Cinematic Disasterverse. Pretty much all my knowledge of the Superman mythos comes from pop-cultural osmosis, so one thing that surprised me is...

I hate to say it but the best case scenario might be one where Biden dies in office and Harris takes over that way.