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I’m not sure how that would even happen. Beyond the legal ramifications and assorted governance questions (does the new City/State get new driver’s licenses? Are their taxes the same?) You’d have the basic question of who’s losing the money. Which, as we know from every historical event ever that’s the main thing.

I suppose if there was an extinction event and there were enough people in the US to consider changing borders they might could do that without any of the usual questions needing to be answered.

There’s a trend where larger metropolitan areas vote to establish a new city within the city they were a part of, and basically it means funneling tax money from the residents there to different police departments and different city councils, and even that’s a many-years-long effort that ends up not changing too much.

Mmmmm you’ll have to give us a little more than that.

Sure. Why the fuck not.

That will give our pinheaded non-voting trolls a whole other country to be priggish twats in for a few months anyway.

I mean - how far away from Matt Gaetz is the guy? Criminally? Not that far. And he’s going to be Governor next, so clearly it’s time for the All-Rapist party to be ascendant.

Enshittify Your Social Media? (y/n): __

They actively brought about political disaster through idiotic, self-absorbed assholery and they will be licking it up for four long fucking years.

In December, the FTC announced sweeping action against Gravy and Venntel, saying in a proposed order they will be banned from selling, disclosing, or using sensitive location data, except in “limited circumstances” involving national security or law enforcement. The FTC also demanded the companies delete all historic location data. The agency alleged that Gravy and Venntel violated the FTC Act by “unfairly selling sensitive consumer location data, and by collecting and using consumers’ location data without obtaining verifiable user consent for commercial and government uses.”

Ah. Meeeeemoriiieeeeees.

But veggie dogs are okay, right

So for the . . what seems like hundredth year in a row - anyone who’s using Facepals and Xitter please delete it. please. Just. Stop.

What kinda question is that. You one o’ them queers, son?

I was thinking of reddit

Gosh I feel like I’ve heard Tencent has a stake in some other company that isn’t mentioned here yet.

what was it . . . hmmmmm

My late-aughts XPS is a gem - milled aluminum, edge-to-edge glass, and the best laptop keyboard ever since Ye Olde Thinkpads. The glory days of chasing Apple with a Windows box and almost getting there. *pours 40*

That said, their QE went to shit, they pulled that bullshit RTO to soft-layoff everyone, laid off everyone else directly, and spent a ton to hire non-US replacements who aren’t up to speed so they can leverage the exciting benefits of AI (lol).

I’ll never understand why they didn’t put huge effort into backing linux when micro$oft started making hardware. Well - I know why they didn’t. Because they make poor managerial decisions. C’est ça.

Ironically the people getting paid for this shit did come up with better names and they were all overturned by senior management who read a business book over the weekend. SSDD.

Same as it ever was

Them: 8K!

Me: Whatever.

Sort of. Yes we will, but the answer will invariably be a paradox of sorts.

The good news is, you don’t have to do anything special and everyone gets to find out.

Towels be with us.

LG and Samsung are bigger idiots than I gave them credit for being.

Wow that’s horrifying. Hilarious and horrifying.

It has a common meter.