I don’t think they’re all trolls. I think there are a few right-wing trolls who got stupid people to buy into their astroturf campaign and then it took off from there. IIRC, one of the people in Mi openly admitted that he was a Republican and saw it was an easy wedge issue to get people not to vote.
Wanna know how to pressure the DNC to pick a candidate you like? Go fucking vote for them in the primary!
Typically, the primaries get 1/10th the turnout of the general election. That means that a very small number of people can sway the primary. Go stump for your candidate. Make phone calls, talk to your family and friends and community, explain why your candidate is the better choice.
The lack of a primary in 2024 was fucking awful, but guess what? Chances are, there is a primary going on for your state right now, get to work!
Someone has to pay for the new SSN system. Someone has to pay to maintain the database for the old system, since a lot of stuff is still reliant on those “old” numbers and will be for some time. Someone has to pay for printing and distributing new cards to everyone. Someone has to pay for gov employees to check IDs and verify people before distribution. Someone is going to have to pay for errors in the deployment. Someone is going to have to pay for the damage done by identity theft.
I would bet that someone will not be Elon, or anyone else at DOGE.
The check in the US is done when you register to vote. Once you are registered, a variety of proofs of ID can be used to vote at your polling location.
Requiring a passport and birth cert or some other strong ID are unnecessary at the actual voting site. The main reason for doing this is to make voting take longer, and be more strenuous, which means that you can have a greater effect on election results by manipulating the number of polling stations for an area.
Yeah, thanks for that Equifax.
That was a huge difference I noticed after driving an electric car for a few days. ICE cars stink, real bad, we’re all just used to them and we ignore it.
I was going to say…
What is not pictured is the USB storage being recognized.
Hmmm. That’s pretty wild.
I was a manager at a big box store for a while, and the general rule of thumb was to verify an error in pricing and then just mark it down at checkout for the client.
Usually, it was an old tag that was left up.
Or
It was an ad that the customer misread.
I don’t recall there being a one-time price discrepancy law forcing me at penalty of jail to take 50 cents off a pack of pencils, we just did it because it’s better in the long run to keep the customer happy than it is to get in a fight over pricing. If there was someone who was serially abusing this hospitality, then we might have a talk with them, or ban them from shopping in the store, like when someone was stealing our discounted labels and then putting them back up when they were in the store weeks later.
I also wasn’t in Massachusetts…
This guy just openly admitted to shitting in the global punch bowl.
It would really be a shame if someone everyone sent an army of bots to antagonize him at every waking moment of the day.
I just cook mine in the oven. Perfect crispy bacon every time.
Well, go die on it without screaming your preference for culinary perversions at the rest of us.
I had a laptop in 98.
Ran DOS, not even Windows. B&W screen, if you wanted color, you could press on the screen and get a glorious rainbow. There was no mouse integrated into the laptop. Instead there was a serial trackball mouse. It weighed probably 19 pounds and had an impressive 45 minute battery life.
It also may have fallen off the back of a truck. Computers were way less trackable back then.
Toaster oven is superior. I don’t mind the counter top space because it is a superior appliance.
Mine toast both sides, as there is a top and bottom heating element. It’s was better for reheating pizza than a microwave (takes longer, but the end result is way better). It’s really handy to have a smaller secondary oven when cooking big meals. I roasted a turkey breast in mine last year, while the stuffing cooked at a different temp in the oven.
Super easy to do though.
Extend support for Windows 10 for the foreseeable future.
Wall up Copilot. Make AI integrations optional with granular control for each app and data source.
Double the technical staff at Microsoft and create a large team with the specific job of paring down system resource usage. It’s ridiculous that an operating system uses more resources at idle than Skyrim does.
Don’t even talk about 12 yet. Even better, annouce that Windows 12 is scrapped in order to provide more resources to fix 11 and support 10.
And… A little extra fun. Sell half of the RAM Microsoft has stockpiled while the AI bubble is still intact.
The alternative solution is parents paying attention to their kids.
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Everyone scratches differently.
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The dumber the dog, the more repetitions it takes to teach it.