I hate her with such a burning passion. This comes as no shock to me at all.

This article just popped for me, and I simply had to share with you guys. US media folks.

https://archive.is/20260105000349/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/04/world/europe/ukraine-venezuela-maduro.html

But the USA allows any number of political parties! Marketplace of ideas! You can sign up for either capitalist party!

A ceasefire does not solve the root of the problem. This is yet another defeat of native peoples against a settler colonial invader.

I just want a new DS. Switch is not a handheld, and steam deck is ridiculous.

No, it tracka. Extremism on race is expecting equality.

I could go for something different than Live Updates.

Belarus gave Poland advance notice, stating that EW activity caused several drones to become uncontrolled. It’s just more NATO war mongering.

This was a pretty common occurrence for me when I had untreated acid reflux. Do you get a lot of heartburn/mucus?

Handwriting was invented for fountain pens. It’s not surprising that your writing would improve. I stopped handwriting and went back to printing a few years after being taught. I found it was just as fast (or faster I suspect), far more legible, and eased the pressure on my wrist. It was never intended for ballpoint pens.

Why should I? This is my home. Not theirs.

I use transmission for bittorrent. It works fine for me. I haven’t noticed the backend stalling, but 99% of my downloads are automated, so I admittedly don’t use the clients that often. My clients are transmission-remote on Linux and Transdroid on Android.

But I finally made the switch to Usenet this year as my primary source of data, and it is something I wish I’d done ages ago. I’d always balked at the cost, as there was a bit of a learning curve and I didn’t want to get it all wrong and be stuck with a bill. But it’s really not that hard. And FAAR cheaper than a streaming service subscription, and roughly equivalent to a VPN subscription, which is often a necessity for bittorrent these days. The biggest problem with Usenet is a lack of Asian content. I would really like more Chinese dramas in my life, and I have to rely on bittorrent for that. But it’s great for western content and well worth the fees.

I liked it. I haven’t seen it since becoming full blown communist. But I loved that it didn’t shirk at all about showing the US as the blood sucking empire that it is. You have mindless murder for the sake of it. Needless cruelty. And a principled communist woman who would rather die than be a part of it.

That’s exactly the point I believe he was trying to make.

I’m not an expert on law either. But I read it as the judge being upset at the farcical nature of the trial, and was protesting in the only way he could. Would I acquit Japan? Probably not, but I agree that without the US answering for its own crimes, the very nature of the trial becomes extremely suspect. It’s very valid to question why you’re putting Japan on trial when the organisers of the tribunal just committed the worst atrocities the world had ever seen, and gotten away with it scott free.

I just wasted about a half hour of my time skimming through it. I remember upon first hearing about Russiagate that an infant could tell it was nonsense. Vague claims of hacking something or other, and being upset at Russia for exposing dirt on Hillary. The whole thing seemed manufactured.

This report seems just as manufactured and infuriatingly vague. It could be that it’s too hard to refute such vague claims, or it could just be a whole lot of finger pointing (I’m leaning towards that one). Regardless, it’s really not worth wasting my time thinking about it.

I am going to get the popcorn out to watch the US president cage match though. I doubt much of anything will come of it, but it’s sure to be entertaining, and I like seeing the capitalist class doing some infighting.

I left my bike at the distribution centre and walked. But my partner actually made that drive. I still think walking was faster though. But it doesn’t matter that much… You’ll be out of the tutorial area soon. My advice is to just go. You’ll get things that can traverse faster than a bike later in the game, and you can come back and 5 star things in that area later.

Also, just a tiny bit later in the game you’ll have bikes coming out of your ears. It’s fine to just abandon them when they’re no longer convenient.

Edit: Also, there’s a mechanic in the game that makes a path over your most travelled routes. So it gets easier the next time around.

I typically don’t use my status card for ID for exactly this reason. On the handful of occasions where it was my only valid ID, I always had to explain to people what it was, and that it was an official ID document.

But I’ve also had morons who refused my passport as ID, saying that “they don’t accept passports”, so I really don’t know what to think.

I actually thought that was a bit of an overreaction, but I still appreciated the sentiment.

I wasn’t able to find what brought that on in the modlog, and his whole posting history was deleted(!). I was really curious about what he said, and after having found and read it… wow. Thank you.