Gorgon

South park has been overtaken by reality. You can't compete with the constant flexing and hyperbole of MAGA anymore. We are already at max, reality is the parody and South park seems, out of breath, unable to keep up.

It's hard to see the real world gain from ambushing two national guardsmen. We are at a point now where political violence is normalized to an extent. Similar i suppose to the 60's and 70s. The impact wont last more than a week or two. So, what's the calculated payoff in doing something like this ? To me it does kinda point to someone who isn't thinking straight.

it might actually be to late to flex with move against Venezuela. for one thing there are Russian navy in the area, for another they have failed to really sell it. Public opinion is largely negative. It won't boost his numbers.

Didn't he for real have the dementia walk.

I like that Disco Elysium is a tier compromised of Disco Elysium.

I bought a portrait lens by mistake, clicked the wrong thing. I meant to get a wide angle prime and now instead of returning it, I've kind of gone into a rabbit hole of minimalist framing. It's interesting, in a ship in a bottle kind of way. https://imgur.com/Uf9Hc9q Don't you dare stop holding hands, you're not in focus yet. ****ing **** https://imgur.com/a/8Mqgym8

It's just one thing after another. En****tification and complete indifference the user experience. I don't need an account for my home PC, and what if the internet goes out ? OneDrive scans your data with facial recognition software and you can't opt out, windows forces you to create a password for bit locker as part of windows setup. Who knows when they are just arbitrarily enable it and ask for a password you picked 6 years ago and haven't used once. You don't need to have either enabled.... for now, but give it time. Every feature update is worse and treats the user base more like cattle than the last.

I think the point is to filter away the activists and turn Labour towards the centre. So from Starmer's perspective it's worth the loss. The activists don't really have anywhere to go, they can't vote Corbyn in a national election. Labour is afraid of reform and pro Palestinian is a left wing academic or immigrant friendly place to stand. He's also afraid of the Pro Palestinian youth vote, the polling extremely bad for positioning yourself as pro Israel, which is probably why he reversed stance on the recognition of Palestine (a completely symbolic gesture) and there was also a genuine effort in the EU to cancel the trade agreement with Israel (actual pressure). That's going to fail though, that would be my bet. Defence cooperation and Ukraine as well as US relations will mean that any fig leaf or vague declaration of intent from Israel will be good enough to avoid it

Im going Linux whenever they decide to force always online for logins, which might be soon.

I think it matters a lot what the political elites and the establishment do. In central Europe there has been a tendency of going after pro Palestinian political protest, not as explicit as in the US, but I would say the German and UK governments in particular have been successful at casting doubt and marginalising the movement. the central European powers are pinned down by a sort of existential dread caused by shifting geopolitical realities, and they are afraid to isolate Israel. And doubtless the immigration and the right wing surge also plays a role. It's they don't want to give ground to right wing populists by assuming a traditionally left wing stance on Israel/Palestine.

So there's no bloodlines in bloodlines. That's pretty underwhelming.

I wonder how things might have looked on that front if not for Ukraine. If you look at the polls the Spanish and the Irish are the most pro Palestinian in the EU, by huge margins. They are also the furthest away from Ukraine.

it can't possibly be "great". I'm going to watch an episode to prove you wrong.

It's kinda what you would get if you asked a 5 year old to make the storyboard and ILM to shoot it.

he's ****.

We might have reached the point of exhaustion for both parties. If so that will be the reason rather than Trumps pretty basic ploy of taking a maybe from Hamas and Netanyahu as yes from both.

he looks like he's rocking an invisible baby

I got myself a Lumix micro 4/3 pocket camera a week ago with the intent of just keeping it in my jacket and taking the opportunities for shooting things that might present themselves during the day. Today I decided I would go hunting for Russian drones on my bike ride. No luck yet. On a whim I ordered a tele lens, doesn't arrive for a week though. I'll have to hope "peace" doesn't break out before then. For context The Russians are running a hybrid campaign where they are pretending not to send in military drones over our airports and pretending not to threaten our coastguard helicopters and pretending not to attempt to hack and take down critical infrastructure. It's like the cold war all over again. Drone flight paths near Kastrup airport. I bike past there all the time.

Maybe it will force developers away from spending all their attention on eye candy and action. One can hope.

It's all happening right now I'm afraid, With AI powered facial recognition. American law enforcement wants what the British have had for decades already ; eye in the sky cameras on every major road. Of course they would rent out your data for targeted advertising as well, why not. Money is nice.

I doubt it. He's a political animal not a professional, and he gives off heavy 'in over my head' vibes.