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[–] quink@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

the Libertarians… hopefully never recover

A strong FDP hurts the CDU/CSU and even more importantly AfD disproportionately. That is a very good thing. If they have 5 to 10% in perpetuity that'll be a very good thing indeed. Any more than that though and they can fuck right off again, because not least of all the way the AfD slotted straight into where the FDP sat (but at least with some of a cordon sanitaire) is creeping me out like few other things.

[–] quink@lemmy.ml 20 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

And to avoid that, all they have to do is became big damn heroes by giving their money in charity, or tax, or fund a research lab or whatever way of throwing their money back out there that they choose.

Astounding that they'd find it so detestable that they'd rather risk death in the hands of a class revolution than see their money feed kids or cure cancer or whatnot.

[–] quink@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Oh no don't do that, if we fine him that vast sum of money it might destroy trickle-down economics. And he won't want to rocket the cars and then society would collapse because Lona definitely does all the work all by himself and he won't want to do that if we're mean to him.

/s in case it's not bleeding obvious.

[–] quink@lemmy.ml 87 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Gee, however long ago could we have foreseen that Trump would have just the worst takes when it comes to first responders and 9/11.

Washington Post: On 9/11, Trump pointed out he now had the tallest building in Lower Manhattan. He didn’t.

Right. Publicly, since literally 9/11.

I guess it must have been too late for them to possibly know, when he already had the shittiest take possible the day it happened, a quarter century ago.

[–] quink@lemmy.ml 19 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

apparently the point where the “moderate” Republicans are willing to start pushing back

Oh no, they are at the light unease level, that's only another dozen levels away from not falling in line, I think the next step is a furroughed eyebrow, then a pursed lip, maybe a tut-tut was next... I think after that came mild disappointment, followed by the ultimate level we ever got up to during Trump's first term, a light concern with some minor details of the matter at hand.

[–] quink@lemmy.ml 9 points 6 months ago
  1. With what I think are near enough default settings, Voyager shows me about 9 stories. It doesn't feel cramped and the layout is regular, everything lines up.
  2. With what I think are near enough default settings, my browser here shows me 14 stories, with a good accessible font size by default and me easily zooming out to 80%. It doesn't feel cramped and the layout is regular, everything lines up.
  3. I can see 2 stories in that screenshot. Why would I want to have something that's at least 5 times worse, it feels cramped and parts of it line up I guess?
[–] quink@lemmy.ml 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I replied to a post saying that nobody had a 20GB system. Sure it was more of a mid to high-end thing, but very much far from nobody.

And I was there too, the low end cheapo PC I got that year had 12GB.

https://vintageapple.org/pcworld/pdf/PC_World_9912_December_1999.pdf

And by 2001 that 12GB got an 80GB companion. Sure, 20GB was some low-end baseline maybe, but I had 12+80 by that year and it was in no way unusual.

Edit: and just checked the Wayback Machine for the local computer shop. The cheapest Celerons had 40GB. In 2001.

[–] quink@lemmy.ml 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

People very much had 20GB drives that year. Sure, 8GB, 12GB, 13.6GB we’re more common capacities but any mid to high-end system that didn’t have (near enough) 20GB was bad value and drives bigger than that were available.

[–] quink@lemmy.ml 38 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The guy must be a an absolute fucking scumbag.

aka the main Trump administration job requirement.

Sure, it feels wrong to joke about it, but given Trump and a substantial portion of his cabinet has a history of abuse as well, significantly more so than the average population or current administration, it is by no means only a joke.

[–] quink@lemmy.ml 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

And TikTok.

[–] quink@lemmy.ml 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

So the timeline is:

  1. To all the people around Harris: "They are absolute garbage"
  2. Let's also call Puerto Rico an "island of garbage"
  3. We are too dumb to understand basic grammar, in response to the rhetoric in point 2. being called garbage
  4. Let's near enough keel over trying to reach the door handle of a garbage truck

Yep, that's the Republican Party.

[–] quink@lemmy.ml 26 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

Ah, yes, if only there was some Illinois politician close to Obama who had been associated with crimes similar to those of Trump, who had been absolutely and unambiguously disavowed by Democrats and imagine then also if only he had some type of relationship despite all that with Trump, who would also pardon him or something after his criminal conviction, making your comment like one big giant case of projection.

lol, that would just be silly wouldn’t it.

It would be just way too coincidental and spot on for words.

Google ‘Blagojevich’.

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