99% of those outcomes are bad, and 100% of the most likely ones are. The only vaguely positive outcome would be if Trump was immediately impeached AND convicted and considering congress couldn’t even manage that the last two times when he was blatantly guilty that’s effectively impossible.

So yeah, a Trump win is the end of the US. Even if he keeled over dead of a heart attack immediately after assuming office his VP is just as bad (worse in some ways). We’ve seen their playbook, project 2025 lays out exactly how they’re planning to destroy the US, and Trump has repeatedly talked about how he plans to run his dictatorship. When people tell you who they are (repeatedly) believe them. Trump badly wants to be a dictator in the style of Putin or Kim Jong Un. All he’s waiting on is the opportunity and we can not give it to him!

A recent survey found that 69 percent of American adults are seriously stressed about the 2024 presidential election.

That should be 100%. Our Democracy (what little there actually is) is hanging by a thread and there’s a big orange turd running around with scissors. If Trump wins that’s it, game over, the inmates are running the asylum and the dumbest, craziest, and meanest of the bunch will have just crowned himself dictator for life. If Harris wins we get to kick the can down the road for four more years and maybe if we work really hard claw back a little bit of the democracy we theoretically have.

Should check out the Gulikit controllers. Not only do they not suffer from stick drift, they’re the same form factor as an Xbox controller but without the MS bullshit. Was just using one in Linux not even an hour earlier.

Or that he’s so gung ho on trying to settle Mars.

Isn’t FIFA widely regarded as one of the most corrupt organizations on the planet? I mean, the article isn’t wrong, but that ship sailed a long time ago, it’s a bit late to be acting like this is bombshell news.

Go back to lemmygrad, nobody is buying it.

What an absolute joke of a propaganda piece. China might qualify as a threat, but as has been amply shown recently Russia is a paper tiger. A tiny nation armed with hand me down retired military hardware has not only fought them to a standstill but actually pushed back into their own territory and this piece would have us believe they’re some kind of military juggernaut poised to crush the US military.

This is also ignoring the strained ties between Russia and China lately and the close economic ties between the US and China. The US and China might not exactly be friendly with each other, but also can’t really afford to be enemies. Russia on the other hand only exports oil, an increasingly devalued resource, and one that is readily available from multiple other countries.

The specific issue with heat protection is that some counties were trying to pass legislation to provide better heat protection, and the state government preempted that effort by passing legislation banning counties from making heat protection legislation.

This will be the plot of Oceans 14.

They should have just committed to the bit and demanded a googolplex of rubles from Google.

Oh? What’s wrong with hackaday?

It’s also just a good policy in general. Anytime you receive a communication that’s prompting you to do something that you weren’t expecting to receive you should ignore any links, phone numbers, replies, etc. in that communication and instead reach out using a known good mechanism. Doing that one thing stops the overwhelming majority of scams in their tracks.

I suppose the real question here is, is Xi bothered enough to actually do something about it, or is this just more grumbling.

Instead of wasting effort to put 3rd party candidates onto a ballot they can never win on that effort would be better spent trying to get proportional voting enacted so they could actually win.

If anything people living in a dictatorship are even less responsible. At least in democracies the people have a theoretical say in things to a certain extent. Not only does the public not have a say in a dictatorship, but they often don’t even have the option to leave it. E.G. China confiscating their citizens passports to prevent them from fleeing the country.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I thought Europe also had sanctions in place against Russia at this point now as well? Seems likely this would be an issue in pretty much any NATO country not just the US.

Yeah that was part of the brand reshuffling they did to obfuscate things. Lync was their shitty chat app they tried to convince businesses to use that everyone hated. They bought Skype, renamed it to Microsoft Teams, renamed Lync to Skype for Business, and killed MSN Messenger. When people still didn’t want to use LyncSkype for Business, then they killed that as well, and now it’s just MS Teams.

Short answer, yes. Slightly longer answer yes but there might be statutory limits on the cumulative fine as well as it depends what kind of a mood the prosecutor is in. Odds are he’d just receive a slap on the wrist, a nominal fine, and be told to stop being a dumbass.

Which Microsoft then shit all over (to be fair, Skype started that process even before MS bought them) and eventually renamed it to Microsoft Teams.

Holy shit what a nut job. Reading the comments the real gold is apparently their terms of service. They’ve got a giant laundry list of things that will get you banned including using Chrome or having a gmail email address.