They literally did, for anyone who doesn’t get the reference.

I keep most of them in a git repository that I check out at ~/.config. Some software doesn’t follow the XDG Base Directory Specification out of the box but can be configured to do so; the Arch Linux wiki has an article about it. For software that cannot be configured to follow the standard I have dedicated repositories, like for OpenSSH.

The expression “gótica rabuda”, in turn, is funny to Spanish speakers, because it means “goth woman with a big dick” — see “rabuda” and “rabo”.

You propose to instill a deep conviction –that the death penalty is unacceptable– in a broad majority of people:

[…] you do this by making the death penalty something the populace opposes.

Then make the idea so repugnant only a minority of a minority of people would be okay with it.

How?

You put it like we haven’t tried. You put it like we can somehow do it. That contradicts current trends: political violence in particular and violence more broadly are becoming more and more acceptable again.

If the fascists take control then feel free to start killing fascists.

By then it will be far too late.

As times are now use the systems in place that will prevent the rise of the AFD. If the fascists take control then feel free to start killing fascists. Be sure to be early, but you do that after the systems failed.

The system and all its guardrails are actively failing before your eyes and have been for over a decade at this point. In fact, the system –capitalism– isn’t really failing, but simply succumbing to its own contradictions and evolving into its next stage: fascism.

It’s basically you should be afraid that those people over there will kill you so you must kill them first.

No. It’s neither fear nor hate. It’s not a tribal proposition either. It’s an instrument of last resort to preserve our chance of building a fair system.

The death penalty, especially for political offenses, always seems nice when its your side in power.

When “our side” is no longer in power, “they” might introduce the death penalty. What’s to stop “them”, once they are in control? Our good faith?

Limits on state power do not reliably prevent bad governments from abusing it, because bad governments can and do weaken and circumvent those limits. Are constitutional limits meaningfully stopping Trump? Did they keep Putin from the presidency?

In my view, this logic is another case of “when they go low, we go high”. The only reliable way to prevent the abuse of state power is to keep those who would abuse state power from attaining it in the first place.

If you reject the states power to execute it’s own citizens and make that idea unacceptable to the people then you take away one of the fascists’ best tools for oppressing the people.

Execution may be unacceptable to some of us, but –crucially– it is acceptable to those who would most abuse it, and they will cheer its reintroduction.

What is or are snecs? Neither an English nor a French language search would reveal anything besides some acronyms.

Maybe France’s Snecma is an option

The company was called “Snecma” until 2016, when the board finally grew tired of repeating they do not manufacture smegma /s.

The article states that:

Eswatini agreed to take 160 deportees in exchange for $5.1m to “build its border and migration management capacity”.

By my account, that amounts to $31.875 per deportee.

Regardless of the sums involved, the United States are outsourcing their human rights abuses and bribing other countries to turn a blind eye by making them complicit. Eswatini and all the other countries that partake in “migration offshoring” schemes, like El Salvador, Albania and Rwanda, will likely not call out the United States, the United Kingdom or the European Union for their criminal treatment of people who, by and large, desire to work and live in peace, because they would risk a source of income and diplomatic cover.

Surplus electricity would lower bills for both households, which have been particularly affected by rising prices, and different industries which have also had to contend with AI for capital.

In my view, support for him outside of New York matters even if he doesn’t win, insofar as his candidacy itself has made a difference, at least at the Democratic party. Other candidates could win primaries, as he did, and succeed, and even the establishment type might see the voter pool and promote some of the policies he stands for.

I agree; we need a democratic economy and the US-led system is not it. Note that I didn’t state that the US should wield the financial power associated with the status of its bonds; I merely stated it currently does enjoy that power and that giving it up by paying off its debt would be detrimental to the US itself.

Paying off the US debt would mean paying back existing bondholders without issuing new bonds. After all existing bonds have been paid back, there would not be any US bonds in circulation, and the US bond market would be no more.

US bonds are the backbone of the global financial system. If they were to disappear overnight, it would be a financial apocalypse. On a larger timeframe, I suppose the global financial system could readjust, but I can only speculate as to how it would do so and what consequences would follow.

In any case, paying off its debt would be detrimental to the US, because global demand for its bonds results in higher bond prices and thus lower bond yields. In other words, the US pays less interest than it otherwise would because its bonds are so sought after. By paying off its debt, the US would not pay any interest whatsoever, but it would lose a great deal of power abroad.

Hell one of my ancestors got away with it 5 times before the Mormons figured out he was just murdering them and pawning their shit 2 towns over.

I’d like to read that story if you’re willing to share it.

His brother? Spared “no expense” building a state of the art theme park that ended up killing so many people (and almost killing his own grandkids) before it opened that they had to scrap the whole thing. And it was a damn good thing his granddaughter knew Unix systems (and wasn’t eaten first), or it surely would’ve killed more.

You got me at first and I almost went looking for references of David’s evil brother. TIL the actor who played the character of John Hammond in the film Jurassic Park and its sequel was David Attenborough’s elder brother.

Wouldn’t it be the other way around? I think Musk would rather have TSLA bagholders shareholders prop up his private companies, of which he likely owns a higher percentage than Tesla. The pitch could be that xAI has what Tesla needs for some of the vaporware he keeps promising and that Tesla should therefore acquire xAI.

The true Canadian deterrent.

I don’t think so, at least when it comes to US citizens, because deportations would cost them and spark controversy for no benefit. I think they’d prefer to keep these deeply indebted people in the US as indentured servants willing to work for pennies and too poor to engage politically.

I didn’t mean to dispute that. I just checked what you stated and posted what I found for anyone else who, like me, wasn’t up to date on this meeting. I share your assessment.

The AP reported:

The 88-year-old pope offered the Catholic vice president three big chocolate Easter eggs for Vance’s three young children, who did not attend, as well as a Vatican tie and rosaries.

You’ve conjured images in my mind. I wish you hadn’t.