I could have guessed he was over 60 because he wasn't live streaming the whole thing. Just an old school asshole, not an influencer.

This breaks decades-old norms meant to vet candidates for criminal history and conflicts of interest.

Come the fuck on. The FBI background checks are a "norm" too? Do we have actual laws for anything?

I lose all sense of moderation or empathy when it comes to swatting. Throw the book at him. Then find another book and throw that one too. Call up the publishers and tell them to get printing, we're gonna need more books.

I went the route of modest homelab with some mini PCs/Pis/NAS, and a decidedly not modest sim racing rig.

I like to say that for my midlife crisis I bought all the cars. I'm very funny.

If they're stunned by this then they're gonna be catatonic for the next 4 years. I wonder what effect that'll have on national security...

Restaurant, agriculture, construction, landscaping, etc. I'm assuming it'll be any of

1. Prices skyrocketing
2. Industries collapsing
3. Money under tables and "officials" looking the other way

Probably all 3 though, in that order.

I love this so much. It's perfect!

You're probably thinking of Simone Giertz and her "shitty robots"

What a weird thing to do! They can sue each other until the cows come home for all I care but dragging the community into it like this comes off as petty imo. Musky even.

And some, or at least one, of them is a member of Congress.

Also my collection of hobbies seems to match up well with the people who nuked their post history after the API-ocalypse. Even when I get good search results I click through and... so many deleted comments...

Sure they can but I always appreciate when someone owns up to their mistakes and leaves them. Pobody's nerfect and it's nice to see I'm not alone in making mistakes.