Has Trump rehired anyone from his previous administration? I know he fired a shit ton of them but I know a few managed to stay on.

Because if this is all new people, it’s very telling and I have a feeling it means it’s going to be more dangerous and not less.

I feel like the only people who can do anything powerful would be the front line government workers and contractors. If they all quit their jobs en masse on January 20th, it might prevent the new administration from doing even more dangerous shit.

I wonder if mobile providers are still getting paid for long distance calls. Because if they are, they have a perverse incentive to keep scammers on the line.

Which, in this isolated case, I’m okay with.

If Alex Jones becomes press secretary, I’ll be convinced that this is all a simulation.

A part of me actually wished that the Onion would have purchased InfoWars, but in secret, like maybe under a subsidiary corp that has a right-wing sounding name.

They don’t change Infowars’ branding or anything but the articles become subtly liberal.

Maybe an overt purchase is better but I really want to troll the right.

Unilever is a conglomerate, much like Nestle, and has brands under many different types of products.

Yeah the fuckers sold out. B&J quality has been in the shitter ever since. Yeah they still sell pint sizes but I fully expect them to fuck with that too.

My guess is that it’s the easiest and cheapest way to set up “MFA”.

The number of banks that don’t have proper MFA really bugs me.

Do not under any circumstances bring your cell phone, dumb or not, to a protest.

Memorize important numbers, writing them in your arm if necessary.

Answer all questions with “I assert my fifth amendment right and will not answer any further questions without my attorney.”

There is a scene in Mr Robot where Darlene is able to do a full wipe on her phone without even looking at the screen.

I wish I was that good.

I want a way that I can trigger this from the main lock screen without unlocking the phone.

Like a specific pin you have to enter twice to trigger the full wipe.

You should be able to bring up about:profiles in your browser and set up and launch profiles from there.

But shareholders will get rich.

That’s all that matters.

I know very little about the Chevron doctrine but I know that the overturning of that made it possible for corporations to essentially ignore any administrative oversight.

I often wondered what would happen if someone were to take the frequencies of the military or even airport flight control and just started broadcasting. Does the FCC have delegated authority? If they don’t, sounds like anyone can broadcast Rick Astley on any frequency.

The problem that these justices and elites seem to forget is that they are trusting on the very systems they dismantling working for them.

I’m just so dumbfounded by how many progressive constitutional amendments got passed but voted Republican.

I just can’t comprehend someone saying, “You know, this asshole took away my abortion rights but since I’m voting to restore them, I guess he should get another shot.”

These people think that abortion amendments are going to hold when their dear leader is in the White House.

Nah at this point, Putin is ready to fuck Donnie in the pooper.

So kind of like how farm cooperatives work (I think?)?

There’s a guy at the farmers market that offers “shares” of cows. I can’t remember the details but you pay for a certain “guaranteed” pounds of beef plus sausage made from other parts (not guaranteed to be one cow), a long with some other meats (chicken, etc). When the cow is slaughtered, you get your meat.

Doesn’t i2p do something similar to this? I don’t know much about it but I remember reading it and thinking that it’s like bittorrent but no one person has the entire file, or something like that.

These challenges have been filed in bad faith the hopes that the current conservative SCOTUS will hear an emergency appeal and give the presidency to Trump.

Ftfy

When the $1 coins were released, most stuff in vending machines were still within the cost of a dollar. Thought I’m not disagreeing with your comment. Coins, for the most part, are relegated to coin jars and aren’t really “spent” in the same way that bills are.

The problem is that coins generally are just so inconvenient. I only hold onto them for the rare occasion where I need to feed a meter.

Edit: This conversation reminded me of a great YouTube video on the subject of how the shape of money makes it useful

It’s one of the jobs of a bank though. They are supposed to exchange damaged bills and then exchange them with the mint, who then destroys them.

Honestly we need to get rid of the $1 bill generally but that’s a completely different post all together.

OneDrive is so fucking confusing to administrator.

The files exist on your physical drive …except it doesn’t?

You can’t remove the files…except when it does it on its own.

You can’t move a file without some sort of synching issue.

You can’t fucking disable it without going into the registry!

I legit tried it in the early days of Win10 and it was a nightmare. I literally had to reinstall Windows and disable it upfront before things worked the way I expected.