There isn’t enough support for revolution despite what many people here believe.

Internal violence is always used by fascists to consolidate power. So people who aren’t stupid don’t use it. Shooting an ICE agent would be used to expand their protection for example.

There isn’t more ‘somethings’ to do. Voting and protesting is all we really have.

The problem is a large portion of this country is actually supportive of what’s happening. People who are mad are a minority.

Edgy of you to assume all of these things.

You would be shocked how many people knew the WMD thing was a lie and yet, still went to war over it. It will be the same type of behavior if he were assassinated.

Im not sure still they won’t fall in line after he dies. The bubble they live in is more insane than you realize. I grew up in it.

You would do the same if you were a US citizen. Talking tough from a distance is just as pathetic as our inaction and general inability to magically fix our country. Waiting for elections and not escalating beyond peaceful protests is all we can do without handing them the propaganda they need. Peaceful includes open carrying like the black panthers.

If someone were to actually assassinate the orange one, you guys are way more fucked. The retribution campaign would go way beyond Greenland even if it makes no sense.

Yep, there are small furniture manufacturers all over the place where I live. We bought our couch from one of them. $5k for a couch smaller than a sectional from costco. But it’s repairable has a long warranty and is much more durable and comfortable.

We also have a fine wood furniture place that does solid wood stuff. $10k for a bedroom set. I’ll stick with ikea until the kids move out.

I had a bad case of Strep throat last year and numbers I saw on the thermometer should’ve killed me. I kept passing out and choking down Tylenol trying to get my fever under control. I was hallucinating so I couldn’t understand how much danger I was in. Besides how awful my throat felt and the fever, I never felt scared of dying.

I lost my vision on the way to the ER after suffering all night. Still took 3 hours in the waiting room because the nurse didn’t believe me. Told me I had “man flu”.

We have our clients switch to Linux now. Ignition works well enough and it’s so much cheaper. It has drawbacks compared to wonderware, or the Siemens stack though. But I’ll take those issues over logging into their systems still running on winXP.

The slowness was mostly a hardware issue. It’s basically like driving a second monitor, and a lot of the slower phones struggled with it early on.

They would probably have a panic attack if they learned about megasquirt. Cars being locked down is so unnatural that most of their design allows them to be controlled by open source solutions.

Feels like my OG 360 elite just red ringed yesterday. I still use one of the controllers for PC gaming.

We do this comparison, with the added “will this save money” modification. My time outside of 40 hours per week can’t make me more money unless OT is approved. So that time is worth $0/hr. If the actions i do during that time save me money, I try to do them. It massively increases the amount of money we have for vacations and other fun stuff.

I’m also undiagnosed hyper focused ADHD, so that may be why. My wife tells me I can slow down, but I absolutely cannot.

I know someone who was allergic to onion and garlic. Their food choices made me sad, but yeah, go get checked for food allergies if you can. That not being weird enough, lymphatic cancer cured them of the allergy.

Christmas light arch using pvc pipe.

Fascism doesn’t allow corporate push back. Fascists adopt whatever they think will get populist support then force it into the market. They dont care about real action, only the appearance of action, which pleases their populist voters. Which is why rolling over to stupid shit like removing “DEI” verbiage is the smart choice in the short and long run for any business.

Pushing back when the business doesn’t have support only makes their image worse. Costco is the exception and not the rule.

I would 100% support my daughters if they punched someone over this. I’m very passive generally, but I would burn the earth these abusers stand on because of my own life experiences. I’d struggle not to overstep my kids’ wishes.

Fair enough. I personally shop at costco and winco primarily. Target is the “large retailer” compromise I make over Walmart or Kroger. The massive focus on target is so confusing when their competitors are 10x worse.

I think it’s more complicated than that. Large companies always hedge their bets. In this case publicly appearing to bend just gets this stupid administration to shut up about whatever culture war they are currently waging. They never actually check if said company is actually doing anything besides removing the term “dei” in this case. Then, in a few years if our government swings back to the direction that matches public polling sentiment. They can release data about diversity again, which will be good PR.

It’s always been strange to me that anyone would expect a massive retailer to stand up to fascists. Costco is a rare exception and they only are doing it because it made them money and will continue to make money. None of these decisions are about doing what is right. Instead, it’s all about profits.

It’s more they became the most pushed one and you fell for it. Large companies restructure constantly and they made the smart move to hide their diversity policy from the current administration. They still have diversity goals, they just don’t share them with the public.

My company did the same thing. Removed the DEI term but left everything else in place. You fell for their corporate renaming strategy.