I should upvote because Drumpf has, in a very real sense, blood on his hands from his stochastic terrorism, mafioso fascist/rhetoric and policies; I should downote because political violence really doesn’t make things better; and yet evil also triumphs when good people do nothing. What to do, what to do…

Will nothing rid us all of this turbulent turd? (Note “nothing”, not ‘no one’)

I’d bet some or all of them have been outright destroyed by now, since there’s no respect for procedures or the rule of law in any branch of the US govt any more and whomever has actual physical access is probably a stooge loyal to the regime by this point.

I understood that reference

…but sad both of these a-holes are this rich.

Well shit, that’s gonna get used as an excuse to ratchet up the fascism… ‘justify’ the MAGA persecution complex even more.

Search for v2.79 (if memory serves) on oldversion.com for the last ‘good’ version of classic winamp, and the streamripper plugin is still floating around somewhere on the 'net…

An absolutely ancient tool I used to use was WinAmp (v2.x) with the Streamripper plugin. It would save out each song from a shoutcast or icecast station to a file with the artist/album/title/track like a champ. Maybe not quite what you want (won’t do youtube) but there are a ton of great indie stations on the vorbis icecast network…

Indeed – I should have made it more explicit that they could use their vast wealth for a good cause here.

The dark faerie-tale practically writes itself: young children compelled to go to the edge of the nearby forest, so they may plant their weekly required seedling… oh dear.

So is the endgame for Ukraine to acquire underground nukes? Honestly that might be the only way to really force a standoff and de-escalation. I wouldn’t blame them at all, since they were betrayed after giving up the ones they originally had.

Hmm… makes me think the best thing the Catholic Church could do is tell their followers to plant one tree each Sunday, every Sunday, as part of their worship. Heck, put out a papal missive to make it officially a required part of Catholic religious devotion for each member over the age of, say, 12, to remain in ‘good grace’ if that’s what it takes (like regular confession).

We’d hit that 7 billion-tree goal or whatever it was very quickly!

I feel your frustration… though a decent phone w/o locked Android shouldn’t require global thermonuclear war I hope!

I stress about what phone, if any, I’ll be able to install a non-bloatware, rooted, vanila OS on once the models my wife & I have become too ‘obsolete’. (OnePlus 5T with LineageOS).

Norms

And ‘Lie detectors’ (polygraphs). Don’t forget those frauds.

Time to reform Strike Force Five ⚡⚡⚡

OK Romania, now you know which building needs to have repeated, ongoing cockroach and bedbug infestations… and stinky cheeses/spoiled milk ‘accidentally’ ending up in the HVAC systems.

Ah, hashcash. Wish that had taken off, it was a good idea …

Yes, and they used the name first, not google. Arseholes.

Yeah well look at what’s happened to Ukraine after they gave up their nukes. Basic logic.

I figure the corvids and raccoons deserve a chance to be dominant species at this point.