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elbucho , 6 months ago to news in US lawmaker George Santos, indicted on fraud charges, faces House expulsion vote

Why wait until November 2024? With him expelled, Governor Hochul will have to call a special election for NY’s 3rd district, which should take place in around 90 days.

elbucho , 6 months ago to news in Advertisers Say They Do Not Plan to Return to X After Musk’s Comments

Huh, well TIL!

elbucho , 6 months ago to news in Advertisers Say They Do Not Plan to Return to X After Musk’s Comments

Who could have possibly seen that shit coming?

elbucho , 6 months ago to news in Advertisers Say They Do Not Plan to Return to X After Musk’s Comments

That’s the funny thing; he wasn’t forced into it. He could have just paid $1bn for his idiotic 420 joke (or probably much less if he’d settled out of court) and gotten away without any further damage. But instead, he took out a $13 billion loan and spent another $21bn of his own money for it. So instead of setting $1bn or less on fire, he set $34 billion on fire. Plus the additional money that his idiotic compatriots put up. This truly is the dumbest timeline.

Edit: He also ended up selling a shit load of his TSLA stock to make one of his payments to the bank, which caused tesla to tank in the market costing him untold billions as well. He is not a smart man.

elbucho , 7 months ago to world in Elon Musk tells advertisers: ‘Go fuck yourself’ - The Verge

“X” isn’t publicly traded. When he bought it, he took it private, so you can’t short it. The ticker symbol X is for the United States Steel Corporation. You could definitely short that, though; it’s entirely possible that it’ll tank just the same because people confuse it with Xitter. Like when that Chinese company that had the ticker symbol ZOOM shot to the moon at the start of the pandemic because people thought it was the video conferencing app (whose symbol was ZM).

elbucho , 7 months ago to world in Elon Musk tells advertisers: ‘Go fuck yourself’ - The Verge

Well, as dumb as this was (and it was very, very dumb), I found myself distracted by just how… weird he looked. Not just his face, which reminded me of Lady Cassandra from Dr Who (“Moisturize me, moisturize me!”), but his weird, jerky movements, and just his general vibe. He’s like the personification of the uncanny valley. Eggar-from-MiB “get me sugar water” lookin’ ass. If someone were to come out with a tell-all saying that Musk had been secretly replaced by aliens, I wouldn’t even be terribly surprised at this point.

elbucho , 7 months ago to news in Supreme Court says Florida can’t enforce anti-drag law

I’m guessing it’s because drag queens are icky, or something.

elbucho , 7 months ago to nottheonion in Paul Pelosi attacker offers apology in emotional testimony: ‘He was never my target’

Shit. My bad.

elbucho , 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to nottheonion in Paul Pelosi attacker offers apology in emotional testimony: ‘He was never my target’

The guy went down a rabbit hole that eventually led to him deciding to kidnap and/or murder a sitting US Representative because of a fucking youtube comment? Jesus Christ. This fucking country…

Edit: fixed her job title

elbucho , 7 months ago to lemmyshitpost in Tall, short, whatever—we're all screwed

I really want to hear more about muffin encryption.

elbucho , 7 months ago to news in Donald Trump's colossal admission during trial

The thing I love most about this article is this one throw-away little line right here:

He … claims that all of his legal troubles amount to “election interference” as he campaigns in the 2024 presidential election.

It just illustrates who Trump is so well. First, he hears a term that he doesn’t understand, like: “election interference”. Like what he did when he incited his cult of morons to attack the capitol during January 6th to prevent Congress from certifying the election. Then, he takes that term that he doesn’t understand and uses it improperly to insinuate that that’s what’s being done to him. This is either because he’s too dumb to know what it means and too stubborn to look it up, or because he believes that about his cultists.

This is the exact same playbook he used for “puppet” during his debates with Hillary, “Fake news” when he was campaigning, “witch hunt” when he was being investigated for impeachable offenses, etc.

The man is a complete god damned moron, and yet somehow, he’s managed to figure out that a significant number of Americans are even dumber than he is, and he has become their messiah. It’s awe-inducing.

elbucho , 7 months ago to nottheonion in Man Gets 100 Years for Accidentally Killing His 8-Year-Old Daughter While Trying to Shoot His 18-Year-Old Son

I’m not saying it’s better or worse, just that it would be a different story. Dementia changes people. My grandmother went through it; she was an incredibly sweet person before Alzheimer’s, and then once she started sunsetting, she became vindictive and paranoid. Thought people were plotting against her or trying to poison her.

I posted this update because the original article was really badly written, and it was hard to figure out what actually happened.

elbucho , 7 months ago to nottheonion in Man Gets 100 Years for Accidentally Killing His 8-Year-Old Daughter While Trying to Shoot His 18-Year-Old Son

So this article makes it seem like he’s got dementia and was under the spell of a delusion when shooting his partner & daughter. But it’s written so vaguely that it’s hard to know for sure. So I found another article that seems to be much more clear about what happened:

www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/…/ar-AA1jkw2q

TL;DR: 66-year-old man is in rough shape; has Hepatitis B, Emphysema, and COPD, and needs an oxygen tank. His partner (a much younger woman), their daughter together (8 years old), and his son from a previous marriage (18) all came to his house. The article doesn’t say what happened in the conversation, but he apparently became enraged thinking they were trying to get him out of the house. My guess is that they were trying to get him to go into a care facility due to his many, many ailments.

Dude saw red, grabbed a gun, and started blasting. Shot his partner, then tried shooting his son, missed, and hit his 8-year-old daughter in the back as she was running away from him.

So it sounds much less like dementia (though that could still very well be a factor), and more like a miserable piece of shit reaching for a gun first to solve all of his problems.

elbucho , 7 months ago to news in I've Been To Over 20 Homeschool Conferences. The Things I've Witnessed At Them Shocked Me.

I think if you’re going to be annoyed by stupid people, you probably shouldn’t make stupid people a core part of your business model. I’m not saying everyone who homeschools their kids is stupid. Just most of them. Like nearly all of them.

elbucho , 7 months ago to news in X is officially worth less than half of what Elon Musk paid for it

I don’t think it was even worth half of what he paid for it when he paid for it. Musk is a complete god damned moron. I’d be surprised if the company was even worth $19 billion when he bought it for $44 bn. And there’s no way in fuck that it’s worth $19 bn now. Absolute dogshit assessment. Not that I’m surprised, mind. It’s Musk’s assessment, after all.