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kescusay , 8 months ago to nottheonion in Trump Unable To Come Up With Own Material, Keeps Ripping Off Hitler

I really hate that this isn’t an Onion headline.

kescusay , 8 months ago to world in Seasonal flu can cause persistent health problems similar to long Covid, study warns

Just this last week, my youngest kid caught and brought home influenza-A, which I’ve been reading is pretty gnarly this year. But it’s been comparatively mild for us - probably because we vaccinate. Mostly just an annoying cough and some fatigue.

In my case, I didn’t get sick at all. My wife has mild symptoms, as does my oldest kid. The worst is actually my youngest, but still not particularly severe.

Moral of the story: Vaccines are fucking awesome and the fact that some people refuse to vaccinate just blows my fucking mind.

kescusay , 8 months ago to videos in Artists Draw Disney Characters as Dark Souls Bosses

Oh, Drawfee is definitely worth watching. Damn near pissed myself during the Orbeez bit.

kescusay OP , 8 months ago to nottheonion in After School Satan Club at MSCS elementary school causes controversy

Motto: “Come to school for a piece of ASS!”

… I feel bad about writing that.

kescusay OP , 8 months ago to nottheonion in After School Satan Club at MSCS elementary school causes controversy

I mean, “after school Satan club” definitely sounds like something the Onion would come up with to make fun of the satanic panic Christian types.

kescusay , 8 months ago to world in Calls for return of masks, airport scanners in Southeast Asia amid Covid surge

Return? I never stopped wearing them. Or social distancing and avoiding indoor spaces packed with strangers.

Weirdly enough, I haven’t caught COVID yet, either.

kescusay OP , 8 months ago to world in Biden tells donors Israel is losing support, Netanyahu must change his government | CNN Politics

It worked (and works) to head off criticism of the Israeli government because so much of the time there are antisemites whose supposed criticism of the government is there to mask hate.

But Netanyahu isn’t Judaism. He’s just a guy, and as a fallible human being he has made enormous errors of judgment and engaged in ludicrously unethical behavior.

kescusay , 8 months ago to world in Israel drove suitcases stuffed with cash into Gaza to keep Hamas in power

The article is literally about Israel stabilizing Hamas to keep it and the Palestinian Authority struggling for control and keeping Palestine destabilized overall.

kescusay OP , 8 months ago to world in Biden tells donors Israel is losing support, Netanyahu must change his government | CNN Politics

Quite true. Given the reality on the ground, it’s a guaranteed clusterfuck no matter what policy the United States adopts.

kescusay , 8 months ago to world in Israel drove suitcases stuffed with cash into Gaza to keep Hamas in power

Ummm, are you sure you responded to the right comment? I didn’t suggest Israel install a government in Gaza. I described something Netanyahu and his fellow conservatives did to keep Palestine from stabilizing, and I said Israel could have avoided the current state of affairs by not doing that.

kescusay , 8 months ago to news in Chicago police Sgt. John Poulos, whose fatal shootings of 2 men led to about $2 million in City Hall payouts, now running for judge

Sorry, we accidentally released a beta democracy into production.

Planned changes include:

• bugfix: remove unneeded electoral college (slows progress down)
• bugfix: replace current hard-set limit on House with dynamic value that grows with population
• feat: add protection for voting rights to system firmware/constitution (current piecemeal legislative approach is difficult to optimize)
• bugfix: set polling location availability by population density, not population wealth
• feat: implement ranked-choice election system (deprecates first-past-the-post)
• feat: implement consequences for criminal actions taken by people who are white and conservative

Unfortunately, these changes are not yet available, but these and more will become possible to implement if we fucking vote like our country depends on it at every level.

kescusay , 8 months ago to world in Israel drove suitcases stuffed with cash into Gaza to keep Hamas in power

It makes a sick kind of sense. If you’re one of the conservatives in power in Israel, and you oppose a two-state solution that would give Palestinians autonomy, keep two weaker factions fighting each other rather than stabilizing a new country.

It doesn’t excuse the inhuman barbarism committed by Hamas against civilians, but it does mean Netanyahu should be immediately removed from power and arrested.

The Palestinian Authority is the only organization there with any actual legitimacy, and had Israel publicly, openly supported it, Hamas could never have gotten a foothold, while the Palestinian Authority would have had reason to normalize relations with Israel.

kescusay , 8 months ago to world in Far-right Le Pen to stand trial on EU embezzlement, fraud charges

If the far right in Europe is anything like the far right in the United States, she’ll retain a lot of support from them anyway.

kescusay , 8 months ago to news in Former chair of Ohio utility regulator surrenders in $60 million bribery scheme linked to energy bill

…a month before Republican Gov. Mike DeWine nominated him as Ohio’s top utility regulator.

It’s always the people you most suspect.

kescusay , 8 months ago to technology in Arch and other Linux operating systems Beat Windows 11 in Gaming Benchmarks

I mean, it can be, if you do the right fine-tuning.

But yeah, I think they kind of missed the point. Arch seems to work pretty damn well for gaming with a completely vanilla, standard configuration.