That sounds like something an adjudicated rapist would say.

Indeed, and “It is what it is.” and “It’s one of those things.” and “It has come to this.” and other such substantive axioms.

My previous reply was not to deny the fact of his presidency. It was to take exception to the notion that he is “the average joe in America” when he was rejected by America’s average joe at least three times as often as not.

In times past losing a presidential election spelled the end for a candidate’s presidential ambitions but for some reason the adjudicated rapist seems heedless of the electorate’s “No.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icecast

I consider that a stretch given he ran for president four times and won the popular vote at most once.

As a candidate, Donald Trump pledged to balance the federal budget and lower the national debt, promises that are proving difficult to keep.

Once he won, Trump considered an unusual approach that was quickly slapped down by his chief economic advisor, according to veteran journalist Bob Woodward’s new book, “Fear: Trump in the White House,” which went on sale Tuesday.

“Just run the presses — print money,” Trump said, according to Woodward, during a discussion on the national debt with Gary Cohn, former director of the White House National Economic Council.

“You don’t get to do it that way,” Cohn said, according to Woodward. “We have huge deficits and they matter. The government doesn’t keep a balance sheet like that.”

Cohn was “astounded at Trump’s lack of basic understanding,” Woodward writes.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/11/trump-once-considered-just-printing-money-to-lower-the-national-debt-woodward-reports.html

Here is the transcript of the interview.

https://time.com/article/2026/10/01/donald-trump-2026-interview-transcript/

It could also be to make things difficult for redlib, which uses the reddit API.

https://join-lemmy.org/docs/administration/from_scratch.html

The status quo does not just enrich the rich. It also allows its privileged to rape children without consequences.

The moon takes about half a degree of the sky’s arc. (So does the sun. That’s why total eclipses are possible.)

Since the horizons are 180 degrees apart, that means you could fit 360 moons in arc overhead from horizon to horizon.

Which looks impossible and demonstrates the optical illusion at play.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_illusion

Ending the public API also prevents reddit users from deleting their post history without manually removing each post.

If you want to scrub your post history and prevent reddit from profiting from your input, use Power Delete Suite while you still can.

https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite

It is unlikely that reddit allows users to delete their content from the backend but this at least keeps your posts out of search results, which is a large part of their value.

Rainbow Mars is the title of both a short story and the collection of short stories that contains it.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/100379

got into psychedelics, broke through to ego death

Couldn’t quite parse the beginning. Who broke through to ego death, again?

Perhaps NASA is doing it to make a trophy that might impress the imbecile emperor in hopes of securing funding for space science.

Like in Rainbow Mars when the Time Travel Bureau has to go on safari to capture extinct pets for their imbecile emperor.

Light web searching suggests that neither the automobile industry as a whole nor the health insurance industry as a whole exceed $3 trillion in annual global revenue. Which means the plagiarism-to-slop pipeline just needs to make a little bit more than the automobile and health insurance industries combined to justify itself.

Apple silicon still only supports Apple’s proprietary operating systems but you can run Linux in a virtual machine or use Asahi which is still not recommended for daily use.

• Super Mario Bros. 3 (NES version)
• Tetris (Licensed NES version)
• Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening (Monochrome Gameboy version)
• Quake / Quakeworld
• Metroid 3

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Upright_Music,_Ltd._v._Warner_Bros._Records_Inc.

Rap artists have to clear every last sample or they don’t own the copyright to their work- but when tech oligarchs pirate every ebook ever made and use it to build plagiarism engines, it is not just legal, they will get a bailout if their slop doesn’t turn a profit.

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