Yes, it’s by a guy who thinks inciting a violent attempt to overthrow a major democratic institution should be protected as free speech. And did not even come up with the 1984 reference himself, just parroting DJT Jr. See this video by Jacob Geller about why such a wide spectrum of people points to Nineteen Eighty-Four, that’s where I got the information from.

Don’t forget how this cartoon originated:

• 2021-01-06: Failed coup by pro-Trump degenerates storming the Capitol (Trump denies involvement but his tweets from the day definitely played a role, as decided during the impeachment proceedings in the following week).
• 2021-01-08 Trump is banned from Twitter in wake of the scandal.
• 2021-01-08 Donald Trump Jr. tweets: “We are living Orwell’s 1984. […]” (Yes, shown as Jan 9 shortly after midnight but that’s in UTC)
• 2021-01-09 Conservative artist Gary Varvel publishes this cartoon.

Old slop (likely not AI)

Look at what’s “behind” the decorative railing posts

Scammers and low-quality content producers. Truly the people you want to succeed in business.

It’s a robust system: when a bone is fractured and not straightened before healing, it will eventually get close to the right shape.

Is an osteoblast posting this? They hate constantly getting their hard work removed by osteoclasts.

That’s like 10⁵ size discrepancy (30 mm/3 km).

🧬🪐

(That would be 30 nm/300 Mm, or 10¹⁶. Also there’s ⚛️🌌, 80 pm/800 Em, or 10³¹.)

I already use unattend scripts for the rest of my family’s Windows shit… I add irm https://christitus.com/win | iex at the end too so I can then install cool stuff

And no, I’m not upgrading any Windows 10 stuff rn

Drive letters? (Yes, they are stupid and don’t work with MTP but I won’t explin /dev/ to him)

We’ve been using Classic Shell since Day 1 of course. I modded it to quit qBittorrent when Mom opens the Shutdown dialog* (yes, she always opens that awful window) because that takes the longest to terminate. I’ll use it plus Explorer Patcher on 10, a semi-transparent taskbar without blur is so handy

* Classic Shell Start Menu can run arbitrary and predefined commands from buttons but not both at once. The Shutdown dialog can only be triggered with a predefined CSSM command or JS script so I’m using a VBS script (unlike BAT or JS, it can run silently) that runs the JS script and taskkill command.

I’ve seen the whole series and I hate French. Krankenwagen is so much better than “aamboulaans”. It’s a Wagen for den Kranken!
(Yes, that’s referring to the “It werfs Flammen” video)

That German word always brings a smile on my face, the Latin is a close second.

Btw Uhu is what we called white putty at my school because of the brand (we switched to cheaper Pritt long ago but it has stuck)

Our family PC still has 8.1 (parents really don’t like change and Firefox got security updates until recently). I think I’ll upgrade it to 10 when I have time, the amount of debloat required to keep it sane is manageable as opposed to 11. Mom could handle mildly riced XFCE Linux with Firefox and our legal copy of Office 2007 under Wine but dad uses Total Commander and won’t use anything other than drive letters.

Multicar M24 too

I think an electric variant could fit a larger, irregular bed or more likely, optionally extend the existing one with a flap

Would be a consolation prize in otherwise shit future. The Unicode Consortium’s current stance is “no more flag emoji”, which is ridiculous.

Gang in German means “gait”. It could be just a lone walking wolf.

Iron magnets are crap, but I imagine he does not know better having gone to school in the 50s-60s. But yes, those are magnetically weak enough and physically strong enough for a hammer to work.

The magnitude of physical stress waves a magnet has to undergo to be demagnetized is huge. Most magnetic materials will shatter instead unless the force is applied precisely.

I think he vaguely remembered something about electromagnetism and that water on electronics is a no-no.

The main takeaway is that he should appoint an engineer to advise him on technical topics (and Surgeon General on medical matters, etc.), otherwise any sufficiently sly corporate sponsor or media can easily steer his policy by pretending to be experts. I guess the only fields he does not need to delegate are being a douchebag on TV and lying about real estate.

Nice but those are some kitten-sized cows