at this point I think my faith in other people is too damaged to accept such a thing from anyone I don’t know personally – (and alas, I have no friends up north), but I do hope you rescue someone worth saving. Not all of us didn’t see this coming. Nobody deserves that fate, not a migrant, not someone trans or someone poor or who jaywalked while black or anybody who stepped on that orange rapists bone-spurred toes.

Having said that, you should probably get rid of this comment, as I doubt Canada’s immigration authorities are very keen on marriage fraud, no matter how nice a gesture it may be.

Currently shit scared as a gay guy with autism. I studied this, on my own, out of curiosity – how a relatively modern society can commit atrocities upon its own citizens that it deems “lesser”.

In high school, where we had entire chapters of our history books that we focused on for weeks dedicated to things like the civil war and the war of 1812, WWI and WWII were (in my recollection) split between a single chapter titled “The World Wars” or something like that, and anything later was usually glossed over in even briefer fashion (Korea, Vietnam, and the Cold War all shared a single chapter. I’m not even sure the Cuban Missile Crisis was given a sentence. But holy fuck did they want you to recount in great detail all the facts and figures of the revolutionary war and civil war, down to excruciatingly painful detail. – I digress, it just irked me then and it still does now).

My point is, nobody chased me down and beat me over the head with a textbook to research the Holocaust and how it happened, nobody made me learn the finer points of going from an economic crisis to an angry little egomaniac getting elected to gas chambers and piles of bodies. We were taught what happened, in the driest fashion, but they never taught us how it happened. For me, nobody had to. I wanted to learn, so that I’d hopefully recognize the signs if they ever happened again. And now I can’t afford to leave on my own, while watching them slowly follow the exact same playbook in almost the exact same way. You start with the most vulnerable people and expand that over time to “everyone you don’t like”, and I have no illusions about being a friend to republicans.

Also, hey, sidebar: anyone else finding the combination of “gutting NOAA funding”, “open air cages”, and “located in Florida, where devastating hurricanes regularly sweep through”, to be something Eichmann would’ve called genius? “Oops, we didn’t have any warning! Awww, shucks, shame about all those un-people we wanted to be rid of!” And the gators take care of the bodies. It’s brilliant, in a way.

my last hope is Canada opens their borders to unskilled/disabled refugees, but I don’t hold out a lot of hope.

Sure, they could pull a Nintendo and do that; but then you’ve got a handheld running Linux. Linux that’s trying to tell the user how they should use it/how they’re not allowed to use it. And thus if they do it is guaranteed that there will be a dedicated, pissed-off Linux nerd somewhere who spends hours a day doing everything in their power to revert or circumvent whatever bullshit they pull.

In fact, if they did a “Nintendo move”, a workaround would probably be integrated into Bazzite within days or weeks.

Meanwhile, Ea-Nasir and his shitty copper will never, ever be forgotten.

remember, if you had fun while wasting time, it wasn’t a waste of time at all.

now if only it wasn’t a chrome fork/Eich would take a long walk off a short pier.

alas, a man can dream.

a real “Oh no! Anyways…” kind of moment

[Me, firing up AdNauseam, Bypass Paywalls Clean, PopUpOFF, CanvasBlocker and more:]

certainly, but I live in the US, so that’s automatically socialism and you’re automatically commie scum for suggesting it.

sorry, thems the rules

Oh I know they’re bullshit.

Still would’ve been left with a crippling amount of debt for something I had no control over if not for insurance, no matter what the “actual” number would’ve been.

I spent six weeks in the hospital in the US, and my bill (before insurance) was over $400k.

ahh, I never saw that one advertised myself, lucky me. The only Chromium fork with heavy sponsorship and clown-show-antics surrounding it I could think of was Brave.

Yeah I’ve heard all of that jazz, it was the stuff I quoted I’d not heard about.

that they heavily recommended a Chromium fork that turns out was maintained by a prepubescent boy hiding furry porn in the builds.

you know, I’ve heard a lot of shit about Brave, but I must’ve missed that one – or is this another, different, heavily sponsored Chromium fork?

Ah, that’s what that feeling was – here I thought it was seething rage building up inside me, now I know that was simply my affinity for dick leaving my body.

meanwhile, my family: “just don’t be gay for the next 3 and a half years, we don’t need to leave”

… Right, I’m sure they definitely leave office as scheduled and I’m sure with how quickly things are progressing I’ll still be around to see them do so. Yep. Definitely. 👍

What’s this? A charming French town woefully underpopulated by bees?

A large influx of bees ought to put a stop to that!

a policeman? racist? why, I’m shocked, I tell you, just shocked.

fair enough, goes to show the gaps in my knowledge – but after seeing one guy desperately trying to crawl away with his legs blown off before being blown up by a second drone, I decided that was all the Ukraine footage I needed to see.

I’m not saying you’re wrong, but: has anyone in Ukraine actually tried a shotgun?

I generally try to avoid watching anything that’ll scar my psyche, but, as far as I’m aware soldiers in the field don’t usually carry shotguns, but rifles, in the anticipation of dealing with enemies wearing body armor/at some distance. And hitting a moving drone with a rifle, yes absolutely that’d be a bitch – one projectile is not enough, especially for an erratic moving target.

Police (and I’m assuming ICE as well), generally dealing with people not equipped with body armor, tend to keep shotguns handy for a multitude of reasons (breaching doors, not overpenetrating through walls, etc), and skeet shooting is already a thing (though admittedly it would still be harder if the drone was moving erratically).

All this is to say: I don’t know anything for a fact, because I’ve tried to avoid watching anything that’ll scar me, but has anyone in Ukraine on either side had access to a shotgun or two before getting turned into gibs? because I can absolutely believe that soldiers with rifles would fail to shoot a drone, but I wouldn’t be so quick to discount a couple people with shotguns unless that’s already a solution the Russians tried before the cope cages. Especially in the context of just filming them, your drone probably isn’t moving very fast or flying very high if you’re trying to get a good shot.