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This quarrel is the usual political theater intended to distract from all the awful shit happening in the background (dismantling the remains of the welfare state and safety nets, impending environmental & climate disasters, and the ol' favorite - insane wealth redistribution upwards).

However this time, with an actual fascist in power, all the prop guns on stage are actually real and I wouldn't be surprised if Elon is deported or even "found dead". He fucked around and got a fascist elected, I hope he finds out. Either way, this is not something to pay any attention to.

How is nouveau doing for those older cards these days? Are they at least still usable as a display adapter?

If it's such an obstacle for social life, I'd just give in and make an account. Given the alternative is "exchanging phone numbers" (with the intent to text or call, presumably) I'd say Instagram is no worse privacy-wise - both offer absolutely no privacy protection. If a phone number is required to register (I don't know if it is), I'd get a bootleg sim specifically for it. I would treat all communications on any proprietary platform (even 1-on-1) as though they are happening in public (Twitter-style). Avoid using apps if at all possible as they have more access to your device. If that's not possible, at least do not give those apps any permissions, however hard they are trying to eek them out of you. Do not use it for anything but chatting with your acquaintances - merely looking at your feed, even without any explicit interactions like opening a post, gives Meta a lot of data about you.

If the connection moves on from "acquaintance" to "friendship", perhaps try pushing them towards a better platform - I recommend Matrix as it is federated (unlike Signal), and has pretty nice clients/UX nowadays (unlike Tox and XMPP), and is e2e-encrypted (unlike almost everything else).

I wonder if there are any studies about general happiness and mental well-being of Parisians before and after - I'd wager it's better now.

Don’t y’all wave flags or something like that not to be murdered by a car?

Correction: to be murdered by a car anyways, but at least with a flag in hands

Randall hasn’t bothered to name any of them so the community has given them unofficial nicknames.

Megan is actually named in multiple comics though, ~~so is Danish (Black Hat's girlfrenemy)~~ (actually that was picked semi-arbitrarily by the community). Cueballs also have different names occasionally but they're all drawn the same.

And actually I do believe that certain non-named characters are the same comic-to-comic. Black hat and Beret guy almost certainly are.

Yes, as I've said, this is just me getting old rather than any issue with the joke format :)

Capitalists now: "Here is your 26 megajoule cupcake!"

Capitalists a year later: "Here is your insulin subscription, only $299/month!"

No birthright citizenship in a country founded and inhabited almost entirely by immigrants, with no mandatory national ID? Yeah that's gonna be a shitshow and a half.

Man, I'm getting old. I don't understand why all jokes have to be fake twitter screenshots now.

Sorry, I've been a vegan for long enough that I don't remember the names for all the animal bits, even in my native tongue let alone english :)

The really offensive part is having >2 liters of milk, per person, in a work fridge. What the fuck do you need so much for? I bet that fridge smells like a mix of spoiled milk and utter distrust for other human beings.