I do believe you’re right. Conservatives constantly demonstrate their hypocrisy and intellectual dishonesty as well as their self serving nature. There’s a real possibility for people publicly railing against mandami to signal in-group but vote for him in the secrecy of the booth to their benefit.

An upvote because I never heard of it. Looks excellent!

mkusb is a simple bash script around dd to make things easier. I always have it installed on my laptop, in my ~/bin/.

This is and has always been comedy gold

I got the environment reference, just the pumping bit sounded more like a shadoks bit.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=eUUviFnGnBE

Don’t know if you’re trying an obscure reference to the shadoks, an absurd french tv cartoon from 1968

Don’t get me wrong, this woman is a Karen and actually quite typical of the mainland China entitlement and behavior. BUT there’s a massive amount of mandarin speaking people in Malaysia to the point where it’s a destination for mainland Chinese. Not excusing her ridiculous behavior but providing context here.

It’s fascinating how hard some sectors are fighting to forbid replacement meats or milks to call themselves steak or milk. But those products barely resembling the original name are completely allowed to call themselves chocolate or fruit juice (based on some concentrate and some other stuff).

Oh yeah. No problem …

Not sure it’s a plan as much as an unintended consequence. The man doesn’t really have a track record of deep thinking.

I always find it interesting how many Americans cannot figure out the simple maths. Your gouvernement has about the same bills (infrastructure, education, the government itself, military, etc) than any other modern country. The money is coming from somewhere, whether your taxes, sales taxes or otherwise. Same at the city level, see all the libertarian utopias that have to contract neighboring towns for trash or are short on water. There’s a lot of magical thinking here, when the critical one would be more helpful