Best are probably the switches by Inovelli. That said, if you’re okay installing the resistor needed to make them work, the Moesgo switches I’m using are quite decent at half the price, you just got to like or get over the styling.

I mean, you’re not wrong but the way she got into office initially wasn’t exactly a shining beacon of democratic process…

Although, in fairness, the province did reelect her after so perhaps they did want an even crazier flavour of nuts after all.

I mean the xenophobia alone allows one to draw parallels, but here’s an example of the party harbouring the same wildly unscientific COVID vaccine stances and unscientific claims in their ranks: https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/5Ey2eW/obehorig-sd-politiker-i-riksdagens-kammare

And thanks for reminding me of the existence of AfS, it truly takes something extraordinary to be too extreme for SD to the point of getting kicked out and starting your own splinter fraction.

And what makes you think that? SD (the Swedish equivalent of MAGA and the descendants of the Nazi party) pulled in over 20% of the vote last time and the right-wing parties making up the coalition have all shown to be more than willing to cater to SD’s base (edit: Although, to be fair, that’s also because they have a confidence and supply agreement with the SD).

Hyper normalisation has left everyone feeling defeated or indifferent. The strategy of “every day is nore insane than the previous” has fucking worked.

I was going g to comment how I have the thing pictured, but that it comes with several real drawbacks. Not just mosquitoes either. Imagine having to buy and operate your own snow plow to leave the house in winter. Or buying groceries in bulk because the nearest Walmart is a three hour drive.

Thank you, this ruined my childhood in several ways as someone who grew up with culturally engrained Kalle Anka (Donald Duck) watchings.

Thanks for putting into perspective just how fucked the current situation in the US is.

Never heard of that one, and I am sure it’s not the animation in question, but it’s an interesting suggestion nonetheless. I’ll check it out.

It’s from the start of Mickey and the magic beanstalk. The voiceover really ups the misery by talking about how they’re destitute and their spirits are broken, and Donald and Goofy both go delirious from the hunger at one point.

Of course, after that tear jerker the typical Disney magic sets in again and the whole thing is largely played for laughs, but those first few minutes are intensely sad IMHO.

I agree with the message, but I just can’t watch that clip of Mickey, Donald, and Goofy being so destitute and downtrodden without getting intensely sad. To whomever hasn’t seen the original animation this is from, prepare to feel worse than the opening of “Up” when you finally look this up.

Actual Microsoft rollout practices 🤣

Flavor-aid actually, but in this case who cares so long as the solution is the same.

I’ve often wondered what sent J.K. down the path she’s on. I get that it becomes a self-reinforcing cycle at dinner point, but something must’ve happened.

Basically I’m looking for her “Pedo guy mini sub” moment if it exists.

That’s what I’m thinking reading this and other articles. It’s like the Republican party is reaching to find increasingly desperate ways to get into Trump’s graces, to the point that it feels like they’re running out of ideas by this point and have started a race to the bottom debasing themselves for his amusement.

How does this man hold so much sway over them? He has the charisma of a wet rag, the character and patience if a toddler, and the long term vision of a house fly. Out of all the things I read about him and his cult, this is the one thing that baffles me the most.

There is a minimum required amount of bronzer you’re required to apply to be accepted into the MAGA leadership. See also the transformation Ron DeSantis pulled.

Don Jr really can’t stop saying the dumbest things and making himself or whoever he’s talking about look worse in the process. I’d say the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, but I honestly think he’s actually even less aware than his dad.

That’s what I was going to point out. Beside that sounding like the most obvious scam domain ever, reading it at face value would indicate that the Republicans think their supporters are a bunch of addicts. Did they fire everyone with any marketing background or are they all so far down the rabbit hole that this sounds perfectly reasonable to them?

Back before music piracy was a thing; because who’s going to download a 3-4MB file on a 14k4 modem? By the time you grab one song you’d have racked up such an internet bill you might as well have bought the single.