Not only do I miss nothing from Windows, but also the decisions MS has made each and every year since I dumped them has only increased my conviction that I made the right move in doing so. Not one time have I read a MS/Windows headline and felt I was somehow missing out on anything I would ever want to be a part of.

I wish I thought you were being ridiculous.

I’ve got a lot of worry about how much time he still has to get this passed, and about the viability of the midterms in general. I’m very worried he finds a way to suspend them, or actually gets this bill passed. (Or both)

There’s an embedded video in the article that starts right at the end of the water test so you then get to see all the broken things that the driver calmly shows us.

Yep somehow I did. I knew it had to be something like that.

I was hoping it was something like that. I must have just missed it somehow.

I was the same. “They must have had a reason…”

I used to assume police were generally trustworthy and I could believe their version of any given event. Now I believe nothing they say without supporting video evidence.

I’m kind of amazed they admitted this. Under any other president I’d have been slightly surprised they admitted it, but with Trump lackeys in charge of seemingly everything at the federal level I’m outright stunned that they admitted it.

Good points, especially this one:

To me, the fact that it happened nowhere near Iran is the bigger deal. It means that parts of the world that aren’t aligned with either side in the war now have to wonder what might explode in their own territory.

I skipped right over that but it’s part of it for sure.

I just learned that five minutes ago, and it really does make it even worse.

It feels different in a few ways to me. One, it feels much more personal and “fuck you in particular.” It’s one thing to lob missiles at a base and fuck whoever happens to be there, but you KNOW there’s a real possibility that you kill every mother effer on that ship if you hit it with a torpedo.

I’m not articulating it very well, but it’s just got a different sort of cruelty that something like shelling an airbase just lacks for me.

This sinking seems like a really big deal to me, but I don’t feel like it’s been treated that way. Everyone seems to react like it’s just another example of Trump being shitty, and it is, but also, we sank another country’s warship with a torpedo. That seems pretty momentous no matter what country it was.

This is the clear solution and I can’t believe it doesn’t get brought up more often.