Spain did what

Ah right I get you, a “how is he still kicking” instead of “why hasn’t someone fed him to a wood chipper”

Clearly “the system” isn’t capable of handling the threat of right-wing extremism and something needs to be done, but anybody murking Trump would probably make things worse, not better. He’d become a conservative martyr, and they could point to his death and say “see, we told you they’re violent” and use it to deepen hatred and oppression. This is what happened after the failed assassination attempt on Robert Fico

Whether that manifesto’s “reliable”, well, we’ll have to see. That recent immunity move by the SC is already a big step in the direction that Project 2025 wants to take the US in with their “unitary executive theory” bullshit – everything doesn’t hinge on Trump.

Far as Trump’s disavowals go, I’ll believe it when I see it – that man lies as easily as he breathes. I’ll be happily surprised if it does turn out he wasn’t lying, but that’s not going to be my default assumption. And it’s not like Project 2025 hinges on his enthusiastic support of the Project, just its goals – if Trump gets elected he is the one choosing which recommendations he’ll follow, and I don’t find it very believable that he wouldn’t be interested in eg. expanding executive power.

Lastly, that “Washington Post report” is another one of those vague articles featuring “according to sources familiar”.

That’s going to be what they publish every time the sources don’t want anyone to know it was them, but it’s not like the reporters don’t know their sources or don’t vet them –this “anonymous source bad” trope frankly reeks of the classic populist Lying press / Lügenpresse rhetoric. I really don’t understand how people think things should work if anonymous sources are bad

However, this does not apply to US soil. One of the benefits of state sovereignty is that federal armed forces can’t operate on US soil

From the Project 2025 wiki page:

In November 2023, The Washington Post reported that deploying the military for domestic law enforcement under the Insurrection Act of 1807 would be an “immediate priority” upon a second Trump inauguration in 2025. That aspect of the plan was being led by Jeffrey Clark, a contributor to the project and a former official in the Trump Department of Justice (DOJ). Clark is a senior fellow at the Center for Renewing America, a Project 2025 partner. The plan reportedly includes directing the DOJ to pursue those considered by Trump as disloyal or a political adversary

Oh yeah, extensions which make them non-regular definitely can make it possible, but just because it’s now somewhat possible with some regex engines doesn’t mean it’s a good idea

Oh yeah they definitely have uses, but there’s a real tendency for people to go a bit crazy with them. Complex regexen aren’t exactly readable, there’s all kinds of fun performance gotchas, there’s sometimes other tools/algorithms that are more suitable for the task, and sometimes people try to use them to eg. parse HTML because they don’t know that it is literally impossible to use regular expressions to parse languages that aren’t regular

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I’ll use regular expressions.” Now they have two problems.

a company that doesn’t […] kill its customers.

Has Coca Cola started a kick murder squad that I*m not aware of, or did they add polonium to Coke?

The recommended number of anuses is one

Well, since it’s Temu Pinhead, he’ll have absolutely no sights to show us and will probably randomly just drop dead(er)

Thank fuck this is no longer the case – the “non-smoking” sections were usually just 2nd hand smoke sections

Uh, define “working”?

Every time somebody says something like “I could have done that” (especially if they’re being dismissive of somebody’s achievement), it brings me great pleasure to say “but you didn’t.”

You better not be gearing up to go all Deliverance on us with that story

Ah, good idea putting the fire in the tent, that way the fire will stay warm

I think that’s just IT jobs in general. I noped out after 15 years, no fucking clue what I’ll do but I can tell you it’ll be anything but IT

Loquunturne Latine in ‘Quid’?