Sounds like she might be Labradoriented?

Has he learnt his lesson yet, Susan?

I had to check if this was real, and for once I have good news!

Remind me, who’s in charge over there?

Oh, right. That tracks.

I’m really glad that he’s aware of the moral implications of what he did.

Doesn’t sound like you are though. I mean, you just admitted he committed fraud in order to appropriate money meant for people who actually needed it, and now:

• you want to justify it by saying “clearly the government wasn’t holding back assistance to anyone at the time” as though it being an honour system at the time made what he did okay;
• you’re pulling that after you first tried to paper over that they weren’t just any old loans he took out; in addition to which
• you want to try and paint me as the bad guy.

You serious, dude? You’re aware that I didn’t commit fraud during the pandemic, right? And it wasn’t hard either, I just didn’t apply for relief I wasn’t eligible for. You’re aware he wasn’t scamming a bank, he was scamming people in need?

It’s okay to make mistakes, but he is lucky he’s not in prison, and if he can own what he did like an adult then so can you.

Hope you’ve got some of that broken leg serum

Also half of the loans were government Covid aid that he applied for even though he wasn’t eligible

Ahh, so he did a bunch of fraud. The reason the government was writing blank cheques was because people were dying in the millions and businesses were failing left and right. He’s lucky he’s not in prison.

I’m glad he’s doing better now, but I can’t help but think of the people who needed that money and might not have gotten it in time (or maybe at all) because of what he did. Does he ever think about that, do you know?

Context is as important to language as syntax. If you see a box marked “inflammable” and the box is made of cardboard, you know it’s quite inflammable. If it’s made of metal, most people would think it’s inflammable, but if you’re in a lab you’ve probably got a few ways to prove them wrong.

Well yes, but not because of this. The literal Ten Commandments in classrooms, or maybe “under god” on our money and in our official oaths, sure. This? The solution to this is easy: tax ministries that spout politics from the pulpit.

It won’t happen, but it’s an easy solution.

_(Edit) I guess it could be worse: https://assembliesforall.org.uk/about/law-on-assemblies/_

But it’s three syllables shorter! That’s like 75% of the syllables. Won’t you think of the savings?

Why focus on firepower? Locks you in to an arms race for density, basically - who can field more mass/energy (menergy? 🤔).

The Sword In The Stone taught me very young that if you’ve got to fight something big, you can go big, or you can go very very small. More likely we’d beat it with a biological or chemical weapon.

It’s been six months. How long did it take in Germany? We have at least until World War o’clock.

“Führer over the Epstein files” seems like a pretty good headline for the happenings, all by itself.

I hear you! Hardware fragmentation is a serious issue, very difficult to deal with as a small team, so I can’t hold it against them, but I really wish I had been able to put it on my old Note 9 instead of buying a Pixel 😑 (doesn’t have to be a Pixel, there are other supported devices, but it’s easiest and works best)

Have you tried CalyxOS (https://calyxos.org/)? Review from a year ago seems pretty good (fair warning: Reddit link). I’m keeping Calyx in my back pocket in case Graphene goes tits up.

Yes, I’ve used all my apps pretty seamlessly. I had to turn on “exploit protection compatibility mode” for some of them like banking, but they work fine. You can get Google Play, and it runs in a sandbox, but I use Obtainium and Aurora Store (Aurora in particular would be of interest to you, it’s just a frontend for the Google Play store which allows anonymous connections: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.aurora.store/). I moved to Aegis for my 2FA because I was looking for a way out of the Twilio/Authy ecosystem. I don’t play games on my phone, so I can’t report back on how those work.

Anything compatible with Graphene OS (https://grapheneos.org/); a second-hand Pixel will work best, if you can find one cheap. I use it as my daily driver on a Pixel 7a and it’s great; it’s the most stable and easiest-to-install custom ROM I’ve ever used, and I’ve been rooting my Android devices for over a decade now.

My family members view is that the people I love don’t deserve to exist.

They mean it. They can get fucked. Political beliefs are beliefs, stop acting like they don’t mean anything to the people who hold them.