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this is worth your time because it's absurd comedy

watch as #Mississippi Rep #BennieThompson brutally dismantles some turd who works for the #FBI about the big scary #Antifa 😱

i don't know his name and i don't even care, and Bennie runs circles around him

laugh, and then cry this is our govt

"Where, in the United States, does Antifa exist?"

"hurr durr..."

https://newrepublic.com/post/204308/fbi-leader-threat-antifa-questions-congress

EDIT:

@donray points out he's not a #Trump #MAGA appointee, i was wrong. still a mindless lackey

Mozilla's Betrayal of Open Source: Google's Gemini AI is Overwriting Volunteer Work on Support Mozilla https://www.quippd.com/writing/2025/12/08/mozillas-betrayal-of-open-source-googles-gemini-ai-is-overwriting-volunteer-work-on-support-mozilla.html

Firefox and Mozilla are a lost cause because their management has gone full AI-crazy like Microsoft, believing this is the next big thing. It's sad that they are removing volunteer work and replacing it with AI, then adding LLMs to Firefox. They clearly don't understand why people go out of their way to install their browser

via Hackernews. It really is comical the lengths to which companies will go to avoid being contacted by their customers.

What the fuck is a ‘fuck off contact page?’

"A “fuck off contact page” is what a company throws together when they actually don’t want anyone to contact them at all. They are usually found on the websites of million or billion dollar companies, likely Software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies that are trying to reduce the amount of money they spend on support by carefully hiding the real support channels behind login walls. These companies tend to offer multiple tiers of support, with enterprise customers having a customer success manager who they can call on this ancient device we call phones, whereas the lower-paying customers may have to wrangle various in-app ticket mechanisms. If you solve your own problem by reading the knowledge base, then this is a win for the company. They don’t want to hear from you, they want you to fuck off."

https://www.nicchan.me/blog/the-f-off-contact-page/

Recycling is a toxic lie.

Big brands and petrochemical corporations keep selling the public a convenient and comforting story to hide the hard truth: they simply have to STOP PRODUCING SO MUCH PLASTIC.

#PlasticsTreaty #plasticpollution
#recycling

Linus Tech Tips: There was a recent thing from a major tech company where developers were asked to say how many lines of code they wrote, and if it wasn’t enough, they were terminated. And there was someone here who was extremely upset about that approach to measuring productivity because it means nothing.

Linus Torvalds: Oh yeah, no, you shouldn’t even be upset at that point. That’s just incompetence. Anybody who thinks that’s a valid metric is too stupid to work at a tech company.

LTT: You do know who you just said that about, right?

Linus Torvalds: No.

LTT: Oh. Uh… he was a prominent figure in the improved efficiency of the U.S. Government recently.

Linus Torvalds: Oh, apparently I was spot-on.

https://www.neowin.net/news/linux-creator-torvalds-thinks-elon-musk-is-too-stupid-to-be-working-at-a-tech-company/

The Trump administration just removed two national holidays (MLK and Juneteenth) as free entry days to National Parks and put his birthday as a free day instead.

The racism is abhorrently absurd. https://www.sfgate.com/national-parks/article/national-parks-change-prioritizes-trump-birthday-21219336.php

I've said this before, but there are two kinds of people in the world.

- People who have suffered or been traumatized by something, and think it's unfair unless everyone else also suffers
- People who have suffered or been traumatized by something and don't want anyone else to experience that.