He seems to deliberately chosen a day when the offices were closed, so perhaps he wasn’t trying to hurt other people. It would have been so much worse if this had been done on a weekday.

Around 2000 years ago the Romans held slaves and were crucifying people by the thousands. Amphitheaters hosted gladiator games and executions while huge crowds watched. A quick count on Wikipedia lists more than 40 wars just involving Rome from 200 BC to 200 AD and there were dozens of wars involving China during the same period. There were undoubtedly hundreds if not thousands of additional undocumented battles around the world.

There’s plenty of evidence that 2000 years ago you could not “take it for granted that people loved being alive and loved themselves”, including the fact that a “source” would feel it necessary to issue an order requiring people to love their neighbors.

He said he had been diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder. So it’s mental illness and just fucking sad.

ABC News update: “Investigators believe the person who died was the suspect in the blast, according to a law enforcement source.”

https://abcnews.go.com/US/explosion-shakes-palm-springs-residents-instructed-stay/story?id=121910709

Unverified firsthand reports say it was the bomber who died.

https://archive.ph/JQKCW

SCOTUS regularly ignores the Constitution and centuries of legal precedent to further their own blatantly partisan goals. They decide what result they want then fabricate absolute bullshit logic to support that result. They’ve undermined our elections and allowed the GQP to make voting much more difficult. In a country where no one is supposed to be above the law, they’ve made Trump a king with near absolute power.

Astounding that after years of trashing our laws and the Constitution to further his own partisan goals, Roberts has the fucking gall to whine about people “trashing the justices”. This snowflake thinks personal insults are worse than his own systematic damaging of the country and our government.

Roberts and his SCOTUS ilk can fuck right off.

Absolutely, as long as it isn’t themselves, their parents, relatives, friends or anyone else they care about. As far as conservatives are concerned, everyone else can get fucked.

In the process of doing the same.

Maga and Trump will no doubt try to convince the rest of us that shorter life spans are good for everyone, even the dead.

Maybe the fact that the Cybertruck looks like a preadolescence’s (or Musk’s) idea and like something they would draw explains their initial admiration. When 10-year-old boys start buying vehicles Tesla won’t be able to build them fast enough.

“It doesn’t scale”, meaning the company might have to (shudder) hire people if our business doubles.

It’s odd that despite having been on Lemmy for a year you’ve never made a single news or politics post. The very best way to make sure posts are from sources you approve of is to make posts from sources you approve of.

No. If people stopped posting from every source someone found objectionable there would be zero content on Lemmy.

Someone I knew was hard-core conservative and thought forcing (other people’s) kids to work was a fucking great idea. When asked about the dangers of working in a industrial kitchen or a meat packing plant he said he wasn’t worried about that at all. Insurance companies would never allow it.

He spouted all kinds of other right wing BS that was almost as disturbing. That kind of nutcase is exactly who the fuck thought this would be a good idea.

The fallout isn’t even beginning to be felt yet. I know multiple Canadian snowbirds who left weeks earlier than planned and don’t intend to come back as long as Trump is in office, or maybe ever.

I was in the process of replacing a very old, inefficient heat pump system in January.

The DOE efficiency rebate page and all information about it was gone from the website days after Trump took office and replaced with positively Orwellian propaganda: “Restoring Energy Dominance. Trump’s Day One Actions will return the Department to Regular Order.”

Downvote me if you must, but idiots like this won’t internalise the lesson until their parents, partners, sons, and daughters die in ICE custody.

You’re a bit optimistic. IMO most of them won’t ever internalize the lesson. Anti-vaxxers interviewed after their child has died have consistently said that they still wouldn’t allow their children to be vaccinated because they, “don’t trust what is put in the vaccines.”

I see interview after interview with Maga voters who are being destroyed by Trump’s policies and tariffs. Every one of them has said they still love Trump and would vote for him again, but they don’t understand how he could hurt them when he’s supposed to be hurting other people.

Verdi and Rey voted for Donald Trump in the 2024 election, saying they supported his pledge to bring order to the southern border and crack down on immigrants without legal status.

“But he didn’t say he was going to do this, that he was going to go after people who have been here for a long time,” Rey said. “He said he was going to go after all the criminals who came illegally."

Typical Maga BS - “We voted to hurt other people, but Trump’s not supposed to hurt us.” Enjoy all your winning.