Absaroka

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[–] Absaroka 13 points 1 day ago (6 children)

If you're looking for a VPN, check out Mullvad.

It's just €5 / $5.25 / £4.15 a month. They haven't changed that price since launching in 2009. So they've also been around a while. Does everything you need a VPN to do. And they're based in Sweden, which seems to have some good privacy rules. They also don't keep logs.

[–] Absaroka 56 points 1 day ago (12 children)

Might be a bit of a contrarian take, but at this point I think Trump needs to have a gigantic fuck up to drive people to the streets in anger, South Korea style. One of those 'we need our medicine before we can get better' moments.

For some reason tens of millions of people buy his "'I'm the greatest - only I can save you - they're evil and stupid" rhetoric.

So it's going to take a truly epic fuck up that he can't bullshit his way out of - and that the media can't ignore - for people to finally see that him and his cronies are all gigantic pieces of shit.

[–] Absaroka 42 points 5 days ago

Just when you thought the NY Times' reputation couldn't get any worse this year ...

[–] Absaroka 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Honestly ... Just don't connect the TV to the Internet.

[–] Absaroka 23 points 1 week ago (21 children)

And laptops, desktops, televisions ...

[–] Absaroka 44 points 1 week ago

This is a great, spot on satirical take in this news story ...

... That won't ever reach the minds of those who need to truly realize the truth ...

[–] Absaroka 68 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah because somebody as motivated as the shooter in Manhattan will totally be deterred by removing the "Our Team" pages from your website.

Talk about focusing on the wrong thing. How about instead of worrying about how to hide the names of your executives you instead have a meeting where you decide to be an ethical company that balances the needs of the shareholder with the needs of your customers.

Novel idea, I know.

[–] Absaroka 4 points 2 weeks ago

Nothing burps better than bacon.

[–] Absaroka 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

How many times has he used this 'caravan of migrants' baseless claim?

For those scoring at home, Canada, Mexico and China account for 1/3rd of our imports. Such a tariff would have some pretty significant inflationary implications.

The impact this will have on oil and gas alone. 62% of our petroleum imports come from Canada and Mexico. And 70% of our crude oil imports.

[–] Absaroka 60 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

Back during the Napster days, Howard Stern had the Foo Fighters on. He asked them what their thought of the whole Napster vs. Metallica legal debate.

Dave Grohl told him he was 100 percent for Napster, explaining that they barely made a dime from record sales, and instead made the bulk of their money from touring and t-shirt sales. And that very few musicians were in the same boat as Metallica, actually making money from their album sales.

So from that point of view, the more people who were exposed to their music meant the more folks who might want to go see them in concert.

[–] Absaroka 25 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The Western world really needs to start doing something about Russian propaganda and money in our politics. Or it is going to eat us from the inside out.

I think you start by arresting anybody who takes Russian money to influence elections for treason. Grab a few high profile folks like that, and the house of cards starts to crumble.

[–] Absaroka 64 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Financial corruption is the entire point.

You have to assume at this point everything is able to be bought, from cabinet positions to getting your nephew a job in whatever agency you'd like.

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