Month: December 2019

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Eloquently Stated

From Wil Wheaton:

For the first time in his cruel, racist, abusive, mendacious, privileged life, Donald Trump has been held accountable for his actions. A majority of Congresspersons, representing a majority of Americans, have done all they can do to protect and defend our country from Donald Trump's crimes. The American people have spoken, and the American people believe Donald Trump abused his power and obstructed Congress, in violation of the laws of our nation.

The trial of Donald Trump is over. Donald Trump is guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors. The evidence of his crimes is overwhelming and undeniable, witnessed by no less than seventeen people. His guilt is established and indisputable. As President of the United States of America, he violated his oath of office, and he has been held accountable by the American people.

And now a new trial will begin. It is, in many ways, more consequential and more urgent than the trial of Donald Trump.

The trial of the Republican Party is about to begin, and the result of that trial is as important, if not more important, than the trial of Donald Trump. That trial is about the future of America, as a Republic.

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Shade +100

From The Palmer Report:

Earlier today, Donald Trump reminded us of just what a fragile, insecure, pathetic, jealous loser he is when he launched a psychotic attack on teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg. Trump clearly couldn't handle the fact that Time Magazine chose her as Person of the Year, so he went apoplectic. But it turns out Greta had the perfect response to him.

Donald Trump posted this tweet about Greta Thunberg being named Time Magazine Person of the Year: "So ridiculous. Greta must work on her Anger Management problem, then go to a good old fashioned movie with a friend! Chill Greta, Chill!" We've already spelled out why this tweet was so disgustingly awful. But Greta handled the whole thing far better than we could have.

Greta Thunberg simply changed her Twitter bio to this: "A teenager working on her anger management problem. Currently chilling and watching a good old fashioned movie with a friend." That's right, she's cleverly throwing the turd's bullying words back at him. That's why Greta will go further in life than Donald Trump ever will. She's going to save the world. He's going to prison for his crimes.

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That's a Really Long Time

Condensed from two separate posts found on Tumblr:

Ancient Egypt existed for a really long time. Literally just Pharaonic civilization lasted 3,000 years. That's not even including predynastic civilization and Roman rule. If you lump those in you're looking at more like… 5,000 years.

So, if you want a comparison of how long that is: THE YEAR IS CURRENTLY 2019. TWO THOUSAND NINETEEN. TWO-THIRDS OF ANCIENT EGYPTIAN PHARAONIC CIVILIZATION HAVE HAPPENED SINCE THE "BIRTH OF JESUS CHRIST."

We comparatively just entered the Third Intermediate Period. The Greeks will not take over for another ~700 years. Cleopatra will not be born until the year 2931.

It's a really long time.

To make this clear, I sat my ass down and wrote out a timeline of "when shit happened if you started at 1 AD" because I know backwards numbers are hard to process but here's an abridged version.

If the first Egyptian Pharaoh came to power in 1AD then…

300 AD: step pyramid built
450 AD: Great Pyramid at Giza built
815 AD: Pepi II dies and civil war breaks out
950 AD: Egypt re-unified
1350 AD: Middle Kingdom ends
1450 AD: New Kingdom begins
1520 AD: Hatshepsut is on the throne
1650 AD : Ahkenaten switches to monotheistic religion and builds a new city
1680 AD: Tutankhamun dies
1720 AD: Ramesses II "the great" ascends to the throne
1740 AD: World's first peace treaty signed
1790 AD: Ramesses II dies leaving way too many children
1920 AD: Egypt breaks into 2 states again

And now we get to—the future, If we started at 1 AD all of this stuff hasn't happened yet

2050 AD: Briefly re-united as a single state
2180 AD: Civil war
2250 AD: Nubian kings take over
2335 AD: Assyrian conquest
2665 AD: Alexander the Great conquers Egypt
2930 AD: Cleopatra VII born
2970 AD: Cleopatra VII dies. Egypt falls to Rome. Fin.

And that's just starting with the Pharaohs. If you wanted to start with Predynastic Egypt, you can go ahead and ADD ONE THOUSAND YEARS to all of those dates

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So In Other Words…

…I essentially have a brand new computer. (Not that I'm complaining.) You replaced everything except the bottom cover plate and the display? Apple, I know you have more money than God, but how can this possibly be cost effective? Why not just replace the entire machine outright?

And that is exactly what will be happening—per Apple—if the keyboard goes out again within the next six months when my Apple Care finally runs out (and possibly thereafter because of the extended keyboard repair program). This repair (thankfully completely covered) was the third strike.

And did I mention all my holes ports are nice and tight again?