I generally just picture the masses of WWII vets alive looking at Americans through the eras, disappearing little by little, and as soon as the last one disappears America just collectively goes, "Why were we against fascism again? Can't remember. Ohwell, can't imagine it was that important."

It makes sense for those relatively powerless employees who devoted themselves to the non-doublespeak mandates of these organizations to be "demoralized."

Come January 20th it's going to be the Department of Justice which concerns itself with injustice against political enemies, the Department of Health which concerns itself with unhealthy pseudoscience, we'll have a director of national intelligence which concerns themself with undermining US intelligence, and so on... Orwell couldn't have been more prescient.

Trump’s team has regarded the FBI background check process with contempt for months, a product of their deep distrust of the bureau ever since officials turned over transition records to the Russia investigation during the first Trump presidency, the people said.

Investigate me for colluding with a foreign power once, shame on you. Investigate me twice for colluding with a foreign power...

But delaying FBI vetting could also bring ancillary PR benefits for the Trump team if some political appointees run into problems during a background check, which could upend their Senate confirmation process, or if they struggle to obtain security clearances once in the White House.

This is the actual answer, if somewhat buried. After they're in place, any blowback will be after-the-fact and treated as "oh well" by the media and public.

“The Trump-Vance transition lawyers continue to constructively engage with the Biden-Harris administration lawyers regarding all agreements contemplated by the Presidential Transition Act. We will update you once a decision is made,” Trump spokesperson Brian Hughes said in a statement.

Let me guess, the decision is coming in two weeks?

Oh, if so, then nevermind.

I assume it's going to be a cloud connected screen that streams games. There's no current way to get thermal and power requirements met for PS5 on a handheld. They're just trying to remove the in-home PS5 requirement from the Portal.

It's the same incoherent feels that informed these voters to vote for Trump in the first place.

From this poll, a majority are optimistic on the economy and that Trump will bring down prices, and also favor his tariffs and deporting "all" immigrants here illegally. They seem to have no idea what they are even saying.

Yeah, there honestly isn't enough space in this form factor for sticks. Seems painful within 2-3 minutes.

I am partial to archive.is for these types of articles: link.

Yeah, that part of the chat while they ate McDonald's, right after Trump asked him if he'd do anything Trump asked him to do, and right before Trump watched a highlight reel of Fox News clips. You know, the vetting process.

Thanks, that's not too bad. I am used to spending 5-10 minutes at this point debloating/disabling junk on a new Plex install, I just hope it doesn't keep getting much worse.

Thank you for installing and reporting back.

Those who use Plex to access personal media will find that their libraries are in a dedicated tab, while the Watchlist will take up prime real estate in the top navigation section. Plex says it also streamlined the user menu for quick access to things like your profile, friends and watch history.

Wait, does this mean that personal media is in a single "tab" that we now have to navigate from the main page, instead of currently where the main page and personal libraries are broken out? That would be a pretty awful change.

Also, who cares about the friends and watch history? Does anyone use that?

The watchlist (assuming this is your "bookmark to watch" section, not the recent content section) is in "prime real estate" now, even though I never use it?

It sounds like - as with the last few major updates - they're building apps for the users they want, not the users they have.

Thanks, I definitely didn't remember this, but reviewing it in the era we're about to enter is pretty depressing:

https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S6-C1-3-1/ALDE_00013300/

...They shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place.

As succinctly described by the Court, the Clause’s immunity from liability applies even though their conduct, if performed in other than legislative contexts, would in itself be unconstitutional or otherwise contrary to criminal or civil statutes. This general immunity principle forms the core of the protections afforded by the Clause.

Once it is determined that the Clause applies to a given action, the resulting protections from liability are absolute, and the action may not be made the basis for a civil or criminal judgment against a Member. In such a situation, the Clause acts as a jurisdictional bar to the legal claim

Basically, I assume GOP congressional members are going to be Trump's attack dogs like we've never seen, since they can threaten outright criminal conduct without repercussion.

Something about this man tells me he's trustworthy. Just look at that face.

It's also probably illegal blackmail (threatening to release private information that is of a humiliating nature unless someone acts in a certain way seems to fit the bill), assuming she is threatening specific people. But as usual, it's so shameless and the threat is done in full view of the public, so I guess everyone's cool with that now.

Edit: Not illegal apparently/sadly, see below.

I loved the feedback and how they felt, but damned if I could ever find a practical use for them. I'm glad they're still trying.

It's always a bit strange to see right-wing douchebags try to use subversive techniques like this. This is him trying to Borat the situation. But it just looks entitled and guilty. I guess maybe someone should tell him, people like seeing someone speak truth-to-power, not using power to crush truth? Can he tell the difference?

I guess for the next four years we'll see all kinds of people feel emboldened to act their most awful like this.

So pathetic and petty. What did this person ever do to them? The mental gymnastics needed to justify using the freaking House of the United States to punish a single person who they likely have never met, for an immutable personal trait? It gives me a headache to even try to understand it.

I'd prefer Pennywise - at least it'd be over more quickly.

Yeah, it's so weird how short-sighted this is - clearly they aren't going to be happy getting what they're asking for.

But it makes more sense when you consider they don't care about the "principle" such as it were - meaning their stated premise that somehow gender is immutable from the genitals you have at birth. That's just the silently-agreed-upon pretext for bullying and hate to someone who makes them uncomfortable, which is the point of it all.