It’s not just younger Gen X. I’m oldish Gen X and loads of us were programming computers for fun from the late 1970s on. By the early 1990s you couldn’t really avoid computers, and you couldn’t use them without at least a basic level of understanding. By that time many of us had been using them for a decade or more. It’s those who grew up without computers and those who grew up with iPhones that have a problem with tech.

Not sure whether you’re joking, but no, the subject of “loose [sic] a lot of credibility, and then go on cheating and lying” is “They” from the beginning of the sentence. Surprisingly, the whole thing hangs together grammatically.

I think it’s that, and also that he’s serious about annexing Canada. Whether he can convince anyone else to be serious about it is another question, but we shouldn’t get complacent.

I need to remind you that only people from USA can vote in the USA elections and that not everyone you’ll find online is from USA. Have a good day.

I was addressing my fellow Canadians, because the Canadian election is today. Ironically, it seems you assumed I was an American talking about the USA.

I think of Donald Trump and Elon Musk, masters of aimlessness, crisis and noise, firing all those experienced people who have been quietly and competently managing government departments for years or decades. This only looks like progress to fools.

Yes. Trump can’t spell.

Trump’s making the White House as ugly as the people within it.

Vote, everyone!

Vote!

Edit: I’m addressing Canadians.

President Donald Trump has said pollsters that have shown his approval ratings sliding in recent weeks should be investigated for “election fraud.”

Responding to the polls, Trump wrote on Truth Social on Monday: “They are negative criminals who apologize to their subscribers and readers after I win elections big, much bigger than their polls showed I would win, loose a lot of credibility, and then go on cheating and lying for the next cycle, only worse.”

It’s not an election, and I hurt myself reading that deeply moronic quote. How is this man in charge of anything?

The situation on Terf Island is pretty grim, but it’s a little encouraging if the British people are not mostly transphobic. All the British people I know are extremely sympathetic to trans people. I hope this really isn’t too unusual.

I think it’s more likely to be about the USA’s strategic control of the Arctic as the ice melts and ships can operate more easily. Right now it’s bordered by Russia, Scandinavia, Greenland, Canada and a little bit of the USA. Trump wants all of the Canadian and Greenland coastline to be the USA’s, so Russia and the USA can effectively control the Arctic Ocean and its shipping routes, and threaten Europe from the north. This is something that’s so simple even Trump would think of it when looking at a globe.

Other factors include resources, including fresh water, and Trump’s ego and inability to relate to others except through more or less lame attempts at dominance and bullying. Also that Trudeau out-handshook him a couple of times.

Yep, for some of us Clippy never went anywhere.

I keep a Windows 2000 machine with Office 97 for distraction-free writing, but I might try this. WordPerfect for DOS was always a pretty relaxing way to write.

No motive has been given, although police have said they are “confident” it was not an act of terrorism.

I wonder what makes them confident of that. It certainly resembles a terrorist attack.

Someone who used to wear an onion on his belt, which was the style at the time.

Kidney failure as a consequence of the school bus crash.

She was recently beaten so badly by her husband that her life was in danger, and then she was hit by a schoolbus. Things can’t have been going well for her.

https://people.com/virginia-giuffre-leaves-hospital-after-crash-saved-life-11710158

Everyone’s distracted by all the fascism. And the billionaires who profit from climate destruction probably like it that way.

Ssshhh! Don’t let the Americans know we can do this.