Netanyahu has wanted to do this for decades. If you rob a bank, you don't get to say "oh, well, my crazy friend down the pub has been saying we should rob a bank for ages, and I suddenly decided he was right"; you do have some personal responsibility.

Sidenote; there's this weird thing that people sometimes do wrt to Trump (and I think it's both his supporters and detractors to an extent) where they kind of treat him as if he's without agency, and stuff is just happening to him. I think it might be a kind of subconscious response to him being old and coming across as a bit senile, but it is nonsensical.

This happens with Dublin (capital of Ireland), as well. Half the country outside Dublin seems to think it's pretty much a warzone, based on internet nonsense.

Not sure what can be done about any of this, beyond people _hopefully_ getting more sceptical about random crap they see on the internet (my vague feeling is that unquestioningly believing crap on the internet is primarily an older-person thing).

What I’m curious about is, how are Trump’s fans justifying this complete fuck-up to themselves? _Are_ they? Like, I assume so, because they tend to take whatever shit they’re given, but it’s hard to imagine a “this is good, actually” spin in this one.

No justification is necessary. Their goal for voting for him was to give a big “fuck you” to “the libs”. So they already got what they wanted. Any downsides can be blamed on “leftists”.

I flatly refuse to believe that people will vote for _JD Vance_. Trump, like him or loathe him (I’d be firmly in the ‘loathe’ camp) has a style/personality which is appealing to some people. Vance, by contrast, is a non-entity.

I mean, I assume you run into the same problem as Kevin in the office; that sort of faux-simple speech is actually very ambiguous.

(Though, I wonder has anyone tried Newspeak.)

… Have you read the book? _Plenty_ of illegal stuff there.

I read the book. Lots of unethical stuff, not so much illegal. There’s no revelation or new info publicly released. If it was illegal, I’d expect prosecution in the past 10 years.

Lots of things I’d like to be illegal. Or I wished were illegal.

What did you read that was illegal?

Oh, longer: http://hallofshame.gp.co.at/shame.htm

About ten years ago, I bought a low-end Samsung TVZ, intended to hold me over until OLEDs got into a non-silly price range.

Based on that TV, I will never buy anything from Samsung again. It had, get this, a _variable audio lag_. Audio might be nearly in sync, or might lag by a couple hundred ms, depending on the TV’s mood at the time. Just incredible that they ever thought this was a reasonable thing to sell.

Was electron available back then? Maybe they did sound processing with it.

David Foster Wallace has always irritated me, in that I've greatly enjoyed all of his essays that I've read, including this one, but I bounced off the novel hard.