Good friends can share the corniest, most obscure, and rudest jokes. It is a beautiful thing.

You seem to think like I do. An OS is merely a tool. It should never get in your way, or be obtrusive.

I don’t even use Windows, and just reading about what’s happened to the Start menu pisses me off.

This implies Windows isn’t already enshittified, which is very much not the case.

Thanks for letting me know that you’re not worth talking to. Bye!

I called them partially responsible, which is objectively true, instead of saying HEY, EVERYONE! I’VE FIGURED IT OUT! IT’S ALL ONE GROUPS FAULT!

I respectfully disagree.

I’m not going to play the blame game, but I will say that every well-informed but smug jackass who either didn’t vote or voted 3rd party is partially responsible. I hope they feel enough guilt over the next ? years to realize the enormity of their mistake.

Latinos for Trump is one of those things I’ll acknowledge but never understand.

PR disaster. Good. I’m glad it’s in the paper.

I don’t know how Secret Service agents do it. I wouldn’t even give Trump the time of day, much less take a bullet for him.

“Hey, Don, remember how difficult you made it for me to get out of Afghanistan? Keep watching, asshole.”

Diet? Get that shit away from me.

Yes but also no. Either way, I bet it was extra spicy for both of them.

I hope whoever cropped the response off steps on a Lego.

Telling them won’t make things easier, for them or you. I can’t emphasize that enough. What, exactly, are you expecting to happen? Hugs and an understanding goodbye? Not. Gonna. Happen.

Have you considered not telling them?

A crisis causes people to react in severe ways, and believe me, people will consider this a crisis. There will be tears of sadness and anger. You’ll hear the same tiresome lecture, and have to answer the same condescending questions, over and over. If you ask them to keep things within the immediate family, other people will “magically” find out (the most generous interpretation is that you’re laying something incredibly heavy on your family; it’s to be expected that some of them will need to talk about it with friends.) Some of the people you didn’t tell will even have the nerve to contact you, and force their moral “advice” down your throat.

Best case: your final interactions with the people you love will be sad and painful, and perhaps angry. Worst case: you’ll be put on informal “suicide watch”, and learn to hate and distrust the people you expected support from.

Spend some quality time with whoever you were planning to tell. Say goodbye in your heart, but don’t tell them it’s goodbye. Make some pleasant final memories.

Agreed. Cute.

The best argument I came across went something like this: if we show the Democratic Party that we’ll accept something as horrible as genocide as long as the Republicans are worse, then we’ve completely surrendered our agency as voters.

Powerful statement. It was the most coherent, rational, well thought out explanation I’d seen. It didn’t come off as a condescending lecture on morality, either. I actually considered their argument for a couple days, but ultimately, I decided it wasn’t strong enough to risk another Trump administration.

Aw, thanks! [hugs back]

It’s easy to forget how uninformed a lot of people are