Apparently he didn't get the memo that the fastest growing religion in the US is "no religion". This is also true for the 2nd generation of immigrants.

While American Muslims have higher retention rates, their kids are also becoming atheist (in the US) at a rapid pace.

In short, he's got nothing to worry about! What's going to happen? Easy: Religion will become a smaller and smaller factor over time no matter who we "let in" 😁👍

My conspiracy theory: The plan is to fail and sell the data centers to Microsoft for pennies on the dollar.

Her problem is she cited the wrong bible!

Clearly, she should've cited the real bible that has the true word of the gods in it. Not that atheist Christian bible!

Remember: If you don't believe in my gods, you're an atheist!

What should be illegal is patents like this!

Hah! I came here to make this exact comment.

I went and looked it up:

Nationally, undocumented immigrants pay $96.7 billion in federal, state, and local taxes in 2022.

From: https://www.floridapolicy.org/posts/undocumented-immigrants-pay-1-8-billion-in-florida-taxes-a-year-national-study-finds#%3A%7E%3Atext=Nationally%2C+undocumented+immigrants+pay+%2496.7%2Cbillion+in+additional+tax+revenue. (First search result)

It's a skill that opens doors... Or maybe not 🤷

Was it the future of Windows when they did this the last bunch of times? The Wyse Winterm came out in 1993. It was a huge failure then and every iteration of the same same thing since has also failed.

What makes this version different? Branding? The fact that some of the OS/software doesn't boot over the network? That you have to have a working Internet connection and not just a working local network and boot server (LOL)?

No business wants this. No consumer wants this. There is no "added value" in this device. It literally only runs software made by Microsoft and even then, only software that runs through Azure.

What office worker literally only needs Office 365? I mean, you can get away with a whole lot just in the browser but if you're going to do that why bother with this device? Just use ChromeOS stuff (and never be locked in to Microsoft's stuff).

Now that Trump doesn't need to get reelected I think conservative Christians are in for a very big surprise: He actually doesn't give AF about them. In fact, he thinks they're idiots (he's said so in the past).

I seriously doubt he's going to attempt to appease them much at all during his next administration because he doesn't need them anymore. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if he completely throws them under the bus in any number of fashions.

I guarantee we're going to get a lot of headlines next year similar to the woman who said, "he's not hurting the right people!" This will include a whole lot of conservative Christians who thought Trump was going to institute their agenda but will instead totally screw them over.

I wouldn't be surprised if he demands the taxation of churches so he can further line his pockets with more grift. He'll say it's necessary to pay off the debt or something like that then we'll find out that the money is directly going into his and his allies pockets.

Why would crickets end such an event? They're just crickets... They're only annoying late at night when you're trying to sleep and there's one in the house you can't find. They're not even that unsanitary.

It sounds like a lame D&D cantrip or something... "Nobody cares, Leena! I cast crickets!"

Then again, the event itself was vastly more lame and deserves crickets... And a pack of hungry anoles released at the same time 👍

Wait: Do the times listed on the screen of your washer/dryer actually reflect reality‽

My dryer will say it's got 20 minutes remaining for like an hour and a half. And yes, I clean the lint screen and vent regularly (all the way up to the roof!).

“The last time he was on his knees, he was picking up a french fry,” Joy Behar offered

I thought it was when Trump met with Putin in 2018?

We are currently living in an age of literacy. More people (as a percentage of the population) are literate than at any point in human history. Even if people get dumber over time I don't think overall literacy will change much.

In Idiocracy it seemed like most people could still read but only extremely simplified language. What I expect will happen instead--if we do indeed get dumber--is people will just become more easily manipulated. Basically, there will be a lot more suckers as a percentage of the population.

This means that as long as a political party or ideology is willing to adapt to current trends (e.g. accepting gay marriage or at least pretending to) it would become easier and easier to sucker people into voting for their candidates regardless of their actual plans or historical (voting) records. Basically, populism will take over but the specific kind where the candidates just say whatever TF gets people to vote for them and then they go do the exact opposite because the (dumb) voting base that elects them doesn't really pay any attention to their actions, only what the candidate says.

When a voting base becomes made up of extremely dumb suckers we're likely to see "populist" candidates that don't actually give a damn about what they say as long as they get elected and if they do get elected they'll go on a "government shopping spree" enriching themselves and their allies and doing things like appointing their family members to positions of power. The suckers will praise them for actions like this not because they like the results of these policies but because it's easy for them to understand that it hurts the people they've been suckered into hating the most.