Nice.

Fascist lack-of-virtue-signalling.

Trump is for sale.

Nice. We had one printer or another that required expensive ink cartridges before we got the Epson. I used to refill some cartridges but it was a pain. Now I just open a set of bottles and top up the tanks whenever it’s thirsty.

DA-2A works to a point

I have a 210 L drum of the stuff.

We do a fair amount of printing and run the print head cleaning routine on our printer every few weeks to keep it happy. We’ve had the ET-4550 for over 8 years and it’s still chugging along. If it ever needs a replacement print head it will not owe me a damned thing.

They do require maintenance to keep them running smoothly. I’m fairly mechanically and technically capable so I can disconnect the head and run DA-2A through the mechanism to clean it out.

Buy an Epson EcoTank printer. My family owns three. You pay more for the printer but just dump in bottles of ink when they need refilling.

I switched to Firefox the morning they disabled uBlock Origin.

Has Elon Musk tried not being a fascist plutocrat?

Came here to say that. Americans pay the tarrifs. He’s raising prices for American consumers.

I found a lump in my neck (superclavicular lymph node) in April. I was diagnosed with Hodgkins Lymphoma in late June. 9 months later, more than 70 medical appointments and treatments, an ultrasound, two chest x-rays, a CT scan, an echo cardiogram, a respiratory study, and two PET scans, plus two courses of clot busters and a bunch of prescription medicines and the only thing I’ve paid for out of pocket is parking and the hospital where I have my treatments just put in free parking for cancer patients.

But, of course, I live in a civilized country where health isn’t seen as a source of profit.

Single payer healthcare is so complex that only 22 of the 23 most developed countries in the world have managed to do it.

The US medical system is grotesque.

I was unaware but didn’t care. I assumed that OC was joking.

Cool story, bro.

There is that.

That’s a possibility but it’s not a very interesting story. I like the idea of an anti-capitalist activist performing the first act of the end of late stage capitalism.

I think that many American gravy seals grossly overestimate what a regular person can do with “five minutes of training” during an actual shooting situating. Look at Uvalde. Did those hundreds of cops who choked and let those children be murdered have “five minutes of training”? Murder fantasies are one thing but actually being in the street with a gun in your hand shooting someone and trying to get away without some other asshole with murder fantasies pulling out a gun and blasting away with no consideration for any innocent unintentional backstop is a whole different ball of wax. Look at those traitorous asshole in the speakers lobby. They planned to murder Mike Pence and other Members if Congress right up until a bullet ripped through Ashli Babbitt’s chest and they realized, “Holy shit, they’re shooting white people out here.” My shooting buddy who did three tours of duty as an infantryman in Norther Ireland during the troubles, two as a combat medic in Bosnia, and many years as a street cop says of weekend warriors in ill-fitting, mismatched, surplus store body armor with consumer grade military lookalike guns and collective murder fantasies, “It all changes when you’re on a two way range.”

Your analysis was funny, though. Thanks for the morning laugh.

I don’t think it’s particularly interesting either way. Rich guy on rich guy is boring. It doesn’t mean anything. Disgruntled poor guy on rich guy is boring. It’s just a vendetta. Now, activist on evil CEO as the beginning of final chapter of end stage capitalism, that’s interesting.

It sounds to me like a professional hit. The guy used a silencer and when his gun jammed he cleared the jam and got off a couple more shots. I’d be willing to bet $1 that this is a rich investor on rich CEO hit because the guy sold his stocks without disclosing to investors that the company was under investigation for massive fraud causing the investors to lose massive amounts of money when the story broke in the press.