If we’re gaming the whole scenario out, I imagine it would go something like this.

None of his current convictions are expected to come with a custodial sentence, but say he loses the election, and the more serious trials are heating up. At that point, he knows he’s toast. 2028 is too late to run a fourth time; he’s got no more hail marys, so he dismisses his detail completely, retreats to Florida, and sneaks away to Saudi Arabia in the middle of the night.

He’s got a private jet, so getting out of the country shouldn’t be a huge problem. But I think you’re right that he has to set all this in motion before a guilty verdict is delivered. At that point, getting away from the secret service would be much more difficult.

I got curious. This showing is in about 90 minutes, in one of the reddest counties in the country.

There is another show tonight that has about 10 tickets sold.

Well I’ve seen enough to know it’s not even worth a hate watch:

Security is a privilege, not a mandate. Nixon dropped his in 1985.

Becoming a fugitive from justice would count as voluntarily giving up lots of privileges, the very least of which would be a publicly funded security detail.

You want to feel really old?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OADXNGnJok

It’s real:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/27/us/politics/republican-candidates-wives-ads.html

Derrick Anderson, who is running for an open seat in Virginia’s Seventh District, in a photo with the wife and children of a longtime friend.

Unhinged entry level employee screaming and swearing and threatening the CFO and spit in her coffee mug.

An email went out to the whole company telling us not to let him in the building before he even got back to his desk to be fired. This is a software company, not exactly the type of place that has armed guards, but the (ex-military) information security dude set up in the area packing for a few weeks after that.

A rather obtuse reference to removing the OtherOS feature well after purchase. I tried to adapt it to game terms, but admit it’s a stretch.

Out of all the boardroom discussions, raising the price was actually the most consumer-friendly suggestion from Sony. Others included:

• Deleting the original version from users’ libraries.
• Re-printing the original on disc, but including a rootkit.
• Compiling a list of original version owners and leaving their personal details in plaintext on the web until they upgrade.
• Downgrading the original to 480p, telling users the original graphics were just a bug, and selling the higher-res upgrade.

Xitter be like

I keep wanting to think I’m an RPG kind of gamer, but in reality, all my favorites were from the SNES.

This is pretty typical. No movement for a few months, or even longer, then a flurry of activity over a period of a few weeks before another gap.

Just got a random message from a new account I suspect of being a bot or scammer.

But lemmy is still small enough, and has mods/admins that are less jaded and defeated than the bigger platforms, that there is a bigger pushback on the scams.

Every site has a critical mass at which scammers will be more motivated than the moderators. Reddit got too big, then shit all over the experienced mods. Double whammy.

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McCringleberry warned us about this. Two pumps only.

Nintendo patents video game inventory system.

Not the onion.

(Not a patent lawyer, and I’m sure it’s more complicated than that, but come on)

Trademark is generally industry specific, so you are probably technically correct. That may not be enough.

You can bet every Tupperware lawyer would be opposing that mark. You better have lots of money to spend years in court. Even when you’re in the right, you can still lose.

I worked at an animal feed plant once upon a time. It was all people-food grade ingredients, but the factory and equipment were not exactly maintained at the level you’d like to hope for your normal packaged food.

That said, I’m pretty sure everyone there had this place on their “shit hits the fan” list as a way to pick up months worth of calories in an emergency.

Rice is great if you’re really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something.

The product is supposedly 72" long. It looks like if he stretched his legs out straight, his feet would match up with the bottom of the mat pretty evenly, but the top would still barely come to his shoulders.

Either that dude’s 7 feet tall, or the product measurements are a lie. I thought it was a common tactic among companies to show their “big” products being used by particularly short people to make them look larger than they are. Marketing fail.