Movie scene was more brutal with the sledgehammer. She cuts his foot off at the ankle with an axe in the book.

The movie is pretty awesome for what it is. The novel it's based on is a better story, in my opinion. There are important differences in the characters and plot that Stallone forced on the movie script that changed the character of Rambo and his ultimate fate.

When all of the Civil War Confederate generals walked free instead of standing trial and being executed for treason. When the era of Reconstruction was allowed to be ripped away and ground into nothing. When minorities were openly lynched and the perpetrators went unpunished. When, and when, and when....

The rectal to keyboard interface has had huge bandwidth advancements

Man, I see this hot take pop up repeatedly, and it's so easy to say from the outside. Americans are doing things. Why do you think the fascist pigs just murdered another person? Beccause he was doing something. There were crowds of thousands of people marching in protest in Minneapolis today. What's the next step in "doing something" to you?

America is a large country, where most of the states are as large or larger than most European countries. People are organizing locally, because that's what they can do. Labor strikes are great, but there are no protections for that in this country. Many employers can fire employees at any time for any reason. Paid time off is not guaranteed, healthcare is not guaranteed. State governments typically do not provide those benefits, and the federal government does not provide those benefits. People striking risk losing their jobs, homes, and healthcare, and many cannot afford to go without income for any period of time without risking homelessness or being unable to affort basic necessities. People are so ground down from the burden of simply existing in this environment.

So what's the next step? I'm truly, genuinely asking, what can Americans actually do about a federal government that is utterly poisoned from the inside?

I'm not surprised. The standard Microsoft disclosure on my work laptop at the login screen states any use ofbthw computer may be monitored and/ or recovered by Microsoft and law enforcement. That's why Microsoft products are not present in my home.

Second vote for Fedora. I set up my wife's laptop with Fedora KDE, and she uses it with no issues. She gets easily frustrated by tech hiccups, and Fedora KDE just works for her.

Yeeeeaaaahhhh, I'm going to go ahead and stick with a one time payment for proven 250+ year old technology instead of what would very likely be a subscription based privacy nightmare that can revoke my access to clear sight whenever they update their T&Cs. Hard pass, get fucked with a splintery utility pole.

Yup. There are no winners in a knife fight, only people who die on the street and people who die on the way to the hospital.

I spent an embarrassingly long time trying to figure out what kind of backpack you are wearing, thinking to myself, "why are the straps so uneven?"

Checkpoint Charlie is the most well known crossing point of the Berlin Wall.

I'm a geologist!