six justices of the Colorado Supreme Court unanimously ruled that five elderly African elephants were not people. Oh good, I’m glad we were able to figure that out. If you’re wondering why this question even had to be addressed, it’s because the Nonhuman Rights Project, the only civil rights organization in the United States dedicated solely to securing rights for nonhuman animals, filed a habeas corpus petition on behalf of the pachyderms, arguing that their confinement in a Colorado Springs zoo violated their right to bodily liberty.
I really would like to talk about rights for non human animals but I haven’t got all day. I’ll just leave this x post here below.
The same thing happened to me in Melbourne in the 1980’s specifically the sneaker imprint on my face.
I just drove back from Vermont in my ancient Chevy truck. The other car is stranded there waiting for someone to tow it back to the repairer. I don’t care, it doesn’t bother me. I’m not paying for it. I’ve got three other vehicles if I need to get somewhere. Lucky I didn’t sell the BMW yet. Trucks rule though. I used to schlep a lot of junk out of here using it a few years ago. I even drove it to New Hampshire in a blizzard in the middle of the fake pandemic to collect a guitar from the post office. The axe arrived with a ding in it, so it was a waste of time really.
In other news, Windows in my opinion, is a dogshit operation system. I have this one desktop which is very fussy about installing drivers, and I have tried unsuccessfully to install some flavor of Linux on it, but last week I gave up and installed Windows 10. Afterwards I turned all the updates off, uninstalled all the bullshit bloatware, gamebars, gameboys, home boys, spyware, pointless apps etc, etc. I used it for a day or two, it ran fine.
Windows 10 sucks, as does Windows 11
The next time I fire it up again the first thing it does without even asking me, is it starts to update the system. Bear in mind, I have turned off all the updates, it shouldn’t be doing this. What if I had something urgent to do? Sorry, computer says no. A half an hour later it allows me to use it. What kind of non human animalistic tier bullshit is this? Linux at least tells you there’s an update, and politely asks if you want to do it now, or some other time. Windows just says “fuck you”, and goes ahead and cripples your computer until it’s good and ready.
Who needs this crap?