apt generally downloads more things than apt-get on my Debian machine. apt-get never broke anything, but I tend to eye it suspiciously now.

Yeah alright. That's one way of looking at it 🙂

I guess what I meant is that I don't like upgrades that happen without me explicitly requesting each and every one of them, and me watching the upgrade process as it happens for errors.

No Linux system of mine upgrades itself without my explicit consent. That's one of the many reasons why I don't run Windows.

The poster would be more convincing if you hadn't inverted apt-get update and apt-get upgrade...

The author is caching images to offer their users the privilege of not having to hit a Google server - and have to trust a Google server.

The stealing isn't what you think - or even what the author thinks: they didn't steal the images from Google. The images never belonged to Google to begin with, and Google was serving them up for free.

What the author did was deny Google an opportunity to track the users hitting Google servers. In other words, the author stole a bit of datamining revenue from Google.

Good on them!

“We’re being invaded by our own military.”

ICE is to the military what the Gestapo was to the Wehrmacht.

He said, ‘f*** them kids.’”

Somebody wants to become President...

It's almost as if the powers that be in the United States are corrupt...

I think it's very much post-crime at this point.

What an orgy of resources dedicated to the production of mediocre...

Here's what I suggest as a distraction to Mike Johnson's Grindr profile:

Release the Epstein files!

One of the most stupendous traits of the Trump fascist regime is the deep-seated desire to be cruel.