You have to remember that movies, especially big-money franchise movies are primarily commercial ventures intended to make money. The people who finance this stuff are not wide-eyed liberal fanboys trying to push social agendas. They are old, boring, hardheaded, jaded businessmen who are trying to maximize their ROI. The vast majority of them are conservative republicans who donate to hard-right causes.

They do that by trying to catch the latest social trends *as they interpret them*. "Hey our target audience is mostly young and liberal these days, let us make Indy female, James Bond gay, Jason Bourne a crossdresser, they'll eat that shit up!" It is not that they care about social justice or the welfare of women, gays or drag queens.

I worked at AWS about a 8 years ago. Dogs were allowed into the corporate offices even then, and it was very common for employees to bring them in.

I am indeed using Nvidia. Between continuing to use Xorg and springing for a new video card, the choice is clear. One thing to keep in mind is that nVidia is still the market leader in graphics cards and will continue to be for a long time. It is not reasonable to deprecate X until Wayland properly supports that.

You'll find that most of the video apps don't work properly in Wayland.

I've tried to enable Wayland on Fedora ever since they `made it the default' on F35. Neither vlc nor smplayer works correctly on it. I've tried every single video display driver supported by both of these, and they all have weird issues.

Furthermore, there are too many weird annoyances and breakages all over. Since I no longer have the time to reproduce and file bugs, I just use X instead. In my estimate it will be a very long time indeed before Wayland becomes stable even for basic desktop use... leave along more complex network display use cases.

I hope they can keep X going till then.

I find it amusing that programmers (presumably Linux users) are arguing so vociferously for programs designed to deliberately limit what they can do, and force them to use a small subset of capabilities available in other languages for decades. These are probably the same guys who argue vociferously for manual transmissions and hate Pottering for limiting them with systemd.

All goes to show that we are tribal animals who end up with associations and are ready to die for their causes.

He owns more than 50% of the company. He can't be fired.

Sorry to rain on your parade, but every car built over the past 4-5 years has a built-in 3G/4G modem and GPS, and is continuously uploading your location. Not just Lexus. This is not new information. This has been discussed in the press at the national level, along with the companies' opacity on what they do with the data.

This is bad. I hate it more than I can articulate. However, the bulk of the car-buying community don't seem to care. As one of my friends said, "They are already tracking me through my phone anyway, and I always have that with me, so...."

You do realize that the only reason Tesla exists is because of the massive subsidies and direct financial assistance provided to it by both the US and CA govts, right? Not to mention to massive incentive of getting on the HOV lanes in an electric car.

Without these incentives, Tesla would not have been anywhere and Elon would have been just another Techbro who got lucky. There are thousands in the valley.

Don't get me wrong, I am not saying Elon did not make valuable contributions to humanity and showed the world that Electric cars are possible. I would not have believed it myself in 2000. But to say that he did it on his own without govt assistance is complete nonsense.

Dig one level deeper and you'll find that this is outrage manufactured by the fossil fuel industry and their toadies.

Multiple interviews are usually for "team fit". Most software companies are loathe to hire people without the buy-in of the key engineers in the team... who may (rightly) get pissed off that folks are bought in without their input. Contrary to what many people believe it is not necessarily the hiring manager who says no. If you put a candidate you really like through a panel, and it comes back with 50% positive, 50% negative, you have no choice but to have other people talk to her. Else that person will be coming on board with a couple of strikes against her from the get go.

What you (as a hiring manager) absolutely does not want is for some of your key talent to feel dissed and start looking for jobs for themselves... something that is a real risk in these days where the market is super-favorable to good engineers.

"Sex Trafficking" is just new branding for prostitution. It was conjured up by a coalition of feminist activists in collaboration with hard-right Christian organizations as a new boogeyman because of data that says most US citizens are not as outraged by the concept of prostitution as they once were.

Sex Trafficking nicely conflates Child Abuse, Slavery and Prostitution all in one vague phrase and is impossible to criticize the concept politically. So it is having the result its creators hoped for.

So now any man who hires a prostitute is a sex trafficker, which the associated stigma.

There are several reasons why a large cross-section of society are reflexively against prostitution. The reasons vary from economic to political.

Prostitution arrests, like Marijuana Arrests, are a major source of revenue for the Govt. It is sort of like Marijuana. Legalizing this would result in considerable revenue loss.

A legal and safe avenue to have sex whenever they want till screw up the age-old power-balance between men and women. A very large reason for why men put up with the risks and hassles of marriage is because men are helpless against the force of their sexual drive between the ages of about 14 and 50. This particular weakness has been cynically and ruthlessly exploited from time immemorial by governments and women. If men do not invest in long-term commitment, a large source of productivity will disappear... as they will do the bare minimum to survive and satisfy their direct wants and not worry about putting up with shitty jobs to save for their kids' college funds.

And of course, there is the over-powering man-hate from feminist organizations, powered by women who cannot stomach the thought that there may be some man in the world who may not be completely unhappy.

Fauci's emails were not leaked. They were released per established processes in response to a FOI request, with his full knowledge.

And contrary to what Fox/Talk shaw circuit is wailing about, they contain nothing controversial.

Of course, the budget cuts have not happened yet, and the last time the US police got involved in preventing bike thefts was never.

Desirable for whom? As the history of the USA over the past 20 years shows, definitely not for the citizens of the USA.

The BBC adaptation of The Perfect Spy is also very good.