Should simplify the next layoff roster.

The one I refer to in my original post went through an extended period of time where it was very obviously anti-government, and covered a lot of negative stories about the then current government.

So the bias isnt always "pro-owner" - and in this case anyway the funding doesn't come from the government, just a mandated license fee (which kinda lets the cat out of the bag as to whom Im talking about).

Regardless of which way you want to push it, the BBC at its height was both more independent than most other media outlets in the UK and was higher quality.

It has fallen a long way since then.

What a sad take. Because "enterprise" users chose to use half-baked code Linus must walk on egg shells? Linus has done exactly the right thing here: make the low caliber programmers fix their crap work. That's what makes Linus special: 99% of the species would have done exactly as you expect and knuckled under to incompetence.

You BASTARD! You KILLED them! It's all your goddamned FAULT! Their blood is on your hands! You could have saved them all, spared so much pain and sorrow to their families, and you did nothing! NOTHING! You are the sole responsible for that tragedy! Flay yourself alive and shit on your own decomposing carcass, you MURDERER! You MURDERED SEVEN PEOPLE! IN SPACE! DIE, MOTHERFUCKER, DIE!

Airbus has assembly plants in the US.

My favourite news outlet has been publicly funded for its entire life, and that funding model hasnt changed.

20 years ago it had extremely high quality journalism, and an award winning website.

Today, its quality is through the floor and its website is shite. Most of the stories are reposts from other sites or “feel good” stories that should not be on a news site (and this site has its own “magazine” section, which is where those stories should be).

The problem in today’s journalism is not money, no matter what they try and tell you.

I never agreed to be subjected to the last two decades of stories about idiots buying HP printers and whining about their problems.

Billions! BILLIONS of papers! On which people cut themselves! They get cut by billions of papers and bleed!

Oh yes. Poor, oppressed academe. Can't just take their grant money and produce their narrative aligned results in peace. Someone on X might say something mean about it!

Is there some reason we have to pretend there will be some grand effort to educate, train and employ US citizens for this? They're just going to multiply F-1s and E1,2,3s and import a bunch of Asians. What are we even talking about? What constituency exists to hinder this beyond non-college whitey? The D's get lots more POCs to pander to. The R's get kudos and campaign bucks from their paymasters in industry. The chip companies get their visa slaves. The US gets it's fab industry back. What else is there to discuss here?

The front end is filled with sensors and cameras. The rear end is filled with sensors an cameras and fragile motors. Some of it is mandated by regulation, the rest is endless featurization. All of it is so close to one-year-only components it doesn't matter, so every impact is a $10,000 repair that can only be done at a dealership, because the technicians qualified and equipped to deal with this stuff are rare, employed almost exclusively by dealerships, and priced accordingly, and the components have to come from Japan or Europe or wherever and there are no qualified aftermarket parts for most of it.

Even with the right parts, the best technician and the correct diagnostic equipment, the repairs frequently don't take, so a cycle of rework begins, usually ending in a sale on the used market. The insurance company gets billed for some of it and the dealer has to eat some of it, and all these costs get amortized into the rates and prices of everything car.

Most of them are running Blink by way of Chromium. It's not the problem you imagine.

TikTok — for obvious reasons — is not as responsive to pressure from establishment thought police. That's it. That's what this is about.

The Powers That Be live in constant anxiety over everything that's said on social media. Nothing consumes more of their attention than what is being said about them and their policies on Facebook, TikTok, X, etc. While they can, and have, backdoor all the US based platforms and disappear wrong-thinkers, they can't fire off an e-mail from a quasi-government democracy saving pressure group address to some TikTok apparatchik and get the result they expect. So, in their minds, TikTok is evil and something must be done.

No.

You say that now. Wait till a door pops out, slices a vert stab off and puts 300 people into a smoking hole. We haven't had a major air disaster like that in the US in a long time, and when we did we weren't anywhere near the mass of dysfunctional children we are today. You are failing to appreciate the degree of collective cognitive meltdown that will erupt when this eventually happens.