Does anybody else feel worried when the common narrative is: "when your guys wins, it's because of foreign interference but when my guy wins, it's despite foreign interference."

Trump was an arsehole but don't dismiss that:

• about 10 million more people voted for him in 2020 than 2016,
• That the same report mentioned in TFA talks of Iran trying to sway the election to Biden.
• that intelligence agencies routinely lie (WMDs in Iraq; illegal wars in Central America funded by arms sales to Iran to circumvent Congressional approval etc etc)

And, no, I am not a Trump supporter. I'm one of those horrible, slightly socialist Europeans as my 10 year history of posting on Slashdot will demonstrate.

Could you please elaborate? The WHO website itself says that infection can be due to "viruses that may be on your hands and avoid infection that could occur by then touching your eyes, mouth, and nose. " (March 26 2021)

What's more, only $500m of the $2.5b fine is going to families of those killed in the two air disasters. The majority of the cash ($1.77bn) is going to Boeing's "customers who were affected by the grounding of the planes following the crashes.", the BBC reports.

Wouldn't want Boeing's corporate customers to be upset, would we?

Nice to see that legal justice has its priorities in order

But The Register reports:

CEOs claiming their company was compromised by a sophisticated, nation state actor really mean "we hire cheap, rankly incompetent people and let the marketing department create an illusion of invulnerability."

Interesting story on the day of John Le Carre's passing. So, being a bit of a Le Carre fan, let's just consider one possibility:

1. let's suppose this hack was the work of a highly competent, nation state actor
2. we note the Intelligence Agency who was the victim discarded their usual discretion and went public
3. that same Intelligence Agency has a history of being, shall we say, economical with the truth

Could it be, could it just be, an inside job to increase spending on, oh I don't know, a three letter agency who must protect us from the godless foe?
(Oh, if dear old John were still alive and more computer savvy, what literary cyber marvels would he have composed?)

I heartily recommend his recent biography by Adam Sisman.

By far the most interesting character in Le Carre's life story was his father, Ronnie, who was a confidence trickster of the highest order. Ronnie would think nothing of conning his closest friends. Inexplicably, all of these friends continued to love him long after his deceit had become obvious and sometimes became his victims again. It's this slippery character as much as his time at British Intelligence that was his inspiration for his stories.

After leaving MI5, Le Carre regarded the Intelligence Agencies in general with deep distrust. He warns us to beware of people who would have us believe one narrative when all the facts support another, whether that person is Ronnie or the CIA.

This.

I asked my black boss whether we should also purge such terminology. Although he understood why others might find it offensive, he had no particular objection to the terms and told me to stand down.

I get on with my boss (we've worked together in the past and he got me my current job) so we were comfortable chatting about it some more. It was clear he was much more concerned about how few black faces there were at board level than the term blacklist and master slave in our documentation.

These press releases bragging off how 'woke' a corporation is about the language of technology is a distraction from the elephant in the room.

If an intelligence agency tells you how they did it, you can be fairly sure that's not how they did it.

"With improvements to telecommunications, does anyone really believe that IT work must be done from a specific location on the planet?"

Why haven't they moved all IT jobs to India already?

We've had great telecoms for literally years now. Ask yourself: with great telecoms, why have we not exported all IT to low-cost countries? We do we still have an H1B visa program? Even H1Bs are much, much more expensive than a guy in India.

MBAs can pretend offshoring IT works but I'm an empiricist. If the data disagrees with my prior, I change my prior.

Offshoring everything simply ... doesn't ... work.

So, a man born into aristocracy, who did not believe Indians had the right to govern themselves and who was openly an Imperialist and white supremacist thought the common man was not capable of choosing what's best for him? You don't say.

Churchill was a great war leader and writer but he's probably not the best person to ask about democracy

"Cities are more stressful..."

Are you sure about this? There is an awful lot of isolation-related stress in the countryside. It's just a different kind of stress

It's possible the report is confusing causation with correlation. That is, people who have mental illness are less likely to be rich and therefore less likely to afford the greener but more expensive parts of the city. I don't know as I didn't read it (this is Slashdot after all).