It's about time we gave free money to someone other than oil companies and coal miners.

Isn't it funny how people conveniently forget the decades we've been giving money to these two? How many billions (trillions?) of dollars have we the taxpayers been forced to hand over to these companies? Shall we include all that free money handed over to corn famers for their ethanol subsidies?

At least if people would be consistent in their "outrage" they might be heard more.

Don't blame people for problems that corporations cause.

How is it a "corporate" cause if people are too lazy to move around, stare at their 3 inch screen all day, eat bags of chips each day, don't bother to drink water, and don't make healthy lifestyle choices? Does personal responsiblity not enter into the equation?

There was an article on here a while back which discussed how fake credentials were being used by North Korea to allow its people to work on remote projects. They were given a fake name, fake skills, fake education, etc, which was then passed to a hiring company who then "vetted" the person without even seeing or talking to them.

So yes, it is possible the companies didn't know.

Those terrorists went to the Capitol to deliberately and knowingly disrupt the official proceeding of Congress. They weren't there on a field trip to look at the sights.

If you're claiming those people shouldn't be jailed because they were non-violent, then the same applies to all the people at Columbia who did nothing more than exercise their First Amendment right to criticize Israel's deliberate targetting of civilians, medical personnel, and journalists, such as the almost 300 bodies found buried in a mass grave at the Nasser Medical Complex, some who had their hands tied. This was the same hospital Israel besieged for days, cutting off power and letting babies on ventilators die.

Once AI starts going on an unfettered rampage, we can scorch the sky so there's no sunlight for them to power up.

A perfect plan indeed.

I want to know what distros of Linux ACTUALLY are stable enough, and intuitive enough to have the non-technical-savvy (aka normal/average) person use it without being frustrated?/

Linux Mint. It's essentially a Windows configuration. Same right-click menu systems (better than Windows 11), same start menu system (which you can see). If the average person who futzes around with Windows can't run Linux Mint, they're being deliberately obtuse. Or they're stupid.

Or removed "people" they had on employers payrolls who mysteriously returned to India when an audit was done?

My wife - who tends to always forget her password - has a windows 11 laptop.

She didn't write it down? That was too difficult for someone who always forgets their password?

Without profit driven, you end up with what LA has: 5 Billion dollars missing in various "help the homeless" scan non profits.

Or three bankrupt casinos ("The money I took out of there was incredible."), failing golf courses, a failed airline, a failed "university", and other businesses which never turned a profit. It's almost as if the point was not to generate a profit, but scam people out of their money.

Let's say in the next 100 years the Pacific Ocean rises 1 inch. At the same time Shanghai, which is on the coast, sinks 1 foot. That is 13 inches of change. If the city is only a few feet above sea level, that one foot makes a huge difference when it comes to drain water runoff, sewage dispersion, tunnels, etc.

For reference, Shanghai has sunk 3 meters in the past 100 years.

Read that part again. It's not that the school costs that much, it's that the finance charges on these "loans" could pile up over time. Just like any loan which isn't paid off and interest continues to accrue.

Why do you think so many people owe more on their student/medical loan than the original value of the loan? They didn't pay enough of it off fast enough so the interest kept adding to their total loan cost.

An Eisenberg would be involved in illegal monetary dealings. Wonder if he is good friends with this guy.

Stereotypes exist for a reason.

Clearly this is a great step forward for humanity.

It sure is. Eventually we won't have to put pilot's lives at risk. Just send a machine.

the border crisis,

You mean this border "crisis"?

crumbling infrastructure,

Republicans, almost to a one, voted against a wide-ranging infrastructure bill, then bragged about all the money their districts were getting for infrastructure.

and general loss of civil rights

Yes, Republicans have been working hard to take away people's civil rights. From taking away one's right to control their own body to bannning books so you can't read them, to trying to prevent entire groups from voting, they are working as hard as they can to impose an iron grip on people's lives and destroy our freedoms.

Plus, even Twitter was used to censor opponents of Biden, it's in Twittergate.

No, they didn't. They did not censor "opponents" of President Biden in any way, shape, or form. The ONLY thing that was done was the government suggested, not demaded, Twitter/Facbook/et al take a look at all the harmful and outright falsehoods being pedaled which could potentially lead to people's deaths.

If you want to talk about real censorship, look at how many times "free speech" Musty has banned journalists accounts after they posted mean things about him, or the multitude of problems with his vehicles, or the guy who said Musk should pay more in taxes and his account banned for days, or the current broo ha ha over any account which mentions Hans Kristian Graebener being StoneToss being banned. That's real censorship, but because it's done by the failing company, that's fine, right?