Why do you think so many hackers are from Russia and former-Soviet eastern European countries? Is it because of racism/culturalism/colonialism, or is it simply the result of people with an education and skills combined with limited legal/profitable opportunities?

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I'll bet they don't support the taxes to purchase land at owner's asking price for this purpose.

Don't have to. The city/county/state/fed can just invoke eminent domain and pay fair market value instead of whatever inflated sentimental price people think they can demand.

If oil is found, some company wants to build a pipeline, or some shitstain wants to graze their cattle without paying the associated fees - conservatives will have a conniption fit if anyone tries to stop said parties from destroying the land.

I hope your country is overrun with fleeing Americans.

But a convicted felon who is also clearly losing his mind was a prime, viable candidate...

There really isn't anything special about Austin. Yes they have a lot of live music, which typically means local and unknown bands playing at shitty college bars on 6th street. And it isn't even "very liberal" compared to other cities in Texas, most of which vote blue. For example, Houston was the first major US city with an openly gay mayor while Austin has yet to elect an openly gay mayor.

This is expected. Republican fundraising emails look like the resulting offspring of a standard phishing email raping a 90s chain letter email. You know what I'm talking about: misspelled words, everything in upper case and in a myriad of colors - generally something that looks like it was written by a genuine retard. Why is it Google's fault that these emails match every single criteria for spam/phishing?

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Meanwhile, you can't even paste images into Copilot in a web browser from your clipboard - you have to save it as a file and upload it or paste it in Teams.

99.999% of founders are scum. Most of their ideas are just shitty rehashed version of successful products with the single goal of being bought out by a larger company and getting paid. Everyone who helped them get there gets fucked when their "equity" becomes as valuable as used toilet paper due to vesting traps and other shenanigans. They're also some of the douchiest, most annoying people on the planet.

Our shit-stain of a governor in Texas recently signed a law banning phones in schools. One of the very few things he has done that I actually agree with.

The purpose was essentially background checks.

No it wasn't. There were absolutely 0 checks to confirm that any of the information provided about the men in question was in any way factual. It was fueled by gossip and vigilantism.

I fully agree that face-to-face time with colleagues outside of work is important

Yeah, no thanks. "Outside of work" time is my time. If the company wants to have us meet face to face to play silly games, they can schedule it during work hours.

make quarterly in-person retreats a real thing. Spending a week together as a corporate team, and not just focusing on "work" stuff, builds better relationships than just hanging around the office.

Again, no thanks. I abhor forced socialization with coworkers and doing teambuilding exercises all day is more exhausting than working. I certainly don't want to be trapped, surrounded by my coworkers 24/7 for an entire week.

Sorry, you're just wrong, and convincing you is unnecessary and irrelevant.
Flip phones and folding phones are not the same.