And the Republicans know this and many of them have their own presidential ambitions. If Trump is successful in a third term then we are probably in for a permanent Trump dynasty with Baron taking over when Trump dies and then Baron's son taking over and so forth.

While it's true that the heritage foundation is fine with that since it would still just be a puppet regime for them plenty of Republicans are hoping to be that puppet. Trump has made billions being president.

So what you're seeing here is the Republican party trying to undermine and split from Trump in order weaken his position in the party so that they can prevent him from running for a third term.

What's going to make that hard is the Republicans do not have a viable candidate for 2028 besides trump. The candidates they have with a national profile who haven't already retired are all deeply weird and deeply unpopular.

That means it's likely the heritage foundation will push for Trump to run for a third term.

It is possible voters will reject that but they can probably make up the difference with basic voter suppression tactics.

I suspect after the midterms when the Republicans lose the house they will go harder after Trump but it's tough for them to do that because he is still in a position that he can endorse primary challengers against them. That's why you're seeing so many people drop out of politics and then go after trump.

XM was decent back in the day, when it was like $15/month. Now it's closer to $30 and any channels I'm interested are packed with advertisements. And they sync the ads so the similar channels have ads on at the same time. I haven't used it in my car since Pandora first came out, and haven't looked back. My wife has it in her vehicle, every time I drive it is a reminder how shitty the service has gotten.

It's usually the last person who talked with him.

The difference is a human gets ticketed when they do that shit. Self-driving cars are explicitly excluded from traffic enforcement and police are told not to pull them over

This is entirely the thing. Loki games can or at least could be coaxed to work on Linux with Loki_Compat libraries, but last time I tried to run Alpha Centauri for Linux even that wouldn't work — and I'm even still using X. But add to that, the Linux versions of games are frequently inferior. The Loki games are included in that, for example in AlphaC for Linux you cannot ctrl-shift-a automate formers only near their supporting base. Fast forward to a more modern game like Civ VI, and there's a huge slew of features and even leaders you can't get access to with the Linux version. Meanwhile, the Windows version runs better on Linux than it does on Windows.

I haven't heard the OS/2 thing, what's that about? I figure it failed because Microsoft was already doing "good enough" with Windows, plus NT had relatively meaningful security and OS/2 didn't.

I like having serious conversations on Slashdot at least as much as the next nerd, but arguments on Slashdot can only be taken slightly seriously today. There's a lot of people here who are not arguing in good faith.

I'm in the US, and I remember news articles about this idea. They passed quickly. If you wound up with a textbook with such ideas in it presented as anything other than a possibility which had been or could be researched, that is unfortunate, but it is not indicative of anything widespread.

Nobody is denying that at all. Nobody is even denying that there was a global cooling article fad. What was different about the global cooling scare from AGW's broad scientific consensus is that it didn't have broad scientific consensus.

Yeah in this video about filaments he describes it as a viable alternative to steel but... $700/kg, 400C print temp, 140C heated print chamber and it's not even the worst, apparently that's TPI/Kapton

It's in the article:

Hecho en EE. UU., baby!

There is nothing new about that at all.

I work for a company that would much rather sell product to end customers at full price than to keep a portion of our limited production output to ourselves for no revenue at all. It probably shouldn't surprise many people that we would rather keep customers happy by delivering on the promised schedule while taking in a lot of money from them for the privilege, and finding other ways to satisfy the internal need, such as sharing with other teams that might already have what is needed.

TBF I'm referring to our product that we only make about 3,000 of a year; and each one has been spoken for for a few years already and costs about a quarter-million per copy, so all things may not be equal.

Just to play devil's advocate, they probably want kids to have normal childhoods without excessive amounts of screen time, and you know some parents absolutely do just plop an iPad in front of their kids as a digital babysitter.

Thing is, if you're a politician and straight up just say that some parents are shitty parents, that's not going to go over well. So instead, yeah, they spin it as protecting kids from some evil online predators/groomers/etc., when the real reason is, again, that they want kids to just go outside and touch some grass. I'm not sure how I feel about that from a parental rights perspective, but as someone who had a so-called analog childhood, I can see the appeal of wanting to hold on to that part of the past.

...and that's all the defending of Republicans that I can stomach for this week.

Chicken Little effect.

In the standard operation of Windows, you are presented with so many stupid permissions dialogs for shit that isn't a problem, that you reflexively approve on things that could be problems.

When everything tells you the sky is falling, you don't pay attention when the sky actually falls.

That'd be anything expressing a post-1973 viewpoint of homosexuality. Basically, perpetuating the idea that someone can be themselves and not be made to feel like shit about it.

If you venture into the cesspit that was formerly Twitter, it's overflowing with conservatives complaining about things that should be none of their concern: People wearing the wrong kind of clothing on a plane, people spending their SNAP benefits on candy instead of on "healthy" foods such as fruit juice (which often contains just as much sugar), LGBT characters on TV shows they could simply just choose to not watch, etc.

I'm sure there's fancy social sciences reason why people spend so much time worrying about the lives of others', but that's basically what it comes down to.

I know there are a handful of people who are kind of freaked out at the suggestion that we should put a halt to any new technology. But besides that knee jerk reaction is there anyone who genuinely wants to see these data centers built out?

We could just tell the billionaires no. We would have to take their money away because money is power but we could do that. There's about 8,000 of them. There's 8 billion of us.

We could just tell them no.

Looks like Privacy Badger is at least preventing it from playing.