I've been hearing this a bit from very traditional greybeard linux users (I mostly just use linux at work and I'm very much a terminal jocky. tmux is my "terminal manager".) who have come around to KDE from being strong dislikers of it in the past. That Mate is just crusty and old, Gnome hasn't really been fun for a while but KDE has solved most of its nonsense problems and is now a quite complete and useable system, so its become their daily driver.

I just want to get alpine functional again so I can revert into terminal world permantly and never see a web page again lol

Now, yes, there are predictions that you could get a supermassive black hole launched into space, especially during a galaxy merger if the velocity of the smaller black hole exceeds the escape velocity of the combined galaxy.

But I'd be wary of assuming that it's a launched black hole, unless we can find the merger it comes from. There may be ways for such a black hole to form that cause the stars to be launched away rather than the black hole being flung, and if a galaxy isn't rotating fast enough to be stable, one could imagine that a sufficiently small galaxy was simply consumed by its central black hole. Both of these would seem to produce exactly the same outcome, if all we have is the black hole itself and a velocity.

I'm not going to say either of these is likely in this case, or that astronomers haven't examine them (they almost certainly have), but rather that we should be cautious until we've a clearer idea of what the astronomers have actually been able to determine or rule out.

Putting bean-counters as heads of tech companies almost always fails. It Killed Yahoo, the titan of the early web.

AI seems to be feeding the bloat habit instead of trimming it. It's becoming an auto-bloater.

Very few in the industry are interested in parsimony. Devs would rather collect buzzwords for their resume rather than try to trim out layers and eye-candy toys. It's kind of like letting surgeons also be your general doctor, they'd recommend surgery more often than you really need it.

The principles of typical biz/admin CRUD haven't really changed much since client/server came on the scene in the early 90's. Yet the layers and verbosity seem to keep growing. An ever smaller portion of time is spent on domain issues and ever more on the tech layers and parts to support the domain. Something is wrong but nobody is motivated to do anything about it because bloat is job security.

YAGNI and KISS are still important, but is dismissed because it reduces one's resume buzzword count. The obsession with scaling for normal apps is an example of such insanity: there's only like a 1 in 50k chance your app or company will ever become FANG-sized, yet too many devs want to use a "webscale" stack. You're almost as likely to get struck by lightning while coding it. They patients are running the asylum.

Humans, you are doing CRUD wrong!

Well, that is the Big Lie (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_lie) being pushes by law enforcement and Law&Order politicians, isn't it? Claiming harsher sentences, more surveillance and more police and police powers would actually improve safety. The reality is they do not.

If you let the police make your laws, then one day you will wake up in a police-state.

Seriously. If you do not actually look at what you buy before doing it, you will get shafted at least on part of your purchases. That insight is as old as humanity. I see some are still ignorant regarding that issue.

We will find out.

It's not that much of a change, though. The USA has only ever paid lip-service to its "allies" and always seen Europe as competitors. It's not a shift from "friend" to "enemy", just from "competitor" to "enemy".

They are "ideological qualified", which is what DEI was always about anyway.

Sounds like psychological projection to me.

I care, and I wasn't "slapped in the face". You care -- were you "slapped in the face"?

Your problem is with "tribal knowledge", not with "face slapping". And tribal knowledge is a universal problem -- at least, that's what the science says. As stupid as MAGA is -- AND IT IS STUPID -- every tribe is equally stupid. If your particular tribe is correct on some issue, it's mostly likely because of lady fortuna.

Alas, thus it is, has been, and always will be.

This is too black and white. Nobody wants the government wasting money. And maybe the government shouldn't be doing some of the things that it does. For example, every state has a dept of education, and the federal dept merely serves as a way to strong-arm states of political issues, like ruining the lives of college men on hearsay because politicized moral panic from epistemologically challenged feminists.

Thankfully the US government is relatively efficient -- as these things go.

And you're factually incorrect as well. Trump cannot "take it all away". Congress has to do that. Trump is an ineffectual blow hard would-be dictator. It seems his only true talents are as a cult leader, and a kleptocrat.

I don't think people wanted Trump to do "terrible things". The American public chose "getting into a car with a drunk driver" over reifying grievance politics. Trump1 was relatively benign compared to the sh*tshow of the last year. Turns out the American public see that they made a mistake.

Only micro-movements are necessary to avoid most space junk*, using tiny "cold" thrusters which are not enough to serve as a rapid-response spy-probe. High-end spy probes probably have lots of fuel and big nozzles.

Don's spy-probe: "Hey Xi, look, my nozzle's bigger than yours!"

* If they have short notice to swerve, then small engines are probably not good enough, but that situation is probably not (yet) common enough to justify carrying large thruster systems.

Harris was a weak candidate. Trump is graded on a curve. The Dems were corrupt. MAGA has created a world where corruption doesn't exist. It's plausible that Hunter Biden got millions to gain access to his dad. Trump's crypto scheme allows billions in corrupt donations with no paper trail. The Dems ran ashore on the ship of grievance politics. And now we're being punished for our sins. The punishment is, of course, way out of proportion to the crime.