Indeed. Replacing half a century of collective experience with a new language in an entirely different and far less tested environment to write low level code, where all the memory safety features have to be disabled at all the same failure points where C and assembly have been used... for reasons.

So, in other words, it really isn't any better at bare metal development than C/C++. If you have to direct memory and hardware manipulation in unsafe blocks, then really, it's just the same thing as doing it in C.

Semicolons are the bastard child of commas. Their use is limited and if you don't use them correctly the reader is confused because the phrasing is off.

Unless you know what you're doing, use a comma or a period or better yet, rewrite so you don't get into the position of needing a semicolon.

If a president can dictate how the agency runs, it's not independent, is it?

We all know why this change was done. It's so the Russian asset can force the agency to revoke licenses for communication companies who report mean things about him such as him falling asleep every day or reporting his inane ramblings or calling him out on his lies. Also, he can force communication companies to report only what he says, just like in Russia.

So no, everything changes.

And another protection that is failing you. Stuff like this is critical to keep capitalism functioning and it's all being torn down.

It's become painfully obvious that the billionaires don't like capitalism and don't intend to keep it around.

That would be the time to start asking what that means for you personally.

Since there is no longer any fact checking on Facebook, just create a fake coup video, get your money, then buy a verification stamp.

After all, if our fake video isn't being taken down, why bother checking for verification when a bribe will do?

about as much as having a former WWF executive with a single-digit IQ serving as Education Secy.

I'm sure glad I have a real education in the 80's.

Was so basic and limited that a few posts from me about how Trump fucks kids and me repeating several times in those posts did Trump fucks kids would get this crappy little llm bot to repeat it.

It makes me wonder if we couldn't do another santorum if we put a little bit of effort into it.

Like if everybody just went on to their socials and just started posting the unmitigated fact that Trump fucks kids and reminded people over and over and over and over again how Trump does in fact fuck kids if mnd be we could get the bots to start repeating the basic truth that Trump fucks kids.

Imagine if Trump would be known not as the former president but as the former Kid fucker.

It's only 100% accurate.

It is not the responsibility of government to protect companies from their own incompetence. Bush letting Lehman die was the only good thing he did during the meltdown. He should have continued with the rest of them.

It's called the free market for a reason. If you continually thwart the free market it's no longer free, is it?

As long as they can tell themselves that it was at least a teenager they think it's fine.

A depressingly large number of men in their 20s hit on high school girls because they are vulnerable and easy pickins. Now Trump went after girls as young as 13 with an emphasis on ones that looked Young. I think Trump is an actual full-blown clinical pedophile. And that's just the clinical definition he's certainly a pedophile by any reasonable person's definition.

But as long as there is the slightest amount of wiggle room people are going to give Trump a pass.

The men are going to do it because of what they did when they were young.

What's depressing is the women doing it. There's a thing humans do where if they suffer they want other people to suffer the same way. So women who are taking advantage of when they were young are going to sometimes be okay with other women having the same thing happening to them...

I have a trans friend who was briefly upset that younger trans girls were getting better treatment than she did when she was young. The funny thing was she knew what she was feeling was wrong but she couldn't help herself feeling it. To her credit she knew it was wrong.

It's just a thing humans do. Misery loves company. The sad thing is that thanks to the Republican trans panic my friend can no longer say the younger generation has it better...

So it's a plan with no drawbacks?

I do recognize that this is an issue for the disabled, but it's unsustainable for them as well, and I reject temporary solutions that aren't backed up by permanent ones. If the plan is only to kick the can and wish for a miracle, it's a bad plan.

That's not even wrong, it's just not how anything works. You're comparing a motor to an energy storage mechanism and also ignoring efficiency at the same time.

Monthly payments matter. Also when people are poor and can't afford big payments and the vehicles are very expensive then they wind up spending a lot in interest. TCO matters but so does monthly cost.

They have existed for decades. What did you actually mean to say?