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Comment Re: I'd say the sooner Trump is impeached the bet (Score 1) 250

Right now you had Steve Bannon saying Ben Shapiro is "a cancer". MTG who represents a 1st generation of MAGA supports got booted out. You have Candance Owens saying Charlie Kirk was murdered by other conservatives. Musk is in the admin or attacking it depending on the week.

MAGA is an ever decreasing circle of those arbitrarily deemed "MAGA enough" with people (usually permanently) excluded for even the slightest digression, though Indulgences can be purchased at the (new) White House MAGA gift shop.

Comment Re: I'd say the sooner Trump is impeached the bet (Score 1) 250

f Dems sweep the Midterms this has a high chance of happening.

Even if they did, we'd just end up with Vance.

Who could also be impeached, then the current Speaker of the House would become President. Not really sure that would be a good course for the political mood of the country as a whole.

Better that the MAGA crowd have to suffer through the consequences of their votes to (hopefully) learn a lesson about electing a greedy, pathologically lying, narcissistic, racist, etc... sociopath who really only actually cares about himself and a little for those who pray and pay before him. I'll give people a bit of a pass for giving Trump the benefit of doubt during his first run for office but, seriously, it's not like there wasn't any evidence Trump was like this, especially during/after his first term. Granted, perhaps many politicians have some of those characteristics, but few, if any, others have them all like our Dear Leader. That he's pretty checked-out during this second term and happy to let his minions pursue their own horrible agendas is pretty bad though. This is a tough lesson the the country.

Comment Re:Vought's in the cabinet for one reason (Score 1) 250

The billionaires behind Trump know he's at best a useful idiot - they saw in his first term how quickly he can veer off course if he doesn't have a reliable minder nearby.

This includes Putin ...

Guys like Vought see entities like NCAR as an impediment to what they want to do, it's simple as that. They don't want the commoners to feel like the government owes them anything or is gonna do anything to improve the commoners' lives. They want the commoners to be happy spending long, tedious days screwing tiny screws into iPhones for a pittance, then quietly stepping aside and dying when they're no longer able to improve the billionaire's profit margins.

This is short sighted, of course, as climate will affect businesses and a lack of research and understanding will ultimately hurt those businesses, and the rich people, because they'll have less information for long-term planning and operations. But hey, they'll get rich over the next quarters or so, so fuck that. /s And, of course *they'll* be rich enough to move ...

Comment I'd say the sooner Trump is impeached the better (Score 5, Insightful) 250

so we can unfuck all the things he's fucked.

But the reality is, Trump is a symptom, not a disease. He was elected by the people. Those who voted Trump once were either Nazi sympathizers or fools. Those who voted Trump the second time around were definitely Nazi sympathizers, or definitely fools.

Impeaching Trump won't do anything. The next Nazi in line is JD Vance and he's ten times worse because, unlike Trump, he's not an idiot with a case of fronto-temporal dementia.

And even if Vance and the rest of the Nazi goons are out, the people will vote another fascist in the next time around because the people has proven twice now that they're fucking fascists or fucking morons.

In short, America is fucked because Americans are hopeless.

Comment Re:Was there a shortage? (Score 2) 79

I don't understand how decreasing import to the USA has increased buying in Europe. Was there a shortage and more was going to the US? Did they reduce prices in Europe? The article says "redirected a tsunami of cheap stuff into Europe", so I don't quite understand how the tariff in the US has increased buying in Europe.

Exactly. TFS and TFA state the following:

... closure of the de minimis customs loophole in May has redirected a flood [TFA says, " tsunami "] of cheap goods toward Europe ...

[TFS] The shift has been swift: exports of low-value Chinese packages to the U.S. have dropped more than 40% since May ...

Which is misleading as products aren't being pushed on Europe, or previously the U.S., people are buying/importing the stuff.

Comment I'll tell you what will cost Microsoft billions (Score 2, Insightful) 34

Fed up customers fleeing in droves.

Nobody likes Microsoft. Nobody has ever really liked Microsoft. But everybody puts up with Microsoft's low quality products and abuse because Microsoft is a monopoly that's hard to escape - particularly in corporate settings, and for gaming.

But they've really cranked up the abuse to 11 recently, with Windows becoming a terrible advertisement platform, requiring new hardware when people's old machines were still serviceable, the constant privacy invasion, relentless push for online accounts, for their cloud offerings, and now their godforsaken AI shit that literally nobody likes nor want. Not to mention upcoming price hikes for the privilege of getting all that enshittification thrown at your face...

Microsoft has gone too far for a lot of people, and people react by going to Apple or Linux. And quite frankly, personally, I desperately want Microsoft to continue shooting themselves in both feet like they're doing so they make themselves irrelevant as quickly and as thoroughly as possible, and we're finally, at long last, rid of them at last. 50 years we've been waiting! That's like half a century dude...

Submission + - Monster of 2025: Endless Subscriptions (motherjones.com)

alternative_right writes: The Hatch Restore alarm clock, which retails for $169, can light up your bedroom in every hue, soothe you to sleep with audio meditation sessions, and keep you in a REM cycle with a full catalogue of white noise options. To utilize these features, though, you need to pay an additional $4.99 per month, in perpetuity.

Welcome to the age of subscription captivity, where an increasing share of the things you pay for actually own you.

Submission + - Humans Made a Space Barrier Around Earth that Is Saving Us...Whoops! (popularmechanics.com)

joshuark writes: The mysterious zone of anthropogenic space weather is caused by specific kinds of radio waves that we’ve been blasting into the atmosphere for decades, but experts say the expanding band actually helps protect humankind from dangerous space radiation. NASA first observed this belt in 2012. The agency sends probes to explore different parts of our solar system, including the Van Allen Belts: a huge, torus-shaped area of radiation that surrounds Earth. The donut shape follows the equator, leaving the North and South Poles free.

The Van Allen Belts are related to and affected by the magnetosphere induced by the nonstop bombardment of the sun’s radiation. They affect benign-seeming magnetic effects like the Northern Lights, as well as more destructive ones like magnetic storms. People planning spaceflight through areas affected by the Van Allen Belts, for example, must develop radiation shielding to protect crew as well as equipment—and most spacecraft launch from as near to the equator as possible, right in the Van Allen zone.
So, what’s our new protective barrier? The same probes that launched in 2012 to help us understand the Belts better in the first place detected this phenomenon, and in 2017, the probes gave us the first evidence of the radio-wave barrier emanating from Earth.

Why is this? Well, the very low frequency (VLF) waves are exactly right to cancel out and repel the radiative advances of the Van Allen Belts as a matter of total coincidence. In fact, NASA initially considered this a true coincidence, saying that a radio wave area happened to match exactly with the edge of the Van Allen Belts.

Isn’t it interesting that VLF blankets the Earth without interfering with literally any other radio signal, for example, or the many other kinds of waves that flow around us all the time, but makes it into space far enough to push away harmful radiation?
This means that, for example, space programs could develop VLF technology to punch holes for spacecraft to travel through. As always, truth is stranger than fiction.

Maybe we won't have to worry about the Van Allen belt combusting and cooking all life on Earth as was suggested in the movie "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea"...phew!

Submission + - James Webb Space Telescope confirms 1st 'runaway' supermassive black hole (space.com) 1

schwit1 writes: Astronomers have made a truly mind-boggling discovery using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST): a runaway black hole 10 million times larger than the sun, rocketing through space at a staggering 2.2 million miles per hour (1,000 kilometers per second).

That not only makes this the first confirmed runaway supermassive black hole, but this object is also one of the fastest-moving bodies ever detected, rocketing through its home, a pair of galaxies named the "Cosmic Owl," at 3,000 times the speed of sound at sea level here on Earth. If that isn't astounding enough, the black hole is pushing forward a literal galaxy-sized "bow-shock" of matter in front of it, while simultaneously dragging a 200,000 light-year-long tail behind it, within which gas is accumulating and triggering star formation.

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