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.

You could do battery swaps for NEVs in a scheme where you didn't own a battery at all, and instead just subscribed to one. You could also do it for heavy diesel truck equivalents, as big diesels typically have the fuel tanks hanging on the outside of the frame where they're nice and accessible anyway. But it doesn't make any sense for the vehicles in between that, i.e. the bulk of them...

MATE is outdated (but good for resource constrained systems) and GNOME is dumbed down and hard to get good results from, you need a whole bunch of add-ins just to get where KDE is. KDE was very bad in the past, but it's really come quite a long way. GNOME was really quite good in the past, but it's really gone the wrong way. I'm not against having a simple mode but I don't want oversimplification to infest everything.

So will cameras in your bedroom. (and create a wonderful new side industry for the government selling access).

Also, letting the cops get DNA of everyone in the US will also help you stop crimes. (and cause quite a few divorces).

Furthermore, letting the government read the emails of all businesses will cut down on fraud. (And hurt all those small companies trying to compete with the big ones).

There a ton of ways to reduce crime while doing tremendous damage to innocent people.

I assumed you were not an idiot. Because if you knew it is possible to add an AI via an extension, then you knew your proposed solution would not work. You knew that removing the AI functionality would not stop other people from adding AI back in.

Which was why Firefox put in a button that lets you know the AI is off.

Congratulations for insulting me for thinking you were not an idiot.

When the company has an ongoing cost - such as they have to make new content every year, then it makes sense for you to pay an ongoing cost each month.

But when the company has no mandatory ongoing cost it makes ZERO sense to pay them rent.

And fixing the mistakes in their software is not a mandatory ongoing cost. It is at best an optional one - and by some standards should be free. When you are fixing your mistakes you do not charge others for it.

The issue is that crappy companies that made sucky products saw people getting paid each month - without realizing they were doing work each month. They wanted this 'better' business model without realizing the extra costs. So they said screw it they won't pay the extra costs.

Any company trying to get into the subscription business without doing monthly work is a scumbag company that should be rejected.

That includes many car companies. Seat heaters, radios, etc. are not things we subscribe to - they are things we buy.

And yes, you can buy a seat heater that sits on top of your car seat and plugs into your car.

Because the USA doesn't have the concept of absolute power, Donnie Dipshit's pet Catholic Court notwithstanding, and those files were sealed by a judge at the time. There are a lot of fundamental ways in which the two parties are up to the same bullshit, but Democrats tend to obey court orders.

Corrupt, yes.

Requirements, maybe. Meeting them, absolutely not. They aren't just reporting an amount spent on classified projects and therefore we can't have a breakdown, they're saying they can't figure out where an awful lot of money went at all.

Obama was more like the Republicans than they think. For example, he was fully behind the MIC, blowing people up without due process and so on. Obviously there is a big contrast, for example we know he did a lot of drone strikes because of his EO which gave us information on how many strikes were used and where, and Trump was doing about four times as many strikes per month when he rescinded that order so that we wouldn't know how many he's done since.

Even the ACA was a Republican health care plan, spruced up a little bit but still writing profit for insurance companies into the law. So no, the pendulum just wasn't pushed that far at all.

Revolution. The chances of us rewriting the constitution for that (which is what it would take) are roughly nil otherwise.

They were specifically chosen for their respective lacks of merit. They aren't DEI hires, they're anti-DEI hires, like matter vs. antimatter. And the purpose is to cause destruction when they come together.

To you, the centrist (pro-corporation, pro-authoritarianism, pro-incarceration, pro-MIC — based on voting records) policies of the Democrats are "too far to the left" when actual leftism includes far more liberal ideas. This is because you are too far to the right to even see the left from where you're standing.

Bad idea. You are assuming all AI will be in one extension and that no one unconnected to Firefox will create other extensions.

Better for Firefox to assume there will be multiple AI extensions and to design the browser to turn off all AI, not just the one extension they know about.

Yes, this depends on extension builders to abide by the rules, but that always is a requirement.

It's a Thomas Jefferson quote, and he was talking about The People rebelling against a tyrant, not invading other countries.

The best way to try this would be to build an Electric Bus company and also build stations designed to replace the Bus battery.

Then sell both to cities. Once you have the stations up and running, offer deals to car companies to use the same station for free. (The car companies get the service for free, the car owners would have to pay to replace the battery)

But trying to build a battery replacement system when cars are not designed to have their batteries replaced is stupid.

I hope something even worse doesn't set in. It's not like capitalism and greed don't rule anywhere, only the degree differs. I guess we will find out.