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Comment Even less competition now (Score 1) 45

I mean it's for streaming and you can live without that but you can expect prices to go up now. They will pay for this buyout by jacking up prices.

Sure you can sail the seven seas for Netflix but you can't do that for food. I mean you can but eventually you will probably get caught and thrown in prison...

Fun fact Joe Biden was in the process of breaking up several of the trusts that were artificially raising food prices. Like the egg producers that were colluding and the beef slaughterhouses of which there are only four viable ones left...

You can imagine what happened to that work after Biden lost the election. Meanwhile Donald Trump got 5 million from one of the beef slaughterhouse companies.

Oh and don't expect other big corporations to save you. They just Sue the Monopoly trusts every few years and get a chunk of money from them to make up the difference. They do not pass those costs savings on to you.

But hey, If you go to Starbucks the girl who hands you your coffee might say Merry Christmas. Seems like a fair trade for a 20% increase in your grocery bills every couple of years...

Comment Swing voters are real (Score 1) 58

People change their minds all the time because they are wishy-washy. They're confused because they don't have a lot of good information available and they don't have the skills and training to parse what they do have.

So you can do a 6-week ad blitz and change 3 to 5% of The public's opinion on pretty much any issue which is more than enough in a winner-take-all first past the post voting system to win the election.

This is why musk gave Trump $250 million dollars right before the end of the election.

Comment Hired by Opexus [Re:Charge the man that hired...] (Score 4, Informative) 40

The contractor they had been hired by was a company called Opexus; they were hired as engineers working on projects for various agencies, including the Internal Revenue Service, Department of Energy, Defense Department and the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General.

Obviously Opexus didn't do a good job at background check.

A few more sites: https://www.bloomberg.com/news...
  https://arstechnica.com/inform...
  https://cyberscoop.com/muneeb-...

Comment It's a good thing they aren't all owned (Score 1) 58

By psychopathic billionaires who are actively trying to manipulate people into new feudal hellscape...

This is why they go out of their way to attack higher education and convince us all to be plumbers. They want us on educated and lacking in critical thinking skills. Yes some of us figure that shit out naturally most of us don't.

Comment Re:Life is extremely improbable (Score 3, Insightful) 40

LUCA's descendants were able to go to every possible life niche on Earth and displace all other types of life? That makes very little sense.

It makes perfect sense, you explained clearly how it could happen.

The reasonable way of looking at it is, "What is the probability of that happening?" That's a scientific question.

Comment So Trump is planning to run for a third term (Score 0, Flamebait) 67

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.

Comment Re:Meanwhile (Score 4, Insightful) 83

The kids should cross the street at normal crossings like everyone else, not just anywhere a huge yellow beast stops and flips out a sign.

I'd say the safest place to cross would be in front of a huge, impossible to miss bus, with a flipped-out sign reading "STOP" and with flashing lights.

Comment Re: Has Climate Doom Modeling Turned Into Clickbai (Score 1) 128

Of course they overplayed their hand, it was the only way to get funding. One side of this debate got funded and the other didn't.

For years the oil companies were heavily funding people to create doubt about climate science. They eventually got publicly outed for paying for bad science, and stopped because it looked bad.

As for atmospheric science, the main funding for atmospheric science is in improving weather models, including hurricane path predictions and aviation weather. Climate predictions are pretty much just another application of the models made for other purposes.

As for the oil companies, they shifted their strategy to funding "think tanks" pushing libertarian ideas, funding advocacy that the government needs to avoid taking any action on climate change.

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