A prize in litterery.

When Linux ends support for a device, the Linux Gnome sneaks into the building and destroys the unsupported hardware. Everybody knows this.

Not every company needs to be a growth company

Agreed.

Starlink is a subsidiary of SpaceX, which is still a private company

If the rumors are true, then SpaceX will be undergoing an IPO. At that point, it will be owned by Wall St. and their mindset is that a stagnant company is a dying company. Their goal is constant growth at all costs to increase the value of their investment.

I can enjoy the stability and security of a Windows 9x host with the ease-of-use of the Linux userland.

Do you get paid extra for the capitalization?

Of course, I'm a capitalist, baby! I only do things for money. If it bothers you so much, you can pay me more to switch back to lowercase for future posts.

The president has immunity

If I understand the law correctly, he has immunity from criminal offenses for acts he commits during his presidency. I also believe he has immunity from being sued while he is president but I believe he can be sued for acts he committed during the presidency after he is out of office.

And he can (probably) pardon himself

Presidential pardons only work at the federal level. States may still be able to go after him for civil penalties and his co-conspirators for criminal penalties since they likely aren't covered by presidential immunity.

We'll see what happens after his second term

This is one of many reasons why he has no intention of ever leaving the White House.

Indeed. At the moment, I am simultaneously amazed and appalled by the answers given by AI. It's like having a conversation with someone with Multiple Personality Disorder where some personalities have an IQ of 120 and other personalities have an IQ of 80, and the person is really good at disguising which personality I'm currently engaging.

In the Age of Enshittification, it would be newsworthy if something new is truly better than its predecessor, but I'm not going to take the word of the company that makes the product.

Just because a person is a charlatan doesn't mean they don't have anything of value to offer. This is far more a case of thinking that the leopards wouldn't eat his face. FAFO

I particularly love that we are currently in a war of literal negotiation right now, where the exact traits of the Art-of-the-Deal Master Negotiator himself, the reason we just had to have him in foreign policy because he just such the dealmaker is not only flopping at dealmaking when there's real actual stakes on the line, he doesn't appear to be leading the negotiations.

Obviously that's why the U.S. hasn't succeeded with negotiations: Trump is too busy with important matters like redecorating the White House and he doesn't have time for pettiness like negotiating a deal to end the war that he started. I'm beginning to think Trump would prefer to be the First Lady rather than the President. He loves the power and prestige that come with the office, but when it comes to the work itself he'd rather delegate that out to whomever will get the job done while kissing his ass, which leaves him more time to work on vanity projects.

• Dickhead imposed tariffs that were obviously illegal
• Congressional dickheads refused to assert their checks against the obviously illegal tariffs
• Businesses paid many billions for the obviously illegal tariffs and passed on much of that cost to consumers
• Businesses get paid back the money (plus interest) for the obviously illegal tariffs
• Consumers get no relief from the additional costs of the obviously illegal tariffs but do have the privilege of having their tax dollars pay for the interest on the obviously illegal tariffs

Yup, seems about right.

The extent to which consumers realize any gain hinges on whether businesses share the proceeds

Oh, that is fucking hilarious. History is consistent when it comes to being ruled by elites who are this fucking tonedeaf. Do they not fear the Mario Bros.?

It's funny how we validly complain about overly-compressed music but the film industry is dramatically underutilizing compression. Many times I miss a word or phrase in a movie or show because the background music gets loud for a second during a quiet part of dialog. The music industry has numerous techniques for improving clarity when there's lots of competing tracks (just ask anyone who mixes heavy metal), so there's really no excuse. I see reports about more people enabling captions when watching content at home and I can't help but wonder if that's at least one contributing factor (among many others) to the decline of theatergoers. Given that this issue is very well-known, does anyone know why filmmakers seem to be doing absolutely nothing to address this? Also, why are so many scenes intentionally darkened when I can see a whole bunch of ambient lights turned on in the scene? And don't even get me started about how modern action movies have camera angles that change so frequently you can't even figure out what's going on. Filmmakers, do right and keep off my lawn!

That high-quality camera in your pocket is designed to take high-resolution photos of relatively-stationary subjects from several feet away. Using that same camera to capture video of objects many miles away while they're moving at many hundreds of miles per hour will not yield similar results. That doesn't mean that aliens exist but it does mean that the expectations people are placing on video evidence of UAPs, whatever their origin, are not in line with the actual capabilities of most of our equipment.

The good news is that I believe the general craziness of the citizens is winding down, especially as the craziness of the executive branch winds up. People finally seem to be tired of living life at the political extremes and are very slowly and quietly drifting closer back to the center. And since Trump is torpedoing the Republican party, the Dems just have to resist the temptation of getting mired in identity politics that affect a small portion of the population and instead focus on household issues that affect everyone, such as affordability.

The same government that turned ICE into a paramilitary organization and allowed their agents to wear masks during their antics on the streets wants to unmask a person who expressed criticism of their behavior on the internet.