The BBB was supported by the overwhelming majority of conservatives. That's why the Republicans passed it. One or two billionaires bitching about it doesn't change that.

The Republicans don't, and never have, cared about deficit spending. It was Saint Reagan who actually started the modern trend of overspending. Literally the only time they bring it up is when there's a democrat in office and they want to shoot down any spending that might alleviate poverty. Meanwhile, historically, Democrats have done better controlling the debt than Republicans.

So why hasn't Europe been bombed yet? The Euro is doing well and many non-EU countries are switching to it as their preferred reserve currency.

The EU also has plenty of military might. The fact the US has more is neither here nor there given both (and Russia) can destroy the world many times over in the space of a few minutes.

Try looking for the "Jump to recipe" button, that's on most websites.

The reason for all the garbage is that... get this... Google downranks websites without paragraphs and paragraphs of filler material that just display the recipe. Trust me, most recipe sharers don't particularly want to write 10 paragraphs of crap about Carrabbas Style Lentil Soup.

There wasn't anything directed at voters.

They pulled Kristi Neom away from killing puppies long enough to produce ads trying to sell the public on shipping immigrants to concentration camps, but they didn't do anything like that for this budget bill to encourage people to call their representatives.

They don't give a flying fuck about what the voters want.

They'll throw it away to keep someone else who is starving from having it, they don't even want it for themselves.

They just don't want *those* people to have any chance of getting some of it, even if it destroys the future crops for everyone including themselves.

> Or, buy and download a song in an electronic format, which will then be lost if I have a disk crash? Again, no thanks.

Unfortunately this seems to be the way the world is going. I do recommend doing two things: creating a media server of some sort, and keeping it in a back-up schedule.

(Disk media isn't immune from problems either, I'm finding a large number of DVDs I have suffer disk rot, probably because WB cheaped out in the mid-2000s)

Back-ups aren't hard these days. Use older, disused, hard drives of the kind you probably have a pile of anyway because you're a Slashdotter, and a device like this:

https://www.newegg.com/istarus...

This is something that means you can treat SATA drives the same way you did floppies back when we used REAL computers.

Second advantage of this is that you can save everything, including the time you'd otherwise need to re-rip your entire media collection if it fails. I've learned the hard way that's not as easy as it sounds.

I bought GTA V on release day for the 360, for $60. I also bought it for the PS4, for another $60. Then I bought it again for the PS5, this time it was like $40. So all in I've spent around $160 on this game. And I've played it for hours over the past decade plus. Same for GTA SA, GTA 4, multiple Zelda and Mario games. They're all $60 or so, maybe more in the future. But I get hundreds of hours of entertainment from that, at a minimum.

There's very few publishers that I will buy a game on release day from, but the ones I do that with haven't let me down yet. I don't just go randomly buy games without knowing anything about them, especially not from most publishers.

That is ridiculously cheap compared to taking my wife to a movie ($40 for tickets, another $30 on drinks and popcorn) for 2 hours of a movie that may or may not be any good.

They're going to start rolling ads in the corners during the show, just like they started doing on TV years ago.

They care about being punished if they're caught, yes, but only if the punishment is something somewhat more than 5000 quid.

It's not that they're afraid of innovating, it's that they're afraid of having to do the good, consumer friendly, form of innovation where you create better products for end users, rather than enshittify them to boost your share price temporarily through "innovations" that actively harm end users.

Oh for fucks sake. Trump ran on pulling back from Ukraine involvement. It was loudly and clearly part of his campaign. Average people want less involvement with foreign conflicts, not more:

It was a rant, but one that was both on-topic and that didn't, actually, claim Trump was responsible for the satellite loss. But then you have someone with the real TDS (the derangement that makes someone admire him) jump in claiming the post said something it didn't, followed by a line of deranged Trump fanatics protesting it was unfair the false post was modded down or criticized or that liberals had claimed they are always right (?) and so on.

I'm so tired of this, but even more I'm so tired of *gestures everywhere* WTF has happened to the world? I miss the days when conservatives just had different opinions on how to provide universal healthcare coverage or whether we need to split marriage into a religious and civil part in order to give equal rights to non-heterosexuals. Sure, they had some pretty awful views about muslims, but FFS, this is just awful.

"TDS" is simply the reflexive response when you can't defend him.

MS is in no way hurting. They made a profit of $26 Billion in March, far ahead of Wall Street projections.

As other companies are also specifically targeting that mid-management layer, this is a possible sign that the Cult of the MBA may be waning.

And the tragic thing about this is that the possibility isn't really that far-fetched, and indeed is precisely the type of thing the climate deniers would do to thwart climate science.