Yeah this is a case of where the idea isn't so much objectionable but the process in which it came about is corrupt and self serving. As much as we like to kvetch about bureaucracy a lot of it exists for a reason, the way we do things, particularly in government, can be as important as the thing itself.

If this was a piece of legislation, passed by both houses with all the discussion, negotiation and debate these things are supposed to have then it's not as suspicious. Legislation also carries with it a degree of permanence, the next President can't just come in and undo it like they can with this.

Then it would also have the actual funding supplied to it instead of the President partaking in impoundment which already should be an impeachable offense if the Republicans in Congress we're servile little worms who are more than happy to give up all their elected power to a wannabe king.

The other launch site cannot reach the space station with either soyuz or progress.

Every week I read about yet another GOP-controlled state legislature redrawing the boundaries to eliminate districts that might vote for a party other than the GOP in time for the midterms. Indiana is the latest state to do this. I don't see AI overcoming this. It's truly interesting that this widespread, coordinated effort to eliminate democratic seats with a map is hardly a blip in the news media. They are talking about the dems taking back congressional power in the midterms but frankly it's not going to happen.

Several democrat states are responding in kind now, although in their cases they are moving forward with a veneer of legitimacy through referendums. The GOP states could certainly do this but for whatever reason they choose not to. Something about democracy doesn't sit well with them even when it favors them. Still with democrat states gerrymandering away a few GOP seats, it's not enough to counter what these other GOP states are doing in my opinion.

Sadly the cancer of gerrymandering is working its way north. It's already been done here in Alberta to try to weaken the power of the cities vs the conservative rural base.

Nah, just a minor bump.

To get the hockey stick effect (like climate change), you need the new users actually feedback into improving the software they use. That doesn't happen much already much less with people with a focus on gaming.

When you use the law or social systems or business practices or other things to *enforce* that then you are discriminating. Then again you are sharing the space with the same type of people who want to undo the civil rights act because and use that very same argument so what should I expect.

Sure, I guess that's a valid argument, even if I disagree and think the comparison is fuckin' out of bounds but a valid argument still is valid.

That said while not all anti-DEI people are Nazis all Nazis are anti-DEI

It's a little silly but I finally made the switch after the Chrome plugin update killed my favorite calculator plugin and I use that thing everyday and there was a clone made for FF (shout out Foxy Calculator)

There's been some foibles and some things I wish it did that Chrome does (please dont make me scroll tabs, just condense them into a row even when I have 70+) but overall its been nice and the full fat uBlock is kinda worth it alone.

You think shareholders have a direct voice in day-to-day operations of a company? What is that mechanism?
Last I heard of something like that happening was when Roy E Disney was pissed that Eisner was screwing up the Disney-Pixar deal. He had to gather a dozen other large investors, overturn a good chunk of the board, then have them vote Eisner out to fix that deal.

I appreciate your ideas, but this will never work. Executives (and every other sane person at the company) will always be more interested in their own success than in the company's success.

What? No? That has not much to do with encryption at all that's all politics and social issues.

Wikileaks is one of many examples that encryption simply impossible to ban, that cat has been out of the bag for awhile now.

Neither, he ran a website and and in his zeal to disrupt America willingly became a political prop for the ruling US regime. Idealistic rebel turned useful idiot, common story.

What generation has overwhelmingly been at the forefront of both of those for like, 4 decades now?

I agree with a lot what you said but this is a false choice. Those jobs, those companies and that capital doesn't dispensary when Elon Musk is'nt a billionaire and only is still a very wealthy man. Even using him as an example. The $44B for Twitter, did he take the majority or even a plurality of his own wealth to do it? No, he went out and found investors and took out loans against his wealth (which are tax loopholes) who then funded that. Same with all his ventures and really any billionaire, it's one of those -isms of wealth, you always use someone else's money.

If instead you had 1000 millionaires instead of a single billionaire, they all invest their money, the capital is available. What you are describing is just "Great man theory" and some variant of Randian objectivism, not any type of economic reality. Billionaires themselves are not the problem itself but they are a symptom of an economic rot that requires correction.

Part of what boomers were born into was the post war "golden age of capitalism" in the US when marginal tax rates had very high rates at the top end, pensions were the standard for large employers, home ownership and construction was expanded and this was all during a time of intense government spending still on the sciences, research, etc.

This is what the boomers undid starting in the 1980's, instead of taking the continuing exploding productivity and capital technology created and investing in infrastructure, social services, education, human capital and research they enacted tax breaks, de-regulation and as you mentioned, protectionary measures for their own wealth.

Looks like Turo is available in the UK as well, I dunno if it's as popular as in the US but they kinda stole their whole bit!

How should the CEO have addressed that problem?