What I suspec if this is true is this is just a guy who hires out his own social circles, these aren't applicants just coming in, it's all "yo hire my boy" and that boy happens to also come from an already very wealthy family.

Also they never quite mention *what* these things are selling, it's not a platform itself, it must be selling access to the network which if it already has a gathering of 10k people who are already part of an extremely narrow slice of the population then you don't really need to sell it, it sells itself. What this is selling is the idea of replacing your salespeople with AI.

You pretty much have to use the middle button, because they've made the scrollbars so small they're difficult to hit.

It's interesting that he chose not to co-opt public broadcasting for his own propaganda and instead chose to shut it down and rely on his good friends at Fox to do the propaganda for him. Had this been Russia, Putin would have put money into public broadcasting (and thumb screws of course), not cut it, and use it as a propaganda tool. Along the way of course Putin eliminated and co-opted private media companies until now there really only is the state-run media for news and political opinion, and dissenting voices are very effectively quelled and even disbelieved by most Russians. This is happening in the US now too under the threat of civil litigation by the president (so weird that people now think this is normal and acceptable). It's just a slightly different path is all.

Let's be clear. No one thing is a prelude to fascism. But it's certainly an interesting step and one of many. The GOP has wanted to end public broadcasting for decades. I think it's mainly about money and power. They want to control the narrative and make money off of it (Rush Limbaugh was one of their heroes). They used to be afraid to cut things like public broadcasting when they were in power just like how until recently all Conservatives in Canada would never have dared to try to eliminate the Canada Health Act. Trump has certainly emboldened right wingers' worst and most base instincts. Oh there I go with my TDS again. Need more meds. Oh wait, can't afford them now.

This whole thing sort of reminds me of a funny line from Yes Prime Minister where Humphries is explaining that even though most people don't (or can't) go to the National Theatre. they want it funded because it's nice to know that it's there, similar to the Church of England.

Back in the early 'aughts when flash drives were brand new on the scene, still had to direct people to how to install drivers for Windows 98 that's how new these were, 32mb to 256mb. The Cruzer Mini, those fuckers failed all. the. time.

So much so the guy next to me made a little song

Cruzer Mini
That shit is whack
Cruzer Mini
Take that shit back

From the changes I've seen happen, they seem to be aiming to approve just about anything.

That's the joke.

I mean what's the issue with that exactly? It'd be one thing if it were something illegal but if you have a career, any career, where someone is making hundreds of thousands or millions why wouldn't we want them in the US if they want to move here? Anything else feels like a moral judgement and that's also not a good way to handle this type of thing.

That's true. In a western, democratic capitalist society, the sociopaths end up running for office and very successfully tricking the normal people into voting for them, probably because normal people want no part of the toxicity that surrounds the halls of power. The civil service seems to, at least until recently, attract fairly honest, altruistic people who want to serve their country and fellow citizens.

It means "hey everybody, pay attention to me and *how much i reject modern phones because this site is full of 40-70 grumpy old guys* (myself included). This style of post is so common to be a trope.

The fact you want me to find you a model shows you have put zero-minutes into actually looking so it's not that much of a need, thusly it's not a genuine ask for and a virtue signal.

Hope that clears it up.

World war three, the third great war, the continuation of the war of 1812, the abrogation of the peace of Westphalia, call it whatever you want. We haven't had another war. Ukraine sucks but nukes aren't flying.

The UN was created to help prevent world war through discussion. You think you are mad at the UN, but you are actually mad at the world. There is no institution or set of laws that can prevent war if we want it badly enough.

Yes, now can we stop the virtue signal posts that have to pretend like these things don't exist?

https://www.ulefone.com/

https://www.kyoceramobile.com/...

https://oukitel.com/

Why do you think this? Go do actual research and find out what they think. It will be a much better use of your time.

Yes, because they rejected the 2 states many times, and continue to do so today.

Stop imaging things. If you don't look for facts, you will always be wrong. What was offered?

How do you know this? Go search and do research. Find real facts and stop making things up.

In fact HPUX was the first Unix I was introduced to as a CS student back in 1997. I remember the large monitors that were super high resolution and CDE looked great. You didn't need anti-aliasing because the fonts (well-designed bitmap fonts) looked crisp and readable on those enormous 19" 1600x1200 CRTs. When LCDs came out they were a real step backwards compared to those monitors. Has take a long time to finally exceed the quality of those 1600x1200 displays with modern 2k and 4k displays.

When I got my first job as a sysadmin at a uni in the CS dept we had a whole bunch of HPUX workstations, and also a file server running HPUX. I've forgotten nearly everything I knew about HPUX but I vaguely remember the SAM utility. Around that time I was introduced to Linux. Eventually as Linux got better and better I managed to convince the department to let us roll out Linux in one computer lab as a test. It was so popular with the students compared to the Solaris and HPUX labs that by around 2000 we had replaced all of the open lab HP and Solaris workstations with Linux on x86 PCs (RedHat if I recall) and everyone from the faculty to the students were quite happy with them.

I feel somewhat bad at helping an entire CS department migrate away from HPUX machines as they really were high quality machines, but it was good move, for the department, the students, and for me professionally.

You only need to look at the overall population. 80% of people in the US live in urban areas.

To even reach 50%, rural areas would need to have a truck ownership level that is 5x higher than urban areas.