I was going to go for "Morons", but either works.

It would be a taxable benefit, and I'm sure they'd rather hand out benefits which don't increase their tax bill.

We need to cut this thing loose so we can move forward. My group is still stuck with RHEL-7 as a baseline for our binary releases because customers won't get off the obsolete stuff.

Only mostly text based. USENET did grow MIME eventually.

I would like to think that that is the answer. I really would. Unfortunately, while block lists were just about adequate to keep the signal to noise ratio high enough back in the day, I fear it would be a losing battle at the scale of today's internet.

The climate is complex. Like one of the most complex things we know about. We only have one of them. Do you really think that we understand it well enough to start trying to alter it on a massive scale? Perhaps try analyzing the outcomes of a botched job versus leaving well enough alone and see which is preferable. Unless you trust world governments to get everything done perfectly.

The middle of a crisis is the time when it is going to be most difficult to know what is true and what is false. Blocking anything will inevitably block true information which would be good to know. The best one can do is apply a healthy #grainofsalt to all crisis-related posts, regardless of source. I would not be upset if social media added that tag automatically, so long as it does it universally.

People die. You can't stop that any more than you can stop a mutating respiratory virus. It's life. Denying it will do you no good in the long run.

Go somewhere else.

Presumably the original book was written on a typewriter. It might have even been a manual. Anything that will let you edit what you've typed on the screen is a quantum leap forward. Features added from there can make the results look nicer, but they aren't nearly the game changers that the clean backspace key and cut/paste were.

His lips move. Of course he doesn't want politics (or actual science, for that matter) to disrupt the propaganda campaign.

And how will they help people distinguish all the other nonsense posted to Facebook from reality?

Because complaining about problems energizes the political base more than taking credit for solving problems. (And that's assuming you can actually solve the problems, or at least create the appearance of solving them.) Amazon and Warren are both acting in their own interests based on the incentives surrounding them.

What is now DC used to be part of Maryland. Why not just give it back? Add the DC population to the Maryland census, recompute the House membership, and you're all set.

I am totally on board on the compression issue. I'm always shocked at how clear the video is on a Blu Ray of one particular TV show compared to what I get on cable. On the AVR issue, I've already been through that once when my receiver wouldn't handle Blu Ray audio formats. I addressed that by adding an Outlaw surround processor and using the receiver's multi channel in, effectively converting it into an amp. I'm not ready to go to 4K as my old Panasonic plasma 1080P is doing fine, but when I do I'm happy to know that Outlaw has a splitter/switch box available that passes 4K to the display while sending the audio to the surround processor, and I expect that would do fine. That solution is Outlaw-specific, but it might be worth shopping for something similar that would work with your system.