It's transaction fees that are the problem with credit cards.

"Now that same mob has blocked me for trying to bring an intellectually diverse group of thinkers and editors to the site," Translation: "That mob blocked my mob!!!!". Sorry he lost me there, I was sympathetic earlier, but he blew it with that.

Two words: Government contracts.

The Atari VCS was $199 on launch in 1977, which is $1139 in 2026 dollars. By no means does this excuse the collusion and price gouging that is going on with PC component pricing, though.

No, forwarding doesn't work either. For both reply and forward, all you get is the dividing line and the header info of the original message (sender, recipient, date, etc).

Switching to new Outlook works, but then that comes with the bunch of other issues that makes me stick with legacy Outlook. That said, the previous update to this broken one also seems to have resulted in a bunch of missing emails, even after rebuilding my profile in a different folder and verifying that I can see them in new Outlook and in the browser via OWA. An older version of Outlook on a different Mac that can't be upgrade due to it running on Big Sur has no such problems. I think Microsoft just aren't testing legacy Outlook properly anymore and rolling back to known older versions is difficult with their continuous delivery approach (or at least I don't know where to download the installers from for older versions).

it's extremely laughable to think that Muslims are all Democrats

Is it extremely laughable? To test your hypothesis, I compiled a list of as many U.S. Muslim elected politicians as I could (see below). Then, I searched for their party affiliations. They turned out to be 100% Democrat! Maybe if I spent days on a deeper search, I could have found a non-Democrat. But I doubt it.

So it's not "extremely laughable" at all. And when I asked AI why your comment was modded up to 5...

The pattern you found is real, striking, not based on cherry-picking, and not laughable. It's observable data, not a conspiracy. Dismissing it with a Score:5 "Insightful" is echo-chamber bias. Tech forums like Slashdot (and much of legacy online media) have long shown left-leaning cultural tilt.

Keith Ellison
André Carson
Ilhan Omar
Rashida Tlaib
Lateefah Simon
Ruwa Romman
Nabilah Islam
Salman Bhojani
Suleman Lalani
Ghazala Hashmi
Madinah Wilson-Anton
Omar Fateh
Abraham Aiyash
Samba Baldeh
Nafisa Fai
Sadaf Jaffer
Amer Ghalib
Farrah Khan
Abdullah Hammoud
Mo Baydoun
Nabeela Syed
Sam Rasoul
Atoosa Reaser
Al Abdelaziz
Faizul Kabir
Ted Green
Zohran K. Mamdani
Yusef Salaam
Soma S. Syed
Aisha Chughtai
Jamal Osman
Abdelnasser Rashid
Nayeem L. Choudhury
Abu A. Musa
Adam Alharbi
Akbar Ali
Sheikh Rahman
Dr. Mohammad Alhawawsha
Bedria Abdullahi

"These things"? You mean the government shouldn't be drafting regulations for government, which is what we're talking about here? Instead, private industry should be telling the government what to do?

Most large corporations hugely benefit from public subsidies of one form or another, it's time for an accounting of that and that should be translated into public equity.

AI companies in particular are standing on the shoulders of massive public investment in technology and infrastructure, it's time for the public to directly benefit from that investment.

I'd like to see it more diverse than just AI companies, though.

You can't switch to an older version? That's what I did with Lightroom when they introduced a bug with GPU rendering.

I'm not going to replace an old but perfectly good Mac so that I can install even newer versions. It's disgraceful that they charge a monthly fee to customers who can't upgrade and won't fix bugs they introduced. Where's the value in that?

It's their pricing model that's killing them more than anything. It made them rich for a bit, but they've successfully pissed off every one of their users in the process.

That's probably a dramatic underestimate.I would have guessed more like 92%

After the discovery of North Sea oil and gas, Britain (under Thatcher) decided to use the money raised to fund taxes for the well off, and essentially gut UK manufacturing.

The Norwegians decided that the best thing to do was to put the money that they raised into a sovereign wealth fund.

You might care to look at which country seems to be doing better...

The flying system seems to be the same one used in Thunderbirds.

I think at one time they did say they had antigravity of some sort. Apparently all it can do is make the ship weightless, and you need rockets in order to make it move around or change it's velocity.

The moon base set, as well as a lot of the models, were built for continuing the show UFO which was pretty successful at the time. That however got cancelled in the USA, and they had to come up with some new idea that reused the sets. That led to this strange story...

Orbital Factories are unlikely to employ very many human workers.

For used cars, at least, I would like to test-drive the actual one I am buying. It is not clear from the description whether this is possible though.