nah, this is just a one in a million fluke and therefore it'll be perfectly fine to switch the US government to crypto.
What could possibly go wrong when people like Trump and Musk are behind the curtain?

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That is so funny since not only has Trump won the hearts and minds of those on the Republican side he did so again using hate speeches and doing little more than saying over and over that Americans are in a bad place and it's all because of Biden and Harris. As for Elon Musk, his track record for creating productive working environments is legonday. He took a $44 billion dollar company and gutted it of most all its employees, then required those remaining to sleep at the office. After over and over posting lies and misinformation most of the advertisers left the site resulting in a valuation now of around $9 billion. And to top it off, it's a cesspool of GOP lies about stolen elections, blaming Harris for much of what the Biden administration hasn't done like raise oil/fuel prices, raise food prices, etc.

So ya, what could possibly go wrong this time with Trump and Elon working together again. Oh and American's just loved the Chinese tariff war of his first administration. Wasn't the cause of a $3 billion US farming industry bailout?

America failed last night's IQ test.

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And while they are at it lets throw in a performancing eating display system which might have a security benefit but otherwise works worst than X.

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Yes but now they are defaulting to a windowing system which is slower and doesn't have the same capabilities so it requires more performance to run. That is not something you want on a CNC machine. I understand the post was in response to 'why would a user want a GUI on an rPi" but the reasons I'm seeing are also reasons why Wayland, nor a reduced featured Wayland, should not be defaulted on rPiOS.

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But X is so inefficient and Wayland's design is so much better because it's new how can it possibly be slower than X?
What a joke Wayland is if only because it's being pushed by someone/someorg with an agenda which doesn't sold water but distro's are believing the scam.
I remember way back when IDEs were multi-windows with separate debugger windows from the code/source window, separate step and program control window and on multi-display systems it was great and even on a single display system which had multiple desktops it worked great. Windows didn't have multiple desktops and somebody at Microsoft decided a single app window container was better and the rest of the IDE developers followed them. It still sucks and I get that feeling with Wayland. Bad move, being new doesn't make it better and if it's slower it absolutely can't be better for users.

After all, who would benefit from Linux being slower and less useful?

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IIRC the NTSB was not requiring the grounding of the 737Max in the US while across the world others were grounding it. Boeing was still toting the line that the two crashes were pilot error and a training problem. NOT the fact that their control system was based on a single sensor and they'd greatly increased the elevator response from just the trim tabs to the actual elevator.

And all this was because they Max had much larger engines which would have been too close to the ground mounted the same as the 737 so they moved them inward on the the wings which sifted the CG(center of gravity/balance) of the plane forward making it nose heavy and requiring MCAS changes. Hack after hack after hack. Did we ever find out who was responsible for these design changes such that they were pushed through and created a very unstable aircraft?

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Wow, you are right because less supply has nothing to do with prices and strategically timed repairs and shutdowns have not ever increased their profits.
What was I thinking.

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California has had to deal with special blends of gasoline for over 40 years and in the beginning it made a difference on air quality. But for some reason the State government keeps those mandates on only the special blends being sold in California. ICE and emission system controls have improved considerably in the last 40 years so these mandates on specially made/mixed gasoline should be eradicated. Then they could shut down more of these California refineries without much change in price at the pump.

But with 25% of new car sales being EVs last year, there will be more and more refineries shut down just to keep the price of gasoline high enough to keep profiting in the billions annually.

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So then it must be true if the oil company said it. All hail K!

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crazy thought but solar panels can be used to charge EVs and in States like California there is now so much solar from 9a-4pm home solar over-generators are paid less than 10 cents per kW and some utilities are complaining they have to pay out of State grid operators to take the excess electricity. So why aren't businesses offering EV charging during work hours? As for home owners, a couple of 15kWh batteries connected to a 5kW+ solar system can cover EV charging and run the house. Aren't all the Preppers putting up solar and BESS or are they staying away and relying on gasoline generators,or diesel, to get them through the zombie apocalypse? Watch any Zombie movie and know that the noise of the generator will attract the zombies and the zombie hunters so they'd also need an infinite supply of bullets along with the infinite supply of fuel. What's that? The sun has an infinite supply of output. Interesting.

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Gas stations don't work without electricity.
Peeew, mind blown.

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Your absolutely right. Population is around 132k. Comes out to about $7,620.21 per person. The only thing I think they could do here would be some science fiction, like drill down to the earths mantel and allow lava to flow and create new land mass, while the heat energy creates freshwater. Considering the crust is about 10 miles thick, ya, science fiction.

Kiribati has money from years of selling off phosphate mining rights.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Kind of a neat story out that way. Nauru is probably the most famous of these, but there's dozens of islands in the area that acted as rest stops of migratory birds, and as a result deposited millions of tons of bird shit and seeds on what was essentially volcanic rock, atolls, and uplifted reefs. Seeds do what seeds do and these grew into ecologies that covered up the bird shit.

In the late 1800's early 1900's chemistry wasn't what it is today, and bird shit phosphate was used in everything from field fertilizers to gunpowder. Nauru and Kiribati were sitting on white gold, ships were constantly in and out of the area hauling away millions of tons of white phosphate powder.

If you don't replace what you've taken out, you leave a void for seawater to get in through.

What did Kiribati and Nauru do with their billions? Pissed it away. The government gave a huge portion of the money to the residents, who did things like import Mercedes Benz's. Why would you import a car on an atoll with one road? Or in Nauru's case, an Island barely 2 miles across?

Eventually the rest of the world got better at synthesizing phosphate on a large scale and no longer needed to dig up the bird shit.

Real interesting history around that time and Guano though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Ahh found the 2b2t player.

I've been a /.'er since the beginning. This isn't even my original UID. I think that one was like 50k or so.

This site started off as somewhat libertarian anarchy. The old adage of, "We just move packets, any inspection of content is irrelevant" Granted, there is some content that is truly horrible, reprehensible, with IRL victims, but at the time of 1mbps internet connections it was deemed, "Too much overhead" for deep packet inspection.

Yet here we are close to 30 years later. 3 letter agencies routinely install their servers in ISP's to do just that. Speaking of ISP's, what ever happened to the 1000's we used to have? Seems like the choices either died out or were bought up. Internet is no longer an ala-cart option of free thought and speech, but rather the bourgeoisie hidden microphone installed on every computer, every phone, designed to listen to your every thought and whim. Even as I type this now, I have no doubt that somebody, somewhere, who is not /. is logging it as a part of the overall profile of t0qer, so they can sell that info to a marketeer.

We used to keep our thoughts and politics private. I never remember my parents, or my parents friends, or my friends parents talking about politics as much as we do now. It just seems like this thirst has been created in the collective consciousness that we have to share. Why? So a bunch of people we never met, or cared about prior to this, our facebook "friends" or our instagram "followers" can shower us with clicking a graphic of a thumb pointed up? The pavlovian response generated I guess in some ways can trace its roots back to here. It's to late for Karma, but if I had *just* commented when this article was hot, I'd be refreshing this comment to see if it got up or down votes.

I hope we can break free from this as a society.