when you married her.

Rather than working with Congress, Trump likes to rule by fiat and his executive orders are his royal/holy decrees.
Most aren't actually worth the paper on which they're printed.

Hey, at least he's just "asking", for now anyway, and not whatever belligerence he usually displays. Maybe the dementia is actually helping? :-)

Microsoft unveils Scout Master to take full advantage of your Scouts -- oh, wait...

Microsoft unveils "Alter Boy" ... - nope.

[ Naming things is hard. :-) ]

Absolutely and the settlement will be a free one-year subscription to Office 365, secured with a credit card. /s

And here my Office 2010 suite on Windows 10 is chugging along just fine -- when I'm not using LibreOffice on Linux Mint ...

The Kyocera HydroVIBE I had from 2015-2021 was IP57 certified - protection against dust and water immersion for up to 30 minutes in up to 3.28 feet (1 meter) of water - and had a headphone jack with an easily replaceable 2000mAh Li-ion battery, micro-sd and sim all under a removable back cover, with a gasket. It was smaller (l/w) and not that much thicker than the Pixel 5a I replaced it with and still have.

It's worse than that; it's like they're basing the price on how long the video is and what kind it is - a 90m romance vs a 180m sci-fi. Perhaps giving you a credit if you can sit through an entire Michael Bay flick w/o wanting to kill yourself. :-)

If AI services are becoming too expensive in the current environment, we can look to nature for help. There is a an abundant species of large mammals in the ape family that can be trained to do this kind of work as well.

Long ago, the UK courts ordered all the major consumer ISPs to block The Pirate Bay along with various other popular services. Ever since, we've had to keep up to date on what the latest proxy address might be.

Of course, thanks to the new censorship laws introduced more recently, we're all on VPNs now, so as to avoid having to hand our ID to the wallet inspector for every last website we ever use. And once that was set up, it was nice to discover that the original is still in play!

They want you to blame everything from immigrants to remote work for your troubles.

I told my partner straight, "if our oral tradition ever dies .. you're out!".

Now I'm trying my hand at a new tradition.

I don't know if I'd go full novel, but I try to write my code so intention and implementation is clear with commentary to fill in the gaps. The farther things stray from that and/or the weirder the code gets, the more documentation I leave, especially if, for some reason, it needs to be like that.

While I enjoy the old saying, "Real programmers don't document 'cause if it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.", I don't follow the practice; the harder it is to write the more documentation it needs. I also try very hard to be consistent in my implementations, style and commentary and have had several co-workers say they can tell it's my code just by looking at it. I learned that over time, mainly because I looked at my own earlier code at some point to reuse it and had trouble figuring out what I had done and why. I thought "Not cool, me."

So, I don't mind documentation, but will say that management is often loathe to allocate enough time for it to be done/maintained well.

And they'll have to pay more for it than . . . nothing for another rehash of a franchise they already own.

The jokes about Darth Jar Jar were everywhere of course, but it could have worked. Star Wars lifted a few ideas from classic SF sources including Asimov's Foundation series - in which, we might recall, the terrifying, unstoppable galactic warlord known as The Mule was hiding in plain sight as a clown, who seemed to be merely a harmless entertainer at court. His military success was chiefly thanks to his psychic ability to manipulate others' minds to his liking - Darth Jar Jar could have done very well that way!