So sad, he never got to realize his vision of making a good game.

Just use apt.

You mean the cards that only exist because of the chips in them, that are made in Taiwan with the EUV lithography equipment that for which the EU is the world's sole supplier? THOSE graphics cards? THAT is the trade war you want to start? Brilliant idea, CHUD.

Winning occurs when they don't need to listen to anything the USA says because it no longer matters.

Evernote was, for the first many years of its life, the AMG Mercades of note taking apps. It was fast, robust, reliable, feature-rich, and pleasant to use. Then, about five years ago or so, for some reason they decided to... well... to start sucking ass. They released a disasterous new version that is slow, bloated, and buggy; while stripping out quite a lot of the features it used to have. If it were a car now, Evernote would now be an old Fiat Panda with rusted out floorboards and an engine won't get going unless you push-start the car. So the new ownership actually tracks.

I got involved in a contentious topic on Reddit recently (amazing, right?) and I went to AI... can't remember if I used Gemini or ChatGPT that day, but I asked it to provide evidence supporting or refuting the redditor's claim.

It cited as evidence in support of the claim the very post I was disputing.

Full disclosure, I use AI daily (almost always for work, because our corporate overlords require it, but also for one-off jokes when accuracy doesn't matter.) But I loathe ubiquitous, unsolicted use of AI in my daily activities and I never trust what AI tells me; at best I use it as a suggestion list of topics I can research in depth on my own.

Nope. The republicans control the courts there; to the point of discarding and disregarding the will and votes of the people entirely. So while neither party technically has that "trifecta" in Virginia, maga controls the state and agenda in Virginia.

Pot, meet kettle. And, by the way, you people do it more often. As per usual, an accusation, coming from a maga, is in reality a confession.

There are 39 U.S. states where a single political party holds "trifecta" control, meaning one party holds the governorship as well as majorities in both chambers of the state legislature. (Ballotpedia)

23 States have Republican trifectas.
16 States have Democratic trifectas.

Here is the breakdown by political party:

Republican Trifectas (23)
South: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, West Virginia

Midwest & Plains: Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming

West: Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio, Utah

Democratic Trifectas (16)
Northeast: Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont

West: California, New Mexico, Oregon, Washington

Midwest: Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota
(Ballotpedia)

WTF??? Did the entire world collectively forget at some point that robots.txt is a thing? So far as I know, google respects it. If they don't, then THAT is definitely a problem. But otherwise, this entire hullabaloo is solved problem and much ado about nothing.

Yeah, Pages and Numbers were nice. But, similarly to this move by the gatesians, Apple pulled the "free with the purchase of a device" iWork suite from the App Store earlier this year and put their replacements behind a Zynga-style micro-transaction paywall.

I think you can still download the old free versions if you already have them attached to your account. But they won't be getting updates anymore. Pages and Numbers are both (I just checked the App Store.) $12.99/month now. I dunno about Keynote... I've never used that one.

Ask who benefits from global warming and you will understand why Trump is doing this.

Airpods, Magic Trackpads, and other Apple kit do. And my car lets me set its name for bluetooth/CarPlay. I've not seen that functionality elsewhere though; certianly not on any el-cheapo portable bluetooth speaker; nor on any pair of emergency headphones I've bought when I've forgotten to bring or charge my airpods. And a quick google turns up several speakers with some variation of "bomb" or "boom" in their names. So if the bluetooth name is similar to the product name, and it can't be changed, it is not at all unlikely for this to have been entirely unintentional. How many of us even look at our list of bluetooth devices after we pair them? Most of us just turn them on, and if the music plays, that's that. A little common sense would have gone a long way here.

Of course, the REAL question/problem here is what TF whas that little asswipe doing using a goddamned speaker on an airplane instead of headphones like a civilized human being.

It's simpler than that.
2400 acres is equal to the floor space of 300 Library of Congress buildings, so just envision 300 LoC buildings in Texas.

Aedes Egypti is not native to the Americas. They arrived with European colonists. There are about 3500 different species of mosquitoes so wiping out Aedes will leave about 3500 species.
There are many species that eat Aedes mosquitoes and their larvae as part of their diet, but none are dependent. Those fish that are known for being mosquito eaters are also not native and like everything else prefer to eat other things.

Mosquitoes are tiny and offer very little nutritional value, so the caloric cost of hunting them isn't profitable for anything significantly larger than the mosquito. Bats, for example, get less than 1% of their diet from mosquitoes.

After we deal with the Aedes, there is still Anopheles and Culex blood-sucking species to get rid of, and good riddance to all of them. They offer nothing and kill millions. It's not just humans that suffer, these blood suckers are a curse to many species.

I could be wrong, but this sounds like a number of people had to be involved to pull this off.
I suspicious of the whole story down to wondering if there really is a "David Rush" and if so, was the person arrested even that David Rush".