In USA, commercial broadcasters simply cancel programs disfavored by the current regime . What a country!

One might interpret the current administration's hostility to decentralized power generation (wind and solar) and reversal of net neutrality to be part of this desire to foster dependence.

On the upside, less public information would allow investment firms to generate alpha (see the earlier story ) by using their superior know-how to estimate what the quarterly reports give away for free.

I'm other words, if you think the stock market is too efficient, deregulate!

Next they'll argue that submarines should be allowed to swim in the Olympics.

Unfortunately, sane and thoughtful Americans will suffer because we didn't do enough. We all have Trumpy friends who we didn't yell at enough. Dollars we could have sent to voter outreach in PA and elsewhere, but didn't. I am guilty of overestimating my countrymen.

Do I deserve to live in a mismanaged kleptocracy? No more than I would deserve to die if I thought my Lyft driver was high: it's a foreseeable consequence, but not a just result.

This will be a painful learning experience for the Republic, but clearly we need to learn the lesson and hadn't yet when it mattered.

And I can see why

It's funny that you got modded down because probably about 50 percent of users here are using Chrome because it works and isn't Microsoft, and Google search because it is getting worse slower than DDG or Bing.

Switching browsers is so easy, and switching search engines is even easier. People are refusing to use the obviously worse products and blaming Google for the failures of their competition.

I think tariffs are doomed to be ineffective based on my understanding of economic history. Assuming that your understanding of economic history is better, and that tariffs can lead to a competitive domestic industry: Doesn't it bother you to see your preferred economic policy applied in a haphazard and nonstrategic manner that ensures the results will be absolute shit?

Like, if I thought that Ukraine could win against Russia by dropping solar panels, I would be pissed if they were just smuggling them into Russia and letting them fall off the back of a truck.

Listen man, the guys in private equity thought that they'd be smart enough to wring higher profits out of the name they bought. It turns out that they can't, but is it fair to penalize them for it when there are pensioners getting money for free? What did those old farts ever to for Kodak?

MAGA supporters were crying about the government interference when DHS told Twitter that the anti-vax misinformation could kill people. They were demanding that social media be made a common carrier when when neo-nazi's were being kicked off.

Now the President is shaking down research universities, telling companies to fire their CEOs, and having people deported for writing Op-Eds.

They're cheering now because their motivating value is power for herrenvolk. Always has been. Going forward there is no reason to humor assertions to the contrary.

I'm willing to go along with a stupid reason, as long as it doesn't undermine the plot. Countries have gone to war over guano. But I draw the line when naked aliens who are killed by water invade a planet which is covered by water that often falls from the sky.

He will be pardoned after a completely unrelated purchase of 1,488,420.69 Trumpcoins.

There are a bunch of Michael Crawfords. Do you feel more represented by the Phantom of the Opera or the Young and the Restless guy? Good news either way!

The enshitification will continue until it is no longer profitable. Cheap bad translations will choke the market for good translators.

America has a lot of people with a lot of money and no ideas of their own. We should go back to 1972 tax rates: they could still afford second yachts, but they wouldn't be willing to invest in a machine that gets juice out of a bag filled with juice.