Brave killed FF for me and everyone I know. I suspect it's because of the scammy-crypto elements. I was nervous that it was a "cheap" Chrome clone...since the seamless Chrome looks is it's supposed to look like. I tried FF again last year and uninstalled again. I have to use Chrome for testing and specific sites that are too bound up in elements detected to be adtech. It's too much trouble to maintain disparate browser envs. - posted from Brave

> You got anything besides mindless propaganda?

I don't believe it's propaganda, but it's not surprising that you leap to the least gracious interpretation.

> Biden had no policies. Biden was a zombie. His handlers and the autopen ran the Whitehouse.

A worldview that I can understand. Biden was barely functioning, which is a form of being compromised since he lost large amounts of time. Trump is eerily similar, where I am sure he is running things under various blackmailed conditions *at best* paired with a lesser mental dysfunction. This is a different type of kompromat, but his policies are not fully his, all the same. One deception does not excuse another and focusing on this nonsense is a distraction born of tribalism.

Biden's policies (regardless of origin) were certainly better formulated than anything TACO has come up with or the absence of them. THAT is what's important. It's a net loss.

> Everything classified is air gapped.

Except for the classified info that's texted?

I feel like this is a step back and won't do anything for growing the audience. Ncuti Gatwa is a fantastic actor. My wife and I look forward to Ncuti's next project.

I do enjoy a nice bonfire. Especially when it's the self-immolation of MS.

Most companies have no idea who is an "under-performer".
Standard procedure is that you are "laid off". Being given a plan of improvement or being paid to exit as an option, is HIGHLY irregular.

> Defending not calling idiots the idiots they are is defending idiocy.

Not acting or admonishing unwarranted action, is not defending some imagined opposing ideal.

This is why you get modded down. Your ill-considered zealotry is indistinguishable from unbounded provocative drivel.

You are a classic troll, even when you refuse to recognize your own behavior. These tiny miseries are your own doing.

Sometimes it's a fierce burn. UK's Misfits had a 2 season planned arc, which was amazing for the time. After that a bunch of the talent quite out and it fell apart. It lasted 3 more seasons until it mercifully ended. Hey, didn't Iwan Rheon appear in another show like that?

I've worked at JPMC as a business associate, then as a software developer.
I asked other developers why they continued to work there when they could jump to most other companies to:

* Make more money
* Have a more flexible schedule or working arrangement
* Get better health benefits
* Get the same (or better) retirement benefits
* Still go back to JPMC if they were in dire need of a job

Many people did leave, over time. Most were complacent, liked the prestige and didn't believe it would be a simple transition.

I got a year padded on my resume then immediately jumped to make 25% more + wfh, at a job I still have well over 5 years later. I've interviewed since then to strong arm raises to another 25% on top.

I can't understand this blind fear to making your life better. I think software developers prefer low risk engagements, once they get comfortable. This may be most people with a comfortable job.

Nobody said to throw away the law. You are both deliciously ignorant and delusional. Gl with that.

> they need the evil-scientists-in-league-with-big-government to feel good and cope with the problems CoViD-19 caused.

I don't care. The situation is a lot like a basic murder mystery. The simplest answer is the likeliest multiplied by the interests of those involved.
Proving there is no definitive answer is fine and good. This doesn't change my view of the world.

> there's a special place in hell for people who work in that space.

I've been working in that space since 2005. Yeah, I dipped my toe into Medical, Gaming, Production (commercials), Finance for awhile over the decades. It's common knowledge that every industry is greedy. Advertising gets cut last. I deal with the world as it is.

Digital Advertising is the safest, simplest (despite large organizations trying to make it more complicated), reliable way to get a paycheck as far as I can tell.

> it's going to normalize corporate surveillance for the purpose of advertising as an acceptable business model - which it really, REALLY isn't

Many advertising businesses have started with this in mind. Good luck with yours.

The amount of plastic (packaging, et al) has gotten out of control. I'm sick of needing tools to get to things I purchase. If you visit Europe, you can see how it doesn't need to be this way.

> You're either screwing over taxpayers by making them pay back the loans

The original lenders sold the loans, which largely ended up in Navient. Why? Because the loans were tied to high risk borrowers and the loans were a liabilty related to schools committing fraud. Navient likes low income/high risk loans. Part of the Navient business model is to rely on individuals who dont know any better or cant afford counsel. Navient will be happy to allow a borrowerto to pay anything (you can haggle down to 5$ a month) in perpetuity.

I know this is a little complicated for you to understand, but nullifying improper loans doesnt cost taxpayers (Navient) anything. Buyers take a risk when purchasong bulk loans. Are you too young to remember 2007? Risk is priced in and if you want to be irresponsible, thats a voluntary risk. Any borrower can bankrupt out of these kinds of loan at anytime, so the ability to discharge, has always been available...again, Navient preys on low income borrowers who are unlikely to retain a bankruptcy lawyer. They get really aggresive with the family if the borrower dies.

I dont think you have the slightest idea of what is going on, or why. It is frightening to imagine you voting. Assuming that lenders involved in fraud should be entitled to poisoned gains, is immoral in the most childish of ways. ie Finders keepers losers weepers, is not a stable economic model.

Also, I'm jealous.