The secret to life is guilt: Once you can fake that, you're unstoppable.

The GOP has been corrupt for 30 years. They've promoted oligarchy from Reagan onward, with fascism being acceptable to US congress, before Reagan.

Apart from the obvious horror of US government declaring corporations own everything, even facts, it's good to know it's not all good news. How's that "small government" (except ICE and the military, that got massive budget increases) going, people? It's not so fun when corporatism is applied to corporations, huh? A lot of rent-seeking businesses will disappear in the Trump-led resurrection of the company town.

Between people starving from the impending famine and people becoming slaves as a result of the subsequent great depression, being an employee without rights to clean air, clean water, education, healthcare, holidays, childcare or a pension, means one has received American Exceptionalism. Hint: This exposes the purpose of American Exceptionalism.

When web 2.0 arrived, everyday porn became violent, now porn just objectifies everything. Yes, that was always the consequence of porn, so it's difficult to explain how modern porn belittles everything.

But I agree with a Prof. Galloway: Teens lack a role model.

Adults wanting gritty stories, resulted in movies that taught teens, adults did a lot of fucking. I can see: There's no sex in books and movies, anymore. The role models teens now have, reveal teens can't make choices about their job, their healthcare, their relationships. And it's worse for male teens.

Here, 14 year-olds, 15 year-olds can't go to work unless the work-site is labelled child-friendly. That usually means everyone on the job must carry a "not a suspected pedophile/serial killer" identity card. So, the only job a 15 y.o. can have, is at the supermarket.

While there's always a 'think of the children' group declaring 15 year-olds are 'victimized' by somebody, it's gotten really, really intense in the USA, now that Epstein is in the news.

This is old news. Where has Goodwin been for the last 12 months?

The real issue, besides the data theft (disguised as an online backup), is drivers. They've become less stable over the last 12 months: USB hubs reset frequently, or permanently fail to recognize mouse and keyboard. USB HDDs/SSDs once ran 2 degrees hotter under Win 11: It's now 5 degrees hotter.

First one needs to buy a laptop with Windows 11 Pro. Then one needs to buy a corporate subscription for Windows 11 Enterprise. There's no official price list but IIRC, one quote was $400 US for 5 computers. A good price if one has 5 computers (Although, since one has already bought Win 11 Pro, not really.): Maybe, people should team-up to buy one license.

Businesses aren't selling unused Enterprise Edition keys, like happened with Windows 10. People declaring "just install" are proving they're arseholes who don't know Microsoft has super-charged its rent-seeking greed.

Strange, how this isn't a problem when a country restarts 10 toxic coal-burning power-plants. Anything that wins the global profit-making pissing-contest is the magically unavoidable price of modern life.

Yep, local hospital does that too. The PII is on one device only, the HDD. One could remove the HDD, sell the rest for $50 and that would pay for extracting the HDD and putting a drill-bit through the HDD platter, thrice.

The hospital destroying the 'whole' computer, probably leaves the HDD platter intact. If someone cared, they could transplant a new circuit board and stepper-motor into the HDD. Then the PII can be copied.

True but in no way an explanation for joining MAGAt.

Most times, it's flag-waving, white nepo-babies assuming they can impose their religion and racism on the rest of the world.

A man unable to undo the problems 'created' by Biden, is an alternative? We have different interpretations of the word "president".

I saw an overhead photo of this last week and didn't know what it was. I can't find the photo now. This article provides a better view.

https://www.captainelectro.com...

Years ago, someone suggested releasing seawater at 800m altitude to turn dry coastlines, green.

Yes, I'm tired of US state governments declaring I don't get health insurance until I accomplish a 60 hour work-week. That bribery needs to stop.

I'm not sure what alternative you're offering but money for services rendered tends to be very successful: There's even a word for incentivizing people/entities using money: Capitalism.

I suspect it's least efficient because there isn't a "you accomplish x" rule in that federal department. That happens plenty: broadband, health insurance, agriculture, food handling. For other departments, the money is given to the states who then have the responsibility of issuing "bribes": There, we see rampant cronyism or infrastructure money used as literal bribes, I mean, pay bonuses.

Rent control such as this, skews the market: If US government fixated on regulating the market, not corporate welfare, there wouldn't be an incentive to skew the market a second time.

This is why any applet keeping a log of personal contacts, is bad.

If one is crossing a border, any applet with a built-in communication history should be uninstalled: Remove the history, remove the address book, remove the identity. Government agents have been spying on phones for 15 years. Why are people still getting caught? They're thinking it "won't happen to me". They don't want to put the time in, deleting their history and then act surprised when their history is stolen.

If they're not legally liable for the testimonial, they'll say whatever they're paid to say. As the article suggests, make it an 'insurance' scheme they all contribute to, the incentive to whitewash the facts will reduce, greatly.

Trump is gutting the FAA, NTSB, NASA, NWS, NOAA, EPA, FDA, DoAg., FCC to eliminate legal responsibility: Billionaires can do whatever. Then eliminate the DoEd. so those jobs never come back.