Most carriers are running their own RCS relays now.

Those that don't fall back to Google but Google has said they're not going to allow freeloading for much longer.

But, AIUI, there's a conspiracy to only allow "approved" clients to uae any of them. Certs I'd guess but haven't looked deeply enough. GrapheneOS lacks an RCS client currently. Phones with full user ownership are also blocked.

Most people I know don't care and use Signal.

This is "victory" because the Dems like the environment, so stopping anyone from knowing about it is ergo "beating the Dems".

Same reason the Republicans were all about demolishing the ACA (an act written by a Republican and then edited by Republicans because the Democrat proposals weren't acceptable to them). The ACA was voted on by Dems and therefore had to be destroyed, the fact that it has led to many Americans being without any healthcare at all and more than a few dying as a result is considered an acceptable price to pay for killing something Democrats voted for.

"Victory" is not about doing anything worthwhile, it's about "owning the Dems".

Of course they colluded with foreign powers. However, it's irrelevant. Since the legalisation of corruption (Trump abolished any enforcement of corruption laws), the US has slid from an already disastrous level of corruption into total degeneracy. It will take years, maybe decades, simply to root out all of the evil that is now in place and by then those who committed treason will either be safely overseas, or their records will have been "accidentally" destroyed, making any investigation impossible.

I would point out, though, that the countries the GOP has historically strong ties with also have extraordinarily high levels of corruption - and have done for a long time - and nobody bothers to do anything about it. This is what Trump is relying on. Once corruption at this level is normalised, everyone just accepts it and moves on.

Worse, I just don't see any serious will to fix the issue amongst any of the other political groups in the US. The Democrats aren't being honest with themselves over why they lost in 2024, and have swung so far to the right themselves that Ronald Reagan would have considered them right-wing extremists.

This is something voters can fix, but almost half of Americans have totally disengaged at this point and the other half believes themselves so powerless that (to use a Douglas Adamsism) they're only concerned with preventing the wrong lizard from being elected.

... you insensitive clod!

And it works just as good, if not better, than the fully up-to-date Office 365 on my work Mac.

They're finally going to unleash a Bob / Clippy mashup that does something.

Hilarious stories await us.

Sad ones too.

They forked SailfishOS to create a domestic OS to avoid these kinds of problems.

Russian linux devs still contribute to that tree though Linus banned their ethnicity from his tree.

Since we're all speculating, probably their phone is clunky and some Generals kept their iPhones against advice or orders because they're more featureful and convenient.

We'll hear eventually.

Oh, we could have had Marcia Lucas and gotten something pretty awesome.

Instead we got farking Jar-Jar.

/ will never forgive you for that, George

This was especially noticeable in the recent Red Hulk dvd release. Blurry scenes and meh CGI, likely due to downscaling.

I bought the DVD instead of blu-ray to save a few bucks bc I wasn't really interested in the movie; waste of money.

Which is, of course, nonsense. Nothing stops you from making a copy of encrypted data. What sucks is that for a backup, you likely can't do incremental.

Your error is on this line:

104,544,000 square feet / (5280 feet / mile) = 19,800 square miles

You need to square the denominator so that you're dividing by the number of square feet in a square mile. 104,544,000/5280^2 = 3.75

An acre is 1/640th of a square mile, so 2,400 acres/640 = 3.75 sq miles.

An acre is defined as the area of one chain by one furlong (66 by 660 feet), which is equal to 10 sq chains. There are 80 chains in a mile, or 6,400 sq chains, hence dividing by 640.

God, I love these old units. They make me feel so feudal!

That site is blocking VPN clients (sus) but here's another one you can pick up at CVS:

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Imagine how much jet fuel was wasted on being stupid.

This is an example of "sometimes you can be too careful".

In your case it might simply be that there was not enough of this kind of tasks in the training data.

Exactly, we would have had cataclysmic earthquakes if the summary were correct.

The poles have shifted dramatically in recent decades and the field has weakened substantially leading to bright auroras in Florida and Hawaii at low KP numbers.

Models have the North Pole arriving at the Bay of Bengal sooner than anybody would expect. Christmas will be awkward until we change our vocabulary..