Given his obvious and proven popularity, Biden should ask Sanders to be his vice president.

You'll find -loads- of books, magazines and music on Usenet. That included most recent textbooks, novels, etc. A lot of the better scientific papers can also be had there. I'm a voracious reader, and very rarely do I get skunked. Oh, and all of it's free, all you need is a Usenet server sub.

LOL! I'm my own grampaw! I love that tune. Our bluegrass band used to play that a lot, we were asked to do it every show. The band was small, but all of us loved funny tunes, and we wrote a few based on our own experiences. Funny songs stick in the mind, and provoke some thinking. That's why even those with what's usually a very sobering point, when done as humor, manage to worm themselves a bit deeper in many psyches.
    Great tune, and thanks for posting that, AC. You're a fine human bean! :>

A fact from available data says that, in the US, black people are far more likely to suffer from the COVID-19 virus pandemic. This is sad, but add to that the fact that poor people and the homeless are also affected at a much higher rate. This, and some other appalling facts, makes it clear that Americans, who claim to be predominantly christian, do not live the faith they claim. Christian, Jewish, and Muslim scripture tells them to care for the least of us, the poor and disadvantaged, those that "society" ignores, discards, and treats as disposable.

    That Boris Johnson has this terrible affliction, and is now gagging up bloody froth and bits of his lungs, is sad. I wouldn't wish that on anyone, short of Hitler, Nixon, US Republikkkans and Trump. My atheism is strengthened often by evil people like these. If a loving, omniscient, omnipotent god exists, s/he would have done -something- long ago.

    I'm in the US, so I don't know enough about Boris Johnson to condemn him, but based on what I -do- know, he's not a good man, nor a good leader. I suspect that many will mourn his passing, but many more will suffer from what he, and those like him who follow and support his racist nationalism, have done and will do.

    No, the novel coronavirus is extremely unlikely to be a RepubliKKKan plot. Would the idea make a helluva movie plot? Most likely. Still, science and the available facts tell me that from its animal origin, it came to humans in a filthy Chinese market, the type of market that the Communist government of China has supposedly outlawed. They still exist, most in the same places for a very long time, and their practices today are arguably the same as they always were. And no, that was not a condemnation of China, or the Chinese people. Their government, like that in the US, simply doesn't care. They're much too busy punishing their people(ask the Uighurs, for example) and setting up more surveillance to care.

    OK, bottom line. Sorry(sorta) for what may be taken as a rant, or at least off-topic. I believe it to be very relevant to the topic. While I don't wish this evil on Boris Johnson, there's a lot more who leave no question of their ignorance, racism, indifference to inconvenient truth and malevolence. Where is "divine retribution" when it's sorely needed?

    One more thing, before you mod me down. I'm just one man, so in the grand scheme of things I'm unimportant, but FWIW, I offer an abject apology to the world at large, the countries and people the US treats so badly so often, and to my fellow US people. An honest, heartfelt apology to you all, and to many on this planet who follow evil leaders. I'm sorry that my country apparently had/has no intention of adhering to the noble premises of democracy, or of being a -good- world citizen. We, collectively, as "a people", are wrong, and I suspect we're beyond being able to change that. This one man is sorry, for all that's worth.

Yes, Starlink's unquestionably a real threat to terrestrial astronomy, one that the general public doesn't understand well enough to be concerned. Arguably orders of magnitude worse is the threat to spacecraft posed by orbital debris. Yes, space is reeeeally big, there's a lot of, um, space up there, but as the Amazon sat system grows, the risk of collisions grows exponentially.
    And so it goes.

And so it goes.

"and explicitly seek consent from consumers aged 16 or younger to sell personal information."

Hey, kids! This spiffy new app/gadget/doodad can be yours, free.
  All you have to do is trade your privacy and other data, and this widget can be yours.
Be the first among all your friends to have this !
    Act now!

Amazing, yes. To be that smart and that stupid in one swell foop.
  I hope this individual gets some prison time, during which he/she will most likely learn something important.

The things AT$T has allegedly done sound like theft. That's a CRIME. But, ok, sure, take 'em to court, at least the lawyers get paid. I'd wager the people who were ROBBED won't get much, if any, of their money back. The suits at AT$T get paid too, win or lose.
  This world is more like it is now every day.

Nature will.

Seems sorts strange to me. Either you have a fire or you don't, it's binary. Of course, it's Wally World.

Why are all these things connected to the intertubes?
  I'm still waiting to hear from someone who knows. If these bits of critical infrastructure are at risk, is there really some compelling reason they're all connected?

...better, actually. Now I see that FB could have been even worse than it is now. AOHell ownership would have taken those bits to some very strange places, and dispensed the evil accordingly. Wow.

So, if I ensure that I add one or more of Carlin's 7 words, or similar, to content I create, it could result in fewer ads?
    Hmm. I suggest that the entirety of this concept is still TBD, but it's interesting so far.
  Let's also add monetize, leverage, and "for" free to that word list.