Yeah, my argument against deregulation is probably relevant here: big corporate is just big government by another name, except with even less transparency. Never fully trust any entity which has enormous power over your life; even the most well-intentioned mega-entity is still prone to accidentally ruining lives through bureaucratic oversight. So I would hope people protesting government intrusion would also realize that e.g. Facebook is a de facto global governing structure of sorts...

Though this might work for some things, unfortunately, I think it is susceptible to Nazism. "Does this video make society a better place" could get a "yes" from plenty of people who have just sat through a video telling them how $marginalized_group is the root of all evil and must be "dealt with" =/

"I am not in one of the niche areas that Photoshop serves and serves well so i dont give a damn. If I don't need it no-one does",

No, actually some of us do use some special features.

Like Spot colors for specialized metallic ink or packaging that saves load of money by using one pre-mixed ink plate.

Or bizarro file formats (If you think GIMP is going to open a file from an Ultrasound machine you think wrong)

Or very precise integration with the color profiles and mapping between your screens RGB and Indesign CMYK based printing workflow for accurate printing results. Hint: Printing, as in serious Printing, uses way different processes to render those nice colors than the RGB phosphors in you screen. they don't match. At all. Photoshop makes it work.

There ARE serious applications for photo software outside viewing and editing your porn in RGB out there.

Is PhotoShop a program for the average Joe? No.
Is a 25 Ton Semi-Truck a car for the average Joe? Neither.

But for some reason the Average Joe knows he does not need that truck but he only heard of Photoshop and then gets upset by the fact that he uses a hard-core high-end professional tool for professionals.

That does not make the tool garbage. That makes it an industry standard tool that needs all the bells and whistles used in real industry outside of you computer basement. I am pretty sure Adobe also thinks the thing is overloaded but they have a wide spectrum of clients.

Just like there are cars that suit your needs there are photo editing apps that suit your needs. Photoshop is almost surely not that tool.

Get out of your moms basement

She stabbed a guy who shot her dog? Is she related to John Wick? While we are on the subject of movies with body counts that piles up in the stratosphere for no reason at all.

Just clamp the phone between your knees while reading it and you can't get pregnant

⦠which form the basis of MacOS. A Neo with intern and bash is a very useful machine

Still is. The far majority of the core of Linux user space comes straight from there. You’re probably using it even as we speak

Profits have never been higher, and yet their offering continues to get worse. Remember when you could watch your total storage climb in real time? When was the last time you really felt like Google was innovating on their Gmail product? Enshittification continues unabated.

He a typical nerd left loonie who thinks that dissing anyone who uses or makes money makes him great for "sticking it to the man". Same sort of guy who think his users are nuts, laughs at people who do not use leet command line UIs and jacks of to ASCII Art Porn in his mother basement because he cannot interact with real humans. And only Open Source ASCII Art Porn Written by other nerds in Vi. AI is definitely not on, and if it is closed source... wel it involves money so it is not leeeeet enough.

No. However there is considerable evidence that Trump requires bribing in some manner before he will do something that other Presidents would do without a bribe because they are the right thing to do for the Country. Whether these particular contracts were only given because of the bribes is impossible to prove since they are indeed contracts that should have been given. But the opinion that they would not have been given without a bribe is a valid one, and Musk at least seems to have held that opinion. Hence the bribes.

While the second post did indeed contain publicly verifiable facts, the claim that they contradict the original claim is disputable at best. All they show is that Musk's Companies were capable of getting contracts and Government loans under Obama and Biden without the need for bribes. They do not show that Musk did not bribe Trump. In some ways this is even more damning for Trump, because the implication is that bribing Trump is necessary even if your Companies are deserving contracts. Or at the very least that Musk believed bribes to be necessary under Trump.

I personally agree with you that it didn't deserve a troll modification. It maybe deserved to be down-modded as irrelevant, although replies pointing out it's irrelevancy were sufficient as long as people weren't modding it up.

Okay, but that's not really helpful if you're looking for something comparable to a firestick but still want to sideload Android apps.

Or just don't fight it and get an NVIDIA Shield. It's a 10x better experience anyway.

The whole Cold War was about the Soviets/Russians being able to just completely change your precious country into radioactive glass with people living in the Stone Age. Ok, glass age.

“Take over” is. It the point. “Eliminate rivals” is the point. And I can ensure you the Russians have threatened, have tried and and will again. The US, believe it or not, is not a hermetically sealed block. It depends on external inputs and very definitely depends on other countries to buy your exports. And the Russians are most assuredly threaten your customers. They threatened to nuke the Chinese outright in the late 60s.

And then there is the election interference and Russian money in politics. The Russian mob bailed Trump out after he bankrupted a casino. Twice. Buying politicians is not the same as boots in the ground, no. But it most assuredly comes asymptotically close to “take over”

They also distract your attention and resources. The whole mess in the Middle East was made much much worse when the Soviets invaded Irans weak neighbor, Afghanistan, in 1979. The plan was to exploit the Iranian revolution and move their forces closer to the oil fields. Before that the US was not all that interested in the Persian Gulf. After that they had the entire 5th fleet based there. That war ultimately ended in 9/11 because the US was sort of forced to give money to the Jihadis to fight the Russians.

TypeScript has a very very advanced type system that pushes the boundaries far beyond the old-same 80s-90 Java/C++ Object stuff.