A whole load of weapons that might have otherwise been sent to Ukraine got used up with no good way to replenish the stockpiles any time soon, the war in Ukraine itself dropped off the news cycle, and Russia is able to sell its oil without worrying about sanctions.

I think Putin got everything he wanted out of this.

So, what is the age of majority in your jurisdiction? 16? 18?

Did you know that the legal age for adulthood varies from 16 to 21, decided by each country?

Just in the USA, it can be 18, 19 or 21 depending in which state you reside.

Yes, this whole thing is a turbo-charged shit-show, but you're not helping...

"HD-Ready" is still prevalent amongst the smaller TVs.

I've just had to replace a 10-year old 32" FHD dumb LCD TV as the backlight failed (and repair was uneconomic) and at least half of the current offerings are less than 1920*1080, even from otherwise-reputable makers.

Worse still, many have dropped the "-Ready" part, so now you have to drill down quite a long way to find the actual resolution and, for some strange reason, vendors don't always make that information obvious.

Coincidentally, I ended up with a TCL "QLED" 32SFS560, and it turned out to be bloody awful in almost every way, so it went back for a full refund. I've replaced it with an LG which is much better.

So, the Linux percentage is falling, but that means nothing unless you also know if the total number of users across all platforms has increased, decreased or remained static.

I would suspect that the data would actually show lots of new Windows installs added to the total in the weeks after Christmas, pushing the Linux stats down...

So, NASA has a "right to repair" clause in the contract with the consortium that built the SLS stack?

Or is this just another misleading headline for an article that fails to call out the responsible parties...

Ghostery is what you need. I haven't seen an ad in years.

People still use pagers?

When you can have the CIA and/or NSA remotely set their desktop wallpaper to a picture of a horse's head, very little actual arm-twisting is required.

Not only no, but fuck no.

Nope, for two reasons:

The first is that incomes for jobs where night-shifts are commonplace have not risen in line with inflation, so real incomes in this sector are down.

The second is that most of the traditional night-shift jobs are, or rather were, in large-scale manufacturing, where shutting down a production line for the night is both problematic and costly. Over the period in question, production has either moved overseas or the products themselves have simply become irrelevant.

This, right here, is the problem. Buy from the lowest bidder, but with no contracted requirement that what they provide is fit for purpose.

I wonder who paid off whom to get this past oversight and scrutiny.

That sounds like more of a Shelbyville idea...

You make some good points regarding the source and underlying agenda, but

...it needs to be over 41 degrees for the buses to charge, but due to a battery recall the buses are a fire hazard and can't be charged in a garage.

rather sounds like an actual issue that needs investigating, irrespective of who reported it, or why.

I came here to make exactly this point, and with exactly the same example.

Could I be sued?

The combustion products of modern firearm propellants, from pistols to artillery, are the same things we seek to minimise generation of in civilian life - carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide and nitrogen.

Things on the receiving end of artillery, missiles and bombs tend to catch fire.

Even military vehicles, unlike their civilian counterparts, are not designed with low engine emissions as a primary design goal.

So, maybe not going to another country, shooting people and burning their stuff might help. Just saying...

...the next time any Government spokesperson tells us that back-doors to cryptography are perfectly safe as only law-enforcement will have them?