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Comment Re:Trump is obviously a compromised asset... (Score 1) 690

...for the Democrats.

If he hadn't campaigned so hard for Republicans... if he hadn't told voters to treat the election like he was on the ballot... many of those Republicans might have won re-election.

But we Democrats also need to remember: Trump will not (I hope) be on the ballot in 2028. If we run Congress like people voted for us instead of against Trump, we may rediscover that, as in 2024, the voters are willing to vote against us, too. Heck, we may even rediscover that with the same Presidential nominee...

That's a key point - D's need to get stuff done; even if it means passing legislation that Trump vetos and forcing override votes. I suspect there will be enough R's that see the handwriting on the wall and want to survive 2028 and to do that they need to work with D's and make things better. Will there be 59/6 or so to do that?

Comment Re:If you want to go down a rabbit hole here... (Score 5, Insightful) 36

Don't get mad at Meta, look into how the Supreme Court starting with Sullivan vs New York Times has created a legal environment where public figures like Haidt effectively have almost no recourse to defamation protection unless it is in a very narrow window of extremely blunt bad behavior.

It's the cost of a viable and vigorous free press. If it is easier to sue an win a defamation suit, it becomes a powerful tool to stifle reporting. It's also important to people who post on public forums because lowered protection cultured result in expensive court cases for them as well.

In Meta's case, if they actually did it then that may reach the actual malice level, depending on what was said, but IANAL so who knows?

Comment Re: I've said it before (Score 1) 181

"Generally this isn't true, instead it is stored in large quantities of stock or other assets"

It is still used as a leveraged mechanism with which to purchase things. How the hell do you think they live in big fucking houses and have chauffeurs? Thus it is effectively cash.

And with that cash they buy power, hoard resources, and generally fuck over the human population.

You're absolutely blind to how stock gets used. You're the one trolling, here.

Comment Re:Looks Fake (Score 2) 23

Maybe just RTFA would answer your question:

"It was Bielfeldt’s curiosity about the inner workings of inkjet printers that inspired his winning entry, but capturing the action of ink drops being deposited on paper was a challenge, given that the process happens so quickly. The droplets, for instance, moved faster than the camera’s shutter speed. Bielfeldt’s solution was to deconstruct the printer so that the paper moved under a stationary (rather than moving) printhead, and then take the image in a dark room, using a flash to serve as the shutter, thereby freezing the ink drops mid-air."

Comment Re:QWERTY Syndrome (Score 1) 131

or Nash Equilibrium. If EU wants to get away from MS and GOP's flakey tribalism, they have to agree to all (or most) moving at once, and accept a learning curve.

I'd go with Nash Equilibrium here. DVORK is not inherently better than QWERTY for typing speed, although it is less prone to causing RSI. The big downside is the learning curve and making shortcuts like Ctrl-V harder to press.

Comment Re:Users hate software changes (Score 1) 131

To that one user: "Tough shit. You're getting and using the updated software or you can find yourself a new job." Assuming you have that power, of course.

User: The annual report is nit ready because IT forced a software update and it broke the report generation. I tried to warn them but they did it anyway...

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