But there is about:
- constantly lying about economic indicators to international organizations
- manipulating currency exchange rates
- endorsing/subsidizing massive ip theft
- disregarding environmental regulations
- deep disregard for worker health and safety
- complete disregard for product safely ... I'd keep going but it's pointless because you're probably a Chinese funded bot anyway.

....I'm curious how they'd tell the difference?

WILL they follow their natural 'fuck Trump and everything he does' combined with the power of their innate 'EV advocacy' stance?

Or, will the herd find themselves unable to rationalize away ceaselessly toxic Chinese behavior, industrially, economically, commercially and find themselves ... if not supporting, then not directly able to attack Trump on this one?

Or will someone manage to simply do BOTH and to hell with intellectual consistency?

Awkward bedfellows are almost certain to follow! Stay tuned with bated breath!

(if /. posting code was from the 21st century, I'd toss in the animated meme of Michael Jackson in a theater eating popcorn eagerly awaiting the show!)

"73.7% of the weight of goods moved less than 250 miles in 2023"

Yes, and you know what happened next?
THEY TOOK ANOTHER LOAD instead of waiting for hours to refill their tanks.
The vast majority of trucking is city driving, which indeed are MUCH shorter than 250, likely shorter than 100mi. Which means those trucks are running 2-3-4-5 loads a day. ...and nearly none of that time is spent refueling.

Do you think the trucks just drive to a place and come back and one load they're done?

"And everyone should get a free pony!"

You keep waving that magic wand. 'Long hauls need to stop being a thing'.
That's fine, you go ahead and completely restructure the US freight distribution market. I'll wait.

Lol when "slightly less left" has all the socialists crying foul.

CBS was eating $50m/yr to keep Colbert on the air, because when the Progressives were in charge, *any* loss was acceptable to "resist" the Bad Orange Man and push The Message.

Setting aside the rest of your bullshit,
"Denying them entry to apply for asylum, which is their legal right per international treaty to which we are a signatory (making it the second-highest law of the land, per the constitution) is therefore an act of culturally and nationally entrenched racism. "

In fact, they are legally obligated to take asylum in the first country they come to.
So... Mexicans, you may have a leg to stand on.
Nicaraguan, Honduran, Costa Rican, Venezuelan, Somalian etc by the letter of the "law" YOU quote, can fuck right off then.

Your insistence that racism forms and creates everything undercuts your point: if it's so thoroughly universal, it sounds fundamentally human so why fight it? On what basis can you assert it's even possible to not be racist, when *everything* is defined thereby?
A black man commits a crime. (Compelled to do so because victim of racism)
He is arrested. (Racism)
He is set free because of his skin color and the history of racism (racism)

What are you proving?

Then I insist you address me as "your highness" and my feelings will be hurt if you don't.

"America is not the world's police force, as much as it likes to think it is"
Well, I am pretty sure there are a number of other countries that have quite cheerfully welcomed the US as "the worlds police force" when it suited them?

That said, I agree with you.

Can we also then agree that the US is ALSO not:
- the world's doctor
- the world's therapist
- the world's funding organization
- the worlds kitchen
- the worlds fireman
???

That said, the world designed in 1946-1960, while very much to the US's benefit, was also crazy fucking expensive and while the [total economic destruction of all civilized countries over 2 world wars] left the US then as clearly "the guy who could buy everyone lunch" that is obviously no longer true.

I understand the advantages and value of soft-power politics. As well as long-view foreign policy. Not everything a country does is for it's IMMEDIATE, tangible gain.
(But, it should be noted, since about the 1980s, the 'soft power ROI' has been devaluing steadily. As multiple generations grow up with the US footing the bill for, well, everything it has appeared rather clearly being taken for granted today.)

The US borrows 1/4-1/5 of every dollar from the future. To pay for AIDS treatment in sub-Saharan Africa is laudable...but why is that the US's problem? When we had $ to burn? Great, spend it on pure-good things. But if you're borrowing money on your credit card to donate to the homeless, you're a fucking moron.

"This strengthens the idea that asteroids may have brought the ingredients for the first living organisms to Earth long ago"
Does it?

Is there a vast difference between "some nucleotides developed here on primitive earth" vs "some nucleotides developed on (random asteroid X) and crashed to earth"?
Do these have to be exclusive?
How is 'it came from space rock' intrinsically more plausible than 'it ALSO came from space rock'?

If nucleotides are ubiquitous enough to show up on "random rock in space" all that really seems to suggest is that you DON'T need a massive gravity well, atmosphere, magnetosphere, tidal forces, whatever to generate them, that f-sub-l in the Drake Equation is at least a bit higher than it was.

Assuming the asteroid belt is a planet that failed to form, the logical conclusion here seems to be that these nucleotides were absolutely part of the coalescing earth from the start - and likely are part of every body in the solar system (or were), to some degree.

I bet this would happen.

There are a lot of voices in social media expressing disappointment that it's going to be animated.

The actors are mid40s to mid60s now. Look, I loved the show, I look forward to this, but a live-action with them is not going to have the energy the original show did.

Further, they don't have the MONEY to do live action. Nobody has picked this up but it's going to be a fucktun cheaper than actual studio, actual sets, etc. Not to mention Serenity frankly bombed - and even as a fan, I thought it sucked pretty hard. "Selling this" isn't going to be about nostalgia, it's going to be about convincing some money guys that they'll make more money, full stop.

I'm vaguely concerned that neither Whedon nor Minnear are associated; the actors were charming but the writing is what really popped in the show. Whedon's been cancelled into the Phantom Zone last time anyone saw him (somewhere a light-year past Louis CK, I think) but Minnear did OOG which I think is one of the best episodes on television.

I *hope* this is a success and wish them all the best.

"...it has gotten to the point where some people claim that Linux runs their games better than Windows does..."
Article makes the same claim, unsubstantiated.
Genuinely curious to see which games these are and how edge-case the circumstances.

Even https://discuss.cachyos.org/t/..., which is a pro-Catchy forum the best I can find is that one of them is SHOCKED it actually runs better on Catchy "all of those games (minus BL4 which runs about 20 fps less at least) have either been running the same as in Win 11 or shockingly, sometimes better like Cyberpunk and Forza."

I'm certain that SOME games run on linux.
I'd have even bet money that some run better than Win11, the malware/reporting engine that it is.

But the fact that (AFAIK) on any given game, you pretty much have to cross your fingers and "hope" it runs on linux to say nothing of running BETTER than Win ... isn't the most compelling testimony to go sprinting to install Linux OS for gaming, sorry.

Is easier always the better choice?

You don't really know what the word pedant means do you?