I'm sorry, but when you look at the current administration, are the people at the top people who scream to you "I reached my position because of my competence and skill"? It is the crowd that's constantly screaming about "DEI" that has been the most obsessed with promoting people based on appearance and personality over any actual competence whatsoever in the fields they're being put in charge of.

And for the record, the guy who led the X mob against this person - Nathan Cofnas - has stated that beyond "whistleblowing", his motivation is that Beyond whistleblowing, he states that after a 'revolution' removes professors like Arday, it will open opportunities for him to become 'head of the department of eugenics and race science at Harvard'. Are these the sort of people whose side you want to be on?

It's not that weird. Microsoft and Apple have been modifying their UIs for years with the aim of simplifying it so that ignorant users can do standard tasks. The average user today has no idea what a "file" is or where it is stored (what's a "directory"? what's a "filesystem"?)

In 1986, you were responsible for picking a physical location for your word processing files, consequently you were empowered to back them up.

Why? It's not the parents' job to stop drug pushers in the street talking to their children. It's the police's job. Kids are simply kids. It's American companies that are predatory. The state should absolutely get involved and cut them to size.

I presume it's because Muh Rule Of Law says that Trump can't ban them but can put tariffs on them.

"Rule of Law" makes everything stupid.

If students are being subjected to 4 GPa of pressure (40,000 bar), that's a real problem. I mean, that would crush their bodies beyond the limits of molecular cohesion, rupturing all cell membranes and turning all of their bodies' water into high-density ice. If the university is regularly murdering students this way, they should be stopped.

I'm not sure how pass/fail grades help, though.

Also, people think they're so clever when they do this, when they generally don't actually work with modern models anyway. It just makes you look manipulative and unprofessional.

Whether we like it or not, whether we use Windows or not, Microsoft is going to insist on adding the tax whether the PC comes shipped with Windows or not. This is illegal bundling, Microsoft has essentially ignored prior rulings, and it's pretty much a certainty the courts will be fine with this.

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There can't possibly be enough miniature human beings to make this research worthwhile

You'd be surprised! I've bought a lot of fairly cheap designer furniture on Ali Express, and every time I open the box it turns out to be miniature scale...

Doesn't Microsoft now make almost all its money from "The Cloud" (aka renting out servers)?

Windows only matters to the extent that they can steal your data and force you to rent servers from them to access it.

Intelligent people have warned for decades about the perils of exporting industry to hostile countries. It's the midwits who thought it was great to ship everything to China because Muh Efficiency.

Trump is trying to bring that manufacturing back, but it's far too late. The 'elite' are far too corrupt and far too incompetent to actually rebuild a working society.

> You're skipping the step where the failing empire undergoes a period of rapid military expansionism in order to fill its coffers by looting other countries.

Did you miss the last fifty years?

We're past the military building phase of collapse and well into the loot-the-treasury phase. There's no way to unite America into a massive military buildup because half the population are immigrants who would leave and the other half have no desire to fight for the Epstein Regime.

It's over an order of magnitude heavier than the largest of those (Helios).

There's a difference between an aircraft being built to lift itself and perhaps a tiny payload and be paperlight vs. an aircraft designed for actual commercial service carrying passengers.

The feet are needed to accelerate the plane to takeoff velocities in order to conserve battery mass.