I'll believe it when I see it not turn out to be just another grift, like the trump phones ... made in the USA, err, actually a spraypainted 3-generation-old Chinese phone ... oh, and that is never actually delivered, and the trump watches ... solid gold, err, actually a spray-painted timex ... oh, and that is never actually delivered, and the trump shoes, made in the USA, err, actually made in an Indonesian sweatshop by child labour, ... oh, and that is never actually delivered ... Wash rinse repeat It's grift all the way down

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It means Iran has severely limited the capacity of the Strait of Hormuz. It's a hostage situation. No one is winning, but the objective isn't to win in the sense of completely closing the Strait, the objective is to create a sufficiently long period of pain that eventually the US and its allies walk away. Christ almighty, force multiplication is hardly a new concept.

There are plenty of places in North America without coverage because there's so little to cover. The Los Vegas metropolitan area has about three million people. So yes, that would be a place with cell phone coverage. By the same token, coverage in states like Montana, particularly in mountainous areas is spotty because, well, there's not a lot of people.

Are you fucking stupid? Names actually are useful, which is why we propers nouns at all.

Jesus fuck the supporters of Trump really are a pack of morally compromised halfwits.

I suspect you were just asked to be nice, and through a combination of spectrum OCD and insufficient cognitive therapy, you decided somehow you were being asked to do something wrong.

So you helped elect an ignorant sociopath. Congrats on that. Maybe you should have attended more of those cognitive therapy sessions.

Jesus Fucking Christ. It's 2026, Trump has been putting his boot on the necks of major networks and studios for a year and a half now. I realize you probably fell into a coma in 2016, but ten years later, the free press, regardless of what you think of it, or fair you imagine it is, is under direct assault. Fuck off with the "MSM" bullshit and grow the fuck up.

Yes, sadly, they do not cure mental illness.

So, it's just another trump shakedown dressed up as national security then. He shakes this stick, mysteriously and completely coincidentally Anthropic and OpenAI and all the others pony up a few million in donations to his campaign or buy his crypto or gold shoes or whatever and all of a sudden the issue goes away ... until the next round of bullying begins.

I work in IT in K12, and we've been looking at these because the unit price is the same or *lower* than the crappy Lenovos we've been giving the kids for years with all the new price hikes this year. That, and they're better machines for the money. They're looking for close to a grand now for a crappy Lenovo 100w with 8GB RAM that was $400 a couple of years ago.

Truth Social I'm sure. As hard as it is to believe, there are still people who think Trump is a genius, and still want to "own the Libs".

How are these people not in prison?

40% of Canada's land area is covered in forests. It is simply impossible to "manage" that much forest, and it's utterly fucking absurd to suggest otherwise. And to try to take climate change out of the equation is just a way of misdirecting away from the actual fucking cause; GHG emissions raising surface temperatures.

When will humans stop buying the most trivially fucking moronic red herrings? What a disreputable idiotic species.

It's almost as if allowing emissions to ramp up with little meaningful effort to control them is having the inevitable consequences predicted decades ago. But let's not deal with that, because it's hard. Instead let's have the President of the United States demand Canada hold back the tides.