...a new study has determined that water is wet.

lucky 10,000!

Time to go down the Panspermia rabbit hole!

That the primary motivator towards forcing the sale wasn't the algorithm as such, it was the probability that the PRC would use TikTok as a propaganda tool.

The Republicans aren't conservative in any sensible meaning of the word. They are radicals. The Democrats are far more conservative than the Republicans these days.

Lots of medical workers, especially in rural hospitals, are on H1-Bs.

I never stopped coming in to the office. Before that I worked in industrial automation, and that work couldn't be done remotely either.

"diesel engines are known for being especially difficult to start in cold."

When I was in the Army in Korea in 1985/86 one of the duties on the duty roster was to start every vehicle in the motor pool every 4 hours and run it for half an hour to keep it warm. Nothing like getting up at 0200 on a Sunday morning to spend an hour in the motor pool.

Thinking deeper on it, you might be a prime example of how captialism is indeed a cult. Thanks for the sermon buddy, but you proved the opposite of your point. Capitalism in practice is always a matter of power and favoritism, and a key attribute is pretending it's an equalizer while making systemic inequality worse. The numbers, and history, back this up in every conceivable way. Pretending communism is just theology while capitalism is "science" is disingenuous, arguing in bad faith, and fucking laughable. Might as well be arguing astrology vs astronomy with a fortune-teller.

You're entitled to be as wrong as you like

Nearly got canned for defending them on slashdot during the quiet period pre-IPO.

DivX's Stage6 *could* have put us 10 years ahead of where we are now media-wise with regard to revenue share, remix culture, and media company profits for streaming even... if the asshats at companies like UMG, and in particular UMG itself, could have worked with technology instead of losing their paranoid, backwards minds over it.

Fuck UMG.

...but home grown backdoors are just peachy keen!

Officially unintended, but in practice... clearly core to its premise.

Yes, buying. I lived in Cedar City Utah and first encountered Linux in a RedHat 2.0 beige box at a gaming store in Red Cliffs Mall in St George. Probably in 1994 or 5. Came with a couple of manuals, a boot floppy, and a CD. Had the 0.95 kernel. Getting dial-up configured was interesting since the ISP only knew about Trumpet Winsock... Then leaving it running for a few hours in the evening to update everything.

Within a week I was at the local BN buying O'Reilly books.

I'd say you can pick one over the other. Choose to spend your next 10 minutes without money or without air.