Sorry, the Secret Service has been a joke agency for a while now

Do you want a ride? Im going there anyway.

Should be easy to get rid of those costly CEOs then.

I have a gaming laptop with two USB-A and USB-C ports, and it's a constant struggle to connect all my devices simultaneously without needing a hub. I use the two USB-A ports for my mouse and wireless headset dongles, while a phone charging cable and portable monitor take up the USB-Cs. This setup stresses me out because there's no extra space to connect anything else without losing functionality.

That's entirely why they inventing docking stations.

2006 is the Freshmen college class. 2008 isn't for 2 more years.

The decline started before the crash

I owned 5 Audi's over two decades.

As time went on it became evident that innovation had stopped. The first one was a Quattro (4 wheel differential) which had superb driving safety characteristics. On subsequent cars they took away the Quattro feature and limited it to insanely expensive models. The rest of the car stayed pretty much the same: same options, every iteration, just more expensive. Not a single feature improvement.

The integrated GPS never got any updates except for the ridiculously expensive SD card purchases, plus no way to link your mobile phone GPS to the damn thing even though it had been standard on most non German cars by then.

It was evident that VW Audi stopped being a car manufacturer a while ago and was just keeping the lights on until they had squeezed every last bit of juice out of their customers. Thankfully I was able to switch away from them eventually (company car).

Good riddance, I will never buy a German car again.

Precisely.

When anyone pulls the GDPR card it's almost always cause they're marketing your private data to everyone and their uncle.

Stop replying to yourself.

"Vaccines, COVID, masking, conspiracies, Trump. All in a gigantic doom loop that's not worth re-visiting ad nauseam."

But is 't the motto here, "news for nerds; stuff that matters." Those all sound like they matter.

"So just stop already. And please, stop with the microplastics while you're at it."

Ok, Chicken Little. Sticking your head in the sand and going LALALALALALALALALAL (*raspberries/fart sound*) because reality refuses to conform to your personal beliefs? Your head is so far up your ass! Grow up.

The amount of money is so low it could be stuck under that sign saying "Beware of the leopard". It's less than one tenth of the national debt of Belgium.

Tax payers will likely feel the tariff madness more.

AI Bots scraping AI generated content to feed the AI Machine.

I was on it before then, must have been hallucinating when I was using gopher and email.

A lot of companies in the world are actually European, but few people are aware. You mention SAP, which is actually German. Important pharmaceutic
al companies are officially US, but most of the work is done in Europe (remember the Covid vaccines?). Belgium has a huge chemical industry, which is all owned by US companies. Etc etc.

I'd rather live and work in the countries that make stuff and innovate than in the ones that have the stock market bling bling. Us Europeans will just survive and thrive, do our own thing and prosper. The US can have all the homeless people it wants.

Bullshit. You can ask for a $100 (or whatever) bond that you lose if you send spam. It's just another way to force people to go to your (even more crap) enshittified platform so you can show the market your "business model" is the greatest thing since the invention of the wheel.

"The botnet was used to launch more than 370,000 attacks in 80 countries, including China, Japan and the U.S., prosecutors said."

And no one was harmed or killed? Normally manslaughter to murder 1 (in the USA) is 10 years to life. A third of a million attacks targeting 37% of all nations on this panet gets at most TEN years? What the fuck is wrong with the US justice system?!?

They might as well start pardoning the criminals in DC (oh, right, they did that in January). What a banana republic