> BRICS will acccccccidentally be dropping and towing anchors EVERYWHERE

Under sea cables are not a new thing and have been around a long time. Some do get cut accidentally. But there is no evidence to support the claim that BRICS are colluding to cut all under sea cables. People live in metaphorical glass houses. If you throw a rock at someone else's house, they might overreact and bulldoze yours.

As others have pointed out, you cannot rely on this data for anything meaningful. You could lay people off for any reason and blame it on AI, or lay them off because you think AI would do their work but use a completely different excuse.

This is a good example of completely pointless legislation that adds to the red tape problem.

> Armed federal agents wearing masks who refuse to identify themselves

It would not surprise me if some of these goons have the "Don't tread on me" flags on their private vehicles. They themselves are the threat they were warning us about.

Microsoft has known about the issues with power draw during sleep for many years. Linus TechTips on YouTube even did a name and shame episode on this issue a number of years ago. It got Microsoft's attention. They said they would work on the problem. But the rot must have been very deep. Issues persist to this day. Microsoft has created a monster that they do not know how to control. And they appear to be making things worse as of late with their forced AI tools.

> Even idiots knew their limits in the "good old days" before social media.

Now idiocy is glorified. Now if someone doesn't like what you said and expresses desire to punch you in the face, we consider them presidential material.

We are in deep decline.

>> once the cost of the tariffs are passed on to the consumer

> Still waiting for that, huh?

Honest question. Are you expecting other countries to pay the tariffs?

Agreed. I cashed out all of my investments.

The president of US is asking his own DOJ to give him $230m using taxpayer money because of emotional toll from having lost the 2020 election and various other BS things. There are no parallels to this. Every day I wake up to find out a new massive screwup at the national level. How can any govt. be so destructive to their own country?

We are thoroughly screwed. MAGA wanted to screw over the libs. But they have no idea of the destruction they have unleashed on the American public. When shit hits the fan, they, many of them poor and uneducated, will be first to feel the pain. Farmers who voted overwhelmingly for Trump are already there.

> ...during the beta testing period over the summer, user feedback suggested that some people would prefer to have a more opaque option for Liquid Glass.

It is possible and likely that most users prefer the opaque option. Particularly when you show them text getting rendered on top of text. You really do not want transparency in such cases. Transparency is lunacy in UI design. It may look "cool" in some controlled demos. But otherwise looks like a hot mess.

I remember in the early 2000s seeing some Linux terminals that implemented it. The cool factor lasted all of 5 seconds for me because readability was shit.

> Gorbachev gave the West everything beyond it's wildest dreams. Yet the West never embraced Russia, continued to treat them as an enemy and sought to further diminish them so they'd be even less of a threat.

Most of the west lined up to buy energy from Russia and was giving it billions of dollars each and every year. Russia became very wealthy in this process. Russia had savings of about $600 billion before they re-invaded Ukraine in 2022. Most of that came from the West.

Some people in the West still thought that Russia was capable of going back to its old habits. And they were proven right in 2014 and 2022. Russia is the only country that has tried to change national boundaries through force since the second world war. Russia has a long history of invasion and conquest of its neighbors. Old national habits die hard.

Russia has invaded and is currently illegally occupying land in at least three countries. Georgia in 2008. Ukraine in 2014 and 2022. Moldova in 1990.

The FCC chairman could tell the lobbyist to take a hike. Tell them that "we can do it the easy way or the hard way".

But that sort of thing cuts down bribes.. sorry, donations to him and his team.

The tough guy act is reserved only for silencing the critics of the Humpty Dumpty president.

I have a Kindle scribe I bought a few months ago. Prime day had a 40% sale. Pretty good value at that price. I take notes all the time with it. And occasionally send lengthy blog articles to it because it is easier to read on an e-ink device than LCD. One drawback of the current Kindle scribe is that you cannot search the handwritten notes. That is a big drawback for me. The new AI version appears to address that shortcoming.

I think I will wait for a 40% sale on the new Scribe and then upgrade.

> Which victims?
> The ones you can't really identify, because of the pseudonymity of bitcoin?

The victims were scammed the old fashioned way. The ill-gotten gains were then converted to Bitcoin.

> They should transfer the coins to their own wallet.. And delete the keys. Coins gone forever.

Who is they and why should they do this?

It is possible and likely that people are slowly migrating away and it will take some time.

you must tell us what we and our conspiracy-minded constituents want to hear. If you insist on telling us the truth, you are likely to get fired.