Racism is universally bad. I guess that detail is a bit too complicated for you ...

And on the other hand, said comedian does a far better job than any career politician would have done. Maybe these people are valuable to society?

Like a true MAGA moron, you cannot read and have no clue what the function of a free press is. This "ban" is also applied to unclassified materials and obviously does not cover any illegal activities at all. Because, you know, these are already illegal.

These people have no shame.

Keep hallucinating. What will happen is that some things will simply not be available in the US anymore, and for others you will have to pay through the nose. The tariffs are one reason for that, but the more important one is that the US has grown unreliable (another blithering idiot may well get voted into office after Trump, directly or later) and businesses like that not one bit. They have moved out of countries for that reason alone.

Hence enjoy your delusions while the real changes are still possible to ignore. After that, good luck! You will need it.

Indeed. I work with some people that analyze firmware and software for critical government uses here. Using FOSS makes that analysis massively easier, and placing some of your own devs in there makes it even easier and you get additional benefits.

I'm not sure online sales were ever part of Walmart's core competencies; I suspect they contracted all that stuff out to third parties.

The reason I suspect that is that one of my relatives bought a product from Walmart.com and needed to return it, so she called the number listed on the front page of the Walmart.com web site (and dialled it correctly; I later double-checked the call record on her phone against the walmart.com web page), and the representative who answered put her on hold, then forwarded her to a scammer who tried to trick her into allowing him to TeamViewer in to her computer remotely. When she refused, he got increasingly abusive and eventually hung up on her.

So whomever Walmart was contracting for online support, they were at least bribable, and arguably criminal.

Indeed. Corrupting this decision would require a coup now. Also note that the decision was made 5 years ago and MS had ample time. And whatever they tried failed.

He probably got nothing, but may have gotten legal threats. Others will not even try to do the right thing these days, because there is no reward for that.

> I can tell that you have no idea what you're talking about because the vast majority of public K-12 school funding is through local taxes, not federal funding.

About 13% of public schools are funded federally. You say "the vast majority" as if to handwave 13% of their funding as unsubstantial. Most importantly, this funding goes to schools that do not have the local tax revenue to fully support them.

> The federal government has almost no control over it so they can't cut funding

The federal Dept. of Education plays a key role in ensuring equitable access to education. You know how they exert control over local schools? By creating and enforcing (or NOT enforcing) policies, because their job is ultimately to implement and enforce laws created by Congress that apply to public education.

> There are also many states that have charter schools that perform better for less money than the public schools, so it's not a money problem.

Charter schools have an abysmal reputation; approximately 1 in 4 charter schools end up out of business within 5 years, leaving their students in the lurch and those who paid for it with empty wallets.

It's just a scam to funnel public money into private hands and push indoctrination. Look at all the enshittification that's happened and is currently happening in the name of chasing profits - we cannot afford that in education, financially or culturally.
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That has already happened and MS did not notice at all. After 2 years, one of their customers noticed:
https://www.cisa.gov/sites/def...

The utter catastrophe of the MS cloud "strategy" is slowly getting worse and worse. Most "decision makers" at MS customers are deep in denial because they do not have an exit strategy. But there is really no way this is going to end in any other way than very badly. MS still cannot get basic stuff right at this time. That simply means they cannot fix the crap they built anymore and the only way to curb the mounting (and already extreme) cost of those defects is to move away to better products.

This is not the first time they made really bad mistakes like that. And they continue to make them. "Security is our highest priority" is nothing but a lie. At this time, the only valid conclusion is that MS cannot do this right and is incapable of learning.

That would require them to make the connection. Most are not capable of that and critical media is slowly getting eliminated.

Form an outside perspective, I think the "American Century" coming to an end is a good thing. People became lazy. Everybody has to try harder now.

To be fair, most people know "jack about shit". The difference is who they listen too and that makes all the difference.