While I agree that their position is probably (at least) a bit hyperbolic, an argument could be made, from a support standpoint, that it would be preferable for all systems to go through the entire, same setup process, rather than having to deal with some that stopped at random points. From a real-life example, long ago, when I was a sys-admin at NASA LaRC and we had to do shifts on the Help Desk ...

I'm sure that "rock solid" evidence will be presented just after the GOP replacement for the ACA and "Infrastructure Week". :-)

Or Justice Alito would just use a loose interpretation of something from 16th century British Law and assert that it applies to support his desired interpretation of The Constitution, like he (basically) did to overturn Roe v. Wade.

Except for the 40% tariff on goods from Brazil, with whom the U.S. has a trade surplus -- apparently enacted to punish Brazil for its prosecution of former President Jair Bolsonaro (and friend of Trump) for attempting a coup. Can't have presidents who lost their election and attempted to stay in power go to jail, 'cause that would set a bad precedent. /s

Or more inexpensively? 'Cause they're not (necessarily) the same thing.

Nvidia is therefore a bubble. This article is complaining that Europe is an obstacle to further bubble inflation.
No amount of Nvidia etching IP onto wafers is worthy of a 4.6 TRILLION market cap - bigger than the 4.2 Trillion market cap of the ENTIRE name-brand pharmaceutical industry.

And, to complete that thought: (from Scrubs)

It's not even a new issue. Remember edited re-releases like E.T. where the police / federal agents are holding walkie-talkies instead of guns, or Star Wars and Han doesn't shoot first. Back IRL Trump has people censoring The Smithsonian to remove things that make America look, or people feel, bad.

With Pete, I'm guessing the latter. :-) But hey, at least he's not drunk or leaking thing on Signal - again; as far as we know anyway ...

Guessing... Pete Hegseth's "Warrior Ethos"? (From a guy who's pretty liberal with the hair gel. (pun intended?)) :-)

Increasingly subservient and/or irrelevant?

MAGA is a party/movement of exclusion, based on if one is MAGA enough and an ever narrowing definition of that. Anyone who doesn't agree with the current definition too hard and/or for too long won't be MAGA anymore. Trump easily discards even very loyal people if they don't conform; he may take you back if you have something he wants/needs, but he won't ever forget your transgression -- for as long as he can actually remember things anyway. Current toadies will be happy to remind him, though perhaps not entirely accurately. His brain operates on a LIFO model.

We're either in the Darkest Timeline or the DC Universe. Not sure which would be worse. (Washington D.C. maybe in both at the moment.)

Such prolific grifting; someone should nominate Trump for the Nobel Fleece Prize. :-)

Yup, 'cause those renewables, generating 54%, are a scam; that's Trump told the U.N. anyway.

(Guess he would know. More seriously, if he actually believed that, he'd be all -in on them. /s)