Shooting down each other's drones because nobody is competent enough for coordination is, technically, "working together in an unprecedented fashion". So there is that.

The thing I've learned about the far right is that they're constantly projecting. When they accuse others if bias, it's because they're biased. When they claim something is being done to them, it's really just a desire for them to do that to others. Thus it is with this claim, they're projecting their own fear and hate onto others.

At this point he's openly stealing from US taxpayers, by paying billions to his Bored of Peace which goes directly into his accounts (probably offshore for tax evasion, which is defacto legal for rich people in the US, Leona Helmsley was right 35 years ago).

I'd like to be more optimistic; but I'm not sure that would be the outcome. It's not like we actually expect operating under actual legal guidance (indeed, we come up with insulting nonsense like standards for 'qualified immunity' that basically let you off unless it's exceptionally obvious that you are operating against well established practice; and commonly just substitute things like 'acted according to policy and training' for questions of whether the policy and training reflect legal practice or not when it comes to even the excessive force cases that actually make it to trial.

And, if there's anything LLMs seem to be good at, it's generating results that look pretty plausible; so if you combine high plausibility narrative generation, a veneer of technological objectivity, and the downright servile deference to the official narrative, it would probably be even easier to beat the rap than it is now; when you can at least sometimes put the spotlight on someone clearly and distastefully letting their motives show or acting irrationally.

Neoliberalism and liberalism are two totally different things.

So typically American.

First solution to any problem is violence.

Makes it easy to dismiss your complaints as that of a raving mad man and all it results in are more sales of the surveillance cameras and the corporation being more ambiguous about what they're really doing once they've done the rebrand. You're not actually punishing the people violating your privacy, you're rewarding them.

They'll find someone else to blame... never admitting that they got it wrong... or that they are actually the cause of many of society's problems.

The solution to tribalism is never the eradication of the other tribe, those racists... Sorry, "legitimate concern about immigration types", once the foreigners are gone, they'll just move onto the next favourite target (Irish, Catholics/Prods, Jews, Northerners/Southerners, so on and so forth) as the next cause of all their problems. You know, the people they blamed before the foreigners. As each group is eradicated, they'll concentrate on the next one until there are two towns left and each one is blaming the other for everything that is wrong... Hell, it'll continue until there is one street with two houses, each wanting the other one gone.

In all of this, they never seem to figure out that the only common denominator with all of their problems is them.

Like I said, the solution is not getting rid of all the foreigners because they'll just start hating someone else baselessly. Not that they'll ever succeed mind you, as soon as the first thing goes wrong they turn on each other like a pit of vipers.

The problem isn't that no-one knows what the XBox brand is, it's pretty much common knowledge.

The problem is no-one wants the Xbox brand, not even most XBox owners (they're just stuck with it.

Marketers and managers refuse to accept the obvious and simple reality that no-one wants their product and services because better alternatives exist (GOG, Steam, et al) so they think that it must be no-one knows about it and this can be fixed through the Magic of Marketing. Not like we haven't seen umpteen single use stores fail before (EA Play/Origin, Uplay, so on and so forth) that has made gamers weary, also not like it's Microsoft's first attempt (Gone for Windows Live).

Same with TVs, phones, et al... No-one wants it. XBox's only selling point was the hardware which was sold below cost and now Microsoft doesn't want to even do that.

What you're responding to is 30+ years of someone watching Fox News, it's gotten to the point that they can't tell reality from fantasy any more. Anything bad is "left" and all things good are "right" (two legs bad, four legs good).

This is more likely the knowledge that companies contracted to provide something to the government in the US know full well there are no consequences for delivering under target. Especially with the current US govt. So they deliver the cheapest possible product regardless of if it's fit for purpose knowing they won't even get a slap on the wrist... and people who've spent 30 years fed on Fox will defend this to the hilt (nasty government daring to even question goodly private business... unless its a business Fox doesn't like of course, all are equal but some are less equal than others).

Clowns are running the circus (animals running the farm) and they're supported by even worse clowns.

That is the case in the UK. Datacenters pay business rates, not the regulated consumer rates... and constantly complain about it. Also have to abide by strict environmental regulations.

I'm sure a Libertardian will be along shortly to explain why not subsidising businesses and not allowing them to pollute willy-nilly is harmful whilst saying that people they don't like shouldn't receive public funds out of the other side of their mouth.

It's become the Bored of Peace...

Texas ignored it's infrastructure for years to keep it cheap which has lead to regular problems... now they're just looking for the cheapest way out of the hole they dug themselves into... which is battery and solar (those cheap Chinese made PV panels). Being green is entirely accidental, if burning orphans coated in baby seal oil was cheap ERCOT would completely support it.

I suspect they're still going to have the outages California doesn't.

I've relocated halfway across the world (Australia to the UK)... You start by getting short term accommodation to look for long term accommodation. It's more expensive than just getting long term accommodation but it's cheaper than getting scammed. There's almost always someone who leases by the month, you pay a premium for it but cheaper than a hotel/motel. It's useful as it lets you try before you buy, see if you like the place and find out where the good/bad neighbourhoods are.

I realize that this is either some fancy-looking exercise that goes nowhere as cover for what actually happens; or a shoddy crypto con; but what possible justification would there be for coming up with a new gaza-specific stablecoin, if you thought that stablecoins were the correct answer, rather than one of the other ones that is already in wider circulation?

Ai will just shine the light on the class of workers who have make-work just that exist solely to push them to vote harder.

When we can let markets replace them, itâ(TM)ll be a tragedy for a few generations and then it will be forgotten.