Yup, the current regime certainly has the circuses portion down but they seem to be lacking bread.

I don't see how it is relevant to the actual court case here

Many court cases brought on by billionaires aren't initiated with the intention of winning the case. They're platforms that allow the parties to gather as much dirt on the other as they can during the discovery phase and then air out all of their opponent's dirty laundry during the testimony portion of trial. In addition to that, they get to drain financial resources from their opponent, distract from their day-to-day leadership responsibilities, and just generally make their opponent's life miserable. Whether it's owners of private corporations going after each other or government officials filing frivolous lawsuits against their ideological opponents, it's all just an expedition of mudslinging and misery being adjudicated with our tax dollars.

If I "buy" a game from the Playstation store and later cancel my PSN subscription, will this alleged DRM check still work without PSN?

Laws don't stop people from doing things - they enumerate the punishments governments can enforce when people inevitably do those things.

Ego and hubris are the most addictive drugs on the planet. The world is full of cautionary tales and yet the majority of people still aspire to achieve conditions that often lead to that level of sycophancy, delusion, and addiction to fleeting approval from a fickle fanbase.

A prize in litterery.

When Linux ends support for a device, the Linux Gnome sneaks into the building and destroys the unsupported hardware. Everybody knows this.

Not every company needs to be a growth company

Agreed.

Starlink is a subsidiary of SpaceX, which is still a private company

If the rumors are true, then SpaceX will be undergoing an IPO. At that point, it will be owned by Wall St. and their mindset is that a stagnant company is a dying company. Their goal is constant growth at all costs to increase the value of their investment.

I can enjoy the stability and security of a Windows 9x host with the ease-of-use of the Linux userland.

Do you get paid extra for the capitalization?

Of course, I'm a capitalist, baby! I only do things for money. If it bothers you so much, you can pay me more to switch back to lowercase for future posts.

The president has immunity

If I understand the law correctly, he has immunity from criminal offenses for acts he commits during his presidency. I also believe he has immunity from being sued while he is president but I believe he can be sued for acts he committed during the presidency after he is out of office.

And he can (probably) pardon himself

Presidential pardons only work at the federal level. States may still be able to go after him for civil penalties and his co-conspirators for criminal penalties since they likely aren't covered by presidential immunity.

We'll see what happens after his second term

This is one of many reasons why he has no intention of ever leaving the White House.

Indeed. At the moment, I am simultaneously amazed and appalled by the answers given by AI. It's like having a conversation with someone with Multiple Personality Disorder where some personalities have an IQ of 120 and other personalities have an IQ of 80, and the person is really good at disguising which personality I'm currently engaging.

In the Age of Enshittification, it would be newsworthy if something new is truly better than its predecessor, but I'm not going to take the word of the company that makes the product.

Just because a person is a charlatan doesn't mean they don't have anything of value to offer. This is far more a case of thinking that the leopards wouldn't eat his face. FAFO

I particularly love that we are currently in a war of literal negotiation right now, where the exact traits of the Art-of-the-Deal Master Negotiator himself, the reason we just had to have him in foreign policy because he just such the dealmaker is not only flopping at dealmaking when there's real actual stakes on the line, he doesn't appear to be leading the negotiations.

Obviously that's why the U.S. hasn't succeeded with negotiations: Trump is too busy with important matters like redecorating the White House and he doesn't have time for pettiness like negotiating a deal to end the war that he started. I'm beginning to think Trump would prefer to be the First Lady rather than the President. He loves the power and prestige that come with the office, but when it comes to the work itself he'd rather delegate that out to whomever will get the job done while kissing his ass, which leaves him more time to work on vanity projects.