US Government entity with budgets counted in billions currently depends on unpaid work of a single guy. The code is open and free. They could invest some $$$ into forking it and taking ownership of its maintenance. It is widely beleived they probably wouldn't notice financial impact even if it was few millions per year. I'd like to know what are the reasons they haven't done it already.

For me, woke means trying to set environment so that noone gets offended for being left out, misrepresented etc. Long ago before "wokeness" entered mainstream my wife studied and got her master's in pollitical sciences. One of very important topics of their research was exactly this - would different representation in media translate to better outcomes in reality. Like would equal number of men and women on political party's billboards over time translate into having better distribution of power between genders. The thing is, you need to respect many many quotas. For that proverbial billboard you need also to accomodate not only two genders now. Are there all the races on the billboard? All the sexual orientations? Short and tall people? Fat and thin? Jocks and geeks? Bald and hairy? All the religions? The list goes on. In the end, trying to tick all those boxes consumes too much energy which would be perhaps better spent elsewhere. Regarding art, trying to control art with political correctness results in what today passes as art but isn't.

It would be great if it got as you say. Maybe it will, maybe it won't. So far it's just wishful thinking.

Everything you say and do _is_ monitored. The only reason _you_ don't see this in democracies is because you don't _want_ to see.

Your headaches stem from drinking pipe cleaner grade stuff. You could drink better stuff which won't give you headache, or you could save money by deluding yourself that every alcoholic drink gives headache. I know this first hand because I'm highly sensitive to cheap stuff, gives me terrible headaches. Some homebrew pear rakija without any sugar added though, nicely cooled, is real pleasure once in a while.

Can't wait what will happen when people vote that little bitch VuÄiÄ out of my Serbia. The thing is, he sucks all of them cocks, US, EU, Russian, Chinese, Arabian, you name it. What will happen if we finally get someone who works in people's best interest and against neo colonialists? Get invaded by everyone at once? Or in turns?

I would like to see what happens when payment for default search engine is outlawed. If Apple, Samsung and others want to make Google default for free just because it makes their product better, I guess that's OK, provided "free" doesn't mean "all kinds of other shenanigans like sharing users' private data but called free because no money involved" and similar.

You are correct about everything you wrote. But this is Slashdot, USA. Their thruth is not your (or mine, for that matter) thruth.

Football: ball is tossed around using feet.

Pax Americana

Both are.

Also T-shirts. They are really good at selling T-shirts.

1. Shitlist everyone except EU and other banana republics.
2. Contribute greatly to start of next world war, win it without any significant damage.
3. Sell destroyed nations everything they need to rebuild.
4. Profit!

It worked great the last time, perhaps it will again.

Immortan Joe, is that you?

Nothing new under the sun.