Replacing sudo might have merit because of what it does. But rewriting the rest of the utils in Rust is pretty pointless. I don't know why the speed is so bad with the rust-based utilities, though. Supposedly Rust's safety is compile-time and comes at no runtime cost.

Bring a hat and water.

Seriously, though, if you do focus on the cities first, that's 90% of the solution anyway, You have to start somewhere and you may as well start with where the most number of people are benefited.

Remember people, vote early, vote often.

Proof of what exactly? A large number of Americans support Trump regardless of what he does and he just finished telling the military they were going to be used against the enemy within, meaning fellow citizens of the United States. That's not opinion. That's fact. If you support this sort of action, would you also support it if a Democrat president did it? I certainly wouldn't.

A couple of particular things Trump has done have chilled me to the bone. First was when he patted Justice Roberts on the back and said, "I won't forget what you've done for me." And then this meeting with the generals where he made his intention clear to use the military against American citizens who oppose him. If those actions don't chill you also, I don't know what will.

Absolutely true about where the US media was on the spectrum. This is not a troll comment, mods. It's fact.

Was it you that pointed out that abortion wasn't even a social issue until the final desegregation push in the 70s? Thanks for educating me on that. I had no idea previously.

A Faustian bargain if there ever was one. But then again most political contests are like that.

I'm a bit curious, what sort of national security were you looking for? Is there a particular enemy you're concerned about? As far as your neighbors go, our nations are much less secure now that it appears the United States of America is as likely to invade as some other foreign power.

Who is this "you" you are referring to? I've heard a lot of conservative voices talk as if there's some sort of cohesive liberal group or ideology, but no such thing exists. I mean there's the Democrat party, but they are really neither liberal nor some unified ideology. I'm an extremely conservative person, but I'm sure you'd probably want to stick me in the "liberals" label. Before Trump came along, I was hard pressed to see any real difference between the GOP and the Democrat Party in terms of any policies that actually mattered to the country.

I'm not sure who "most conservatives" are, but if you are correct, that seems to indicate there's a distinct lack of empathy among such people. Perhaps you should think about liberals more and why they might feel the way they do. I know plenty of "liberal" people who would do well to do the same thing. They can all still disagree but at least knowing why they disagree is helpful and you might find you agree more than you disagree.

Wow! That's amazing that you actually believe that. The mind boggles. You really are afraid of democracy aren't you. When Trump calls up the secretary of state for a US state and asks him to "find me votes" that is what election fraud looks like, had the guy come through for trump. It really is hard for you to believe that many others in the country feel and vote differently than you do. Look, the democrats lost the first Trump election and also lost this last election (at least in the Electoral college which is what counts). You don't hear any of them saying millions of republican votes were fraudulent! You do hear people rightly expressing concern and even fighting widespread republican efforts to gerrymander districts to get more permanent seats. That's not voter fraud but it sure is fraudulent in its own right. It's certainly dishonest and unethical. You do find opposition to republican efforts to make voting harder for people they know will vote against them. Again that's not voter fraud, but it is its own form of fraud and dishonesty.

7 million fraudulent votes? Nope. But definitely 7 million people were convinced in some way not to vote. Which suits you just fine doesn't it. You really don't know what you're losing, do you? And you won't until it's far too late to get it back. I suggest you travel the world a bit. See for yourself what is happening in places like Russia, Hungary, Turkey. Study a bit of history. History doesn't repeat but it sure rhymes. My grandfather's generation fought a war to preserve the very things you are throwing away.

And for anything your man Trump does, consider: would you want a Democrat to be able to use those same powers? I sure don't. If you don't also, why would you want Trump to use them?

In seriousness, Trump will never cancel elections. Elections are primary tools used by authoritarian dictators to maintain power and legitimacy. Putin loves elections. Even Xi loves elections. Carefully choreographed elections with predetermined outcomes. Mussolini, like Trump, came to power in a legitimate election. He quickly worked to neuter electoral opposition. But even as he declared himself dictator, he continued to hold elections where he won the vast majority of the vote. Putin too continues to pull in 90% of the vote. Which makes sense when your choice is vote for Putin or volunteer to die in Ukraine (or just rot in jail). Trump's methods are not quite as brutal (yet), but just as effective. Gerrymandering, voter suppression, DOJ persecution of politicians and activists opposed to Trump. We will see Democrat candidates prosecuted (and jailed) before we're done. Remember the strict rule of law is very important to these types of leaders. More and more journalists will simply be sued by Trump himself into silence since he has the whole DOJ on his side; he has no problems using the federal government for his personal attacks and the GOP part of the supreme court is happy to let him.

Other current authoritarian leaders are also employing the same playbook. Viktor Urban of Hungary, and Erdogan of Turkey. It's just that Trump managed to do in less than 10 months what took both of these guys over 10 years to do.

While they managed to save money moving it domestically it sounds like they did it without cheapening up the overall product quality which is good to hear. Plenty of made-in-America products have been cheapened out over the years.

Vivaldi uses the Google chrome engine, so it doesn't really help with web engine diversity and has the same Manifest v3 restrictions, although they do put in some native ad blocking. The buyers of Opera also got Opera's web rendering engine, which is, as far as I know, closed source, unfortunately.

Actually I suspect this verification will roll out to all versions of Android currently pulling Google Play Services updates. In other words existing phones will see this rolled out sooner or later.

And at the same time they can get rid of popular youtube apps that avoid the advertising rubbish. There's no way NewPipe's developer can get a verified dev account.

If I can't run the apps I or others make without some stupid signing process, and side load what I want, what's the point of even using Android? Might as well go to an iPhone and have a fully curated "experience."

As for Europe, this is definitely malicious compliance. It does technically comply with EU demands even as it thumbs its nose at the intention of the regulation. The EU will have to continually fine-tune the regulation as Google is going to do its level best to end run around it every time.

A free tier is great and all, but suppose I want to make an app for others to side load that Google disagrees with? They will obviously pull the verification and prevent anyone from using my app. And if an app becomes popular, reglardless of what app store it's in, Google can bump the developer to a higher paid tier and demand payment.

I have to hand it to Google. They've on-upped Apple on this. They can claim to government regulators they allow side-loading, while still maintaining absolute control over what people do with their phones and they've found a way to charge for every app even if it's not on their store. I fully expect Apple to do the exact same thing. Sweet sweet 30%. Although by manipulating the developer fees they basically charge anything they want.

All in all this is very disappointing and unacceptable.

Everyone expected e-books to kill off dead tree publishing. But it never did. Ebook "sales" never did overtake dead tree. It's still a big thing for some people (and obviously very profitable), but among the general populous, ebooks have never really gained much traction. And I don't know of anyone that reads books on their phones.

Audiobooks seem to be increasing in popularity, however. I'm not sure how that influences this growing trend of illiteracy. I do know more than a few people that don't like reading, or struggle to read, who regularly listen to audiobooks.

So far it's working no better or worse than before the pandemic. In many respects the quantitative easing was a success and interest rates remain low. The economy is most at risk presently from the ever-changing whims of the president.

As far as ignoring debt I'd agree with you, except that governments (and voters apparently) are concerned about the debt and are using it as an excuse to cut public spending and many things that actually are a net benefit to the society and economy. If they just pretended debt didn't matter or exist, and spend whatever they want/need, then things might actually work okay; they did before anyway. Except for the minor problem that most of this debt is actually owed to citizens who are using government bonds as a savings vehicle, and they will need that money when they retire, so more money is borrowed from the next generation to pay the previous one.