Is it, though? Yes I do blame voters for the destruction of the United States, but outside of the MAGA true believers, I don't think voters intended for Trump to do whatever the hell he wants. They expected, naively, the constitution to still be upheld and decent people in the administration to put the brakes on the unamerican things Trump is wont to do. That's what happened last time. Of course most of the rest of us saw all this rubbish coming like train wreck. Obviously Trump voters did not, unfortunately. And many of them are in denial, and will be until they die, even as the nation crumbles around them.

And even Republicans very upset with Trump are in complete denial. I talked with a relative who's a life-long republican a few days ago. Although he occasionally votes Democrat as a protest, he would never join that party, even though I try to tell him from an outsider's point of view the two parties are more similar than different on various economic issues. He thinks that in another three years the election will replace Trump and someone else will get in and things will go back to normal. But they won't! The republic has been irreversibly damaged by Trump supporters, and with guys like Vance waiting in the wings, the devastation will just continue. I'm not fatalist, nor someone that wishes for everything to collapse, but my breath is taken away by the speed at which Trump has torn down the constitution and the institutions of US democracy, and altered the entire the entire federal government which used to honor tradition by maintaining separations from the president. The fact he's been able to do that so quickly, and without even a peep of protest from the GOP indicates that a significant number of people in DC were already rotten, but held back by patriotic fellow civil servants who upheld the constitution (I'm sure they were evil democrats). I know how this is going to end but I'm still sad about it, and a bit angry because it's going to bring down my own country in a similar way---already politicians here are modeling themselves after trump and beginning the process of dismantling democracy a little at a time, starting with making voting more difficult.

Also laws in the USA apparently don't matter anymore. Don't forget no need to pay speeding fines, there's no identifiable victim so you shouldn't be punished anymore.

Absolutely wrong. What actually happens is that laws are strictly enforced, just not against the president and his friends, and those that curry favor with the president king. But you as a mere subject, if you do something wrong, expect the full force of the law to be used against you. This is how it works also in Russia or China, and all the corrupt countries on earth.

There was a time when banks' purpose was to safeguard depositors money and invest it carefully so it would grow, and then share those profits with the depositors. Interest was essentially payment for the money we loaned them. Now banks want to take my money for nearly free and then charge me for the privilege. All the while using my money to make tremendous profits, which they keep to themselves (and stock holders).

That said, there are serious issues with the whole ideal of infinite growth which is what everything is based on. Hey at least we can all go to the people's house in Washington DC and enjoy the new gilded ballroom and forget our troubles.

It does make sense. At least two generations of people never use them. My sister teaches in a university and says the emails she gets from students are atrocious. Even worse this sometimes carries over into their writing for course work. It's probably better now; this was all before the advent of AI doing students' homework for them. One wonders how they speak with each other if their written grammar is so bad. Turns out they don't speak with each other.

Yes sometimes taxes can alter consumer behavior. But most likely it just leads to consumers still buying but at inflated prices.

Interesting how Trump is bragging about how much money his taxes are bringing in, but never once mentions it's Americans who paid it.

The fact remains that many people got very rich off of Linus' work. Linus is not one of them. I believe he's okay with that. But it is distasteful so much money is being made with free software but those that are struggling to write and maintain it for the enjoyment of it, live in relative poverty comparatively.

I don't see any way competitors will be able to land people on the moon by 2027. I'm not convinced space x can do it either. But reopening the contract at this late stage is a little strange politically. All it will do is delay it further and ultimately cost more. Which may actually be fine for SpaceX who will certainly keep the contract.

You mean the CCP doesn't encourage or otherwise condone thus sort of crime by criminal gangs? Not quite sure what you're getting at.

Nope. Almost certainly it was not.

Wait what? Where did you get that from? The SD card was encrypted with luks and the computer ran Linux.

No that's not correct. The key is generated and burned into the firmware. Scott Manley covered that in depth. They had to recover the flash chip from the wrecked camera as well as the SD card.

They didn't. It was all in the camera firmware. But encrypting it at all is kind of silly.

Actually they didn't have the key. It was in a flash chip on the computer board that had to be removed and placed in a working camera from the manufacturer and then it was able to read the card. It's beyond me why they felt the need to run a fully encrypted file system on an SD card inside of a hermetically sealed camera unit that would normally never be opened by any customer. Companies have strange ideas about preserving their trade secrets I guess. Like instrument makers that require hardware keys for their software. Surely a million dollar instrument is a good enough hardware key!

Near as I could tell the idea that this was something from space originated from a random Twitter post by someone who claimed to know someone who was on the flight (but obviously not in the cockpit). Scott Manley covered this pretty thoroughly on his space oriented YouTube channel. But the plane definitely hit something and if it had been hit in slightly a different spot it might have killed a pilot. So serious stuff.

Oh, and no, he didn't sleep in a tent. He slept in his truck's bunk. European trucks are very compact and most of them have full sleeping bunks but you'd never realize it if you only knew what American trucks look like.