Indeed. Providing anonymous emails to avoid giving your real information to spammers, tracking companies, and other commercial entities is one thing - but providing it so your authorities don't get it is a completely different ballgame. If you want rule of law back in the US, you need to get "MAGA" out of power completely and let the GOP rebuild as a conservative party while out of power for a long time at all levels. Maybe you even need a completely different party to emerge.

I disagree with Apple really should have just been honest with its pro users and said "We no longer care about you,"'.They've abandoned a very specific and shrinking segment of pro users, but the vast majority of pro users are covered by today's lineup with Mac Studio at the top. There just aren't that many things which need a traditional tower anymore. And I'd argue that almost no-one needed the Mac Pro - as you excellently explain.

One minor peeve - what is "pro" today? Most office workers can do their work just fine with the some of the cheapest equipment you get - isn't that "professional" enough? Even most developers can do most of their work on laptops these days - and if they need more horsepower, that's likely to be on the server side anyway. Don't they count? And what about project managers, lawyers, and CEOs - aren't they "pro" either?

They were targeted as a workstation, not a "Mac in a PC-like chassis for home". So they had Intel Xeon CPUs, AMDs workstation line of GPUs, ECC memory etc.When looking at similar offerings, they weren't priced that bad.

Even more than the PCI-lanes, there wasn't hardware to justify it. With Apple Silicon, the GPU is built in and you can't fill the case with cards from NVidia to make it a CUDA-monster or handle graphics beyond the (impressive) abilities of the combined CPU/GPU.

If adding 3rd party GPUs was possible, the use case for actually buying a tower might have led to a huge increase in sales - relative to its existing sales level, of course.

The main foe at the moment is Russia, and they surely know where the carrier is. If Iran is interested at all, they get the information from their allies in Russia.

Yes, an i-Pace. Brilliant car. Compared to today's EV lineup it needs some upgrades (longer range, faster charging, Apple Carkey, wireless carplay and Android audio), but it is just such a nice place to be - and drive.

Korean cars are in the top half of the brands in reliability reports, while most US brands are clustered near the bottom. Strangely enough with the exception of Tesla, which has a bad rep for build quality here.

When it comes to handling - I've never driven a US made supercar or sports car. I was talking of SUVs and sedans, and for those the US cars I've tried (Fords, Cadillac, Pontiac, Chevrolet) have been universally bad. I've had a Hyundai, which was OK+. My current car is an electric Jaguar, which has really nice handling.

Korean cars these days are well made, and well equipped - rather than the long, confusing, flexible, and expensive accessory list you get from European and American car makers they tend to group them into 3-4 levels with the latter having the kitchen sink. They have long warranties (7 years for Kia here) because they stand behind their "these are well made cars" claim. As for handling, the ones I've had/used aren't on the level with the best European cars - but they are far, far better than anything American I've ever driven.

When I think of American cars, I think of poorly made and bad handling. I had some while I lived in the US and when I've been vacationing there or on conferences - and I'd never buy one again. Even before the "I'd rather avoid American products"-phase now that Trump is supporting Russia and threatening democratic countries.

As for EVs - I'v had EVs for 9 years now. They're absolutely great, and I won't buy a fossil car again. Fortunately, most others here do the same. The air is so much better near the roads/crossroads, and I can smell when a fossil car passes by.

The content of the Epstein files must be pretty bad for Trump, considering how much work he is putting into not releasing them despite a law to do so. In July 2025 Seth Meyers claimed: We’re just one Epstein story away from Trump announcing that UFOs are real, and it looks he's going down that path now.

Here's one case where the answer to a question in the headline certainly isn't "no".

OK, then. My first point - that the US isn't sponsoring the Canada by buying from them - is of course correct. By not recognizing that - or that tariffs aren't paid by foreign countries, but by US residents and businesses - it seems like you are the victim of TDS: Believing everything he says, and following it.

First, as you do not attempt to defend it I assume that you admit that "sponsoring other countries" (in this context Canada) is flat out wrong - just as wrong as claiming that other countries pay the tariffs, rather than Americans. Trump is economically illiterate, and others who know better - e.g. the secretary of the treasury. - don't dare to correct him.

Second - most of the countries Trump hate have better conditions for blue collar jobs than the US. Including Canada, Europe, Japan, etc. Public healthcare, vacations, sick leave, unions, and better pay. China and other poor countries (e.g. Bangladesh, India) differ here. As for tariffs bringing back jobs - they also make goods more expensive for everyone, and of course loses a lot of jobs that are exporting goods. I'm looking for a car - it was never going to be a US car, obviously -not good enough - but these days being assembled in the US are also disqualifying. Just as I paid extra to avoid US products for a rehabilitation last summer.

Free trade leads to better outcomes across the board. If the US - the "original free market nation" - can't compete, they need to look at the reasons. More STEM and less stupidity ("MAGA", conspiracy theories, antivaxxers, birthers, etc) is a good start.

The US wasn't sponsoring Canada, that was just basic economic illiteracy. As for why Americans can't afford heating and healthcare, that's caused by national US policies.

Trump antagonized Canada, not the other way around by talking about Canada as the 51st state, and trying to pressure them into his failing state by tariffs not respecting earlier agreements. When you're antagonizing everyone, don't be surprised if they look for other partners.

Throwing around the word "communism" doesn't make it accurate. Sure, China is run by the communist party but it's not very communist anymore - they mostly left that behind in order to have economic growth. Today, it's more like a dictatorship where you can get rich, do most things, and own most things as long as you don't threaten the power of the ruling class (AKA "the communist party"). And beyond that, there isn't a lot of communism around - fortunately. It was a complete economic and humanitarian failure, and should be on history's scrap heap alongside fascism and nazism.