The East Wing, where first ladies created history, planned state dinners and promoted causes, is now history itself. The two-story structure of drawing rooms and offices, including workspace for first ladies and their staffs, has been turned into rubble,

Of course he demolished the part of the White House that was traditionally used by women.

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shouldn’t other types of engines be tried?

Sure, but the tricky bit is to be more specific than that.

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But 55% of the time it works every time.

Heliboard seems decent, though I don’t know anything about the developers.

They’re offering a helpful guide so others don’t have to spend ages figuring it out for themselves. There’s no need to react so negatively.

It’s not about buying the technology though: it’s about buying the right to use it without being punished by the law.

Let’s replace their customers with not-customers.

Shame everything you do on the internet supports them through AWS though. Maybe they need more outages to drive those customers away.

They only said the bed was smart.

Capitalism serves capital, not the needs of the people. And the free market of competition is just a convenient myth with which to distract people.

By saying things in public like “let’s rewrite the entire operating system,” Microsoft are not giving off reassuring vibes. Rewriting the entire anything never goes smoothly, and Windows has a track record of ambitious failures followed by more conservative releases that are more successful. They’re bringing these anxious responses upon themselves.

Over in the Linux world we have a cute penguin who leaves you alone.

If I had $500 million I wouldn’t work another day in my life. You would never hear about me. I would go live somewhere quiet and have everything I could possibly want delivered to me.

That sounds like it might drive a person crazy too. I hope that after acquiring the financial freedom to choose what to do, I’d find the motivation and energy to choose to do some actually worthwhile things with other people, just staying alert to what needs doing. I agree about these guys being mentally unwell though. They’re stuck in a rut of greed for more money and power, and they lack the perspective, imagination or capacity to appreciate life that they’d need to change course.

Well done Netanyahu: your genocidal crimes made the AIPAC brand too toxic even for Israel’s bought politicians.

Elon.

Well duh, obviously.

Many Americans are already unable to read it in English.

https://www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/2024-2025-literacy-statistics

https://www.theglobalstatistics.com/literacy-rate-in-the-united-states/

The point still applies though. They can pick you up on suspicion of using a VPN or Tor, and if you can’t prove you didn’t they will punish you. It will be used to silence politically inconvenient people and prevent them organizing online. If you organize your left-wing protest online in cleartext they thwart your plans and maybe arrest you. If you organize it using encryption they arrest you and thwart your plans and imprison you and ban you from the internet.

All the “we can find a way around it” arguments duck the main point, which is that they know you’ll be doing that and they’ll have a perfect excuse to arrest you if they think you’re worth stopping.

It’s quite possible they will make an exception for corporate VPNs while banning them for the rest of us. There will be a big fee to buy a corporate encryption licence, unaffordable to the peasants.