Honestly, I think the difference is how much software is in these things now. Everything is a computer. And software is something that is very cheap to do half-assed, but expensive to do well (and reliably).

TVs are a perfect example of this. The TV of 40 years ago had an analog tuner directly attached to a CRT. It did only one thing, and did it well. Today’s TVs are basically embedded computers with large screens. And the embedded software was probably written by the lowest bidder.

Yeah, but I wouldn’t tap that

trumped-up charges

I see what you did there

I was forced to quit using Reddit for the perfectly legitimate reason that it is run by a greedy little pigboy

Be careful what you wish for, if she blows up MAGA for good they will all run to whatever shitty political party Elon Musk is planning.

She doesn’t have the votes. If she did, she would just do it, and nobody involved would leak it to the press first.

It probably will work well for Republicans, because those same 40-45% of people have been conditioned by their media to repeatedly vote against their interests. This won’t change their vote at all.

These pictures all came from Epstein’s estate. I think you have hit the nail on the head, though. He would hold parties on his private island, have his own photographers there taking pictures, and then hold the pictures in case they became useful collateral at some point.

It worked well for Epstein, until it didn’t.

There are a lot of things that ought to be obvious based in how the Constitution is written – like how Presidents should not be able to harvest funds from foreign officials while in office, or that Presidents should not have license to break the law with impunity. This Supreme Court always finds a way to twist logic to favor the Administration’s view.

Next up is the Birthright Citizenship thing. Let’s see how that “cut and dry” thing goes.

And once this pardon gets to the Supremes, they will of course rule that it makes total sense for Presidents to pardon State crimes, because it’s what the Founders wanted all along. Then there will be 6 shiny new RVs parked in the majority justices’ driveways.

I don’t mean to jump down your throat on this, my beef isn’t with you. But I think it’s attitudes like this that enable Fascist regimes to establish themselves.

If things continue to go badly here in the US then historians will view this as “appeasement”. Not standing up against Fascism because it was more profitable that way.

But according to the article, these new hurdles will apply to visitors under the ESTA waiver also. And those are just as likely to be business travelers on short trips as they are full-on tourists.

Tell American executives that they can’t enter Europe, even for a week, without surrendering their own social media history and then they get to experience actual consequences.

At what point do these countries start reciprocating?

Start subjecting Americans (who can afford to go abroad) to the same bullshit we subject foreigners to and we might find support for the regime evaporating…

They do support free speech! You can say whatever you want, as long as it is not mean to Donald Trump.

I’ve given up on posting on Reddit entirely. I haven’t deleted my account, but I logged out of all of my devices and make sure I will never contribute anything, ever again.

There are a handful of subreddits I still want to keep tabs on (mainly for Sports) and I found that for the time being, Reddit still allows RSS. So there are 2 or 3 subs I monitor with an RSS reader just for the links.

I honestly don’t think we need a moratorium on new datacenters. However, local governments should stop cutting datacenter operators deals. They should not get any tax breaks that other businesses do not get, and local utilities should be able to charge them more for their power and water.

Use the datacenters to subsidize the rest of us These companies have the money, after all.

And while a datacenter might employ lots of people while it’s being constructed, once it is running it doesn’t take a big staff to operate at all. If a local government wants to create jobs, there are much better ways to do it.

Most people who are here without authorization entered legally and simply never left. Overstaying a visa is a serious infraction and can be grounds for being deported, but is not a crime.

So it simply isn’t true to say that all these people are criminals.

As outrageous as that sounds, I know a lot of professors/PhD’s, and many of them are that clueless. They have a lot of very specific knowledge in their field, but may not have much practical knowledge about the rest of the world.

Still, this is the type of instance where revoking his visa may still be justified, even if he ended up having most of his other consequences suspended.

It sucks to be on the side of history that still tries to be reasonable, even while the other side goes full throttle and wouldn’t give the same rational thinking any thought.

It’s not just someone getting an IV. It’s the blatant lying when asked about it. Nobody gets a bruise like that by “shaking hands”.

It’s not a departure from its traditional focus on bribery

Maybe he really is this shitty. Remember that the guy who used to have this job retired a few months ago. Maybe this guy was picked to replace him because he’s just as much of an asshole as the rest of them.