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What an ineffective distraction ftom the Epstein Files!

And what a travesty Drumpf is literally playing with the lives of others, American and Venezuelan, to do so.

Confirms the rumours I saw on spez's site last week. Someone got margin called or at least needed a huuuuuge invisible helping hand. I wonder how long the charade can last.

That's at least partly because the tax department itself is chronically underfunded. In the US the IRS literally avoids auditing really rich people most of the time because it's too much for their budget. Whereas, they can pick on less wealthy people, who also cannot afford to defend themselves in court.

Fortran -- because helping any of the idiot CxOs who embraced vibe coding will only reward them and delay popping the bubble. Let 'em hang by their greed.

I hope any dev who's asked to come back and fix vibe-coding demands 3x their previous wage, double the vacation and stock options.

There is adventurescientists.org which has projects (sadly most are US-only, but sometimes they extend into Canada). They aren't necessarily 'camp's with groups, but they might have something appealing to you.

What an out-of-touch person.

Oh, I didn't mean to excuse or minimise in any way the GOP's own failures and malice in all of this. They were/are certainly the primary ones responsible...

Never forget how Merrick Garland and those who enabled him slow-walked all of this. They could have let Smith loose in the summer of 2024 but, oh Noes, the 'perception!' of it all. /s

There may be a point, in hindsight, where inaction is viewed by history as complicity. Fuck all the enablers.

Hell they're doing it again with the DOJ/FBI's blatant violation of the Epstein Files transparency act... talking about 'writing up this, censuring that' and the talk of allowing up to a full YEAR more to comply before impeaching Bondi. More slow-walking.

I have installed Open-Shell on the win11 system I cannot avoid (Thanks for nothing ASUS for your total lack of effort in supporting standards on your laptops, BTW. Keyboard? Nah, we'll make its USB descriptors totally different just for the lulz. Sound? Intel HD, but why make it work with standard Linux drivers?).

https://open-shell.github.io/Open-Shell-Menu/

It's really good and makes the system feel like Win7 at its height in this respect.

This is the best.

Thanks, I keep forgetting that the archiver there bypasses paywalls ;)

Full article is paywalled, but the attempt at shaming in the first paragraph I could read -- that Conservatives in the US have any sense or concern about hypocrisy, is woefully naive. They don't care that they apply standards to others but not themselves. There is no 'pressure' applied to them in pointing this out, either.

I also suspect none of the people that matter even read The Atlantic either. Words haven't been enough to stop these fascists for a long time.

WTF they are in Vancouver, BC? I'm going to contact my reps tomorrow, this shit needs to be OUT of Canada YESTERDAY.

https://www.alt.org/nethack/hterm/

I've wondered at times if DNS resolution should be a vote system at the client side; one chooses a set of, say 3 DNS servers, and trusts the majority reply, reporting the dissenting one, if there is one, to some other set of observers who can then evaluate if something hinky is afoot.

And it's the same in the private sector; corporations that are rich enough just violate the law, and are almost never held to account. If they are, the fines are usually much less than half of the ill gains, so they just mark them as a cost of doing (illegal) business.

Soldered in, or upgradeable at least? The former would be a huge reason to never buy the newest gen of laptops.

EDIT: Missed in article, yeah this would suck if they stick to soldered RAM for ultra-thins.

Another problem manufacturers face is with notebooks that ship with soldered DRAM. In particular, ultrathin designs would need to be revamped to modify their configurations.

Is there any sort of legal or social contract here that the state(s) could argue is being violated, as grounds to draw up a resolution of secession? Would such a threat do any good? Maybe this isn't the 'hill to die on' but... what will be, if anything? Am I out of question marks? :p

I'm not American so I don't know if this even makes sense, but at what point will states have to take things to another level in their relationship with the Federal government?

Isn't this basically a declaration of war? Shots don't even need to be fired; if this is their official intention, Greenland must prepare for invasion. What insanity.

So will local and state police now do their jobs and arrest ICE agents flaunting their state's laws? At some point they need to choose sides.

Then again, what if the Trump admin passes a Federal law stating ICE agents must explicitly wear masks? What then?