Working as designed and built slowly for decades. The goal was always to create a voter block that would consistently keep the right in power, no matter what.

I’m not a huge fan of them either, but there are far more terrible things to wake up to.

Someone should write a poem to capture the point.

One could say he has been and more, given the state of things. Just a tariff/tax would be bad, but he’s hunting citizens.

At this point any pee-involving evidence is minor compared to the rest.

The GOP and now MAGA left conservatism behind long ago. And it’s not like conservatism itself is bad when applied in places that need less change to work. One can even be liberal, radical, and conservative, just on different topics.

This is a cult. Period.

Now that children were hurt, officials will start to do someth… oh, right, forgot that Sandy Hook disproved that concept.

You’re not wrong…

…you know the rest.

It also means the OS is in total control of the things it’s running. This goes for running programs, shutting down, and crashing. The only crashes I have on my Linux are when I use up memory, and I’m still convinced that even though everything looks seized up, if I left it for hours or days it would probably end up resolving itself. I’ve had some cases where the OS saw the program wasn’t going in a good direction fast enough and killed it.

For Microsoft, it’s probably worth the hemorrhaging costs to try and save the much larger investment they’ve already made in and stop the plummet of its use.

This is what happens when officials give the worst people freedom to do the things they’ve fantasized about.

Mos Eisley had rules and ethics far above what we’re seeing.

Desperation on both sides. Microsoft for their crap, and the IT dept buyers of the license who need to validate to higher up they didn’t throw money in the toilet.

Wealth creator. In a monkey paw sort of way.

Which is exactly why the Prime Directive was set up. And I’m a believer in the theory that we are apes that, for various reasons, evolved certain abilities far faster than other primitive characteristics could keep up. We’re like toddlers with things we shouldn’t have.

Terran Empire.

Starfleet did have its problems, but anything involving humans is going to. Associating with humans was the most illogical thing Vulcans ever did. I guess the strategy was to have the insane on their side so they could watch them closely.

Blame Microsoft sure, but where this ignorance of LLMs’ faults keeps coming from is baffling. Either the CTO and CIO and the rest of the IT departments are idiots, or someone is grabbing their bonuses while they can before things break.

Good analogy by using cars. You can test drive a car. Since a lot (all?) distros have a way to run off a USB, so you can get the general “feel” of it. Then you can go from there. Or if you have room to work with, setting up dual boot isn’t that hard (outside of how Windows acts sometimes about it). Asking a lot of people what flavor ice cream they prefer isn’t going to help you decide your own.

This is good parenting. You can’t always be there to guide them or restrict them, nor should you want to be. You instead help them understand how to navigate the world themselves smartly. This is true for anything, not just what they see on the internet.

My C-64 still boots up instantly, just as it did on day one. Far faster than Windows could ever dream.

A smart man once said, “Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me.”