As much as I liked Visual Studio, its privacy intrusiveness was my final straw.

Best politicians that money can buy rent.

Navalny was in Russian custody, and his health was Russia’s responsibility. Putin still has blood on his hands for all the deaths in Ukraine.

Silly MedPiggy, Tax breaks are for Billionaires.

I wonder what other uses there are to sell data that is not for advertising? My second thought goes to what is in place to stop a middleman from saying that they would not sell information for advertising purposes, but selling the data for “quality control of data acquisition” purposes. If you are getting a service for free, you are the product.

No Nvidia for me.

When you are President for Life, the paths for succession and retirement are limited, and often abruptly enacted. Others will want that lifetime immunity too.

Have any of your blood relatives had any diseases that have a genetic component? Cancer? Heart disease? Yeah, we don’t cover that, it’s as clear as day, in the fine print, on page 13,131 of indexed addendum information. Additionally, you knowingly had this information from a DNA test, which constitutes fraud, making your policy null and void. Thank you for your business.

Where are these women going to find suitable partners to pick from? The smart ones left or will leave, the others will be growing sunflowers.

Not compared to a Musk truck. Then it’s 5% ish, and a bargain.

https://www.grantsinclair.com/product-page/iris-etrike-electric-vehicle

That is fixable. Make waves with higher ups. Many in education are trying to fight this same battle. There are better alternatives, as we all know. I also work in education.

I was getting excited about getting a new vehicle, and was looking at a Tesla.

But, Nope! I’ll ride a tricycle before Elon gets a penny from me.

A quick search confirms that MacOS is based from proprietary BSD UNIX code. It is not compatible with Linux

Almost. Disinformation is lying, while misinformation can be whaddaboutisms and/or a blackout of the inconvenient truths. Misinformation can include true facts, but use outliers as proof to their veracity. Misinformation can also include disinformation, but play semantics to minimize the controversies of labeling lies as the lies that they are.

Hamas continues to send missiles and hiding in areas barred from being attacked by military attacks from the rules of warfare. IDF says that they will not hold back on their counter-attacks, that the Palestinians were warned.

I see Russia attack Ukraine with the same terrorist targeting of civilian casualties as Hamas and Israel. My fear is that this is how warfare will be fought until enough carnage is inflicted that all sides see the consequences of breaking rules of engagement.

Morally, both sides (IDF and Hamas) have been bad for decades.

I quit YouTube because the ads were overwhelming, and quality content is so rare.

Many ideas here sound like the projects built, starting in the 1930s. They had many failures and a few successes.

But guns are still heavenly tools, and God works in mysterious ways. Thoughts and prayers? I hate this dystopia.

All major powers are deep in this mire, African countries, Brazil in its previous election, China, N. Korea, Russia, Saudis, U.S. and others are in various stages of being under attack, by the others, as well as attacking others. This warfare has a low barrier of entry, is cheap, and when it works, works amazingly well.

The cluster f*** that the world is in, now, is the result.

Whaddaboutism is playing some pretend moral ground game where the imaginary points don’t matter. If you are playing this game, you are missing what is actually happening.

Full disclosure, I am against fascism and oligarchies in all forms. They are all corrupt.

Is your medical and financial information your property or an insurance company’s property? Is this information given to governments, by threat of law? (Yes, if that state demands it, and depending on their constitution) Does a hacker have the right to sell whatever information that they acquire from any institution, or from you? The lack of a right of privacy in the US Constitution and ancient fossils in SCOTUS and legislatures will bring us rapidly forward to 1900 any day now, to their grappling with technology.