To be fair, things that blow up do go boom.

That’s such a feeble criticism: a socialist, living in a capitalist society where everything costs money, needs money to do things, therefore they’re not really a socialist. There’s no logic to that. Why would anyone imagine that a socialist doesn’t need money to do things in a capitalist society? Is he a fraud because he hasn’t transformed New York into a moneyless society since yesterday (despite not even being sworn in yet)? When did he promise to do that, or is it just right wingers having no clue what socialism is again?

The DHS has alleged that the 32-year-old “exited his vehicle wielding a hammer and threw rocks at law enforcement while he had a child in his car”.

I assume every single one of ICE’s stories is false, until proven otherwise.

This will surely reinvigorate the US economy.

Mint or Fedora would be my first choices. I use OpenSUSE Tumbleweed for my own computers but I think those others are better for people new to Linux. In my experience Fedora does a good job of combining up-to-dateness and stability. Mint is less up to date, but close enough to Ubuntu and Debian that loads of the help materials out there will apply to it.

Netanyahu has already done that by so diluting the word “antisemitic” that it means “criticizing anything Israel does, including genocide.” Being called antisemitic by his gang is a badge of honor. By ruining the word he has made it far harder for people to raise the alarm about actual antisemitism.

Unless the left can find some way of reaching them, right-wing media will convince Trump’s followers that “radical extremist Democrats” are causing all this trouble in the USA and only more fascism can fix it.

Your title still says “Kagy” instead of “Kagi”.

and making 10 of the richest men in the U.S. $7 billion richer in less than 1 year.

It was a hundred times more than that: $700 billion, or on average $70 billion each.

You can talk horsepower and dogpower all day, but I won’t really understand until you convert it to bananapower, for scale.

There’s a history of the USA’s bombings of other countries being clothed in “we’re helping” rhetoric while doing the opposite of helping. I don’t trust at all that this will help, especially when led by incompetent white supremacist fascists like Pete Hegseth.

That’s my thinking but I suspect it probably does this anyway.

I suspect “yes” comes with strings attached, which is why I’m sticking to the other option. But it’s likely I already agreed to the strings when I agreed to my company’s demand that we use Teams.

Also I don’t want to give some manager at Microsoft the satisfaction of adding my click on “Yes” to their stats.

I remember when the USA used to gloat about how in the USSR people had to stand in line for food.

Every single time I open Teams it pops up a dialogue asking if I want to try Copilot. There’s no “No” option, just “Yes” and “Maybe later”. If you click “Maybe later”, it asks again the next day. One day they’ll just assume “Yes” and not ask.

And this is at work for a company that has demanded we jam needless AI into all our applications.

Sometimes companies gradually reduce the usefulness of the free product to incentivize people to pay. They may do this.

Every time you think you know how dumb people are, they surprise you. And not in a good way.

But it is supposed to be discriminatory.

The best bit is that if you lose patience and cancel, the “Cancelling…” takes even longer than finishing the job would have done. I really have no idea what’s going on. Journalling file systems in Linux don’t have to do this.