The most dangerous thing is that he believes himself untouchable. The only interest he operates in is his own.

Oh. Making something illegal illegal again? That’ll be effective.

A hungry population is easier to direct in violence. Tell them who the enemy is, who the reason for their problems is, and they will focus on that hatred and prejudice. Blame others for the problems.

That’s what the republicans have been doing, and they will continue to do it.

That’s the kind of control I think the commenter meant.

Right now we’re easy to control because we’re afraid to lose what we’ve got.

Thanks

I’ve started using SearXNG. Are these better?

TIL “irruption” is a real word that can mean a sudden in increase in numbers.

Sound, too, if you have anything better than just stereo.

The vast majority of these issues could be solved if people a) read any halfway-decent book, b) and didn’t choose to remain willfully ignorant. It’s fine to misunderstand or just not know something. We’ve all been there, we’ll be there again. NBD. But to be shown or offered the correct way and still choose to do it wrongly? That’s not cool at all.

I mean for the service to block them or eliminate the troll accounts. Not for the user to do so.

I’ll be in the same place I was before I was born.

Can they not just block these? I get that this is a never ending battle against troll farms and the like, but is BSky already falling to the “more engagement is better and we don’t care if it’s nefarious engagement” trap already?

I split the difference. I adjust the side mirrors so that I cannot see the sides of my car from my normal driving position. If I move my head at all, such as the prerequisite shoulder check when changing lanes, the side of my car is visible.

I have been driving like this for more than a decade and have had no issues with backing my car up or seeing behind me. There are still blind spots, unfortunately, but they’re smaller.

Couple that with this:

U.S. President Donald Trump announced plans Monday night to impose massive tariffs on Taiwan-made chips in an attempt to incentivize companies to relocate production to the United States. On the one hand, this could reduce American companies’ reliance on Taiwan in general and TSMC in particular. On the other hand, building a semiconductor fab takes three to four years, so the effect of production moving to the US due to tariffs may not be felt for some time.

I can hear the prices falling for consumers already.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/future-chips-act-under-trump-admin

Sorry it’s a Fox link, but it was the top result.

Basically the dumbass is knee-jerk undoing everything Biden did because it was done by democrats, and of course doing it without thinking about the results.

So kill the CHIPS act because Biden bad, and slap tariffs on random shit because of something someone told him once that foreign stuff = bad and it makes him look strong, but never actually think that harming your own technology production + jacking up prices on your imported tech might be a shitty combo for your citizens and businesses.

Just over $2,600 for the US people so you can compare. No idea what the markups are on computer parts in Romania.

I think a good computer could be built for a better price and with known maker components.

Absolutely agreed.

No idea what the branding is or any warranty on those parts, if any. I’m building a mid-tier/budget PC right now and the market is flooded with (knockoff? Not sure what to call them. Just cheap parts with bizarre maker names) and you need to sift through a lot of junk to find more trusted brands.

For decent parts, though, it’s still not cheap to build a good gaming PC. Mot of the standard manufacturers are still there - EVGA, Asus, MSi, Corsair, etc. This is the third computer I’ve built in the last 6 months and the price fluctuations are all over the place as well as even the quality for well known brands.

As opposed to all the leaking oil pipelines, petroleum fires, leaking methane, etc? No, this place has a pretty poor track record, but let’s not make it “the industry”.

Only if you ignore all the leaking pipelines, oil refinery fires, leaking methane, oil spills, coal emissions, etc…

Just watched Section 31.

Guess AI crap gets to be canon now. Mercurial Scottish crazy Vulcan bots, too.

Better way for the dictator in chief to directly control the government with his latest whim and completely skip congress or any other people actually in charge.