My coworkers and I have been discussing how to prepare our company for tariffs since last November. I didn't realize that we were smarter than then smartest businessmen. Perhaps that is no great feat.
Trump promised his voters "vengeance"; that is what they voted for.
April Fools seems like a relic of a happier time in the tech world. That said, I've found myself following /r/SBCGaming on Reddit recently and they had a decent one today with their game of the month, announcing that a historically terrible game (Superman 64) had been selected.
There are little hand-held emulation systems made in China these days that hobbyists enjoy developing for and playing with. Anbernic makes a model with the physical design of the GBA[0] and others make ones similar to the SP. They are neat little toys.
My favorite was some comment on Reddit or other observing how often people had to resort to paying medical bills via GoFundMe. They had the idea to create one large pool of money in order to pay the medical bills of all citizens. It is often hard to tell trolling from genuine incompetence.
There's a fabulous article[0] by William Langewiesche in "The Atlantic" that I read years ago to that effect; it's "An Extraordinarily Expensive Way to Fight ISIS" that follows a B-2 mission against a group of ISIS militants in the desert that shows how ridiculous they are against such an enemy. But yes, essentially they are enormous military-industrial capital investments, and it seems they just want to get used now and again.
Although my company is a small, private firm, we maintain systems that are considered important public infrastructure and as such we are eligible to work with CISA. They have provided red team pen-testing for us in the past, though my understanding is that that team has now been let go by DOGE. They also provide weekly vulnerability scans and reports as well as supplemental scans when new threats are found. We literally got a notice from them today about a PHP vulnerability and rectified it within a few hours of the alert. They been a good resource for us and I hope that they are able to continue.
I remember "Justified" portraying the area (technically it's Harlan County in Eastern Kentucky) much like you describe, and then the show visited the black portions of the region and the poverty appeared even deeper. That said, as a resident of Texas, I can tell you that that sort of poverty isn't limited to Appalachia.
I saw one in the US a few weeks ago that had a Mexican license plate. Pretty interesting because I'm aware of the brand but had not seen one in person.
He was reinstated quickly at the order of the vice president. It's been strange getting older and seeing aspects of politics I thought were fairly fundamental quickly change. I remember not too long ago when accusations of racism were considered slanderous attacks by liberals on conservatives, and now they are apparently reveling in racism because it bothers liberals. It's no way to run a government if you ask me, but no one seems interested in my (seemingly) outdated opinions.
They are in those sizes, but they are not AA or AAA replacements because the voltages are different. If you want to use rechargeable batteries in devices made for alkaline batteries, Eneloop branded NI-MH batteries would me my preference, though other brands are also an option.
I've never been able to square the easy access and vast private ownership of firearms in the US with the ideal of non-violence. It's an outlier in the developed world for being a rather violent place; perhaps it is just how the country works.
The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act was signed into federal law in 1986 and established a program to compensate individuals who were harmed by vaccines because it was known that there were vaccine injuries.
> I’m old enough to remember conservative republicans from 2008 ish era and while there was some dumb stuff, anything 2016 and beyond is unparalleled and its revisionist to say otherwise.
"Idiocracy" came out in 2006, and Carl Sagan was writing about American anti-intellectualism long before that. I'd also note that 2008 brought us Sarah Palin on the Republican ticket. I agree things were better, but the rot was clear to some already.
Definitionally, a veteran is no longer serving the country. If you're strictly thinking about it from a perspective of efficiency, providing them any service at all is a waste. This is not how I consider it, but I wonder if a billionaire who thinks that all other humans are NPCs might think this way.
Last I read (though it's been awhile), Guantanamo was still housing an aging group of indefinite detainees from the war on terror to the tune of much more than a million per head per year (healthcare costs being the biggest expense).
Is 8 degrees the angular size of the Earth from the moon? Aren't GPS satellites in relatively high orbit, so it could potentially be a larger patch of sky.
It's funny, I've used that exact term, kapo, for Shapiro for probably a decade now, but I was thinking more of the "Commentary Magazine" crew. They are (as far as I know) not rich and make Jewish identity a stronger part of their brand.
> Musk made the call for Derek Chauvin's release from prison Tuesday on his X social media platform while re-posting a rant from conservative pundit Ben Shapiro.
I listen to a fair amount of center-right/old-school conservative podcasters, some of whom are Jewish (I do not listen to Shapiro with any regularity because I would consider him more of a provocateur than pundit), and I keep wondering if they will ever get squeamish about ascendant American fascism. While they may be focusing their ire at immigrants and muslims now, it seems like they always come back to Jews at some point. I suspect they should take Musk's Nazi salute more seriously.
Pretty neat! I've long had the idea to build dead man switches into various things that I've set up mostly as a way of cleaning up after myself to prevent bitrot from degrading things, and also probably out of spite, but I've always been too lazy.
> It’s only a matter of time until they realize that they were the intended targets of the cuts, not accidental damage.
I suspect that other scapegoats can be found to blame for their problems; as you say, their news sources will offer them all sorts of filters to deflect blame from the obvious source.
The reason is his amusement, something that I assume gets harder when your hedonic treadmill has long ago accelerated beyond what seems humanly possible. As someone who has trollish tendencies myself, I cannot help but feel a bit of grudging respect for his recent accomplishments in that regard, though as one of the "NPCs" in the country he has chosen to troll, I can't say I'm terribly amused. And as someone with a Jewish girlfriend, I'm a bit worried about how far he intends to take the ironic Nazi-ism.