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I would tend to agree. I came into the thread wanting bloody revenge, but after reading the article, I didn’t feel like that. It seems to have been an unfortunate accident, and the guy stayed behind and performed CPR, then plead guilty and showed remorse.

I start thinking that the economic growth we have seen in 2025 and this year is mostly due to these kinds of shenanigans. It all gets counted as part of GDP, despite the fact nothing was actually produced.

Very true, but they also caused some of the price hikes with their Copilot push, no?

They also gave up really quick on mandating Windows Server on Azure and are now mightily happy to offer the latest and greatest Linux versions. I think you are onto something there: if it weren’t for compatibility, it would be so much cheaper for Microsoft to just use the Linux kernel.

Honestly, at this point I don’t think Microsoft cares about Windows all that much. They make their money elsewhere, and even the control offered by owning the OS can’t be counted on, as the Internet Explorer wars showed.

At the same time, think about the weird coincidence that Windows 11 requires so much extra hardware firepower at the same time as said hardware firepower has become stupid expensive thanks to the same AI the company is pushing.

They made it unaffordable to run Windows 11, and that’s how we get the Year of Linux on the Desktop?

I, like Pepperidge Farm, also remember. That was such a massive shit show, I have no idea how the Administration Responsible for PPE Hijacking managed to get a second installment of the show going. That really should have been the end of them all.

Agreed. Also, I want an SU7 so bad!

Thanks to you two. Good to know!

How is Piefed problematic? Honestly asking - the only “controversy” I’ve witnessed was about the list of default instances.

Gallup polling published in March shows Canada’s favourable rating among Republicans has fallen 23 points, from 85 per cent in 2025 to 62 per cent this year.

Thankfully in 2020 Trump said only once that people should inject bleach, or there would be a lot fewer Republicans around today. The stupidity of his voters is shocking.

I was at the local BYD dealership and it was a ghost town. More employees than potential customers by a large margin. Honestly, the cars they had on display were all way too big for the local market (France), so that is definitely a factor. But, really, people are concerned about the brand and its long-term prospects, and barely anyone is buying. I don’t think I have ever seen a BYD driven in town.

Having had to drive Vail Pass at night, I’d say the bright headlights are the most dangerous thing I have encountered in years of driving, way ahead of drunk drivers and speeders.

OpenAI and Sam Altman have a long history of hyperbolic claims about the power, potential, and capabilities of their software. It’s usually couched in some doomsday talk, “Our AI is so powerful, we fear for the future of humanity” or some such.

Their idea of marketing is to tell the world we are all going to be obsolete and redundant. And then they are surprised we start hating their stuff.

I vaguely remember that one of the things Trump got upset about was that the Canadians were going to keep most of the tolls. That didn’t even go away when they explained to him that the bridge had been mostly paid by Canada. It was still unfair, according to (my vague recollection of) him.

Die Kartons waren wahrscheinlich nicht gefaltet?

When I went to Econ class, the professor explained that we call it “Free Market Economics” because of four freedoms:

1. Freedom of entry and exit - participants (buyers, sellers, and prospective such) can enter or exit the market at their leisure, and the market will not change
2. Freedom of participation - every participant is in the market of their free will and can leave the market without repercussion
3. Freedom of substitution - every product on a particular market is essentially the same
4. Freedom of information - every participant has the same information about availability and prices at the same time

The reward is that free markets are efficient: they lead to the lowest prices and greatest exchange of goods. That is the reason we have them.

When the four freedoms are not mandated, the market fails in different ways, and that’s absolutely expected. When information is available to some before it is to others, we get price distortions - that’s where insider trading laws come from.

Health care, the prof explained, suffers from the fact there is no freedom of participation. You either buy care or you suffer the potentially deadly consequences. That’s why free markets and health care are fundamentally incompatible: they are expected to be.

A TERF lesbian may think she has more in common with conservatives than with other queer folk. Conservatives will never think so.

I think the distinction is important. Gambling is random outcome. Prédiction means you could influence the outcome. Think of a terrorist betting on the timing of the next attack

I hear what you are saying, but while elected fascism is on the rise everywhere, the lawlessness of it all seems to be mostly confined to the USA.

Not even Putin has peaceful protesters murdered on the open street with cameras rolling, and then refuse to investigate, hinder other people’s investigation, and brazenly lie about the victim having used their vehicle as a weapon.

I think the tragedy is the mom not realizing that the mayo on the shelves today is for the most part only a distant relative of the “oil and egg yolk emulsion” she used to eat as a child.

That is, Millennials are justly rejecting a 100% chemical mix supposed to taste like a natural food, but whose ingredient list looks like a who’s who of food processing science, while it makes her fondly remember something that spoiled quickly if not eaten after opening. You can’t blame the young’uns for not having your memories.