Someday the USA might be as good as Iceland or Lithuania. Of course, if it slips a bit more it’ll fall behind the international diplomatic powerhouses of Romania and Bulgaria.

This kind of tech has been floating around the research world of smart home tech for over a decade now. Various forms of EM deflection and field deviation modeling have been used to be headcount sensors, gesture sensors, and body position modeling. Yup, it’s out there. Normally, it takes multiple antennas in particular positions to work, so it’s still a more controlled space kind of thing than the whole world. That said, it’s possible to do, so head’s up, we’re in for a rough ride going forward on the privacy and monitoring fronts.

But only to decide the color of the cover on the report we might write!

That’s conservatism in it’s purest sense. “The law should protect, but not bind, the in-group while the law binds, but does not protect, the out-group.”

Authoritarians (The Authoritarians book) does a phenomenal job digging into these kinds of mentalities. It completely predicted where we’re at, and did it using decades of research up to when it was published in 2007.

Looking back, his research was spot on for what was coming next in the US.

Which is why Texas (state of freedum) regulates owning said devices. Can’t let women actually experience happiness.

Aside from the wealth concentrating in the hands of a few, there’s also noting that it’s “working full time”. More people are stuck into part time or multiple part time jobs to make ends meet.

They’ve left dual citizenship and the five year normal path to citizenship intact… for now.

Suspicion? This has been the goal of right wing and conservative think tanks for decades now. The end goal of conservatism is monarchy. “Plenary Authority” is just a fancy way of saying “The King can do anything he wants”.

“fascists seek to ally with fascists now that US fascists are publicly out as fascists”

Windows 95/98 sucked shit. I liked the games, but the kernels were terrible.

I dual booted or ran two machines Linux (RedHat 5.2 to 6.2, wtf was up with 7?), then whatever worked (usually Debian based) for a while. Mostly used Linux alone for years, but used Win7 for a bit. That one was okay, but Microsoft can’t build dev tools on their own OS to save their lives.

It’s been Linux Mint for a long time now on desktops and Debian/Armbian on servers.

Basically, I’ve been mainlining Linux since about '97 and it’s doing me just fine. Works great for my kids and wife. We’re a mostly Linux household. It saves me a ton of headaches. Easy to install, patch, and almost no other maintenance.

And Russia invading Ukraine wasn’t an attempt to extract wealth by conquering a neighboring sovereign nation?

Russian diplomat opens mouth -> shit falls out, news at 11.

Conservatives are, and have always been, about power over others. We kept their more evil nature’s focused externally for a while with cold war, but without an external threat to point them at, they always turn on their neighbors eventually.

Too many car farts makes air go hot hot.

In the case for the business near us it was definitely the Taj Mahal. It had the branding with the Taj Mahal style of towers on the signage.

Their house… Has a urinal. A for reals urinal.

Maintaining this amount of square footage must take forever. How do you even make use of it all?

Strangely, there’s a self storage place near my old town called the Garage Mahal. I thought it was a quite clever name.

Too late. We’re already off to Germany. Not necessarily the best move, but it’s at least free for a while.

Because it’s an artificial monopoly with a captive audience? Because the government demands all kinds of extra overheads with sometimes dubious need beyond justifying government agency work?

It’s not a huge mystery.

Ala cart disease control. It’s about letting people opt out of vaccines individually. The net result will be people failing to get a patchwork of shots (who wants five in a single go? - I’ll remember to come back later). So, we lose our herd immunity because the CDC has made it harder to get everything the community needs.

No one who survived the attempt to require others to use it.