Right but it isn't like a grant program where different companies are bidding to operate a national chip foundry like our contract research usually works or produce something for the government on spec like defense contracting usually works. This is all being done differently.

Having the hyper rich donate directly to various govt programs is often a sign of slipping into an oligarchy. Otherwise this isn't too terribly notable.

The camera bump is only noticeable on a Fold if you don't have a case on it, which you should have because they're less durable than slab phones, as you'd probably guess.

That's about the same as my Fold4. Which I will admit is a bit thicker than I'd like (had a MS Surface that was half as thick but even more fragile than this thing is, I think the latest Fold is half as thick but loses stylus support). I do like it opened up, particularly when using the stylus to take notes, but have been thinking I'd switch to the Ultra when it comes time for a new phone due to that this one has needed repaired once a year so far.

Those responsible may well be setting themselves up to be the ones to sell the state the crypto, then once they've drained the public coffers they have even more excuse to cut the public services they can no longer afford.

Agreed, if Procurement wasn't stingy on standard issue RAM then the things would last even longer. The business laptop models already usually make it easier to replace the battery, apart from those two things the rest will stay good enough for business work quite some time.

Mostly using Notepad was one of the Things That Don't Break in some stupid air gapped machine you're not allowed to install software on. The File Open dialog could even fill in for Explorer when it was being stupid (some metadata bug had me figure that one out). For regular users feature bloat in Notepad is either inane or confusing... there's Notepad++ or VSCode depending on what sort of text editor you want or Word if you're wanting lots of rich text editing.

It was Tylenol they decided to blame, after a lot of high profile resignations within HHS

It's like saying WiFi can't be proven not to cause cancer, though. True in a literal sense, but not a colloquial one.

Yes to have these muppets edit the CDC's webpage to cite vague "health authorities" other than... the CDC... and then cite no studies is inherently infuriating.

The new methods work well enough for motivated students, my kids flew through the self guided apps and got way ahead of their peers. But yes I couldn't help them with the exercises as written with the new methods, so the teachers may vary in preparedness to teach the new methods. My kids also read real paper books and solve problems in physical space with tools so I guess they'll be gods amongst men in the dystopian hellscape.

From a cursory Google search it doesn't appear any of the countries immigrants frequently come to the United States from are anywhere close to 0% vaccinated but perhaps you're from somewhere else?

Yes, you're misunderstanding the language. You get different shots to visit some place in Africa because they haven't eliminated a Virus X there, while it is eliminated locally or else you'd be better about being sure your vaccine to Virus X was up to date. Deciding measles is no longer eliminated in the United States is informative to residents of other countries looking to travel here, and for locals whose initial vaccine induced immunity may have waned. You're mistaking eliminated for eradicated, which is somewhat like mistaking sanitized for sterilized.

They haven't managed to ruin anything that predates them, for now you could check that the manufacturer is selling the same product in the EU to be sure you're getting an efficacious product and not horse dewormer (unless, I suppose, you have horse worms you need to get rid of). Still a bit of a funding issue on new vaccines, though.

That's like saying that seeing a species at the zoo means that they're not really extirpated from where you live. It's quibbling about an irrelevant detail.