What happened to the "must carry" rules? Where the Big, Bad cable companies had to carry local broadcasts? Including every 500 Watt Jesus Channel in town. It's getting so you can't tell who's on the receiving end of this corporate daisy chain anymore.

Here's an idea: Everyone divest themselves of content providers and studios. And become common carriers for local regions. Then let the big boys fight for room on your cable, fiber or r.f. spectrum with their cash. Which will go quite a ways toward funding local news and programming.

Well then, I'm taking my Tannerite and going home.

... take your Mac down to the rifle range and use it as a target.

It's the only way to be sure.

Because she's gonna be rich pretty soon.

As long as it's my hand on the lever, I'm OK with the outcome.

... because when Israeli intelligence breeches FBI security, they don't deface the home page.

The OPM subcontractors "lost" government employee records (including security clearance information) so many times, the issue is moot.

Well, something went horribly wrong between python 2.x.x and 3.x.x. Because many v2 apps won't run on v3. And the application maintainers won't port every time someone picks up the language and tinkers with it.

Well, python is currently implemented with C. so we've already gone down this road.

I just hope that the jump from 3.17 to 3.18 (python with Rust) doesn't introduce another incompatibility branch. I've already got two versions on my system and I don't want any more snakes on my plane.

Soup of the day.

Cell phone coverage is practically nil out in many areas. Yes, we did build out the cell phone network. But then we switched to 4G/5G and in promptly vanished. Gotta keep those basement-dwelling autists happy with low latency networking for their vidya games.

And actually, "we" didn't build out anything. The corporations got lots of bandwidth to offer revenue producing product providing service we were getting for free. Compare the net present value of the fees you will be paying AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile for the rest of your life to the few hundred dollars an AM/FM radio will cost you once.

... Leon Trotsky appears to have vanished from the pictures altogether.

We've already seen those photos of you in your Audi R8.

Not a great place to work. The furniture flies around too much for my liking.

The reason some people hate data centers is the increased electrical demand that they produce and the resulting draw on limited resources and price increases that may result.

Data centers in space represent no such risk.

Leave it to the crazies who hate something, want to burn it down, but don't understand why. Useful idiots.