So Canonical has broken a bunch of functionality that used to work perfectly well in older Ubuntu versions. Do they focus on fixing it? Do they instead add new functionality to make things more user-friendly and generally better? No, they change sudo, which works absolutely fine, at least I've never had a single problem with, to its rewrite in Rust. Because it's a cool new thing.

Honestly, up until recently Ubuntu was the default Linux distro for me, now I'm not so sure. It's not an option to replace it right now at work, but if that option becomes available I'll certainly be exploring alternatives.

This is what happens when a stochastic parrot gets overheated or hit with radiation.

Noting also that Energy Star came into place under Bush (GHW).

Here is a suitably infuriating article linked from the above, and accessible without subscription Dr. Oz and the plot against Medicare. A relative warned me about Medicare Advantage after specific experience. My suspicion meter was already pegged by the relentless stream of advertising that I have received.

A quote from Toto's web site: "In fact, our Morrow, Ga. factory currently produces one-piece porcelain toilets at a lower cost than our best factory in China." I found a very interesting detailed production analysis that Toto published about their Georgia factory, while looking for general information on industrial porcelain. In the US, we have kaolin, feldspar, and natural gas, all on-continent.

I'm talking about people who would even be in the running to be a CEO at a large company

the last few years, pretty consistently since 2019 with a small percentage dip in CEO departures in 2022. It's a continuing story and an interesting one. No one wants to be CEO if they think things are going to shit and they'll be to blame, even if they know they get a golden parachute out of it.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnbc.com%2F2020%2F01%2F0...

Russia is not a player in this story.. it's an Israeli app. Nice camard there, you've learned well from all the dems politicians that deflect with "but Russia" and repubs deflecting with "but China".

In this country, being spied on by a foreign power is something that our elected officials happily volunteer for. The media are fine with that part, and wouldn't even be talking about it if the app wasn't insecure.

It's a long way to Temporary.

Good luck trying to derive a valuation on a leaky bag of hot gas and subterfuge.

No idea why you're blaming other countries for the hellscape created by your own country's billionaires.

Yes, a specific case from a friend of parents was: reading and ranting Book of Revelation, followed by shotgun suicide at age 39.

We were given some vocational aptitude test in public school, maybe ASVAB or a junior derivative. My result said that my best vocational choices were actuary and boilermaker. In retrospect, embedded systems software pretty much splits the difference.

Here was the most quantifiable symptom of the underlying problem, from Wikipedia on "Mitchell" Baker.