Great! Now do the same of Office.

After they added copilot to the ribbon in all office apps I figured it how to hide it. Then, yesterday, office auto updated to add it back as a free floating button that cannot be hidden. I had to roll back to a previous version, and then disable auto update.

i get that some folks like using AI to do their work, but I donâ(TM)t. I should not lose useful screen space just so that MS can artificially inflate their copilot usage stats through dark patterns (basically putting it in a place where it is likely to be clicked on by accident, and cannot be hidden).

seriously considering libre office

Poor Carnot.

And what exactly is wrong with that?
White imperialist christian colonial rapist and plunderer?
Asshole very much? You asshole can rule the planet and the dipshits have to eat dust?

Given that hiring locally is the rule, how do engineers end up choosing, and affording to move to, a city in which to find their first job after university?

Right, right!

Just as ridiculous as having judges with no training in some science "feel" that their opinion is a better judge than pure science and adjudicate for dumping more poison into a stream.

Oh wait, that's the opposite of what you want.

*You* want some politicians to overrule (probably due to bribes) what sober professionals in the field have assessed is the best path forward.

How can it be independent if the president can fire them for any reason at any time?

Couldn't he just get the people he wants in there? How "independent" is *that*?

Unfortunately, given how the laws are written, the president can fire and replace people he doesn't like, until the whole of the civil service does exactly what the president wants. He may not be a King as in able to declare Laws that Congress is supposed to (although he does, through EO, now) but he can have policies that in his own way enact the laws of Congress. Or just ignore them and hope Congress ignores your transgessions.

Takes too many votes to impeach, anyway. Any the boots on the ground, in every way, are doing what he wants, regardless of laws and congress.

President may not be a king but is surely acting like one.

Sorry, it's not.

Our government was set up with 3 and only 3 co-equal branches of government, not 4, not 5, not 67.

The civil service is part of the executive branch.

Thanks for playing and learn your civics.

Silly FCC, now it knows better!

As evidenced by the fact that is no longer has "independent" in its mission statement.

Except that would never happen, and the SC if necessary would make sure.

The laws are bought and paid for by Republicans now.

No, they expect the Supreme Court to back them up all all the court challenges made to Democratic rule.

Just wait, they won't let a Democratic president have nearly the same power as Trump has. Neither with the Democrat try to grab unconstitutional power.

"The executive branch should have zero authority over the civil service, which is intended to constitute a fourth co-equal branch of government"
Nope, no, and NO!

Your fourth co-equal branch of government would be the deep state, in that case.

There are only THREE equal branches of government and this nasty thought that the civil service should equal some fourth co-equal branch of government is just bunk.

To be fair, a lot of the reason the US is the one top country is because they're the one top country. From the historical structure of NATO to la privilège exorbitant, the US enjoyed and enjoys a lot of, well, privilège exorbitant due to their position.

Of course, they currently seem determined to scuttle all that all by themselves.

Reliably being the only major power that didn't get destroyed in WWII then holding everyone else over a barrel while they rebuilt.

Because Hillary Clinton said so.