Well, he's a brain damaged moron, which seems to be pretty typtical for this Administration; an Administration of utter and complete idiots, the very embodiment of Governor of the Dunning-Krueger case studies, by the Dunning-Krueger case studies, and for the Dunning Krueger case studies.

Why pick on Kennedy when it is a government populated by some of the most idiotic incompetent human beings to ever fail upward.

On a plus side, countries like mine (Canada) are starting to see all the smart people flee the pathetic trash heap that is America, seeing no hope that there will come a time when legions of halfwits aren't electing legions of sociopaths and halfwits.

If you're talking about white dwarfs, there aren't enough of them. There aren't enough neutron stars or black holes either, with the only possible exception being primordial black holes formed soon after the Big Bang in the massive density fluctuations, but then we have to figure out how Hawking radiation simply didn't make them evaporate long ago.

So it's either some sort of exotic particles, or gravity somehow behaves differently than Einstein posited, and the problem with the latter is that every test we fling at General Relativity confirms it at the scales where Dark Matter counts. So, as Sherlock Holmes said, "Once you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."

We're running out of room for super-symmetry, sadly, which was by far the most elegant solution, so now it really is a hunt for other kinds of particles that could produce the same gravitational effects while otherwise not strongly interacting with ordinary matter.

Having had to set up some more Windows 11 machines (Server 2012, Linux and MacOS are my daily drivers now), all I can say is that I don't think AI could do worse than human coders have done with Windows over the last five years. What a monumental clusterfuck of counterintuitive graphical gibberish.

>> naked cortana prompt

I swear, I didn't know my Windows computer would be NSFW.

>> As the article said, domestic phones are subsidized. 15% off is going to shift units.

As the summary points out, iPhones are also subsidized.

"Under government subsidies, consumers of electronics get a 15% refund of products that are priced under 6,000 yuan ($820). Apple's standard iPhone 16 starts at 5,999 yuan."

5,999 < 6,000. Standard iPhone 16's qualify. And that doesn't take into consideration last year models, which are always cheaper compared to the newest counterpart.

Not surprised. Doge wants to replace over 70,000 government workers with AI.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.inc.com%2Fbruce-crumley%2Fhow-doge-plans-to-use-ai-to-cut-70000-jobs%2F91185538

This will allow them to without worry as its AI, the new untouchable.

And that is just the tip of the Doge AI iceberg.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffortune.com%2F2025%2F04%2F09%2Fmusks-doge-reportedly-deploys-ai-to-monitor-federal-workers-for-anti-trump-sentiment-the-willingness-to-skirt-laws-is-brazen%2F
AI thought police. It's AI, so above the law.

And when you are discovered, AI can fire you. Again, AI, so can't enforce any law or regulation on it.
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wired.com%2Fstory%2Fdoge-autorif-mass-firing-government-workers%2F

It's a small government in the way that a dictatorship is a small government.

As for what they can do, tariff issues and exemptions come to mind. Removing tax benefit deals, any possibility of government deals, demands of a boycott of Apple towards his base. Lots of things just off the top of my head.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsj.com%2Ftech%2Fapple-iphone-price-increase-2eaebb14

Most likely wasn't linked due to it being paywalled, which tends to be heavily complained about.

They do already sell Linux laptops. The article is just won't about it being their first non-Windows laptop.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.omgubuntu.co.uk%2F2025%2F05%2Fhuawei-matebook-x-pro-2024-linux-edition-goes-on-sale

I used to think the end of America was going to be the worst thing that could happen. Now I'm just hoping my country (Canada) can get out of the way of what has to be the biggest own-goals in history. I mean, how is Trump even allowed out of a dementia ward, let alone in charge of the most powerful nation on Earth? Why did so many Americans think he was somehow better than someone who can actually string coherent sentences together?

Ah yes, the Basil Fawltification of America, but now the Major is the President, and Manuel is being shivved in El Salvador.

All the billionaires are mentally ill. It's not a natural human condition, and clearly leads in most cases to monomania, megalomania and some degree of sociopathy. They come to believe the size of their bank accounts makes them into gods.

It's why I think we should ban the concept entirely. After the first $100 million, maybe adjusted every ten years for inflation, you don't get anything more. Sure, maybe you don't become the big innovator, but honestly, a good deal of the time after the initial invention (if they actually invented anything at all, which with Zuckerberg is debatable), it normally ends up in some sort of Edison's lab scenario, where the big rich "inventor" is paying actual researchers to create things that the big rich "inventor" can claim as their own.

In the ultra wealthy simply become enablers of tyrants. Think Crassus in the First Triumvirate, an equal on paper, but in reality a background figure whose wealth served Caesar and Pompey the Great more than it ever served Crassus himself.

You forgot the sarcasm tag.

Societies have always struggled with gender, it's just that only in the last few decades have we really started addressing it openly. The idea that gender was always "simple" and universally accepted is a myth. For most of history, the rules around who could hold power, make decisions, or even express emotions were heavily skewed by gender expectations.

Take leadership, for example, women were rarely allowed to rule, not because they were incapable, but because society deemed them "unfit" based on arbitrary beliefs. If a woman defied expectations too much, she was more likely to be institutionalized or even lobotomized, while the same behavior in men was often accepted or even celebrated. And when it came to female health, the uterus was treated like some mysterious, dangerous organ that could supposedly cause all kinds of psychological instability.

The truth is, gender norms weren't always "easy" or universally understood. They were just enforced without question until people finally started challenging them.

Yasuke was a real person.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.britannica.com%2Fbiography%2FYasuke

It seems to me that the description of Linux pretty much applies to macOS as well. At least Windows offers implied backwards compatibilty.

And don't take my word for that, here is Slashdot's take on modern macOS:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapple.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F25%2F03%2F28%2F0634230%2Fapple-needs-a-snow-sequoia