Pretty sure that would be Russia and Petrograd.

Sir, some penguins here would like to have a word with you.

Your Russian-to-English translation system is crap, Mr. BytePusher.

Under-rated comment. This administration is a clown show of destruction, and it's being run by some of the stupidest people to be in government work -- and that's saying a lot.

Republicans and MAGAs have destroyed 250 years of nation building in 4 months.

International interest in American higher education has plummeted to levels not seen since the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new data tracking prospective student behavior online.

There must be something similar between 2020 and now ... what could it be? Hmm. What bozo-in-chief could be the same bozo in both cases? Hmm.

So frustrating that Texas mainly exists to host courts where the rule of law is destroyed, whether in terms of constitutional fast-tracking to get cases in front of Alito and Thomas, or these patent parasites. (Obligatory link: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0...)

Rule #1 in life: Don't be an asshole.

You failed.

The software that I bought from Adobe stopped working and started trying to destroy my Mac. It was running and installing all sorts of daemons, and trying to remove the software would cause it to install more and more daemons, each of which was taking a few percent of the CPU capacity of the machine. Some of these were running with privileges apparently, and they were poorly written so I can only imagine how many security holes they were introducing. In the meantime, I couldn't use the software that I had paid for, and Adobe kept bothering me to pay a monthly fee for the software that I had already paid for.

Enshitification.

No idea what you're referring to here.

The Vision Pro is useful. I use it almost every day, between 2-12 hours a day. Mostly for work and reading/browsing, but occasionally for watching a video or TV/movie. I work in software development, and it's super handy for that: Massive 10m wrap-around screen that I can take with me wherever I go. When it was released though, this stuff didn't work. The Mac integration was terrible, and the iPhone etc. integration was non-existent. Now, the Mac integration is pretty good (almost 1.0 level), and the iPhone integration is still non-existent. For example, I'm wearing the Vision Pro and I look at my phone, and my phone is like "who are you, you weird looking monster?!?", even though the Vision Pro did a literal retinal scan on me to verify my identity. Similarly, I have to take it off to use Apple Pay on the computer (IIRC) because Apple Pay gets disabled if you're wearing the Vision Pro. Weird. Silly. Bad. They need to do a better job with integration, because it's actually quite useful already, and could get much better.

Unfortunately, this is the new reality. Peter Thiel (like his buddy, musk) is yet another pro-apartheid South African "refugee" willing to pillage the country for his own ends, and it appears likely that he will be receiving many billions of dollars from the federal US government over at least the next 3.75 years for his efforts.

I'm pretty sure this "cheat AI" that the article is about is the one that some huckster has been spamming the Internet with for a while now. Thousands of posts across reddit, for example. New generation, new huckster.

Gas prices are down...

Soy prices are down for the same reason: Other countries stopped buying from the US because of our tariffs. So you're pointing out that trump is ruining the economy, right?

stock market overall going up...

S&P is down 400 points (!!!) since trump's first day in office. You must have a Fox News definition of "market overall going up".

inflation is down

Trump's deficit-induced inflation was already coming way down from the COVID highs before trump came into office, so you'd expect it to continue to fall. The real question though is: How much is the inflation coming down because of the trump recession and our exploding trade balance? "Year-to-date, the goods and services deficit increased $189.6 billion, or 92.6 percent, from the same period in 2024." (https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bea.gov%2Fnews%2F2025%2Fus-international-trade-goods-and-services-march-2025)

Why is it so hard for the left to admit their sources are biased? I don't go around pretending like Rush Limbaugh was middle of the road and unbiased.

Limbaugh was a propagandist and an entertainer, yet you call him your "source"? Dear god, you're an idiot.

Put all the facts out there and let things fall where they may.

Sounds like Wikipedia.

You published three extremist right wing sources, and one hearsay claim from a trump supporter (Zuck). Seriously?!?