I was pointing to the historically anomalous mercantile streak this regime has.

Explicitly taking stakes in private companies is a lot more problematic than a lot of people seem to think.

Republicans used to claim 'picking winners and losers' was a bad thing.

I 100% believe they won't bail out the industry as a whole.

I also 100% believe they would "take a stake" in particular companies in return for... certain considerations.

I am less worried about college kids' word choice than thug trash beating up people in the streets, the President subverting democracy and disease running rampant.

I don't share some of your concerns, but that's fine; I expect you don't share some of mine. But it does sound to me like you're much more familiar with Republican critiques of Democratic policy than actual Democratic policy. One such thing is you putting the words of activists into pols' mouths and pretending that's the official capital-D Democratic line. It isn't - activists are activists precisely because they want to change the current party line. This is literally

. None of which is to say I'm a rah-rah fan; only a few of them actually come anywhere near reflecting my policy preferences. But given a choice between a getting a cold and getting measles, I'll take the cold.

It is about denying a win.

It is also about the overall fascist project - they have sold themselves on the need to dominate and crush. Being forced to negotiate is a big power-balance setback for them.

And it is also about Trump's BFF. Right now Holy Mike is refusing to swear in a new (D) representative. That rep just happens to be the deciding vote on releasing lots of juicy Epstein documents. Documents that have already been confirms by members of this admin to mention Trump.

Just remember the phrase, "Everything Trump touches dies." It hasn't been wrong yet.

Data centers might end up looking like that empty mall you drive past, but at least they don't implicate you in a child rape gang including the US president.

Everyone else might want to think a little bit about their 401K allocation.

Right?

I've been saying this all along - why wait? They aren't getting any younger. Elon and Petey should gather up their most trusted minions and jet right off, the sooner the better.

Stop teasing, just fucking go Galt already. I promise to pretend to miss you if it'll help.

Firing people randomly has been sport there for decades.

Get used to it. Here is an easy rule of thumb to understand where you'll encounter robot puke:

Is the combined cost of (robot output + cost of remediating robot mistakes) less than (human output + cost of remediating human mistakes)?

Adjust the value of humans up a bit if the humans served have more money. Adjust up significantly if there are regulatory reasons why a human needs to be in the loop.

As far as ads, well, robots are tireless, very good at recycling striking images into attention-grabbing slop, and this is actually one area where concern for the truth is far lower than elsewhere. You already know where this is going.

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There's a strange form of the class divide here. You say you can't be sure that kid can't feed themselves away from mommy, hiring them for an office job. But if you call someone to build a garage, you won't think twice about that 18 year old helper.

More generally, I find the Theil anti-college stuff to be a bit weird. On one hand, it is trivially true - well-adjusted smart kids can totally jump in to many fields without college. I dropped out after a year, and a year after that was working for a software company (And I'm not very well-adjusted.)

But on the other, this will not work for everyone. A lot of people do need a few more years of figuring themselves out, or shrugging off Mom's neuroses, or just getting their shit together.

So the Palin-tier strategy can work for them - cherry-picking the right kids early enough to mold the way you want them. But it probably also encourages kids who do need a little "life with training wheels" to jump in over their heads.

As a final point, I see people complaining about that last point, but I suspect that's one of the more acceptable things they do. Think about how kids are manipulated into life-altering choices by adults all the time - think how "abstinence-only ed" functions as a "trap kids with their own kids" program. Messing with someone via a job offer is small beans compared to saddling them with a kid at 18.

They have all the solutions to hard lessons learned written in C for reference, so if they aren't lazy, this shouldn't be too bad.

I agree that, if I had some engineers lazing about and wanted to do something to raise the security bar, this is probably not where I would start.

I think it is more likely that Canonical is worried about IBMHat's increasingly possessive behavior and feels the need to increase it's "ownership" stake in Linux writ large. Depending on Debian gives them a massive leg up on development, but is at best not helpful (and generally a liability for) for strategic control struggles, which is where this is going.

That's the argument, yes. But it isn't all that crazy to notice a pattern.

The "Proven" Owner has proven he is not a very smart business man, and seems to have emotional regulation issues.

The funny thing is, the company started responding to this correctly - there was a video where they responded somewhat reasonably. I assume that was the office manager or someone else who actually has to interact with the real world sometimes.

Then dude goes stalking, suing and attempting to be insulting by calling people "liberal" (apparently he thinks MAGAts can't pick locks and wants to reduce his potential customer base by over half, or something, I dunno).

The thing is, lots of crappy locks sell just fine. People use them because the vast majority of people are deterred by them. While a lot of normal people who consider themselves honest will steal something under some conditions, even a cheap lock will stop them. And that's all a lot of things need.

The other side of that is that high-security locks by themselves also won't stop people. If you are actually protecting something, you're buying Abloy or Bilock locks the same way you buy a safe - to delay an attacker until other measures can be brought to bear (usually guards).

But all the neat cylinder tricks, pick traps and false drops in the world won't stop a hydraulic cutter.

I've been trying to come to terms with Gimp's UI. For some reason it is more difficult for me than most other application switches.

But there is no way I'm going to rent core functionality, like text editing and image manipulation. And Canva here is already declaring they're going to use file format changes strategically, anyone who has been around the block knows how that game works.

So using these tools is accepting you're going to be bent over a barrel at some point. Expect it.

You're right - he got incredibly, amazingly lucky when IBM came knocking to solve distribution for him.