"more"

Yes. I put my lady on Linux and she had zero questions about changes. She's not a computer nerd, either. Everything works like she expects.

Almost everything has political ramifications.

Choosing to underpin your entire computing infrastructure with systems made by an untrustworthy foreign nation which are well known to be spyware, especially so.

Appeal to popularity is a logical fallacy

I'm on Linux. So, nope.

You mean spend billions to save millions?

I'm not faithful to any software, and I use LO for almost everything. But sometimes I try to load a big CSV into Calc for massaging and it crashes. Then I load the same file into Excel and it's fine, and not even slow. They clearly need to do fundamental work on Calc. Writer is already superior to Word in this regard, so this is not a blanket complaint about LO.

Because Texas. Are you new?

It will confidently spit out functions that don't exist and give you a detailed explanation of how they supposedly work. Anyone who trusts it is mentally deficient. No shortage there, though.

The subject is news, that includes newspapers, and part of why people like them is the experience. Maybe when you become corporeal and aren't simply a bot you will understand.

"Probably because DHS is a good thing"

Yum, boots!

"Speak of intellectual dishonesty, it's no wonder you and drinkypoo keep crushing on each other."

Rent-free. Shitty view though.

I have frequently and repeatedly blamed Obama and Biden for many things, and as citation I give you Slashdot. You may crawl and/or search it at your leisure. Unfortunately there's no really convenient way to view a user's posting history any more; once upon a time when this was a better place, you could buy a subscription to bypass the last ad that you couldn't turn off due to good karma, and be able to search? or at least page back into the past of your own posting history.

At very best, he is an instrument of destruction of the country I live in, and so at very best I find him impossibly inconvenient. And he is not the best in any way.

I think Humpty Trumpty is of approximately average intelligence, and his superpower is being unburdened by approximately zero morals from any source which don't involve self-promotion. One can only imagine he received that mindset directly from his father, who was famously much the same person that he is, but unempowered by television due to some quite infamously memed shortcomings in the charisma department.

But I do not agree that his destructive actions are in any way coincidental or accidental, and I also do not believe that he is stupid or insane enough to not realize that he's doing nothing but damage. I think that's giving him too much of an out. Is he demented, yes. Is he being manipulated, yes. Is he complicit, yes. He always did terrible things. He doesn't need to be demented, syphilitic, or manipulated to be terrible, even though he may be all of those things.

All citizens benefited, as did many noncitizens, but some benefited a lot more than others.

Whoa there.

That paperwork was selective about who was actually a citizen, and any definition of citizen which doesn't include the right to vote in an alleged democracy including republics is absolute repugnant horseshit. Let us not pretend there was some golden age when America kept all of its promises.

I agree with you.

I don't agree with this on two levels, both directly and indirectly. Directly, no, something better could come out of the status quo with less suffering than this not just has caused, but would continue to cause even if it were stopped from doing deliberate harm today. Indirectly, no, I don't think we can reasonably expect to get something better than we had out of what is happening now.

To wit, this regime's actions are harming not only our present, but also our future. We could have had a revolution that didn't threaten our actual existence by turning our last allies against us for allowing this to happen.

I agree with every other part of your comment, but celebrating tearing it all down because you think that's the best way in which we could have proceeded is some selfish asshole shit.