Another problem is people who will pretend that since we cannot prove something is directly Trump's fault, we must absolve him of all responsibility.

Trump put Hegseth in charge, and he has spent his time insisting that the only thing that matters is blowing shit up. He has downplayed the need for logistics (see: Abraham Lincoln, base in Bahrain), protecting civilians (see: Minab), and basic competence.

Instead he has valued loyalty to Trump, obeying illegal orders (see: carribean boat strikes), checking testosterone levels ?!?!, and religious indoctrination.

So the question should be: did the low-level programmers have the support they needed, or were they told to make do with limited staff and resources?

Given that this administration doge-d CISA, the civilian agency that provided computer security support to the government, it seems very likely they did the same thing to the DoD.

OK, apparently I'll have to explain this to you ...

Your post posited that we don't see a bunch of stories like this because of ad revenue. Besides being incredibly stupid (there's plenty of places to publish and get ad revenue for stories like these), it is IRRELEVANT.

My point was that charges like these are not driven by ad revenue. If there were really a bunch of charges being filed, we would see announcements in other channels. But we don't.

And I'm still laughing at how you don't see that "This is a thread about exactly that, dumbass." would be an appropriate reply to your original post. The summary above links to three different news sources.

With ads.

Dumbass.

Where are all press releases about all these good cops referring the bad cops to the DA for charges & testifying against them?

Or court announcements?

Or even social media posts?

Or fucking anything besides silence and complicity?

It was converted ELEVEN FUCKING YEARS AGO.

The changes were visible from space:

"Analysis of satellite imagery shows that the site had been converted into a school by October 2015, when new entrances and perimeter walls were constructed. By 2017, football pitches and assembly areas were visible in the playgrounds, and by 2018, walls around the school compound were painted blue and pink, distinguishing the girlsâ(TM) and boysâ(TM) yards."

https://forensic-architecture....

What you're saying is that the law was never needed and remains unneeded.
No I am not. Please don't pretend to speak for me.

Infrastructure monopolies and oligopolies are a thing, and they are very common among ISPs. Your simplistic 'markets will fix it' mantra ignores the fact that there may not be a market.

The threat of net neutrality laws has done most of the work of ensuring net neutrality.

Nobody has implemented direct charges for content delivery because that would instantly trigger a reaction when the government is working properly.

But now, with an insanely autocratic federal government? Some things may change.

Maybe I'm trying to point out things you might not have considered, and am using a contemporaneous story as an example (and sheesh, not everything has to be a bitter argument - discussions are an option).

The Flock cameras come with proof that having a lot of cameras changes things:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fyro.slashdot.org%2Fstory...

A world where every conversation and interaction is covertly recorded is not going to a fun one.

The glasses introduce a certain amount of deniability that spy cameras or walking around with a cell phone in 'record position' do not have. ("I'm not spying, I'm using this for navigating")

If these glasses become more common, then 'creepers' will become much more common.

It's not unlike the uproar over Flock cameras. Yes, you could record license plates before, but when they become ubiquitous, it's a qualitatively different thing.

Researchers Show How Meta's 'Pervert Glasses' Are Used to Harass Women

A new study shows how pickup artist influencers use smart glasses to create content, and the connection between covert recording and harm.

The researchers compiled a dataset of 350 Instagram videos posted between September 2023 and March 2026.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.404media.co%2Fmeta-r...

More reading, in the unlikely event you want to be informed:

"Prairieland Defendant Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison for Moving a Box of Antifascist Zines "

"Prosecutors convinced a jury that the fact that the eight defendants present at the protest wore all black and used the Signal encrypted messaging app supported their material support of terrorism charges."

"Sanchez Estrada's wife, Maricela Rueda, received a 70-year sentence, longer than most of the other defendants because of her alleged role in a conspiracy to commit obstruction by asking Sanchez Estrada to move the zines after her arrest."

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftheintercept.com%2F2026%2F...

"evidence of an association to antifa"

You have to be a complete fucking idiot to think that's a defense.

Antifa is not an group, it's an idea.

Every one of your posts:
  a) Good stuff is because of Trump.
  b) Bad stuff is because of someone else.
  c) Hand-wavey made-up facts to support a) and b)

The reason prices haven't reached the same peak under Trump is because of worldwide adoption of renewals. There's a link describing this above.

And if Biden's policies had such large effect, why can't you find a single citation to support your point? Are you really that bad at searching the internet?

To reiterate:
    - Trump's actions caused significant and lasting increases in oil prices that persist right now.
    - Biden's actions did not cause anything like that.

Read the links - the headline "My Brother Was Sentenced to 30 Years for Moving a Box of Zines" is a self-evident explanation.

The war in Ukraine did not change

Still laughing at this. When did Putin invade Ukraine?

One of the things I learned studying economics is that large markets are really only affected by large events. So something that impacts a fifth of the world energy market, like a large energy supplier launching an invasion or an idiot starting a poorly-planned war next to a delivery chokepoint is going have a significant effect.

But a policy that only affects a tiny fraction of a fraction of the world energy supply is not going to have the same effect. And this policy's effect is so small you cannot find a single specific reference that even describes it (still laughing at that too).

To reiterate:
    - Trump's actions caused significant and lasting increases in oil prices that persist right now.
    - Biden's actions did not cause anything like that.

Ahh, sealioning. Yet another deflection in your unending defense of Donald Trump.

Trump and his DOJ directly attacked the First Amendment in this case and others, and the result is insane jail sentences for people who never should have been charged.

If you actually cared about free speech, you would be able to acknowledge that. But trolling seems to be your primary goal.