that yer heads are pumped so full of crap and propaganda that you're living in a fake world. Stuff does not make sense to you PRECISELY because you're not seeing the real world, you're seeing an incoherent propaganda world.

Examples:

"Europe knew that Russia was running roughshod over the United States voters and working hard successfully to put Trump back in the White House." - GARBAGE. The Trump-Russia collusion crap was cooked-up by a former British spy and his Russian spy pals on the payroll of the Hillary Clinton campaign in the form of the "Steele Dossier". Democrats ran with it both as an excuse for how Hillary massively outspent Trump in 2016 and lost (backers/investors expect answers when over a billion dollars are squandered), AND as input to the FBI and congress in attempts to get rid of Trump and undo the election.

"the United States still has the largest military on the planet." - NOPE. China has a bigger army, and bigger navy. The US does have a bigger Air Force, and of course a big edge in quality. As has been noted in the past however, "quantity has a quality all its own"

"You would think electing a convicted felon, pedophile, rapist and six-time bankrupt businessman to be the most powerful person on our planet would have been a clue but nope. People still think Americans have the slightest shred of sanity." - WOW, you went right into the bat-guano-crazy-zone with Rosie O Donnell on that hot mess! [1] Technically, you're not a convicted felon in the US until sentence is passed, which will never happen on the bogus political charges over Trump paying his lawyer (charges never meant to actually stick, just to last long enough to hurt him in the election) [2] You're liar, Trump has never been convicted of pedophilia, not is there any evidence he is a pedo. You're dishonestly trying to smear Trump by associating him with Epstein, but of course you have no interest in destroying any of the Democrats who eagerly associated with Epstein long after Trump kicked him aside. Like lots of people he knew Epstein long ago, but unlike the rest, Trump kicked the guy out of his places and banned him after finding out what he was up to [3] Rapist? Trump's never been convicted of that, nor has anybody come forward with any evidence of him raping anybody (the CIVIL judgement, NOT criminal conviction, in the E Jean Carol case is for DEFAMATION and will likely be overturned), [4] Nearly every businessman who starts a bunch of businesses ends up shutting some down, and often it's done deliberately via bankruptcy. I may not like it, and you may not like it, but you'd apparently be shocked at how many Democrats have done this and more... in fact Trump WAS a Democrat during all of those bankruptcies.

"About 40% of us believe the Earth is only 6,000 years old and about 35% of us believe Noah's flood is real." - This is a combination of ignorance, sloppy stats, presumption, and insults. I'm not going to respond with in detail, which nobody would read any way, suffice it to say that the percent of Jews, Christians of various denominations, and Muslims cannot be easily extrapolated into how many people believe a particular age of the Earth, believe in a global flood, or any other simplistic thing you want to rant about. Plenty of people who are in these mono-theistic faiths believe in a "young Earth" (with lots of variation in the specifics) but plenty believe in an "old Earth" with many variations of the theme. Plenty of these people believe in various versions of an ancient flood (some thinking it was global, some thinking it was regional, some thinking it was symbolic, etc AND people in nearly every civilization on Earth regardless of religion have ancient stories of a great flood (every hear of the "Epic of Gilgamesh?) Your rant was clearly a "we have too many crazy religious people, and I'm a superior sane atheist" ploy which relies on the assumption that in a situation where NOBODY can prove how when and why everything began, there's some super-validity to claiming to believe everything made itself from nothing for no reason. Far greater minds than you have wrestled with that problem and been less sure of themselves than you appear to be.

The way you jumbled all that together and tossed it out as an insult, and then followed it with "We absolutely would launch nuclear weapons safe in the knowledge that God would protect us from a counter-attack. We are that fucking insane." places you firmly in the column of "delusional and in need of updated meds". Calm Down. In the immortal words of Londo Molari, "it can't be THAT bad..."

The simple fact is: for all our faults, the United States has been the most-stable and least-kleptocratic large powerful nation for about a century. Our Presidents, good and bad, have all been (in the grand scheme of things) reasonable (yes, INCLUDING Trump). We're the nation all the other nations look to as a provider of stability, safety, and some semblance of justice - PROVABLY SO: none of the rest have been willing to step-up and do the job. Name another nation other than Russia, China, or India that has the resources and willpower to be a superpower. One would have to be the singularly most stupid AND foolish person on Earth to want any of THOSE 3 to be the global cop.
As detestable as I found Lyndon Johnson, Jimmy Carter, and Barack Obama to be, THEY were all better than what other nations would have offered at the time, and they were each MY president.
As detestable as YOU no doubt think Trump to be, he is still better than anybody the rest of the world would offer, and he's YOUR president.

Those women on The View are free to be insane; they're cheap entertainment. Those lefty vloggers and bloggers and news outlets you almost certainly get your insane factoids from are MAKING MONEY off the clicks they get when they keep you agitated and in OUTRAGE mode. None of them has one ounce of accountability or responsibility for what happens in the world. Our presidents (ALL of them, and of ANY party) have immense responsibilities, and a ton of murky problems to solve with conflicting issues that make very few decisions clean, without risk, and without collateral damage. YOU clearly could not handle that situation, since you clearly get all would-up over simple disagreements over things that don't really matter... making YOU less stable than Trump.

Grow up

Life's better here in mature adult land.

"When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things." - I Corinthians 13:11 (from a letter by the Apostle Paul to the Church at Corinth)

Do you people have no memory at all, or is it just sheer hypocrisy?

Joe Biden had gas prices $1 to $2 dollars per gallon HIGHER and a lot of you were clapping like seals with the presumption that this was some good plot to replace gasoline with electricity and "save the planet", when it was actually just a doddering old fool driving inflation up to 9%. The current price spike is at least tied to an attempt to stop major western cities from melting under mushroom clouds within the next decade or so. That's a bargain, [admittedly] IF it succeeds [which is, like all military and international endeavors, NOT guaranteed].

I'm in California, so the one-two punch of Gavin Newsom AND Trump's Iran actions hit ME and the people around me harder than most people in the country, yet I think this is currently worth it. NOT because of Trump anything, but because of 47 years of "Death to America" Ayatollahs scrambling for missile tech, nukes, and backing nearly every bad terrorist outfit on the planet - a VERY BAD combo.

Maybe you have to be old enough to have an attention span longer than that of the average squirrel to get it.

Cheap insults and expletives are no substitute for a rational argument, and they don't make you look wise or tough; it just sounds like the frustrated rant of a teenager.

This is Slashdot where, many years ago, many of us [being the geeky technical sorts] actually put together cogent arguments. It's sad to see the degradation of quality in the comments, but I suppose it tracks with the general stupification of younger people raised by public school teachers with political agendas. You could have at least gotten creative and attempted to reinvigorate some old terms like "carbuncle" or "lickspittle"...

Hey, you kids, Git offa my lawn!

Not even the dumbest fencepost in the field would be a big enough idiot to bring back the Obamination "deal" in which we give billions of dollars to the mad Ayatollah and agree to watch him take ten years to build a nuclear bomb.... followed by an assembly line of nukes over the following years...followed by nukes being handed out like roadside bombs, suicide belts, and explosively formed penetrators, to any Iran-aligned terrorists who want them.

The Obama "deal" was nothing more than yet another president trying to find a way to avoid doing anything about Iran during his term of office and hope the bad results hit on somebody else's watch. The most-important thing there is for any career politician is avoiding responsibility/accountability, and the Iran mess was thought likely to blow-up in the face of anybody who touched it. President after President listened to the permanent Washington bureaucrats as they wrung their hands and sweated a lot over the supposedly unsolvable problem Jimmy Carter left behind. These "experts" all advised against doing anything to Iran, as the biggest baddest military in the region (partly MADE that way by these same unelected "experts" who supported arming that county (including making Iran the only country on planet Earth to ever get a shipment of F-14 Tomcats) while their hand-selected puppet, the Shah, was in power). Every single President, in BOTH parties, tolerated the bad behavior as it got worse and worse because all were warned the risks were too high and there were elections in the USA to consider...

No. If you're gonna assert that "by all accounts" (in other words: "EVERYBODY says") Trump is trying to bring back the dumbest deal any human being ever made (the Obama-Iran nukes deal) then you need to provide some proof. That deal was even worse than the deal Ukraine made to give up its nukes because 3 foreign leaders (Clinton, Blair, and Putin) guaranteed their territorial integrity if they did it.

That in no way relates to what I said.

"Windows sucks"
"Yeah but linux will work!"

That's a pretty poor argument, considering you can't buy the camera modules for that.

Yeah, but -which- ipv6 is implemented everywhere?

That's the problem. You deploy IPv4 and it works. You deploy IPv6 and... half the internet is black, and almost nothing works. And it's comparably difficult to use - and that makes it meaningfully worse, in both regards.

To get any of the good features of IPv6, the things that make it worth the time, you've got bolt on a half dozen different higher level (OSI) services.

You just need to be a True Believer! Do not question our tech demigods!

Claude is pretty amazing, especially with skills and tools like Conductor and gstack. Codex will have quite a hill to climb.

You're in denial. The most basic of searches reveals the following:

Did you simply assume Juul voluntarily donated two billion in settlement funds, because it's harmless?

Let me clarify how ignorant you really are. Anyone looking to kick the habit of nicotine addiction for good, should consult with a medical doctor and get a dermal patch. Not go to the fucking gas station and consult with the asshat selling imported unregulated vape dogshit while assuming "vaping" is vastly safer and won't harm you.

No. I'm not dismissing your pain. I share similar loss. I'm dismissing your damn ignorance about vaping.

Ha! What fools those scoffers were!

Instead, it took the world by storm with lightning speed ... er, to briefly over 50% in almost 30 years!

... "'Yes' blood for oil" then? (As opposed to the old standard, "No blood for oil" chant)

Or, alternately, should we surrender to the mullahs?

... I thought Europe wanted people to use less petroleum?

Surely they are delighted? What's that? No?

Some colos don't even provide v6 yet.

Some ISP's still don't suport it.

Some classes of network gear only recently got hardware v6 support. Older gear still in service pushes v6 onto the CPU. Probably why those colos and ISP's don't support it.

And I still see important v6 fixes coming in hardware changelogs, mostly on the LAN management stacks (neighbor discovery, mDNS, etc.)

That said, the pieces are finally coming together in the past two years, roughly.

I would bet 2030* will see v6 at around 75% of traffic as that old gear is tricked out and the stacks wind up in maintenance mode.

At home I actually have more light bulbs on v6 than desktops, but that'll change when my switches get too old and tired. I could replace them all right now to change but there would be no benefit to me for dropping three to four grand. None of my home use cases would benefit.

* 2038 if the politicians do actually create a global depression which is looking increasingly likely

That's probably the first legitimate reason I've seen for IPv6.