Suggesting that an author goes through all that work for free is unrealistic. Same with suggesting the publisher prints and lists the book for free.

That's where you're wrong, kiddo. On here, everything is free. Movies, software, music, you name it, all of it is free. It doesn't cost the song writer anything to write the song. Nor does it cost anything to produce it. The group certainly isn't charging anything for the song, for their time spent in the free studio, all the equipment used, the personnel who mix the music, the distributors. All of that is free so why should someone pay for music?

When it comes to software, everyone knows it's free. Computers can be found falling from the sky. Pick one up because it's free. We know electricity is free. It's part of nature. All those servers storing the software? Pffft, if they cost anything they're a few pennies, hardly worth calling a cost. Make them free as well.

Same with these books. It doesn't cost the writer anything. Their time is surely free to write these books, spending time to research to get things right. The reviewers are simply reviewing out of the goodness of their hearts. They don't expect to get paid. As for producing the books themselves, it's just trees which are free all around us. No cost there. Since everything is free, the books should be free as well.

It's not his money he's wasting.

Losing? In MAGA's delusional world, maybe. In reality she's won against the orange pedophile. She won against that illegal immigrant from South Africa. She's winning her fraud case against Citi. She won against the NRA. She won against DOT withholding funding conditional on immigration issues. She's been winning cases against state agencies for not doing their duty for low-income people. She won against the pedophile again when she secured Congressionally secured funding from the Department of Education. She won against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany which pulled the pension for over 1,000 employees and is required to restore that pension.

Doesn't sound like losing, does it?

Before the fascist goon makes them rewrite history to fit his agenda.

You mean something like this?

In April, there was a subtantive amount of activiy buying same day expiring call options minutes before he told everyone it was a good time to buy.

Marjorie Taylor Greene made stock purchases days before Palantir was awarded a multi-million dollar contract with the U.S. government. Her trades are up 142% since then.

AI has been trained on what humans produce. Why would you expect it to be any different?

When Earth is only 6,000 or so years old.

The Windows key is the easiest way to start a program by typing the first part of the name.

That's because Microsoft keeps hiding where programs are located and forcing you to "search" for something rather than going directly to it.

where it could shuttle them to the surface of the planet Proxima Centuri b — an Earth-size exoplanet that is thought to be potentially habitable.

What do they do if they get to his planet and find out it can't support their life? Do they stay in the system and live their lives in the ship? Do they turn around and return home? Go some place else?

This is all well and good to talk about sending people to a planet, but thinking it's habitable is far different from knowing it's habitable.

Like people who steal movies, software, videos, and games, right?

That is the literal headline from ArsTechica.

which would require labels on digitally altered campaign materials and ads, for violating the First Amendment.

It does no such thing. It is not prohibiting speech in any manner. The only thing it does is to notify the viewer the ads were digitally altered. The message is still there for everyone to see.

This is no different than requiring a notice on certain junk food to say, "Not actual size" for the product inside the package. No one would consider this a violation of the First Amendment, and neither is this law.

Diploma mills are getting out of hand.

What the hell were they doing fiddling with coding on what is essentially a static site? I've used that site on many occasions. The amendments aren't changing.

What is needed is the Internet Archive version of what the site looked like and said prior to this "coding error" and what it looks and says after the "fix". That will tell the story.

Destruction of 500 tons of emergency food aid by claiming it was about to expire, but that was because the agency involved with its distribution was shut down.

Planned destruction of $9 million worth of contraceptives, because the same agency was being shut down.

Destruction of the iconic White House Rose Garden wherein the U.S. flag is used as a waste disposal system.

Then there's the nearly $1 billion it will cost to renovate the "free" bribe, er, jet, from Qatar.

And now a perfectly good satellite because he's anti-science.

As usual, what does he care? It's not his money.