Sorry, Mr. Russian Bot, but I am pretty sure you have that backwards. These days, Russia is losing 8 soldiers for one of Ukraine's.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.csis.org%2Fanalysis%2F...

It's only Trump who is calling for the ceasefire.

How much protection does SELinux provide for this vulnerability?

Do they have to prove this? Or just obstruction?

Of course, if there was no investigation (as DHS has said sometimes), then what was he obstructing?

Frankly, the idea that the government can search the phone of a citizen at the border is an abomination in what is supposedly a free society.

Judges have engaged is so much doublethink about borders. This was an airport, so how was he not already in the USA when the plan landed?

Precisely. I alluded to this in my previous comment, but you give very simple and specific examples of this phenomenon.

Other examples with significant impact:

Ability to borrow money is almost nonexistent for the poor, except for usurious rates such as in payday loans or credit card interest. An absolutely astonishing percentage of Americans carry a balance on their credit cards from month to month, and pay interest on that balance. And the poorest Americans can't even access credit. This inability to borrow at a favorable rate impacts major purchases that would, in the long run, save enormous sums of money, such as financing a home or an automobile. A home builds equity and doesn't enrich a landlord. A car lets you commute to better jobs and saves time otherwise wasted on public transit.

Fines, fees, and consumption taxes as a proportion of income are vastly higher, and there is no legal recourse. Late on your credit card payment because your employer didn't pay you on time? The bank doesn't care and you don't have money to sue your employer, not to mention they might just fire you. Sales tax is extremely regressive; 8-10% makes no difference to the well off, but regularly stops the poor from being able to afford basic necessities--and many state/local governments continue to seek increases in sales tax in order to make up for budget shortfalls as a result of their own lack of fiscal discipline.

What bothers me is how the wealthy class is always quick to point out how much "assistance" is given to the poor, but when it comes to the poverty tax and actually having an equitable playing field in economic affairs, they are dead silent. And the middle class eats up this narrative, because they don't want to believe that they have more in common with the poor than they do with the rich. Most Americans are one health emergency away from bankruptcy. Most cannot afford to lose their job. Yet so many believe that they should direct their anger at the poor for "being lazy and taking the benefits their taxes pay for," when the truth is that the truly wealthy have rigged the financial and political system to pay almost no taxes and steal far more tax dollars than all of the poor are ever given.

It is a kind of mass delusion perpetrated by the rich in order to sustain their wholesale theft of the wealth created by the entire working class, and the fact that so few of us have woken up to this reality is what makes me want to scream.

What this allocation seems to suggest is that study participants who receive UBI feel compelled to distribute some of that income to their loved ones, because they too need assistance, and doing so improves their social circle's quality of life in ways that are not so material as buying goods and services. Therefore, if UBI were made available to everyone in need--and not just to study participants--then such redistribution would not occur at this rate.

What I've noticed with these studies is that critics of UBI and other forms of social safety net programs frequently come from entitled backgrounds. They have never known poverty and have formed this narrative of poor people "wasting" the money they earn or receive as the reason for their poverty. They can't understand why poor people don't just "find a better job," or "stop eating so much food," or "find a cheaper place to live." They look at the world through their own lens of plenty, and don't see how society severely penalizes the poor for simply being poor and extracts from them additional financial costs that the more fortunate do not have to pay.

In the same vein, there is this insidious undercurrent of elitism in the criticism that UBI recipients need to have their spending monitored and judged before they are entitled to it, because it reinforces this false narrative that poor people are poor because they don't use their money "wisely." Meanwhile, we have a billionaire class that truly wastes their obscene wealth on luxury yachts and monuments to their greatness. If anything, it is the poor--who have lived the experience of scarcity and have to decide every day what is truly meaningful in life--who should be entrusted to wealth, because every day they feel the tremendous pressure, anxiety, and insecurity of not having it, and therefore know how important it is to make sure that others do not suffer the same.

So when they give money to their friends or family when they barely have enough for themselves, you KNOW they aren't doing it frivolously. Unlike billionaires, who only love themselves, they know how important it is to share with the people you love.

I saw a thumbnail on YouTube from CBS or ABC, one of those state media apparatuses, of the jumping car. It was so obvious just from the thumbnail what this thing was, and why it was all over the media.

I vowed to quit asking myself questions like, "Do people really buy this?", But it still amazes me to see that they do. (Buy the hype, not the car)

You can find some used for around $39k now. Likely to crater further as the quick-n-easy loans come due, and they get repo'd.

I doubt they float or are bulletproof, though.

They apparently gave it some Muslim name, Ahmed or something, and dressed it up in what must be their idea of "gangster" attire: wifebeater, large chain.

So they thought it was funny not only to commit the sexual assault, but dress up as a lower-caste Muslim while doing it. Speaks volumes as to where the problems in that country really are.

I think they sense the end is coming, and these calls are signs of desperation. Seems kind of a longshot. But it may be all they can do to try extending the life of their companies by another year or two.

Are you sure it's the residents orchestrating this? Politicians have pulled the wool over my eyes with "think of the children" too many times to believe that. This smells less like earthen grass-roots and more like a smokescreen decreed from the top-down to make the politicians appear to be "reigning in Big Tech" without having to actually do that.

I think they'd prefer to do it in secret, where no one can see them. That's why the masks.

Freedom ain't free, sovereignty ain't cheap.

Hopefully they are increasing their military budgets too, shoring up the physical side of security.

All I could think of when reading the summary was "busywork". I would be more impressed with code that accomplishes its task with a minimum of changes, not how many lines your bot can shit out.

I think I still have some Discovery documentaries I recorded on VHS somewhere. No monthly fee to retain those. I would have to find a VHS player to watch them, though.

The enshittification of the Discovery Channel, I think, inspired the film Idiocracy. All the shows they have now, look like a bunch of extras from the film running around.

I have a family member who is a longtime Kroger employee. Store-based, not a corporate employee. A few years ago he told us how Kroger was trying to inject AI into the store's operations. The result was: the AI didn't help, and it was withdrawn from that application.

They might have ulterior motives for making this kind of announcement, but they are definitely experimenting with AI as well.