By which you mean the media (they're not "mainstream", do people in the mainstream cover for child rapists like Jeffrey Epstein? ABC had the goods on him and buried the story, allowing his ring to operate for years afterwards.)

By which you mean the media has been caught red-handed, over and over, by individual Americans doing nothing more than using their brains and having a platform to point it out.

Most recently, the media covered up Biden's cognitive decline and the fact that a cabal seized the office of President and was forging his signature on documents. Why? Because it would have made Democrats look bad.

A lot of people say Democrats control the media, but I think it's really that the media controls the Democrats.

The interesting part is the human psychology behind it, i.e. what causes (allegedly) intelligent people to perform a necessary test, and then simply ignore the results of that test when the results aren't what they had hoped for? Were they imagining that the ocean would just give them a pass because they had made an effort?

Well..."sort of virus first" is probably correct, but that doesn't mean that things don't sometimes go into reverse. The "sort of virus" couldn't be like the current stuff, because it couldn't be parasitic. And there are arguments that a "sort of cell" evolved before the genetic machinery. Nobody really knows, (See "metabolism first" https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fui.adsabs.harvard.edu%2F... for one argument.)

I, personally, suspect that the proto-"cell walls" and the proto-"genetic machinery" evolved their first stages independently, and mixed together later into something with superior "stability".

For all his faults and they are many, Donald Trump loves America and loves the American people.

That counts for a lot, at least among Americans.

We all just got a good, long look at the decayed hearts of Democrats and what they think of us. Rioting, spraypainting hate symbols on Teslas, state governors nullifying federal authority on their territory in a way we haven't seen since 1864, federal troops sent in to restore order like Eisenhower forcibly integrating your schools at bayonet point in the 1950s against the express wishes of state governments and the state's population, attacking police, setting our cities on fire, proudly waving foreign flags in front of the fires you set, and in general a contemptuous hostility towards the AmeriKKKan people(your spelling) and a rejection of us in favor of foreigners who think nothing of impregnating 13 year old girls and whose machismo makes our own toxic masculinity look like a men's bowling club.

At least Donald Trump loves Americans and knows what a woman is. I mean, Tampon Tim? What were you thinking?

Trump will destroy democracy, say the people who held no elections for their candidate. All the while a cabal, including the President's wife) had overthrown our elected President in a silent coup, operating the office of President by forging his signature. A mentally incapacitated President happened before and we were so shocked and repulsed by being controlled by his wife that we passed an entire Constitutional amendment dealing with precisely this issue.

Meanwhile, the media, guardians of democracy, refused to report Biden's dementia and covered it up because that would affect their side's grip on power. That the media even have a side is offensive to Americans, they're supposed to report facts, but as the CEO of NPR, a publicly funded media, has proudly stated on the record, facts get in the way of getting things done.

Now that the internet is finally fulfilling its original promise of allowing We The People to talk back to power, and we are in a new age of radical government transparency. DOGE has turned on the lights in the kitchen and we have seen all the cockroaches swarming around at last. It's horrifying what was being done in the dark behind locked doors, and when our people arrived with a warrant from the (elected) President demanding entry, the head of security of the agencies barred the way, showing that these agencies answer to nobody but themselves.

But you go, silence us, do what you do best: speak truth to the powerless.

I don't think the Chinese government has a whole lot of motivation to make life easier for gullible Americans at the moment.

Yes, how can we tell the difference between a true random number generator, and a device that is simply reading the next entry from a very long one-time-pad that our mortal enemies also have a copy of, and therefore can trivially "predict" future results from, no matter how perfectly random they are?

WFH is great for the planet, too.

Going to try hard to stay "fully remote". Just doing my part...

Because the US patents make it illegal to import without permission from the patent holder. I don't think there are any personal use exceptions for patents.

Don't play dumb. The law of our land has been declared null and void in California by Governor Newsom.

States shouldn't have to follow laws they don't agree with.

Trump even had to federalize the National Guard to take away a rebellious governor's armed force before it could be used against Union forces. We will enforce federal law at bayonet point if need be. Just like when Eisenhower ordered Alabama schools integrated and used the US Army against the AmeriKKKan people, against the explicit wishes of the government and people of that state.

Sucks to be you, rebel. That's why your flag is a hate symbol, just like the swastika.

We will crush you just like we did before.

We will march through your territory and burn down everything we find in an attempt to genocide you, just like the true American hero General Sherman did on his famous March to the Sea.

Only this time, black-eyed peas won't be around to save you, traitors.

Make no mistake, rehabilitating you traitors was a big mistake last time. We won't make that mistake again. There will be no Reconstruction, only a Denaturalization Act to make you into stateless persons, followed by deportation. We'll give gigantic bribes to any country that will be bribed(a lot of them). I hope you end up in Africa somewhere, so you can be with your preferred people.

We might even land the plane first before shoving you out the door.

The professor said very clearly said that fascist states could not survive without external enemies to blame for their own failings.

Thus, they often invaded other countries and without those invasions, they would collapse.

Are you calling my professor a liar? You're telling me a man who specialized in oppression theory was a liar? No, you're the liar. Liar.

Why is Trump ready to invade Greenland?

LOL are you triggered?

Yup, it was all "ethnic slurs are forbidden" right up until you told us that yourselves were exempt from your own rules. Remember Jeanene Garaofolo and her blackface photo? Not a problem. Or Ted Danson and his blackface photo? Not a problem.

And then Justin Trudeau's blackface photo was revealed and you voted for him anyway. Not a problem.Anyone else, that would have been a career-ending move. And when we examine Critical Theory, we find exactly that. The rules you devise are never for yourselves to follow.

Now you're using the bowdlerized N-word and that's no problem, either.

The whole world doesn't want to play with you. Nobody likes you woke. You know that, right?

Well, you had a nice long run. The enshittification will now begin. Sure, they're small ads. At first.

Then they'll be animated, because you people love clicking on animated ads.

Then they'll be the kind that takes over the screen and shows a slot machine, and you'll click on those because who doesn't enjoy flicking the bar on a Skinner box?

God damn I miss USENET and its high barriers to entry.

Can someone create a new social network that requires high technical skill to even get on? That worked really well. Until the nakba, the day that America On-Line was joined to the greater internet.

We all said that was the beginning of the end. And we were right.

Recently, I find that Firefox sometimes suddenly uses large amounts of memory, effectively locking up my Linux system. However, looking at "about:power", it's the tabs open on Microsoft pages that are taking more memory than any others.

If I hit quickly enough I can usually kill some tasks to recover.

Will ICE start searching people crossing into the US from Canada for generic semaglutide?

Well, they might let me remember people's names. There are probably other uses, but that's the one that occurs to me.