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It’s always funny to see the International Cabal of Nationalists scratch their heads when they realize they all think alike, but that involves taking away each other’s toy.

The International Cabal of Nationalists is as smart as the Global Alliance of Flat Earthers.

I have a Poco phone and I pretty much use only open source apps for basic functionality at this point. I think I have about a dozen I use daily, from Fossify to dialer. Once the Xiaomi calculator wanted to have Internet access, it was over. Maybe I can’t uninstall the default apps, but I definitely don’t have to use them.

And what do you know the open source apps outperform Google and Xiaomi, all the time. The only thing I find lacking is some kind of curation that tells me if an app has been updated recently, how many downloads it’s had in the past month or year, and how many deletions. It took a while to figure out what apps still work on modern Android versions.

It all kind of makes sense if you look at it from an investors’ perspective, which is the only one that really matters to CEOs. You can do whatever you want, but unless a company is an AI company, you can’t reach a stratospheric PE ratio and your stock stays “low.” You convince investors that you are an AI-first company, and your stock can break free of its shackles and reach its full potential!

All for the relatively cheap price of slapping two letters on everything, AI.

It’s as if the European Commission has never met a bully in their life and they have no idea what to do now that they are facing one.

Hint: backing down does not result in success.

Did a judge actually sign a warrant for Maduro’s arrest?

You are not wrong, but it’s also true that Italy’s high debt / high inflation economy of the second half of the century hit a brick wall when inflation controls were added without a consolidation of debt EU-wide.

The Italian economy sort of worked, because the high inflation of years past ate away the debt load and fixed payments (like pensions). Once that wasn’t possible any longer, the automatic “adjustment” of loads ended and the political class of the time was unwilling, unable, and uninterested in solving a problem for the distant future (spoiler alert: ten years ago was the distant future).

The rational thing to do was to complement the inflation anxiety from the German, British, and Nordic economies with a consolidation of debt at the EU level, say 50% of the national debt taken over as shared debt. That would have given Italy, Greece, Belgium, and Spain room to breathe while they transitioned the setup of their economies.

I am pretty passionate about this, because the same identical problem is starting to pop up now, with COVID debt and resulting interest payments crippling government action and forcing higher and higher taxation burdens, mostly in secondary form (fees, fines, etc.). So we need to look at Italy (and Greece) as examples of what can happen today.

Some kind of scripting language was necessary, I don’t think JavaScript had to be it.

First there was C++: bloated, complicated, and not memory safe. So they came up with Java, which was similar in syntax but much less complicated, with great memory safety, and a decent type / object system. It was popular in the day, with a cultish fan base, and was seen as cool. So they (meaning Netscape) wrote something that looked like Java but got rid of half the good features. Nobody thought at the time that JS mattered much, it would be soon replaced by something better.

And that was decades ago. It was never meant to run the web for that long. It did an acceptable job, but it is very frustrating in the long run.

You have to declare it before starting coverage, and if they find proof that you ever smoked, you lose insurance coverage retroactively. It’s the best of all worlds for the insurance company: they get your money until you are sick, and then they get to spend as much time as they like trying to figure out when and where you didn’t tell the truth. The lie doesn’t even have to be related to the health condition, at all.

Depends on location, age, and smoking status, and very much so. But a single person can easily pay way more than $1000 a month.

It may be retaliation, but it’s probably just as much about the Tina Peters situation as it is about Lauren Boebert. Trump seems to have decided that Colorado Must Be Punished, even though Eastern Colorado is as red Republican as the districts come.

I wish the protesters safety and success. Iran has been a central pivot in world civilization since its dawn, and it rightfully belongs back there as a center of culture and civilization, run by a government chosen by the people and accountable to the people.

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Now you can go to Crumbl and pay $5 for one cookie! Progress is awesome.

So nobody but Merrick Garland and Joe Biden knows why they slow-walked the Trump cases, dragging them on for four years.

But if the renaming of the Kennedy Center is not undone within 24 hours of this shit show ending, I will do the unthinkable and post a sternly worded comment in my Hello Kitty diary!

Which is really sad, because they could get what they want and need, but they go about it the wrong way.

Right, but they are the alpha macho men that are not afraid of anything. Don’t they realize how pathetic they look when they base their opinions on pure expressions of fear? Of fear, in particular, of what they consider “lesser?”

You just know he wants the Kennedy name out of the Trump Center.

What I don’t get about MAGA incels is that they seem to be deathly afraid of women. The whole bizarro stance about trad wives and submission seems to be a cultural ploy to make women less fearsome.

What are they so afraid of? And why aren’t they more afraid that these ridiculous fears will make them look like pathetic losers?

I’ve been where you are and I am so sorry for your loss. It can’t ease the pain, but it sounds like Marley had the best friend in you, who looked out for him until his very end. Thank you for being there for him.

Amen to that! On the other hand, they know they are pushing uphill and they know there are plenty people that disapprove of what they are doing. Hence the masked faces of shame.