Mbourgon everywhere

Car company 1: would you want a BIG MANLY TRUCK made out of the same thing as a COKE CAN?! EWWW

Car company 2: you want your BIG MANLY TRUCK made out of the same thing as a FIGHTER JET! FREEDUMMMMMM!

The article references sovereign citizen specifically.

Steve Albini was a man of many talents. It’s crazy when you find out just how many influential bands he worked with. Specifically Mono mentioned working with him on their brand new album. I was stunned how many genres he worked with - I knew him from Nirvana and “Some Of Your Friends Are Already This Fucked”.

And yeah, poker too. RIP you legend.

I’d argue yes. And it’s still a combination of “exceedingly competent and yes still incompetent in other ways”. The intelligence is here, to paraphrase William Gibson, it’s just unevenly distributed

Sure, years later. They flew the stealth fighter f-117a around in Nevada for 10 years before it became public knowledge. The government is simultaneously capable and incapable. Different groups have different responsibilities, different budgets, different helpers and detractors, etc.

Same thing with Trump. He is simultaneously capable and incapable. He can barely put sentences together, but has like-minded people who are less incompetent, able to push extreme policies through. And there are other groups using him as a tool as well. They don’t care about and will shove him once he’s no longer useful. But he’s very good at taking attention away from other things.

Overall you’re right. But there are some notable exceptions. Arguably Iran/Contra, the CIA spying on all phone calls, the Drug War. But the big one would be The Manhattan Project, since it employed literally hundreds of thousands of people.

Jwz’s 2nd law!

Thanks for the info. Yeah, that support is even better than I’d thought, and it was already top-tier

Huh? I was pretty sure it’d fall out of OS support this year. And without security patches, shudder

Go do the demo. It is honestly really impressive. Had no intention of doing it, I’m not the target demographic or audience, but I was there to get a battery replaced and while I waited they did it. My jaw dropped at least twice.

I’m at a loss for the kind of things it can do for me day-to-day right now (and yeah, they have to come up with good selling points there), but for a virtual desktop I’d be there if it were cheaper. But you kinda see where they’re heading - glasses where you could read the web, check weather, watch tv, or play games, the UI, and the phone is just a computing brick that sits in your pocket all day