You’ve misunderstood; Donations to charities like The Trevor Project are deductible, and would be very much considered political.

In a fair democracy, sure. But the US ain’t that; I wouldn’t be surprised if they used donation write-offs to target political opponents.

Yes; that is what their role is. Unfortunately, Russia inherited the USSR’s former permanent seat when the Soviet Union collapsed - and are basically veto’ing any such action.

One can only hope that we learn from history, the next time a member state collapses (whether it be the US, Russian Federation or anyone else).

The SSN is 9 digits long; so technically they would have to start re-using them after the billionth one. Given the current population size, and how many people have been born/died since its implementation - it’s fair to say they haven’t had to re-use any figures yet.

Have you given any thought to switching to a LTSC version of Windows 10 Enterprise? There are a few trade-offs from what I can see, but at least it eliminates the issue of no security updates for up to 5 more years.

I’m still mulling over the pro’s and con’s - curious on what you think.

It’d hopefully allow you to keep Civ6 multiplayer going for the time being until (if/when) the Linux issues get solved?

I’m a PC that’s not currently “compatible” with Windows 11, because I’m too lazy/refuse to enable TPM 2.0 in my BIOS.

Given how much of a pain in the ass my work machine is with Win 11 — I’d honestly rather switch to Linux than deal with it on my home system.

I’ve been tinkering with my Steam Deck for almost a year, and haven’t been able to accidentally brick it - it’s definitely come a long way from where it was back in my uni days (early 00s).

Look, the awfulness of this whole entire situation aside - I would unironically enjoy the shit out of that rendition.

Needs at least two exclamation points on that thing; to properly imply scale. Add an extra one for each of the following territorial acquisitions: Canada and Greenland.

Coming soon, to a map near you: OKLAHOMA!!!

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Thank you for bringing this glorious thing to my attention!

I imagine a lot of this is coming off the back of individuals/corporations/nations seeking influence over Trump; especially when you consider that something like 80-90% of initial tokens were owned by Trump and insiders.

A couple hundred million dollars is a small amount to pay for the leverage it could provide. I honestly think a large number of the biggest bagholders would be linked to the Saudi’s and Musk.

True, but it’s only a matter of time before it bites those people in the ass. Whether or not they’re smart enough to understand the cause (Trump/Musk chaos) or not - they’re going to suffer.

The best you can hope for this cohort is that they’re disenfranchised enough by the mid-terms to sit out the election and allow for a massive shift in the House and Senate… but given how spineless and feckless the Dems have acted over the past four years - I’m not holding out a”much hope.

Give it long enough; and some Crypto bro will figure out a way to pool GPU resources and on-sell the capacity via a marketplace and voila; we could have the capacity to burn down the Amazon in under a week!

Glass is also quite heavy, increasing logistics costs for transport - but in an ideal world where everything runs off renewable energy sources and stupid people didn’t ruin things for the rest of us - glass would indeed be the ideal medium.

I am aware; but when the options are an entirely plastic container (clear, and readily able to oxidise and leech microplastics when exposed to light over long periods of time) versus a lined metal can (which is at least opaque) - cans are remain the lesser of two evils.

I agree with the overall sentiment; but there is no way in hell that canned water is worse than plastic bottles.

Aluminium is infinitely more/easily recyclable than plastic, and has a much lower negative impact on the environment.

But to reiterate, filling up your own bottle from the tap is preferred - but if you have to buy water in a container: can > bottle

2005 (1985 Parody): https://youtu.be/zaAYUZqZvlA

G O U R A N G A !

“Things aren’t looking so golden for Tesla in the Golden State. Tesla’s dominance in the electric-vehicle market continues to falter as the brand reported its fifth consecutive quarterly registration decline,” California New Car Dealers Association said in a report published on Jan. 31.

Emphasis mine, but the bad news is that the Model Y and 3 are still the highest-selling cars in the state - so there’s still plenty more room for those figures to fall:

Still, the Model Y crossover continued to be the top-selling vehicle in the state, with about 129,000 units sold last year. The Model 3 sedan was a distant second, with around 53,000 cars delivered.

He has implicit Congressional Approval as long as the GOP maintain a majority and sit back, doing nothing.

Twenty-something years from now, we’ll all be quoting “First they came for the migrants, but I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a migrant; then they came for the foreign aid workers, but I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a foreign aid worker…” when referring to the downfall of the United States of America.