pivot_root @ pivot_root @lemmy.world

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If it unites the rest of the world as a side effect, I'm fine taking that loss.

Both Russia and the US have an exceptional track record of ruining other countries through proxy wars with each other, only to later come in and take advantage of the destruction they amplified. If neither of them are capable of doing that anymore, everyone else is going to be better off until the day nukes start flying.

If by libs they specifically meant "Leader Integrity in Bureaucratic Systems," they certainly did.

He sounds like a tool, but credit where credit is due: he didn't double down on it like what a lot of other Trump supporters are doing.

Not the other commenter, but they likely meant stability with respect to device drivers. The kernel is great at not degrading with a high uptime, but there's consumer stuff that's just perpetually unimplemented, buggy, or minimally-functional:

• Sensor monitoring on Ryzen platforms
• Realtek NIC chipsets
• Nvidia cards and proprietary drivers for anything and everything other than compute workloads
• Nvidia cards older than the RTX 2000 series and FOSS drivers
• Peripherals targeted towards "gamers"

None of this is the kernel maintainers fault, of course. The underlying issue is the usual one of shitty corporations refusing to publish documentation and/or strategically abusing the legal system to stifle reverse engineering for interoperability.

Trump posted a link to an Associated Press story outlining Zelenskyy’s comments and said: “This is the worst statement that could have been made by Zelenskyy, and America will not put up with it for much longer!

Oh look, he insinuated the quiet part out loud.

His one-sided deal and shitshow of meeting was meant to anger Zelenskyy so they could create some pretense for siding against Ukraine. Since that failed, he's just going to pivot to this as justification for joining the war on Daddy Vladdy's side.

The bad news is even those personally affected aren't all going to suddenly call a horse a horse. A good number of them will bitch and whine about him hurting the wrong people while being blissfully unaware that if someone got caught lying, it's not the first lie but just the first one that they found out about.

Or... more likely, you'll end up with a two-party system as well. America had more than two parties in the past, but FPTP made sure that once a party dissolved, it would be impossible to create a new one with any sliver of a chance.

You realize that if America isn't "defending" democracies for personal gain, they're tearing them down for personal gain instead... right?

Sure they can. When you own 100% of the machines on that blockchain—which is the only way they would ever even begin to consider it—you can do whatever the hell you want with it.

[Citation Needed]

In other words, we're fucked. They don't want to be an opposition party. It annoys them when anybody asks them to be one.

BMP? vi and control-v!
WAV? There's probably a plugin for that!

Don't worry, I'm sure fElon will make unemployment benefits even more efficient, too. Streamline the process by removing benefits from unemployment and those freeloaders will have to be efficient by taking the first underpaying offer given to them. /s

Despite GOP opposition, the coalition plans to proceed, aiming to build 72,000 homes, create 64,000 jobs, and cut energy costs by $1.26 billion. A congressional hearing is scheduled.

Yet more proof that his campaign was never about Americans, but about hurting people The Party deems beneath themselves.

• Elon

Hellwig was a bit crusty about being overruled by Torvalds, it seems.

He wouldn't defund NASA; he makes money from their contracts.

He would kill NASA's research, development, and engineering budget and turn the agency into a skeleton crew. Then he would use their lack of progress (that he caused) to justify raising budgets to contract work out to the private sector (and specifically SpaceX).

Lutnick said the move could replace the existing EB-5 program, which allows immigrant investors to acquire green cards by investing a certain amount toward a business in the US.

This wouldn't be the worst idea if it went to social programs or is used to provide support to other citizens.

Asked by a reporter if participants would need to invest a certain amount of money to qualify for a gold card, Lutnick responded “yeah, exactly” but suggested that funds for the visa might be paid directly to the government.

Who will invest it in a range of smaller businesses... right?

“They can come to America. The president can give them a green card, and they can invest in America, and we can use that money to reduce our deficit,” he added.

And that's exactly what I expected instead. Well done. Reduce the deficit caused by lining oligarch coffers with taxpayer funds, skim a cool million or ten to go golfing on your own property, and shovel the rest into the military complex.

From a pay-to-win program intended to support the country right into a pay-to-win program to support the riches of those running it. A clear improvement /s

Their approach leaves me with conflicting feelings.

On one hand, I dislike how the Steam Deck is among the weaker offerings for performance. On the other hand, I appreciate that it's not a commodified device like phones, which keep increasing in price with only miniscule incremental improvements year over year.

It wouldn't be as conflicting if they had better competitors following the yearly-improvement business model, as that would give more of a choice for those who prefer buying a new device each year. But, at least right now, the competing devices are pretty shit. None of them have dual track pads and 4 back buttons in addition to the standard inputs, and they're all running Windows 11 with a bloatware bandage to cover up the fact that the OS is far from controller-friendly.

The federal government employs around 3 million people.

Let's assume his email only reached a measly 2/3rds of the workforce, or about 2 million. If all of those workers wasted 10 minutes reading and replying to that crap using generative AI to fluff it up, it would be a combined total of 333k hours wasted.

More realistically, you have far less than 100% of the email recipents replying. But, those that do would probably spend anywhere between 20 to 40 minutes trying to write something they think would let them keep their job. For simplicity sake, let's just go with a rounded original estimate of 350k hours.

But, how much would that cost? Being charitable to fElon and assuming all those workers were paid federal minimum ($7.50/hour), that's $2,625,000 worth of worker time at minimum.

How much did that actually cost the government? Close to nothing because the fucker sent it on a weekend and demanded a reply before it would encroach on time they're actually paid to work for. It's a fuck-you from the unelected president meant to sew fear and uncertainty and to tell workers that they're expected to bark when he says so.