I'm beginning to feel there's a fundamental disconnect between the vocabulary of everyday people and the words journalists use. I can only imagine how the dialogue goes around a journalist's house.
"Honey, have you heard about the Winstons?"
"No, why?"
"Fred from accounting SLAMMED they're planning to move to Wisconsin."
"Oh, I see. Did you GRILL him about where exactly they'd be going?"
"Yeah, I HAMMERED him with questions until he MELTED down. IN TEARS, he SCREAMED at me, 'Yeah, somewhere near Madison.'"
"...screamed?"
"You know... politely."
I'm a software guy, so I'm gonna go with 'free compilers.' Back when every company was keeping their secret sauce close to their chest, RMS turned around and released gcc for free. That was... new, to say the least. It paved the way for much of the software you see eating the world today.
This whole week has been fucking bonkers, I'll tell you what. It's Project 2025 in full fucking swing; the entire country is off Medicaid (or maybe not); all grant money is frozen (or maybe not); half the populace is to be deported (or maybe not)c and now this. Or maybe not. It'll obviously be challenged in the courts.
The true essence of a dictatorship is in fact not its regularity but its unpredictability and caprice; those who live under it must never be able to relax, must never be quite sure if they have followed the rules correctly or not.
He ran out of the need to hold elections