The comment about the USB-C port was Interesting. I don’t know about others, but personally I’d happily pay a few bucks more to get a USB-C port instead of a micro. I can’t stand USB micro. I’d almost rather have a USB-A port rather than a micro.

If I’m reading this right you’ve got it the wrong way around. His studies showed no link between autism and vaccines. The current administration wants to go after him because his studies prove their anti-vaccine bullshit is wrong.

Grifting and religion, name a more iconic pair.

Short term? Drive wages down with the threat of firing people and replacing them with AI. Long term? They’re either delusional enough to believe AI will improve to the point where it actually is cheaper, or else they’re willing to pay more for a workforce that can’t organize and protest and that they don’t have to worry about doing things like being a whistleblower for their latest amoral plan.

Thanks I hate it. So ASRock just enshitified RAM. It was already a problem that prebuilt systems used the shittiest RAM on the market, but at least there was a minimum level of quality you could expect. Now ASRock has created DDR5 RAM that’s literally half the speed that DDR5 is supposed to support as a bare minimum.

Real big “some of you may die, but it’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make” energy here. I wonder if he’s just going all in on rigging the election so he’s not even trying to keep voters happy.

To be fair a lot of people probably don’t. It’s not one of the ones that gets used much in TV shows, movies, or ads, and it doesn’t get much radio play these days either. If you’re under the age of say ~25 there’s a pretty good chance you’ve never heard it before.

No, the rest of the world isn’t just going to instantly nuke the US. If Iran gets nuked it won’t be via an ICBM but more likely a traditional aircraft or possibly ship launched nuke. Until it goes off it won’t look too much different from any of the other weapons being dropped on Iran. What it would do though is instantly turn the US into even more of a pariah than it already is. You’d likely see pretty much instant sanctions across the board which would tank the US economy, and might finally manage to get Trump impeached and convicted. Might even be able to convince the spineless bastards in Washington to hand Trump over to the ICC in exchange for lifting some of the sanctions.

Remember the golden rule with Trump and the Republicans, every accusation is an admission. So Trump just admitted he’s weak.

That’s actually what I thought this was about at first which if it had been would be pretty big as I’m not aware of any ion thruster that’s useful for in atmosphere operation. Sadly this is not that.

This is a terrible misleading title. It absolutely has moving parts, it’s just using piezoelectric materials and compliant mechanisms to drive the moving parts rather than the more traditional electromagnets and gears.

Would you look at that, the guy who posts Russian propaganda is posting Russian propaganda again.

Part of the problem is that it’s a feedback loop. People use social media and somebody makes some misogynistic content which angers people which then gets the algorithm to promote it heavily. Then somebody else who’s inspired by that content makes their own misogynistic content and the cycle repeats. Once enough of that content is circulating it becomes the norm and a bunch of people start dogpiling on it to be part of the in crowd. It’s particularly pernicious when it’s being used to blame people’s problems on others which is how the incel and red pill groups got their start.

It’s not just the girls/women that need to get off these platforms, it’s the boys/men as well. Algorithms that reward anger and controversy are a significant part of the problem and really should be looked at to be regulated the same way gambling and addictive drugs are.

Unfortunately the EU has no say in the tariffs that the US charges its own citizens. US customs can just ignore the Supreme Court ruling and keep charging people to get their stuff out of lockdown and there’s not a whole lot anyone can do. In theory the Supreme Court could maybe charge Trump with contempt of court but that’s about as likely as Trump suddenly becoming a decent human being instead of an ambulatory bag of excrement.

It’s always the ones you most suspect. You could probably be closely aligned with the constitution without knowing a single thing about the law by just always taking the opposite position from whatever Thomas, Alito, and Kavanaugh take.

I mean… kind of. It is a world wide brand that is very popular. I’m not sure this one person stepping down is really going to change anything, but it’s interesting I guess. It’s definitely not important news, but I can see an argument that it is news, and it’s world wide.

It would be truly amazing if any international warrant was issued for Trump. I’m not sure anyone would be willing to actually act on the warrant, but just issuing it would be worth it.

The cold war era propaganda and policies have really fucked everything up. There’s a straight line between them and today’s Republican/MAGA party that runs right through Reagan’s economic policies. MAGA sits at the crossroads of that and the festering racism that was never dealt with following the civil war. Unfortunately America’s world police mentality (and CIA fuckery, another result of the cold war) has spread those policies and attitudes to a bunch of other countries (who all for some strange reason have a dominant conservative media company owned by Rupert Murdoch, but I’m sure that’s just a coincidence right?).

Japan has struggled with horrendous xenophobia for pretty much their entire history so this isn’t really surprising even if it is disappointing. Unfortunately we’re seeing a rise in far right parties around the globe and there are depressingly few liberal governments left. If this keeps up it’s not going to take much to ignite WW3 with all these nationalists taking control.

It wasn’t over half. He won with 49.8% to Harris 48.32%. It was an incredibly close election (which is rather damning but that’s a different discussion).

What you’re describing is literally the KGBs playbook and no it doesn’t work in anyone’s favor but the ones spreading propaganda. All you’ll end up with is an even less informed and apathetic populace and we’re already struggling with that problem. That works in favor of dictators and fascists. Democracies on the other hand require an informed and engaged populace in order to function.