The US president is such a toddler.

Fuckin embarrassing.

My computer has some gold in it, but I wouldn't characterize my computer as 'gold'. Same way modern irons have almost no iron in them. 🤷

That's crazy that LG installed adware by bundling it up with Windows drivers and delivering it through Windows Update.

If companies can send adware through Windows Update packaged simply as 'drivers' and Microsoft doesn't even raise an eyebrow even once this is known, reported and questioned by media, then my already low opinion of their quality control drops precipitously.

So, like... wisdom.

Its a good thing you're spending on infrastructure and services then, and not just building massive amounts of debt due to reduced taxes on the wealthy, defence contracts, propping up AI, and funding the Trump family.

Step 1) anonymous ICE brownshirts massively expand their ranks start shooting all sorts of people all over the country with only one common thread amongst victims: they're not conservative white men, and ICE is almost never held accountable.

Step 2) mail order voting made illegal.

Step 3) ICE brownshirts stationed at all polling locations.

Step 4) omg Trump wins again! Third term shocks America, as Supreme Court declares "I'll allow it".

This reads like they're more pissed that products didn't get cheaper, than they are that companies lowered food standards immediately after regulations disappeared.

Remember this anytime some lassaize faire dipshit talks about regulations not being needed because 'the free market regulates itself'.

Same for monopolies. Which now exist in virtually all major industries thanks to deregulation or weakened regs.

🤓 Actually almost all modern clothes irons are made with an aluminium* soleplate now, to minimize corrosion. The soleplate makes up most of the metal content of the iron, and is then coated with a thin layer of non-stick coating like non-stick paint, plastic/polymer, or stainless steel.

https://www.madehow.com/Volume-6/Clothes-Iron.html

*I'm Australian.

For everyone skeptical, we have a central "do not dial" scheme that you can add your phone number to and legally opt out of ever getting a telemarketing call that has worked very well.

Likewise we have "do not ring" notices people can self-apply on doors making it illegal for door-knockers to bother you that has also worked very well.

So this is just bureaucrats trying to extend that thinking to gambling ads on the internet... They mean well, but it's much more technically complex to hide a certain type of ad from specific users and I don't think they get that.

Would be much, much easier to just ban gambling ads... But as other have said, they're big political donors in some states..

I know you didn't ask, but Punters Politics is great btw.. Very level-headed political analysis in the videos I've seen from him, and he seems to be getting through positive messaging to a young demographic with his approach. Which is so important with all the mountains of cash being astroturfed into fake groups like 'Advance Australia' to push pro-oil&gas and anti-Greens messaging to that non-politically informed demo.

Good job standing up to unsafe bullshit in the workplace. It's never easy.

Reads like a Beaverton article.

“I wrote every word of it,” Schwartz told Good Morning America Monday. “Donald Trump made a few red marks when I handed him the manuscript but that was it,” he continued (this is far from unusual in terms of ghost-written celebrity books). Trump has denied this, saying he wrote the book. Link

The US president is, according to his own aides from the first term, functionally illiterate.

You're not sure if we can trust the listed co-author of Trump's most famous book that ghost-wrote it for him, on who wrote the book?

There's absolutely mountains of evidence that Trump operates at a 4th to 6th grade level as an orator, and video evidence (courtroom) of him refusing to read a page in front of him, claiming various things 'text too small', 'don't have my glasses' (Trump has never been pictured wearing glasses) etc. Bro can't read anything beyond the McDonalds menu to identify which number he wants next to a picture.

Ironic.

P.s. this is not a serious complaint. This is a neat app.

"Why let someone else sabotage my future when I can do it myself", essentially.

Escapism is OK when you need to de-stress, everyone needs that sometimes - (games, TV, mild drugs, etc). But fatalism is dumb, especially when it comes to decisions of health - just ask any ex-junkie; they have to deal with the health fallout of their past decisions for the rest of their lives.

In this scenario, smoking a pack of Marlboro's directly funds the arseholes you're pissed off at. The southern conservatives that own the tobacco and their finace-industry investors that directly fund the politicians fucking society and the planet to make selfish decisions on their part..

If you're unhappy with the direction of the world, do something about it and you'll improve your life and your emotional state. Teach, organize, volunteer, protest, find a job that has a positive impact on the future, serve poison to a far-right politician (in the videogame Hitman), the list of options are endless.

And the fourth estate loses a little more of its ability to hold power to account in 'the land of the free'.

Fewer rapes and paedophiles get reported and caught when you don't teach sex ed.

That's a fact.

I wonder why the rape-paodophile administration would be trying to reduce sex ed. 🤔

It's from the misinformation and rage-bait network, that makes it immune to facts.

Just ask the sacked Facebook independent fact-checking department.

"Its kinda shitty" doesn't stop a lot of products or services because they're cheap to make or run.

AI is neither cheap to make or run.

What else in modern society is even remotely close go the level of having a trillion dollars annual subsidy? I can think of nothing.