The death toll up to this point is about 45k. Israel has not settled any land in Gaza or started expelling Palestinians into neighboring countries. There is a lot of room for it to get worse.

I just want to say one last “Fuck you Kyrsten Sinema, you traitorous piece of shit.”

More like Branch Davidian.

I’m sure his conclusion at the end was “We need to build nukes immediately”.

No, but the whole point of Doctorow’s Enshittification essay is that it inevitably will. In the same way animals keep evolving into crabs due to convergent evolution, social media companies will keep turning into shit because the market incentives push them that way.

People said the same thing about Biden and he’s the one who appointed her.

It’s what has literally happened to ships that violated the Russian and Iranian sanctions in the last couple years.

The company would be prosecuted and the ship seized the next time it docked at port. If the company was based in literally any other country, nothing would happen.

There is no blockade of Cuba. It’s an embargo. There are no military ships blowing up anyone trying to trade with Cuba.

Nah, it was second behind the invasion of Iraq and the forever war in Afghanistan. The US’s unwillingness to react was in large part because it had been weakened by a decade of idiotic wars in the Middle East. Europe has no excuse though.

He’s going to learn real quick what discovery is and then probably cancel the suit.

Flood areas are defined as somewhere where there’s a 1 in a 100 chance of a flood happening. The problem is all the calculations for that are based on historic data, which is to say they don’t take into account climate change.

You’d think so, but Europe has some pathetically low numbers for this question, with many countries below 50% and a few in the 30s.

Gee, maybe something happened in the 20 years since then that changed people’s opinions on endless wars in the Middle East.

The government buys IT services from the same companies that everyone else does: Google, Microsoft and Amazon. They all offer special government offerings with stricter security.

I guarantee Trump is getting hacked because he and his team refuse to listen to IT and won’t let them turn on basic security features because they’re a slight inconvenience.

The problem with that argument is that 80% of people live in cities. There are not enough rural people for them to be a majority of the Republican party.

It helps that it’s the truth.

Depends on the person’s eyes as well. I have a pretty bad astigmatism that makes dark mode god awful to read.

A surprising number of companies actually do sell powder versions of their drinks on the web. I buy both Arizona tea and A&W root beer packets online.

Another thing to watch out for is single-sided vs double-sided. Many laptops have flush mounted m.2 slots that won’t fit an SSD with chips on both sides of the board.