https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EWorld

Because Apple isn’t stupid. There’s no money in being an ISP unless you’re willing to do things Apple doesn’t want to be perceived as doing.

Apple had eWorld — that was their last foray into being an ISP, and is likely to stay that way for the foreseeable future.

And technically the scientists weren’t on board when they discovered it, since the ship was in dry dock and they were in a lab.

Instead we’re stuck listening to Vogon poetry.

Er, I think they mean “Scientists aboard Great Lakes research vessel discover new life” don’t they?

The goo wasn’t really on board; it was on rudder.

Well, the thing about being a criminal is that it means you’ve been convicted of a crime.

Trump is a criminal. But he was born in the US to US citizens.

The goal is to make all sorts of things crimes such that it’s almost impossible to function in the US as a foreigner without committing a crime. At that point, the government can choose the people to deport at their whim.

Since birthright citizenship is being struck down, and this government interprets the constitution as only applicable to citizens, expect Trump to attempt again to pass legislation for more types of citizenship nullification.

One tricky bit is, if you’re declared legally dead, you immediately become an illegal resident if you’re still alive. And DOGE has already declared a number of people dead by misinterpreting a few databases.

It really is a case of projection, isn’t it?

This reminded me of all the Republican rallying cries against “cancel culture” around removing monuments to not-that-great men and people refusing to spend time on sites whose core values they disagreed with.

And now we’ve moved to these same people removing any reference to actual heroes of history if they happen to have not been successful white heterosexual men.

Cancel culture indeed.

Yes, they can veto, but others should at least be going on the record and REQUIRING the US to use its veto.

This isn’t leaving tech… it’s leaving corporate employment.

Still great options, but I was expecting something more like: pivot to a different role in your existing company and then find another non-corporate use for those skills, or get your apprenticeship in the trades, or become a bus driver.

Stupid? They’re achieving exactly what they set out to achieve. The fact that they’re doing it while saying illogical things doesn’t change that.

Because people got greedy and felt they could depend on everyone else to keep the safeguards in place, while eroding them for their own unjust gain.

These four North Koreans remain at large, and the ‘Rewards for Justice’ program has announced $5,000,0000 in rewards for credible information about their current location.

Wow… so PRK can make just as much by saying “here they are, at an office in Pyongyang!” as they made via this entire 5-year scheme.

And those who win in court… have no guarantee that the federal administration won’t round them up again in the future and put them through the entire process again.

And the point here is to flood the space. If everyone is talking about the gossip 100% of the time, nobody has spare cycles to pay attention to what’s actually happening.

That’s partly because unlike Democrats, he’s actually speaking out and taking a contrarian stance on topics.

When he thought he could work with Trump, he went all-in. Now that he realizes that two narcissists will always have conflicting goals, he’s all-in on fighting Trump.

The Democrats, on the other hand, have mostly spent this time saying “let’s discuss working together to come to an agreeable compromise” while doing not much that’s actually useful one way or the other.

Elon may be politically inept and only looking out for his own interests, but he does know how to grab the public’s attention and how to force people to act.

Seems to me that such a system could be taken even further to also operate artificial appendages, a wheelchair, or even a MANTIS suit.

I just hope that someone discovers a way to reverse sclerosis and neuropathic diseases soon so that none of this is still needed. But the more tools in our toolboxes the better.

Not everyone can be piccolo, Shirley….

Most Jews want to go to Israel about as much as most Anglo Saxons want to go to the US.

Notice it’s to protect Jewish organizations, not Jewish people.

Apparently it is now antisemitic to speak out against an organization you disagree with, even ones that bear a strong resemblance to what would otherwise be labeled a terrorist organization.

The problem of course is that there ARE antisemites out there mixed in with all the people upset with the US and Israeli governments.

So who is the new president? I’m hoping it’s someone with strong liberal roots.