Like Trump, Musk revealed his personality early on. In the 1990s when Trump was losing his father’s money in casinos, Musk was making his money by using his father’s money to buy profitable dotcom startups and claiming them as his own. Then he sold them before the market crashed.

SpaceX has been kind of a blip in all this; all his other companies are very much run in the traditional Musk style though, with him taking credit where luck and other people’s hard work are responsible.

It’s not dying at all; it’s just dispersing. Entropy is odd that way; life turns out to be an entropy accelerator.

… until it isn’t.

At least they’re not shooting protesters on sight yet; that was a thing at multiple points in US history.

Meanwhile JD Vance is telling them the US isn’t getting involved….

Meanwhile, Marco Rubio is intervening….

But to publish on AltStore, you need a developer account, which already provides free publishing on Apple’s App Store.

The big difference is that you can publish anything that can be notarized instead of being limited by Apple’s reams of regulations. But you still have to abide by the Apple Developer agreement.

At least AltStore doesn’t require a big sideloading song and dance anymore. But I stopped using it once the software I used it for became available on the App Store.

And Riley’s going to have to deal with malware and scams now :/

What exactly does “spun off” mean here? Doesn’t Comcast still have a stake in the new org? Isn’t this just changing the lipstick color on the pig?

I’ve got an ancient laser printer. Toner is cheap and it just works. Anything more complex? I send it to a print shop and let THEM deal with the suffering. I just get the results I’m expecting when I expect them, without wasting time and money on printers and ink and all the things that can go wrong with them. Works for me….

Personally, I look at the metabolic model and think “yeah; I should be doing those things anyway to have the fullest life I can have.” At that point, it doesn’t really matter what my risk level is, I’m already taking appropriate steps.

The Socialist party already exists?

Only with the extreme Overton shift in the US. Democrats may be more progressive than Republicans, but that’s really not saying much. Most actual Democrat policy is right of center, to the frustration of representatives like Sanders and AOC.

It’s time for the US to form a centrist party, instead of people having to choose between far right, right, and far left.

Is it just me that saw the picture and the first thing I noticed were the big X logos?

What gun will provide home defense against an ICE SWAT team? Seems to me that a gun in this situation means someone you care about will get seriously injured or die. And/or go to jail for murder.

Makes me think investing in a Halon fire suppression system could be useful. Along with gas masks for everyone.

This is useful in removing the “but I didn’t know!” excuse. He’s now been told, publicly.

This should be done for every member of the current administration who has attended a school of higher learning.

To be fair, from where he’s sitting, everyone is to the left, and any sane opinion is an attack on his point of view.

Depends on your definition of “population.”

In UAE and Qatar, the male citizens are generally happy.

Buy a Chicago Bulls hat at a thrift store and have brown skin?

Well, you all know the drill by now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhLYGvXQVZE 6 years old and still pertinent.

Only the ones the rich and powerful approve of.