Unlikely, he’s been running it a loss for years now, propped up by his money, his billionaire mates’ money and some launch contracts in addition to Starlink.

This is the reason he’s building in terms into the IPO that prevent him being ousted - public companies making losses are at risk of board shakeups, he’s making sure that isn’t possible before the float launches.

He doesnt care if twitter or spaceX lose money, they’re valuable levers to get what he wants

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

OP has a reasonable concern, Microsoft has had a troubling past history, and embrace extend extinguish hasn’t gone away, just look at the office file standards shenanigans.

It’s certainly the case that the purchase of github is intended to create a platform that has network effects (making it hard to leave).

Microsoft has proven many times that their participation in FOSS tends to come with a catch or an intent to subvert.

scientists and researchers, is that they throw more money at it.

You seem to be using the present tense there rather than the past tense. Are you sure that’s still true. I was under the impression the Bibulous Bumbling Bill had slashed research budgets (among other things like medicaid) in order to fund billionaire tax cuts.

Not to mention the attempts to proscribe what can be researched that Harvard is currently litigating

I’m saying the Marshalls are this body, they should be reassigned directly to the judiciary.

Which involves asking the oppressing person/organisation to hand over the capability to resist them.

“Please Mr Mugger, give me your gun, then you can’t rob me”

How exactly do you think that request is going to go ?

Video is posted in the thread, and yes that’s a model 3 about to be crushed by a sherman tank.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw4ZjhOukwU

Good. He deserves to be banned

Insert surprised pickachu face here

Well that’s out of character for Google

Yep this is exactly why I refuse to do the scan as you go, it ends up seriously frustrating. Self scan at checkout is fine if you don’t have paracetamol or alcohol, otherwise you’re waiting ages for assistance.

It’s definitely an overall worse experience

Although wikipedia has that as the origin several other internet sources suggested a pagan pre christian origin

https://www.readersdigest.com.au/culture/fascinating-origins-of-everyday-hand-gestures

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/55702/why-do-we-cross-our-fingers-good-luck

https://www.bbc.co.uk/ideas/videos/why-do-we-cross-our-fingers-for-luck/p06j436j

Noting that these are not proper sources although mental floss links to a text that may be reliable

Which one though ? There’s literally 4 forks of infinity called Eternity coming up on obtainium

Jerboa is on Fdroid, but it’s not good I’m afraid. The keyboard bug is maddening.

I would like to point the RWNJs finally got voted out in Oz last year (federal and most states). Of course Murdoch and co. are working hard to reverse that, but semi sane leadership is in place for at least a year or two more.

I would have thought finding Hitler unlikeable would be a positive attribute ? Was that a typo ?

Orwell was a socialist so making lists of leftists seems surprising; are you sure this wasn’t an ideological tankies vs socialists or marxists vs trotskyists ?

Think Gaetz & Marjorie Taylor Greene. That’s pretty much our entire government now all the sensible people have been drummed out.

Don’t let logic or facts get in the way of a good grandstanding.

They didnt know it wasn’t going to work because they refuaed to listen to anyone trying to tell them it wouldn’t work

As no seems to have answered this, the EU’s political structure is more resistant to the anti-consumer desires of large corporates, particularly as the ones impacted aren’t European.

Culturally the EU is diverse but broadly there is a lot more interest in / support for nurturing the common good (as opposed to beggar thy neighbour policies of the GOP). In particular pro-consumer policies are popular and get politicians re-elected, which segues to the next difference

The EU is less influenced (not zero, less) by political donations from large corporates than the US. Very little of the priorities of the average person makes it into law in the US, a slightly larger sliver gets through in the EU.

All of the ICE have this too. It’s not just EVs.

Difficult to view on mobile but an excellent map. Thanks

Thanks, appreciated.

Edit

I assume you mean 1.35gb of network data per day ? As opposed to per minute / per second etc

What’s the hardware and network demand like ? I’ve been vaguely thinking of doing so myself.