What are these "sanctions", exactly? Are we going to start blowing up oil tankers, like we blow up Venezuelan fishing boats?

If they were proud of what they were doing, they wouldn't be wearing masks.

Nasty isn't the same as tough. He's an entitled bully.

I'm expecting a military coup, at some point.

With AI, anything is possible.

Let the fascists break some things, and maybe the masses will wake up and oppose them. I'm not hopeful, though.

I just order new glasses online with the old prescription. Whether it's "current" or not seems like my decision, not theirs.

Trump can be bribed. Jeff Yass probably bought a few million dollars worth of $TRUMP coins.

Trump has a large donor who has a large investment in Bytedance. No further explanation needed. www.inquirer.com/politics/nat...

They all use USB now. I assume the bandwidth isn't an issue. :)

Some of us can remember when a megabyte was a lot. I worked as a student operator on an IBM mainframe in the 70's that had 1.5 mb removable hard disk packs. The drives were about the size of washing machines, and the packs were like a mini spare tire with a handle for lifting them.

The Orion Nebula is one of the few deep-sky objects in which I could see even a hint of color with my 13" Dob. Astrophotography totally enhances everything vs. visual appearance.

We frequently get checked out by hummingbirds when hiking while wearing bright clothing. It's always a treat.

The "market cap" of Tether has soared by over $15 billion since the election, "stable" coins backed by nothing.

The price is constantly manipulated by the creation of Tether stablecoins out of thin air, which are then used to "buy" bitcoins. And then the media states that the "price" rises, and a new batch of suckers lose their savings in the Ponzi scheme.