I really feel for you. As a British parent I've never once worried about any of those things. It is baffling to us outside the US. I hope that one day the US will see sense.

The "gent" may well have been me. Making the hand joke always makes my day 😂

The headline isn't quite right though. He asked her to "produce" anything "pertinent". That is a long way from release and all. The headline is what he wants reported, he knows that is what will become the narrative regardless of the result. It's just deflection and misdirection.

Except it isn't. The English "petrol" is a synonym for the North American "Gasoline". We would never use petrol to refer to anything other than the clear liquid from the pump and no one would understand you if you referred to anything else using that name.

The dismantling of education, the access to education and critical thinking is the pay for right wing politicians internationally. If you're not super rich then you can't learn. Can't have the proles thinking can we 😞

I've got symbrachydactyly of the right hand. I'd never thought to be offended by the term "all hands" before 😂 To me it just used the word hand like Deck Hand or Farm Hand. Perhaps my English is too archaic 🤦‍♀️🤣

Those of us outside the US are looking at what is happening with sadness. It isn't fear, it's a growing sense that we've lost a friend whilst rapidly finding non-US based alternatives to everything.

The US will survive the next 4 years, but it will emerge with diminished power in the world.

That's true, but taking that to its conclusion you get state healthcare. The largest group of people coming together to negotiate care.

It is exactly where our NHS in the UK came from. The NHS was modelled on the miners unions in Cymru (Wales).

State provided health care just makes sense.

But what if you're one of the groups being targeted and you have to travel through government controlled checkpoints, like in airports?

Exactly. People don't realise how quickly these apps must've and how soon they become incompatible with the servers and break. There are good technical reasons to block old apps.

But it is also a strong message.

It certainly is a statement. They could keep going, except they would lose the ability to update the apps.

We don't know how many breaking protocol changes they do a year, never mind security patches.

From a technical point of view I'd now want multiple millions of unsupported clients

It reads "panic to please the new boss".

Meta want to please Trump and open up a war on EU regulation - so say what Trump wants to hear. Oh for someone outside the US to launch an alternative to Instagram.

Ubuntu tracking the LTS version with the default Gnome. I've een Ubuntu user since Hardy, and it just works for me. I don't want to think about 90% of my OS, I want it to work and let me do my work.

The universal law of finding cables and adaptors - buy a new one and the ones you already have will be returned to you ten fold.