WanderingThoughts

It'll help when governments stop accepting or just blocking links to onedrive and sharepoint, and file formats that are not open. Then companies are forced into using alternatives instead of just blindly using microsoft, or don't work for any government project again.

In the Netherlands, they take celebrating carnaval very seriously. Nobody walks straight the Monday after carnaval. Still, they forced a guy to come in on that Monday. The guy was there, at 8 am. There went to work straight from the bar, undefined stains on his clothes, smelling of beer and cigarettes, shedding small amounts of confetti when he went for coffee, but he was there. Nothing much productive was done that day. How management thought it would turn out any differently is anyone's guess.

Tesla cars also fail the mandatory safety inspections in Europe at an alarming rate. That's not a good look when buying a new car.

Meanwhile an entire civilization is erased in Gaza and nobody bats an eye.

Drunkards have been pissing against the local cathedral since before America was discovered.

These days with video compression and the like, even a terminal needs a minimum of processing power, enough to run basic things and a browser, especially if you want to make it lag free.

Only in Fox news reality, I know

From what I heard so far, the guy had a knack for making people feel at ease and to talk on their level. Rich people loves that in him because it seems to be lonely at the top. He came in contact with many rich people of his job in finance, and built a network of contacts that way, soon becoming the guy that knows a guy in high society, what leads to more contacts with famous and powerful people. And that turned into hustling parties and trafficking people to get what his rich pals liked in entertainment. To be thrown under the bus when things went sideways.

Assume either Trump will go after anybody saying anything critical about him and the party, or imagine AOC takes over the government and going after anybody saying something positive about Trump. Without privacy, you're f-ed either way.

BMW drivers use blinkers to signal other brands to clear the left lane of the Autobahn for them.

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=nl&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=pm+autism+

Lots and lots of studies from around the world finding the same thing.

Particle matter (PM2.5) is known to be a serious risk factor. The small particles are found in smoke and also pollution from cars. Living close to a highway also is a big risk factor for autism. So let's deregulate pollution a big more and blame Tylenol and vaccines?