Kind of. But who’s going to make this stick? I think there’s a lot of rank and file who won’t comply with this.

Shouldn’t it be called Microsoft 250? There are 250 working days in a year. As soon as I’m home I’m using Thunderbird or Libreoffice, certainly not the product formerly known as Microsoft Office.

It’s already happening, in part because of this and in part because of the unstable, unpredictable US government.

Several European countries are looking towards investing in open source as a way to get away from American big tech because they’re suddenly considering US sanctions against them a real possibility, or at least a real threat.

And Putin with Ukraine. And Xi with Hong Kong.

Did you reply to the wrong comment?

The economy is consistently better under Democrats. Things consistently get better under Democrats.

I get that it’s not as fast as any of us would like, but if you’d loved through it and paid attention, you’d have a better understanding of why. Obama understood he was a centrist, and it’s why he centered his first term strategy on being the most bipartisan president of all time.

McConnell saw that strategy and thought it was more important to defeat Democrats than to improve the country.

The real problem isn’t the Democrats, status quo or not. The problem is that the Republican party exists. The problem is that every so many years the voters get bored with slow, steady improvement and spend the next several years tearing everything down.

And it’s a hell of a lot easier to destroy than to build.

I’d love to be choosing between Democrats and Socialists. I’d love to have two sane choices. I’d love if our dividing issue was whether trans people should be allowed in women’s sports, and not whether trans people should be allowed to live.

How is this helpful? It’s important to know about these things.

By design.

Absolutely.

Tangentially related is the story of Mahmoud Khalil, who was here completely legally on a green card. He wasn’t quite deported, but he was put through hell despite doing nothing wrong.

Listening to this would do you good.

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/876/bigger-than-me

Edit: The first part is about soccer and can be skipped, though it is entertaining.

Who checks? A judge? Krisi Noem?

You’re not getting this.

Don’t get complacent. The EU countries are toying with the idea of collapsing with us. AfD doesn’t seem to be shrinking, and there will be a lot of money and propaganda dumped that way soon.

I hope you’re better at resisting it than we were, but seeing as how we’re all still on vulnerable social media…

The latest Libreoffice update has ribbon menus (optionally).

Keep the filibuster where someone is standing and talking the whole time. It shouldn’t have to be the same person.

It works well when you use it for small (or repetitive) and explicit tasks. That you can easily check.

We need this grain of salt reminder near the top. Maybe not the actual top.

It’s more believable when you consider he campaigned on the evil Demonrats wanting to legalize post-birth abortions.

The man talks about what he knows.

It could also be that they didn’t trust the regulars and installed trusted, inexperienced idiots to get it done.

Which is probably a good thing. I appreciate projects like Thunderbird as well.

You can not push the button that says AI.

You can also hit the kill switch that completely removes that button.

That’s opt-in enough.

If it starts reading pages or doing things without you pushing a button, that’s an issue.

I wouldn’t go that far. I expect it was more allowed to happen and got out of hand, ended up worse than they expected.

But I don’t think they planned or participated in the attack.