I’d hope WSJ buckles in and fights so that discovery gets spicy.

Or Murdoch sees it as a way to “donate” to trump, and settles outrageously.

That’s it re-stoking the internal combustion engine. It’s perfectly fine

Ayyy, remember how Canada capitulated on the digital service tax.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62553ywn77o
https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/news/2025/06/canada-rescinds-digital-services-tax-to-advance-broader-trade-negotiations-with-the-united-states.html

Then trump threatens new tarrifs?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg819n954mo

(I’m struggling to find new sources,. cause everything is about dropping the DST to allow further trade talks. Not the timeline of DST dropping and the further US tariffs. Maybe these are coincidental, maybe there was always gonna be more Canadian tariffs. Either way, it doesn’t matter. Canada got more blanket tariffs regardless of what they did. Speaks volumes to everyone else dealing with trump)

Trump is destabilising international trade. This doesn’t benefit the US. At all.

If a God were to appear and demonstrate all kinds of supernatural activity and capability, I think I’d have to renounce my atheism.

I would also renounce my atheism and become fully anti-theism.
The god is clearly not benevolent, not kind, not caring. The god can go fuck themselves.

Trumps track record over the past decades cannot be forgiven

Why do we even have that lever?

No.
I tried a smart watch for a week or so, and hated wearing it.
Hadn’t worn a watch in 20 years, and it felt very strange

I’m always nervous about fintech companies. Maybe it’s time to get over that and give curve pay a spin.
The cashback seems nice, considering a lot of shops I use are on there.

Yup, true.

But contactless via a phone can have no limit.
Adding a debit card to phone case means the upper limit is £100. Which is actually fine, and is the limit I have normally set for phone contactless. But I can instantly remove that limit via my banking app.

And the phone needs to be unlocked to make a payment.
Do if I lose my phone anyone can charge £100 to the debit card.

This… Except for contactless payment.
I used graphene for a month. It was lovely. Even things like banking apps worked.
I don’t care about absolute privacy, but I do care about controlling my privacy. Grapheme gave me that.

I had only 1 issue.
Contactless payment.
It’s extremely convenient to me, from public transport to groceries. I just bop my phone.

The fact that Google has that locked down surely violates some EU laws. But I’m sure they wave away the laws because of “financial security” or some other bullshit.
As if bank card NFC/contactless doesn’t suffer exactly the same issues.
I looked into some “graphene contactless payment” type systems or workarounds, and I couldn’t find anything that would fill the gap.

Everything else. Or anything else, if you select a single quark (presuming we don’t split a quark).

If everything is moving away from us, then everything is moving away from everything else.
It’s just that some things are moving away from us faster than they are moving away from other things

Everything else.

Galactocentrism was established in 1925, which realised that our solar system is not near the center of the Milky Way. So, we are moving relative to the center of our galaxy.

In 1929, evidence was found that everything else is moving away from us. So we are moving relative to everything else.

In 1931, the Big Bang theory started superceding Galactocentrism, which was an acentrist model of the universe (where there is no center).

All the cool kids are running kubernetes

You really think they know regex?
They probably got grok to generate it and didn’t understand what it does

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So, we should be sending people to prison? Cause that’s what happened to people involved in dieselgate. Along with the affected cars being recalled and the owners compensated.

From the wiki, and I’m simplifying:
VW was handed over to the German government after being offered free-of-charge to Ford in 1948 by the British government (who ran the factory up till then).
In 1946 the produced 1000 cars per month. In 1949, 2 cars were sold in the US.
In 1952, 12 VWs were sold in Canada.
In 1955 they produced over 1 million Beetles.

So 3 years on life support being ran by the British. Dunno how long being run by the German government before becoming GmbH.

Over what sort of timeframe?
Couple months? Couple years? Couple decades?

And the news cycle can’t keep up or spend appropriate amounts of time/outrage on the things that are criminal, abhorrent and hurting people.
Throw a bunch of stupid shit to the media, let them feast. Sneak around while they are busy and get the truely hurtful stuff into law (or just skip the law part, and do it).

The only place that will accept them is banks. And they have all the tools and training to spot forgeries