This is just called good government relations. You don’t want acting heads of state to be mad at you. Google does this for everything. Borders and names on their maps change depending on who’s asking. Maybe it shouldn’t be like that, and maybe it’s disappointing that the US apparently requires coddling like this, but it is what it is.

May I tempt y’all with some midiservices? A midiservice is a service that, on average throughout its lifespan, has between 1 and 3 programmers maintaining it.

I find the article’s premise that optimizing individual returns will wreck the banking system very dubious. In all other parts of the financial system (risk-adjusted) greed is good, but when retail customers do it then it’s bad?

Me and your mom, we’re worried about you. Humans need other humans. You can’t isolate yourself from the world like this forever. What will you do when we’re gone?

It’s pretty decent st this point. Imagine Ubuntu but a bit snappier. Still some isolated issues with certain games, but that’s it.

What’s funny is these cut down on complaints about cell tower radiation a lot. That shit is just hypochondric bullshit.

Best argument I’ve heard is that the Soviets never denied it happened. Same with the nazis and the Holocaust.